June Stash Challenge

Louise here. I have come to my final week as hostess at 52 CCT. Thank you to everyone who entered in the Rudolph Reindeer challenge last week, it was great to see such a variety. The winners will be posted on Wednesday, so don't forget to pop back then.

Next week we will have some very exciting news for you about our challenges in July. Can't say too much now as I don't want to spoil the surprise. Suffice it to say there will be prizes up for grabs!
For my final week I have chosen to give you a Stash challenge-to use a charm or charms on your card. Hopefully you will already have some of these in your stash which you can put to good use. You can often adapt them to all sorts of occasions, you don't need special Christmas ones but if you do have them what are you waiting for??

We have had a fantastic guest designer joining in the fun this month. Please help us welcome Marie from NJ Stamping Queen with her final card, I want to thank Marie for everything she has shared with us here at 52 CCT.

Here's Marie's take on our challenge this week~

The DT have come up with some awesome cards, all sporting charms, so have a look below if you are stuck for inspiration and hop over to their blogs (is that another clue, I wonder?) to leave a comment if you have the chance.

Louise

Mynn

Gill

Asha

Ruth

Fabiola

Deborah

Patricia

Danielle

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. Your card must not have been posted to your blog before the date of this challenge.

*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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Please link up your fabulous creation below after reviewing our rules. HUGS and merry stamping! :)

June Colour Challenge Winners

It is Wednesday again (where did that week go to?) and so time to do a happy dance for our winners from lat week's strawberry flavour colour challenge. Thank you for all your entries, here are the cards chosen by the DT

Top Honour this week goes to 

#3 Pat

with this distressed beauty..

These fab crafters all get an 

Honourable Mention

(in no particular order)

#2 Meg

#5 Judy

#9 Ellen

#7 Cindy

Well done to everyone. Don't forget to take your winners badge and 'wear' with pride!

Our current challenge is for cards featuring a reindeer, Rudolph or otherwise, and you still have plenty of time to get your entry in. 

June Theme Challenge

Hope you're having a great weekend, welcome to a new challenge at 52 CCT. My name is Louise and I am part of an awesome team of ladies who create Christmas cards all year round to hopefully inspire you to get ahead of the game in time for the yuletide season. Thanks to everyone who joined in with the colour challenge last week, glad that the idea of summer strawberries inspired your Christmas creativity. The winners will be posted on Wednesday so check back then.
This week we have a theme for you

I love cards with Rudolph or reindeer on. They can be cute, elegant, funny, contemporary, vintage, however your fancy takes you! Please make sure however that the deer are a focus for your card, not just a small embellishment. I can't wait to see all your fantastic creations!

We have a guest designer joining in the fun this month.

Please help us welcome Marie from NJ Stamping Queen!

Here's Marie's take on our challenge this week~

And some inspiration from the DT~

Louise

Mynn

Asha

Fabiola

Ruth

Patricia

 

Gill

Deborah

Danielle

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. Your card must not have been posted to your blog before the date of this challenge.
 

*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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Winners June Sketch Challenge

It's Wednesday, and that means it's time to reveal the winners of our sketch challenge from last week. Thank you to all our entrants, both those who regularly visit us and those giving our challenge a go for the first time. The DT loves visiting all your blogs and seeing your amazing Christmas creations. There is one top spot this week and it goes to......

Lorrie

with a crisp, CAS card, love those tweeting robins!

Runners up, in numerical order of entry

Judy

Beautiful stamping and rich colours

Pat
gorgeously rich flocked paper on this gift of a card!

Jess Crafts

love the inverted panels and the snuggly owl.

Meg

Great idea to change the shape of the card to a circle

Well done everyone. Don't forget to download your winners badge and display proudly on your blog!
Also, there is still plenty of time to enter our current challenge, a traditional green and red combo with a metallic of choice. Happy crafting!

June Colour Challenge

Hi There! Louise again and I'm back this week with a colour challenge. Now, although we are strictly Christmas over here at 52CCT, to celebrate the sunshine and warmth of June I have chosen a colour scheme based on STRAWBERRIES! I even found a Christmas strawberry idea!

source

I got so carried away with those yummy berries that I nearly forgot to post the colour guide!

As a twist we would like you to add a metallic of choice to your project (gold, silver, copper, antique or shiny, we don't mind) and don't forget to keep it Christmas!
We have a guest designer joining in the fun this month.

Please help us welcome Marie from NJ Stamping Queen!

Here's Marie's take on our challenge this week~

And now some inspiration from our DT~

Louise

Mynn

Gill

Jacqueline

Asha

Fabiola

Ruth

Deborah

Danielle

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. Your card must not have been posted to your blog before the date of this challenge.
 

*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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May Pick A Previous Challenge Winners

Hello, Ruth here with the Top Honours for the May Pick A Previous Sketch Challenge.   Thanks so much to those who took part, we had amazing entries, everyone did wonderful work with our sketches!  The voting was extremely close - so close in fact that we have a tie for the top spot.  So, without further ado, here are our Joint Winners and 4 Honourable Mentions.

Joint Winner #3 Pat

Joint Winner #9 Deepti

Honourable Mentions go to:
#4 Ruth S
#10 Nelleke
#11 Rosina
#12 Tinie

Many congratulations ladies, please collect your badges and display them proudly on your blogs!

June Sketch Challenge

Hello and welcome to  52 CCT. Louise here for the duration of June and I'm so looking forward to hosting this month of challenges. We are now half way through the year (!!) and, if you haven't already started, it's a great time to get on with making those Christmas/holiday cards. We are here to help with some inspiration and, as ever we kick off with a sketch challenge. Feel free to rotate it, flip it, make it square, use any shape in the middle, as long as we can still see the basic layout it's all fine with us.

We have a guest designer joining in the fun this month.

Please help us welcome Marie from NJ Stamping Queen!
Here's Marie's take on our challenge this week~

Have a look below at the ideas from my fellow DT and hop on over to their blogs if you can spare a moment and leave some 'love'for their cards, as always they're weaved their magic over my sketch and come up with some amazing creations. 

Louise

Mynn

Ruth

Fabiola

Asha

Gill

Deborah

Danielle

Jacqueline

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. Your card must not have been posted to your blog before the date of this challenge.
 

*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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