52 Christmas Card Throwdown

Saturday, 1 August 2026

August Sketch Challenge

Hello, everyone!

Welcome to the August Challenges! I am Tracy. I will be setting the challenges this month.
I hope you enjoy playing along with our challenges.
I hope you have time and are inspired to join us.

It's the first Saturday, which means it's time for a Sketch Challenge.

We can't wait to see how you interpret this sketch. We're looking forward to all the

beautiful cards you'll share with us!

And this week our wonderful Guest designer is

Kath

Thank you so much for creating such a wonderful card from my sketch.

Now it's time for the design team and I to show our interpretation of the sketch

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 7th August 2026 -
that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

Have fun!

Wednesday, 29 July 2026

Winner July Theme Challenge

Thank you to everyone who took part in our

July Theme Challenge

It was wonderful to see so many bauble themed cards in our gallery and you gave us a difficult job in selecting the top ones!

Congratulations go to our winner, who is

#5 Shacks Papercrafts

As the winner of our theme challenge, we would love to invite you to be a Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge. To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

This week's Honourable Mentions are

#10 Brenda B

#11 Urska

Thanks go to everyone who took part in our challenge and shared such lovely creations

We hope you’ll join us for our current challenge —we love seeing what you create!

Until then, happy crafting!

Saturday, 25 July 2026

July Technique Challenge

Welcome to the new challenge of 52 Christmas Card Throwdown,

Deborah here, with my final challenge for July, and we are ending with our Technique/Stash Challenge.

For the next week, we are inviting you to play with stencils in creating your card.

Here are our cards...

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 (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 31st July 2026

Have fun!

Wednesday, 22 July 2026

Winner July Colour Challenge

We would love to thank those of you who participated in our

July Colour Challenge

We didn't have a huge number of entries, but we loved seeing the variety of styles, sizes and designs everyone used. So much creativity in our gallery!

We would like to congratulate our winner, who is

#5 Donna

Donna, for winning the colour challenge, we would love to invite you to be a Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge. To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

We just have one Honourable Mention this week, which is

#7 Urska

Thank you to everyone who joined in and helped make this challenge such a success. Your creativity and generosity in sharing your work made it a real celebration of crafting.

We hope you’ll join us for the current challenge—we love seeing what you create!

Until then, happy crafting!

Saturday, 18 July 2026

July Theme Challenge

Hello everyone!

Deborah here again - welcome to the third challenge of the month on the

52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

It's our theme week and I've opted for Baubles,

a theme that's very traditional. You can use baubles of any shape or style on your cards and we're looking forwards to seeing your creations

Here are our cards...

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 24th July 2026

Have fun!

Wednesday, 15 July 2026

Winners July Sketch Challenge

We would love to thank everyone who participated in our

Julu Sketch Challenge

There was such a variety of styles, sizes and designs used to create the entries.

It made the choice hard, but it was fun seeing all the creativity.

We would like to congratulate our winner, who is

#8 Erika

Erika, for winning our sketch challenge we'd love to invite you to be a Guest Designer for a future challenge. To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

Our Honourable Mentions are:

(in order of submission)

#2 Donna

#3 Natasa

#5 Urska

Thank you to everyone who joined in and helped make this challenge such a success. Your creativity and generosity in sharing your work made it a real celebration of crafting.

We hope you’ll join us for the current challenge—we love seeing what you create!

Until then, happy crafting!