April Sketch Challenge

Hello!  Welcome to a new month of challenges here at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.  If you're new here, we hope you'll join in the fun and creativity of making a Christmas or wintry card each week.  If you're a returning participant, we're glad to have you back with us.

I'm Patricia, and I'm looking forward to being your hostess throughout the month of April.  As always, we're starting off the month with a sketch challenge:

 

For this sketch, we'd like you to keep the circle and half-circle shapes as shown.  However, you're welcome to turn the sketch on its side, use its mirror image, or change the shape of your card base from a rectangle to a square.   

To help get your creative juices flowing, here is some inspiration from our design team:

Patricia

Fabiola

April

 Gill

Kaja

Jacqueline

The rest of the design team and I are looking forward to seeing what you make!  Remember that you have until midnight British Summer Time/7:00 p.m. Eastern time Friday, April 8 to link your card.

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Winners - March Theme challenge

Please excuse our tardiness in posting the winners of our March theme challenge.  We loved seeing how our challenge participants decided to tickle our funny bones with their cards showing off humorous sentiments!  We've finally decided to award the following...  (drum roll, please... )

Top Honor

#3 - Crafting Bunnies
 

The expression on the sheep's face totally captures the spirit of the sentiment!

Honorable Mention

#1 - Jane Willis 
 

Congratulations to our winners!  Please feel welcome to get your winners badge from the top tab and display it proudly on your blog.  

We look forward to seeing all of you participate in our upcoming challenges!  There is still some time left to join in our March technique challenge, Paper Piecing.  You have until 7:00 p.m. Eastern time/midnight BST to link your card to the challenge post.

March Technique Challenge

This is my last challenge as host. At 52 CCT our last challenge of the month is a technique challenge and I have chosen Paper Piecing. Looking forward to seeing all of your cards.

Happy Crafting!

Julie T

Cards from our talented DT

Julie T

Fabiola


Kaja

Patricia

April

Jacqueline

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Winners - March Color Challenge

Thank you for joining us in our March Color Challenge.

All of the entries were gorgeous! What beautiful shades of green!

I am excited to announce that top honors goes to...

#8 Alison C

Such a lovely CAS card and gorgeous shade of green

Honorable Mentions to to...

#2 Kath

Simply lovely

#6 Susan B

Wonderful technique with alcohol ink.

#10 Lucinda

Very creative background technique

March Theme Challenge

I have been enjoying all of your fabulous projects this month.  For this challenge I would love to have you make me laugh!  I can't wait to see all of your funny sentiments.

Funny creations from our hilarious DT

Julie T

April


Fabiola


Kaja

Patricia

Deborah

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Winners - March Sketch Challenge

Thank you for joining us in our sketch challenge.  All of the entries were beautiful.

The voting resulted in a tie so we have 2 Top Honors this with week. 

I am super excited to announce that Top Honors go to....

#4 Kath

Beautiful image and great use of the sketch

and 

#12 Lucinda

Such a lovely scene and color combo

Congrats ladies!

Honorable Mentions go to...

#2 Sharon

This one is stunning in gold and white

#8 EK Gorman

So lovely and beautiful

#11 Alison C

Lovely use of the sketch

Thank you for  joining us!  You still have time to join us in our March Color Challenge.

March Color Challenge

Welcome to our March Color Challenge.

Since many people celebrate St. Patrick's day in March, I decided to choose Green and White for this challenge.  I am sure many people think of holly leaves and Christmas trees when considering green at Christmas.  Let's see if you can get a little creative and have some fun!

Gorgeous creations from our talented DT members

Julie T

Fabiola



April

Kaja

Patricia

Deborah

Jacqueline

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Winners - February Technique Challenge

Hello! Thank you for joining our Technique Challenge. We loved seeing your gorgeous stencilled cards and visiting your blogs. The voting was very close indeed this week, so we're having an extra Honourable Mention!

Congratulations to our winners!

Top Honour:

#3 Kim

Such a stylish, silvery card! We particularly like the curve detail.

Honourable Mentions:

#5 Alison

We thought Alison's improvised stencil was very resourceful and we loved the super combo of stencilled background and sweet origami star.

#6 Crafty Scorpio



A gorgeous, opulent card!

#7 Sharon



Such a glorious stencilled star!

#9 Lucinda

We loved Lucinda's elegant stencilled card and stunning colour scheme.

Thanks so much for joining us at 52CCT. Please play in our current sketch challenge - we look forward to seeing you there.

March Sketch Challenge

This is Julie T and I am super excited to be the host for the month of March. 

 I am looking forward to seeing your interpretations of my themes for the month.

Our first challenge is a sketch.

You may flip, rotate and add whatever embellishments you want.
Can't wait to see what you create with the sketch

Happy Crafting!

Julie T

Here are the fabulous cards from our creative DT

Kaja

Fabiola



Deborah

Julie T

Jacqueline

April

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