July Recipe Challenge Winners!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our recipe challenge!

Our Top Honor goes to...

Daen'Ys!

 

Unfortunately, there were several submissions that did not follow our challenge recipe and/or our challenge rules, and therefore they were ineligible for our honors voting.  So we have only four Honorable Mention cards this week:

#1 ~ Margaret M

#7 ~ Suzy B

#8 ~ Susan B

#9 ~ Rocky

(in order of entry to our challenge)

Congratulations, ladies!  You may pick up your winner badge from the tab at the top of our blog page.

You still have time to join in this week's embellishment challenge!  We'd love to see how you use stitching on your cards.  Be sure to read the rules carefully if you want to be considered for our honors post next week.

July Embellishment Challenge

Hello!  It's hard for me (Patricia) to believe that July is nearly over!  I've had a lot of fun being your hostess this month and coming up with ideas for the challenges.  Thank you to everyone who has been playing along with us all month, and extra special thanks if you've joined us all year long so far!

Before I get to this week's challenge, I'd like to give everyone a friendly reminder to please read our challenge rules and directions carefully.  We've had a lot of fabulous cards entered into our challenges this month, but unfortunately, many of them have been ineligible for the Design Team's Top Honors and Honorable Mention voting because the participants have not followed our challenge directions and/or guidelines.  This makes the Team very sad!  Thank you for your cooperation in this. 

Now, on to the fun stuff!  This week, we want to see stitching on your cards.  You may use hand stitching, machine stitching, or draw some faux stitching on your card.  You can stitch a border or a design.  The choices are up to you!  However, in order to be considered for our weekly Top Honors and Top Five, the stitching should be easily seen on your card, and consist of more than simply sewing on a button.

Here is our challenge inspiration photo:

This is what the Design Team has created:

Patricia

Mynnette

Jacqueline

Ruth

Louise

 Sarah

Deborah

Danielle is on a well-deserved break this week.

Now it's your turn!  We'd love to see your artistic stitching!  Remember that you have until 1:00 pm Eastern time Friday, August 2 to link your card.

Please make sure to follow these rules when you play along with us here at 52CCT! :)

*Please read the challenge requirements carefully before creating your card. We will never delete any submissions that do not follow our challenge rules; however, only cards that meet the requirements will be considered by the Design Team for our weekly Top Honors and Honorable Mention voting. 
*Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.
*We would love it if you added our button to the side of your blog.
*Please make sure to link to your POST, not your blog.
*Please make sure NOT to back link.
*In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link up by Friday at 6:00pm GMT.
*You are free to combine this challenge with up to 10 other challenges.
*We'd really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily! We know a lot of you do this for safety, but it takes a very long time to comment when verification is activated, and you may lose your comments from us...just sayin'. ;)

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July Color Challenge Winners!

Wow - what a lot of wonderful cards were entered in last week's color challenge!  Unfortunately, there were several submissions that did not follow our challenge rules, and therefore were not eligible for our honors voting.  But after deliberation, the Design Team was able to decide on a Top Honors card and five Honorable Mentions... so without further delay...

Our Top Honor goes to #19 - Daen'Ys!

Our Honorable Mention Winners are

(in order of entry)

#1 - Suzy B

#6 - Margaret M

#11 - Fabiola

#13 - Rocky

#17 - Christy Q

Congratulations to our winners!  You may pick up your winner badge from the tab at the top of our blog page.  Feel welcome to display it with pride on your blog!

There's still time to cook up something for this week's Recipe Challenge of one ribbon, two different patterned papers, and three gems!  We hope you'll join us again!  

 

July Recipe Challenge

Hello!  If you're feeling the summer heat, come cool off with us here at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown, where we're always in the Christmas spirit!

I'm Patricia, your challenge hostess for the month of July.  The third week of the month, the hostess has the option of choosing a theme or a recipe challenge, and I've opted for a recipe challenge.  It's as easy as 1, 2, 3!  You must use one ribbon, two different patterned papers, and three gems on your card.  The gems can be pearls or rhinestones or other crystals, or even one of each type - but a grand total of only three.

Here's the recipe for you again:

And here are the samplers of eye candy the Design Team cooked up for you:

Patricia

Deborah

Mynnette

Jacqueline

Ruth

Sarah

Louise

Danielle

We're looking forward to a feast of fabulous cards from our challenge participants!  Please be sure to review the rules below, and link up your card by 1:00 pm Eastern time Friday, July 26.

*Please read the challenge requirements carefully before creating your card. We will never delete any submissions that do not follow our challenge rules; however, only cards that meet the requirements will be considered by the Design Team for our weekly Top Honors and Honorable Mention voting.
*Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.
*We would love it if you added our button to the side of your blog.
*Please make sure to link to your POST, not your entire blog.
*Please make sure NOT to back link.
*In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link up by Friday at 6:00 pm GMT.
*You are free to combine this challenge with up to 10 others.
*We'd really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily! We know a lot of you do this for safety, but it takes a very long time to comment when verification is activated, and you may lose your comments from us...just sayin'. ;)

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July Sketch Challenge Winners!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our July Sketch challenge!  Our top honor for the week is

Patti Corriere

 

Our honorable mentions go to 

(in order of entry to the challenge)

#3 Margaret M

#4 Meg

#8 Lacey S

#10 Fabiola

#11 Heather Mills

Congratulations, ladies!  You may pick up your winner badge from the tab at the top of our blog page.

You still have time to join in this week's color challenge!  Be sure to read the rules carefully if you want to be considered for our honors post next week.

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July 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 winter holiday season here at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown. 

I'm Patricia, your hostess for the month of July, and this week I've come up with a color challenge.  I think of it as a "vintage traditional" color scheme:  

For color reference, Stampin' Up colors would be Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla, and Chocolate Chip.  Of course, you are never required to use only SU products for any of our challenges!  Simply use whatever you have that is closest to these colors.

Keep in mind that there should be no white, no black, no blues, no purples, no pinks, no light greens on your card... we only want to see the listed four warm, rich colors this week.  Since we realize many challenge participants enjoy adding embellishments to their cards, you may use a very small amount of metallic gold (such as cording, embossing powder, or a few brads) along with the four challenge colors.  However, in order to be considered for our weekly Top Five Honors, the four challenge colors must be the dominant colors used.

OK, enough chitter-chatter.  How about seeing what the design team did with these colors?

Patricia

Deborah

Mynnette

Danielle

Ruth

Jacqueline

Sarah

Louise

We're looking forward to seeing what you create!  Be sure to link your card below by 1:00 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, July 19.

Please make sure to follow these rules when you play along with us here at 52CCT! :)

*Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.
*We would love it if you added our button to the sidebar of your blog.
*Please make sure to link to your POST, not your entire blog.
*Please make sure NOT to back link.
*In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link up by Friday at 6:00pm GMT.
*You are free to combine this challenge with 10 others.
*We'd really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily! We know a lot of you do this for safety, but it takes a very long time to comment when verification is activated, and you may lose your comments from us... just sayin'. ;)

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June - Pick a Previous......Sketch Winners

Our 

Top Honor

this week goes to

Daen'Ys

Congratulations - your winners badge is in the top tabs

Honorable Mentions 

this week go to

Shellshearer

Meg

Georgina

Margaret M

Fabiola

Congratulations ladies - your winners badge is in the top tabs.

July Sketch Challenge

Hello!  It's Patricia here, and I'm excited to be hosting the challenges for the month of July!  Thank you to Jacqueline for a fun month of June challenges, and thank you to everyone who joined in them.  The design team loves seeing the creativity of our challenge participants!

Even though most of us in the Northern Hemisphere are dealing with the summer heat, it's still all things Christmasy and wintry here at 52 (Christmas) Card Throwdown!  Since it's the first Saturday of the month, this week's challenge is a sketch challenge.  I've come up with a fairly simple sketch, which you can leave as a clean and layered style card, or dress up with embellishments and patterned papers.  You may also choose to turn the sketch on its side.  I drew up the sketch as an A2 sized rectangle (4.25" x 5.5") but if you prefer to make square cards, feel welcome to manipulate it into a square.

Here's the sketch photo ~

Don't let those triangular areas intimidate you.  That's simply a rectangle, roughly the same size as the focal (top) panel, just tilted a bit.  

And now for some DT inspiration~

Patricia

Deborah

Mynnette

Ruth

Louise

Jacqueline

Danielle

Sarah

The rest of the design team and I are looking forward to seeing what you create!

Please make sure to follow these rules when you play along with us here at 52CCT! :)

*Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.
*We would love it if you added our button to the side of your blog
*Please make sure to link to your POST, not your blog.
*Please make sure NOT to back link.
*In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link up by Friday at 6:00pm GMT.
*You are free to enter this challenge and 10 others only.
*We'd really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily! We know a lot of you do this for safety, but it takes a very long time to comment when verification is activated, and you may lose your comments from us...just sayin'. ;)

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June Embellishment Winners

Good morning - I am delighted to announce that the TOP HONOR crown is shared this week by two crafting queens - take a look

Susan B

AND

Vicky

Congratulations ladies - your winners badge is above in the top tabs.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

(in numerical order)

#5 Kate

#7 Margaret M

#11 Fabiola

#12 Daen'Ys

#15 Rocky

Congratulations ladies - please grab your winners badge from above.