Winners - October Pick a Previous Theme Challenge

Wow! Thank you so much for all your super entries. They were fantastic!

I'm delighted to announce our winners.

Top Honours:

#4 Julie




Honourable Mentions:

#9 Kleido



#14 Helen



#21 Maura



#35 Kim



#42 Friday Finally



#51 Mel's Card Corner



A big congratulations to all! It's not too late to join our current sketch challenge. We would love to see you there.

April x





November Sketch Challenge and DT CALL

Can you believe it's already November? 

 If you haven't started your Christmas cards, the sketch this week is a great place to start.

DESIGN TEAM CALL

Before we get to the challenge, you'll have noticed from the title that we're looking for a few new members to join the team in 2016.  We have a rota of challenges each month:

• Week 1 - Sketch
• Week 2 - Colours
• Week 3 - Theme/Recipe
• Week 4 - Stash/Technique
• Week 5 - Pick a Previous (the host gets to pick)

If you wish to be considered you need to play along with THREE of the four challenges this month. Put the letters, DT, after your name on your entry submission.  We will contact successful applicants during December and the new DT members will start with us in January 2016.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled post - the sketch challenge:

We can't wait to see what you create!

Tanja

Fabiola

April

 Patricia

Julie T

Deborah 

Before we go, a quick reminder about word verification on comments.  The Design Team loves to visit your blogs and comment on your work, but this process is made much harder by having to go through comment verification on each comment.  Please can you make sure that you have this turned off in your blog settings.  Go to "settings", then to "post and comments" and where it says "show word verification" - select NO.  Thank you so much for your help.  Now - go have fun crafting!!

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October Technique Challenge - Winners

Hello! Thank you for all your super cards entered in our technique challenge. You really produced some stunning effects using the resist embossing technique. I'm delighted to announce the winners.

Joint Top Honours:

#5 Sandma

and #12 Marianne

Honourable Mentions:

Ann

Sazzle Dazzle

Helen

Congratulations to all! Please join us for our current theme challenge.

Happy crafting!

April x

October Pick a Previous Theme Challenge

Hello, it's April. Happy Hallowe'en to you! I've had a wonderful time hosting this month's challenges. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful and inspirational Christmas cards with us.

I hope that you are not too busy carving pumpkin lanterns to join us this week. For our last challenge of the month, we would like you to peruse our Themes archive and choose a previous theme to base the design of your Christmas card on.



Whether you like snowmen, reindeer, stars, animals, fairy lights or angels, they are all here (along with many many more!) in our archive of previous themes. We love to see all your cards, whether classic, cute or CAS! Do please carefully read our rules before submitting your Christmas card.

Thank you for having me! Here are the previous themes chosen by the DT.

April
(March 2012 - Christmas animals/birds)

Tanja

(July 2015 - Snowman)

Gill
(September 2015 - for a man)

Fabiola

(May 2015 - o little town)

Julie T

(June 2015 - Elves)

Patricia

(August 2015 - for a child)

Deborah 

(October 2012 - Christmas Fairy Lights)

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Winners - October Theme Challenge

Thank you for all your beautiful woodland creations - we loved them all!

I am so pleased to be able to announce our winners.


Once again, we have joint Top Honours:


#8 Sheena



and

#15 Kathe D



Honourable Mentions go to:

#6 Andrea



#7 Sandma

#16 Kathy



#18 Liselot



#22 Cranberry & Eggplant



Congratulations! Please don't forget to join us for our current technique challenge.

Happy crafting! April x


October Technique Challenge

Hi, it's April here. I hope that you are enjoying all your Christmas crafting. Our challenge this week is to make a Christmas card using the technique of resist embossing.

You simply heat emboss a stamped image with clear embossing powder and then use sponges or daubers to create a blended ink background. Here is Beate Johns' tutorial



I know that we are sure to see some amazing cards produced with this lovely technique. Please read our rules carefully before you submit your Christmas or winter themed card.

I hope that you will be inspired by the DT's beautiful cards.

April

Tanja

Fabiola

Deborah

Julie T

Patricia

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Winners - October Colour Challenge

Thank you for all your wonderful cards entered for our colour challenge. I'm pleased to announce our winners.

Joint Top Honours go to:

#3 Sandma

and

#7 Deepti

Honourable Mentions go to:

#8 Robyn

#13 Sandy

#15 Lucinda

A big congratulations to our winners. All the cards entered were stunning - thank you again for sharing them with us! We hope that you will join us for our current theme challenge.

April x



October Theme Challenge

Hello! It's April here. Thank you for joining us at 52CCT as we prepare our cards for the big day. My theme for this challenge is inspired by my favourite Christmas music, John Rutter's 'Wild Wood Carol'. I love the verse,

'Sing o' the wild wood, the green holly
The silent river and barren tree
The humble creatures that no man sees
Sing o' the wild wood.'

For this challenge, we would like to see those hidden creatures and/or trees on your cards. Any woodland inhabitant is very welcome eg. foxes, rabbits, deer, or indeed any suitably wintery trees, rivers or green holly. We cannot wait to see what you come up with!

Here are the woodland creations of the DT.

April

Gill

Tanja

Fabiola

Deborah

Julie T

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