February Theme Challenge

Hello! Have your New Year resolutions fallen by the wayside yet? Don't worry as we would like to see your Christmas Baking cards! Christmas cakes, mince pies, gingerbread, festive cupcakes, biscuits...if you can bake it, we would like to see it on your Christmas or winter themed cards. Yum!

Please read our guidelines carefully before you submit your card. We can't wait to see your take on our theme. Here are the Design Team's cards to inspire you (they are all calorie-free!)

Fabiola

Kaja

April

Jacqueline

Julie T

Patricia



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Winners - February Sketch Challenge

Thank you for joining us for our sketch challenge! We loved your stunning creations and enjoyed visiting your blogs. I'm delighted to announce this week's winners.

Joint Top Honours go to:

Marina



and

Cara




As we have joint winners and a low number of entries there are no honourable mentions this week. Please join us for our current colour challenge - we would love to see your cards there.
Happy crafting, April x


February Colour Challenge

Hello again! I'm hoping that your Valentine cards are already made by now and that you will be able to join us for a colour challenge.

We are looking forward to seeing your Christmas or winter themed cards in blue, cream and gold. The DT enjoy and appreciate seeing Christmas cards in all different styles. We can't wait to see what you come up with! Please do read our rules carefully before you enter your festive creation.

Now over to the Design Team's lovely cards that I hope will inspire you:

Julie

Kaja

Fabiola

April

Deborah

Jacqueline

Patricia

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Winners - January Stash

Oops!  I'm running a bit late with this post.  Thank you to all those who played along with my Foiling/Gilding stash/technique challenge last week.  It was very much a challenge, but those of you who played created wonderful cards.  Without further ado:

WINNER

#2 - Sharon

This ornament is simply fabulous with lots of shimmer from the foiling.

Love the crisp layout.  Beautiful work.

HONOURABLE MENTION

#6 - Netta

This is a wonderful angel with all shades of gold in the gilding flakes.

Absolutely beautiful.

Congratulations to you both - pick up badges from the tab at the top of the page and display them on your blog.

Thanks to everyone who played along with my challenges in January, you got off to a good start on building this year's stash.  And before I go, a quick reminder of April's first challenge in February. She had a super sketch for you to use.  Make is clean and simple, distressed, layered, elegant - the choice is yours.  We look forward to seeing your cards.

February Sketch Challenge

Hi! It's April here. Welcome to the first of our February challenges - a sketch challenge.

We can't wait to see your interpretations of the sketch. Please remember it must be a Christmas or winter themed card. You don't need to include a Christmas tree if you don't want to, as any festive element will be great! You could also flip the sketch. We just ask that we can still recognise the original sketch within your design.

We love seeing your amazing cards. I hope that you will feel inspired by the creations of the DT:

Kaja

Julie T

Fabiola

April

Deborah

 

Patricia

Jacqueline

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Winners - January Theme

I did enjoy seeing all your lovely cards for my Christmas Candles/Lanterns theme last week - the thumbnail display was very pretty.  As always, you guys made it very hard to pick a winner. Indeed, it was so hard, that we actually had a three-way tie for the top spot.  So, without further ado, here are the winners:

WINNERS

(in order of submission)

#4 - Marina

This is such a cute Christmas card.  One layer too!

Love the mice choristers around the Christmas lantern.

#11 - Sharon

We really like the candle and stand, and the lovely halo behind the candle.

Clean, simple and just beautiful!

#15 - Andreja

There is so much detail on this card.  

The Christmas lantern is so beautiful and we love the pine detail too!

As we had three joint winners, there are no Honourable Mentions this week.

Before I go, I'd like to remind you that there's still time to take part in this week's challenge. I've picked FOILING/GILDING and at the time of writing, it looks like it's a real challenge too! There are only three cards on thumbnail.  Come on!  Give it a go - it really is very easy and looks so lovely. If you don't have foil/gilding flakes in your stash - I'm perfectly happy to accept the use of foil peeloffs!!!

You've got until midnight (GMT) Friday 5th February to join in!

January Stash

Morning, it's Deborah here with my last challenge of the month at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. This week is either a Stash or Technique challenge.  I think this is a stash challenge, as I'm sure we all have foils and/or gilding flakes somewhere in our stash.  However, it could equally well be a technique!  I want to see foils or gilding on your cards.

There are a several ways to use foils and gilding flakes, and I've added some videos at the end of this post showing how to apply gilding flakes using glue and double sided adhesives.  Here's some inspiration from the team:

Deborah

Kaja

Julie T

Fabiola

                                         

April

Jacqueline

Patricia



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Winners - January Colours

Sorry this is a bit late!  I think the shades of orange was a challenge - but the thumbnail display did look so pretty.  Here are the winners:

WINNERS

#9 - Andreja

Such a lovely jolly group of snowmen.

Love the embossed orange snowflake background.

#10 - Lucinda

Such pretty shades of orange - super tutorial on how to make the background too.

Such an elegant card.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

(in order of submission)

#4 - Kath

This is a really fun Christmas tree!

#8 - Sharon

A really beautiful image and looks wonderful in orange.

Congratulations to you all - thanks for playing with my very non-traditional colours.  Please pick up your badges from the tab above and display them on your blogs.

Before I go, just time for a quick reminder about this week's theme challenge where I'd like to see your cards with Christmas Candles/Lanterns.

January Theme

Morning All, it's Deborah here with you today.  The third Saturday of each month at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is either a theme or recipe challenge.  I decided to go for a theme this month - I want to see Christmas Candles/Lanterns on your cards:

This really is open to all sorts of interpretations - clean, simple, modern, vintage, traditional - the choice is yours.  Here's some inspiration from the Design Team:

Deborah

April



Kaja

Fabiola

Jacqueline

Julie T

Patricia

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