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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