January Colour Challenge

 

 Good morning, Andreja L here with you today.  

It is time for our monthly colour challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. 

I have been thinking a lot about what colours to choose, then I chose 

WHITE, BRONZE and KRAFT 

and only those colours we want to see on your card.

Our guest designer this week is:

Tracey

Here is some inspiration from the Design Team:

Andreja L

AndrejaM

Fabiola

Majda

Branka

Goga

Valentina B

Gill

Tracy

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

• This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs
• Only new projects - no back-linking
• Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog
• Please show the graphic on your challenge post
• You must link up by midnight Friday (7.00pm EDT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions
• And please turn off word verification to make commenting easier - thank you

The deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 17th January 2025 - that's 7.00pm EDT for those of us in the States. 

Have fun!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner Pick a Previous Technique/Stash Challenge

 A huge thank you to everyone who participated in our  December Pick a Previous Technique/Stash Challenge.

welcome for our last winner and top3  choice for 2024.

We had many beautiful entries, making it a tough decision,

but the Design Team has selected the following as our winners.  

Please join us in giving a round of applause to... 

WINNER 

#4 Cathy

Congratulations!

We would like to invite you to be a Guest Designer.

 Please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

 (listed in order of submission)

#6 Art MBR

#7 Tina Z

#9 Deborah

Congratulations to you all!

We hope you will enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.
You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.

January Sketch Challenge

 

Good Morning and Happy New Year!

Andreja L here with you today and it is my pleasure to host this month's challenges at

 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. 

Each month we have a set pattern of challenges to inspire you to create your Christmas cards. 

The schedule is:

* Sketch *

* Colours *

* Theme/Recipe * 

*Stash/Technique *

Here is our sketch for the first challenge of 2025:

(you can rotate the sketch)

Our guest designer this week is:

Tracey

Here is some inspiration from the Design Team:

Andreja L

Fabiola

AndrejaM

Goga

Tracy

Majda

                     

    Branka 

Gill

Valentina B

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

• This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs
• Only new projects - no back-linking
• Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog
• Please show the graphic on your challenge post
• You must link up by midnight Friday (7.00pm EDT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions
• And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 10th January 2025 - that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

Have fun!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner December Pick a Previous Theme Challenge

 A huge thank you to everyone who participated in our  December Pick a Previous Theme Challenge.

I hope you had a wonderful new year's eve,

The whole team joins me in wishing you a wonderful 2025, creative and full of joy.

We had many beautiful entries, making it a tough decision,

but the Design Team has selected the following as our winners.  

Please join us in giving a round of applause to...

WINNER 

#1 Tracey Stevenson

Congratulations!

We would like to invite you to be a Guest Designer.

 Please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

 (listed in order of submission)

#13 Stephanie

#15 Susan B

#18 Art MBR

Congratulations to you all!

We hope you will enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.
You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.

December Pick a Previous Stash/Technique Challenge + DT Call

Good morning,

it is December and we have a

DESIGN TEAM CALL

Before we get to our challenge details, you will have noticed that we are looking to add some new members to our Design Team in 2025. 

 Simply add the letters DT after your name on your entry submission. Please remember that our challenge is for CARDS only - no tags, bags or gifts.

We will contact successful applicants at the beginning of  January 2025. 

The new DT members will join the team in February 2025.

And now we will return you to our regular post.

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Hello everyone,

welcome to the December challenges of 

52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

Fabiola here,

throughout the month of December,

 we invite you to play with our previous themes, this week  you may choose from any previous stash or technique challenge from 2024.

You will find all the archives at the top of the main challenge page.

Christmas is a wonderful time, 

and a great time to prepare your cards for the end of the year

 or start those for next year.

Let's go, let's play with our old challenges and our sweet and fabulous team!

enjoy!

we hope that your Christmas was sweet and warm.

this will be the last challenge of the year, we will meet you again next year, ready for new challenges.

in the meantime, the whole team wishes you the best for you and your loved ones for this new year that is about to begin.

Our guest designer this week is:

Art MBR

Technique October 2024

And here are the creations from the design team

AndrejaM

January 2024 

Majda

April 2024 -  slimline card

Fabiola

Technique/stash from august 2024 - embossing

Tracy

Technique from May - Tic Tac Toe

Branka

Embosing, August 2024

Andreja L

Technique from September 2024, watercolour

Valentina B
June 2024, colour an image

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

- This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs

- Only new projects - no back-linking

- Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog

- Please show the graphic on your challenge post

- You must link up by Midnight Friday (GMT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions

- A maximum of 10 challenges, please

- And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

- Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 3rd January 2025. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner December Pick a Previous Color Challenge

 A huge thank you to everyone who participated in our  December Pick a Previous Challenge

sorry for the delay, I hope you had a sweet and joyfull Christmas with your family and your dears.

We had many beautiful entries, making it a tough decision,

but the Design Team has selected the following as our winners.  

Please join us in giving a round of applause to...

WINNER 

#1 Tracey

Congratulations!

We would like to invite you to be a Guest Designer.

 Please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

 (listed in order of submission)

#9 Deborah

#10 Silke

#14 Urska

Congratulations to you all!

We hope you will enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.
You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.