52 Christmas Card Throwdown

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!

Saturday, 11 July 2026

July Colour Challenge

Hello everyone!

It's Deborah here, to welcome you to the second challenge of the month.

For this challenge, I have chosen a soft colour combination that are not a traditional Christmas ones.

I hope you're inspired to play along with this - we can't wait to see what you create!

Our wonderful Guest Designer this week is

Lynda

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 17th July 2026

Have fun!

Wednesday, 8 July 2026

Winner June Technique Challenge

We would love to thank everyone who participated in our

June Technique Challenge

Such a variety of styles and themes was used to create the entries.

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

We would like to congratulate

#6 Kath

Kath, for winning the technique challenge, we would love to invite you to be a
Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge.
To take up this invite, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

And we want to give Honourable Mentions to
(in submission order)