September Stash Challenge

Welcome to our last challenge for September. This is also my last week as hostess. Challenges for the month of October will be hosted by Jacqueline Dee. We also have an exciting news to share with you: Peg Coombes of Peg Craft-a-Lot, who joined as last week as a Guest Designer, is now part of 52 CCT's Design Team.

Let's get on with this week's Stash Challenge. We would like you to create a festive project showcasing Diamonds & Pearls, that is glittery, sparkly and utterly extravagant.

Here are some wonderful makes by the DT to inspire you:

Asha

Danielle

Deborah

Fabiola

Gill

Jacqueline

Louise

Patricia

Peg

Ruth

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Please make sure you 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 Honours and Honourable 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 Honour or Honourable 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.

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September Colour Winners

Happy Wednesday, friends! It's time to announce the winners of our Colour Challenge. We had so many truly amazing entries and the Design Team spent many hours haggling over the who should get the coveted Top Honour. We finally settled on, not one but TWO consummate crafters.

TOP HONOURS

#8 Deepti

#12 Alison C

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

(in numerical order)

#7 Kathyk

#10 AJ

#11 Marie Bingaman

#15 Rosina

Congratulations to the winners. Don't forget to grab your badges and display them proudly on your blogs!

Our September Theme Challenge - Nordic Christmas is still open. You have until Friday 6pm UK / 1pm Eastern to link up your projects. 

Still Time

Are you running behind with this week's challenge? Me too - all the details can be found HERE and our theme is

Here's another card to hopefully inspire you

Jacqueline

Happy Crafting!

September Theme Challenge

Welcome to another Saturday and our third challenge of the month. As is tradition, it's time for a Theme Challenge and we have a great one for you this week! We're taking a trip to the land of reindeers, elves and the jolly man himself to recreate a Nordic Christmas!

So what exactly is a Nordic or Scandinavian Christmas?

Simply put, it's rustic, minimalist, cool, cozy, calm and peaceful. That means Natural and Neutral tones such as wood, black, white, kraft, silver, wheat. The most popular accent colour is Red.  Green or Blue are alternative complimentary colours but avoid using all three unless you have lots of neutral colours and  space to maintain the uncluttered feel. Repeat patterns are another common feature. It's all about light and purity. For texture, opt for natural material such as wood, straw accessories, tree branches, pine cones, linen.

The Look: Homespun, Handmade, Nothing Manufactured. Simple elegance is the motto but not necessarily extreme CAS. Keep your designs light, fresh and not overly embellished - that's it!

We have a very special Guest Designer this week: Peg Coombes of Peg Craft-a-Lot. Peg is a super talented crafter.  Take a look at what Peg has made for our challenge:

Peg

Here are some wonderful makes by the DT to inspire you:

Asha

Danielle

Deborah

Fabiola

Gill

Jacqueline

Louise

Patricia

Ruth

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Please make sure you 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 Honours and Honourable 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 Honour or Honourable 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.

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September Sketch Winners

Thank you to everyone who entered our September Sketch challenge. We had some fantastic entries and it was impossible to choose just one overall winner. The Top Honour this week is shared by 2 talented crafters:

#5 Em's Paperdaze

And

#7 Rosina

Honourable Mentions (in numerical order) go to:

#2 Meg

#11 April Cheetham

Congratulations to the winners. Don't forget to grab your badges and display them proudly on your blogs! 

Our September Colour Challenge is still open. You have until Friday 6pm UK / 1pm Eastern to link up your projects. Don't be shy now!

September Colour Challenge

Good morning all. Are you ready for another round of festive fun? It's Week #2 and we have a Colour Challenge for you. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a Christmas project in the colour combination shown in the prompt:

Red  OR  Blue  +  Black  AND  White  +  Silver  OR  Gold

This is, after all, a festive challenge and we really want you to have fun. So we've decided to be a little flexible with the Red and Blue. You may use various shades of Red (such as burgundy, poppy, crimson, scarlet, excluding pink) OR Blue (royal blue, sky blue, cornflower blue, navy, excluding purple).

We also have a sponsor supporting us this month - Deedee's Digis - and some of the team will be using digi images on their cards. When you have a moment, check out Deedee's online store - there's no shortage of cute images there!

Are you ready to play along? Here are some wonderful makes by the DT to inspire you:

Asha

Danielle (using sponsor image)

Deborah (using sponsor image)

Fabiola

Gill

Jacqueline

Louise

(taking a break)

Patricia

Ruth

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Please make sure you 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 Honours and Honourable 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 Honour or Honourable 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.

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August Pick a Previous Challenge - Winners

It's time to announce the winner and honourable mentions of last week's pick a previous sketch challenge. 

Thank you for all your beautiful entries - you were inspired! 

The voting was very close and you made it very difficult for the Design Team to choose.
So we have a tie for top spot -

Top Honours go to: 

#Kath
for this beautiful Christmas tree...

and #Alison
for this CAS Christmas wreath ...

Honourable Mentions also go to...

 #Denise

#Rosina

#Pat

Well done everyone - you may now download your winner's badge to display proudly on your blog.

Don't forget, there is still time to enter our current challenge - we do hope you will join us.

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September Sketch Challenge

Hello and welcome to 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown.  The aim of our weekly challenges is to make sure you have a good stash of cards ready in time for Christmas.  We have a fantastic Design Team all providing inspirational cards based on our weekly theme.  This month our hostess is Asha and she's starting us off with this fabulous sketch.

We also have a sponsor supporting us this month - Deedee's Digis - and some of the team will be using digi images on their cards.

We are looking forward to seeing what you make with the sketch - use any technique, colours, products - but keep it CHRISTMAS.   Here are some wonderful makes by the DT to inspire you:

Asha

Danielle (using sponsor image)

Deborah (using sponsor image)

Fabiola

Gill

Jacqueline

Louise

Taking a break

Patricia (using sponsor image and sentiment)

Ruth

Please make sure you 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 Honours and Honourable 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 Honour or Honourable 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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