Winners - April Theme challenge

It looks like our challenge participants enjoyed our April theme challenge of Christmas Foliage!  The Design Team has chosen the following entries as the ones we felt best represented the theme.  Please join me in congratulating:

Top Honors

#6 - Marianne

 

Honorable Mentions

(In order of entry into the challenge)

#4 - Gathering Place (Darla)

 

#7 - Birgit

 

#8 - LeAnne Pugliese

#11 - Steffi H

#13 - Susan B

 

Congratulations to you all!  Please feel welcome to pick up your badges from the tab at the top of the page and display them on your blogs.

There is still lots of time left to join in our current challenge:  April Stash Challenge.  We feel pretty certain you have some metal embellishments you'd like to put to good use on a card, so go get crafting! You have until 7:00 p.m. Eastern time/midnight BST Friday, April 29 to link your card to the challenge post. 

April Stash Challenge

Hello, and welcome to another challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown! On the fourth Saturday of the month, the challenge hostess decides between either a stash challenge or a technique challenge.

This week we have a stash challenge for you.  You'll need to use some sort of metal embellishment on your Christmasy or wintry card.  Brads, eyelets, charms, photo turns, ribbon slides, clips - there is a wide variety of choices, and we're sure you have some of these items in your stash of crafting supplies!  You can use as many or as few metal embellishments as you like, so long as we can easily see them on your card.

 

Our talented design team has come up with the following cards to whet your creative appetite:

Patricia

Fabiola

Julie

April


Deborah

Gill

Now it's your turn!  Use some of your stash of metal embellishments and share your card with us using the linky tool below.  You have until 7:00 p.m. Eastern time/midnight BST Friday, April 29 to join in our challenge.  Happy crafting!



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Winners - April Color challenge

The Design Team enjoyed seeing the elegant gold and white creations submitted for our color challenge last week!  I'll keep this post short and sweet and get right to our winners.

Top Honors

#5 - Pia

 

Honorable Mentions

(in order of entry into the challenge)

#2 - Kath

 

#6 - J

#10 - Steffi

 

Please join me in giving them a round of applause!  Winners, you are welcome to copy the appropriate badge from the tab at the top of the page here, and display the badge on your blog.

We'd love to have you join in our April theme challenge, Christmas Foliage.  Create a card showing your favorite type of wintry greenery and share it via the linky tool on our challenge post.  The challenge deadline is 7:00 p.m. Eastern time/midnight BST Friday, April 22.  Happy crafting!

April Theme Challenge

Hello!  The third Saturday of the month brings us to Theme Challenge week here at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.  This month our theme is Christmas Foliage.  There are lots of options:  pine boughs, cedar branches, trees, holly leaves, mistletoe...

 

Here are our design team's takes on the theme:

Patricia

Fabiola

April

 Gill



Deborah

Julie T

Jacqueline

What kind of foliage will you feature on your card this week? Remember to link it here by 7:00 p.m. Eastern time/Midnight BST Friday, April 22, 2016.  We're looking forward to seeing what you make!

 

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Winners - April Sketch Challenge

The Design Team enjoyed seeing the lovely cards submitted for our April sketch challenge! Thank you to everyone who participated.

We were smitten by adorable birds this week and our voting resulted in a tie for Top Honors!  Congratulations to these two ladies:

#4 - Cara 

 

#6 - Tip Top

 

More congrats go out to our Honorable Mentions:

#3 - Kath

 

#9 - Lucinda

Well done, ladies!  Please feel welcome to collect your Winner's Badge from the Badges tab at the top of this page.  We hope you'll enjoy displaying it on your blog.

There's still plenty of time to join in this week's Color Challenge if you haven't yet!  We'd love to have you show us what you can make with just two colors:  white and metallic gold.  You have until 7:00 p.m. Eastern time/Midnight BST Friday, April 15 to link your card to our challenge post.

April Color Challenge

Hello there!  If you're new to our challenges, welcome!  If you're a returning participant, we're glad to see you again!  No matter what's going on in your area, it's always the Christmas holiday season here at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

I'm Patricia, your challenge hostess for the month of April.  This week is our color challenge week, and we have a really simple but festive duo of colors for you:

 

It's only two colors - I know you can do this! Here are the cards the design team has made:

Patricia

Fabiola

Jacqueline

Kaja

Gill

Deborah

We're looking forward to seeing what you can do with these two colors!  You have until midnight British Summer Time/7:00 p.m. Eastern time Friday, April 15 to link your card.  Happy crafting!

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Winners - March Technique challenge

We had some lovely cards submitted for our March Technique challenge of paper piecing!  Thank you to everyone who participated.  Now it's time to announce our winners for the challenge.

The voting was very close... in fact, we had a tie!

TOP HONORS

#3 - Sandy J

 

#6 - Cara

Honorable Mentions

#1 - Marina

 #9 - Andreja

Congratulations to you all!  Please feel welcome to pick up your badges from the tab at the top of the page and display them on your blogs.

 

There is still plenty of time to join in our current challenge:  April Sketch Challenge.  We'd love to see your take on our curvy sketch!  You have until 7:00 p.m. Eastern time/midnight GMT Friday, April 8 to link your card to the challenge post.  

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.