52 Christmas Card Throwdown

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...

Fabiola

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)

#7 Kate

#10 Susan

#14 Joanne

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.

Saturday, 4 July 2026

July Sketch Challenge

Hello everyone

and welcome to the first July challenge at

52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

I'm Deborah and I'm hosting our challenges this month.

As always we start with a sketch and I hope you will come and play along with us.

You can stretch this or use different shapes as long as we can see the basic sketch on your card.

We can't wait to see you interpret this sketch and we're looking forward to all the beautiful cards you'll share with us!

Myself and the team are looking forward to seeing what you create and share with us.

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

- 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 10th July 2026

Have fun!

Wednesday, 1 July 2026

Winner June Theme Challenge

Good Morning!

We would love to thank everyone who participated with our
June Theme Challenge. We selected the following cards and the winner is

#6 Colien

Colien, 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)

# AuntySue