November Sketch Challenge

Hello lovely crafters, and welcome to a brand-new month at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

I’m Gill, and I’m absolutely delighted to be your host for the month of November. Can you believe how close we are to Christmas now? It’s the perfect time to dust off that glitter, pull out your prettiest papers, and get those festive creative juices flowing!

Whether you’ve been crafting along with us all year or you’re just discovering 52CCT, we’re so happy to have you here. Our wonderful Design Team has been spreading Christmas cheer since January with their stunning cards and fabulous inspiration, and now it’s your turn to join in the fun.

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 November’s First Challenge: It’s Sketch Week! 

We’re kicking off the month with one of my favourite types of challenges — a Sketch Challenge!

If you’ve never tried one before, this is a brilliant place to start. A sketch gives you a layout to follow — a bit like a creative roadmap — but there’s still plenty of room to add your own flair.

You can keep things simple and follow the design closely, or you might fancy flipping it, stretching it, or swapping out the shapes. As long as we can still see the bones of the original sketch, you’re good to go!

Sketch challenges are a wonderful way to spark your imagination. Try out new colour combinations, add a touch of sparkle, or play with different textures — metallic papers, embossed backgrounds, twine, gems… whatever makes your Christmas heart happy!

Our guest designer for this week is

Papierelle

Here are the creations from the Design Team:

Gill

Fabiola

Tracey 

Branka

AndrejaM

ELFi

Andreja L

Tracy

Majda

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Join Us and Share Your Cards

Don’t forget to share your creations with us — we love seeing how each of you interpret the challenge. Every card is unique, and together we build a gallery full of festive inspiration for crafters everywhere.

So, grab a cuppa, put on a bit of Christmas music (I won’t tell if it’s only November in your heart 😉), and let’s get making!

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 7th November 2025 
- that's 7.00 pm EDT for those of you in the States.

Happy crafting!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners October Theme Challenge

 Hello and a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our October Theme Challenge.

We had many beautiful entries and as always it was hard to make a decision,

the design team finally chose the following winners.    

Please join us in giving a round of applause to ...

WINNER

#6 Cindy Major

Congratulations Cindy,

we would like to invite you to be a guest designer.

Please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

 (listed in order of submission)

# 9 Nataša Bizjak

#16 Zvonka

#19 Tadeja

Congratulations to you all!  

We hope you'll enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.  

You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here. 

October Technique Challenge

 Welcome to the new challenge of  52 Christmas Card Throwdown, 

Majda here again as your October hostess.

I want to thank everyone who has participated in the challenges, I am impressed with your creations!

Now on to the last challenge of the month, which is a Technique Challenge.

It's time for: QUICK CARD -  it should be made in no more than half an hour.

When I checked the box of my holiday cards, I realized that I don't have enough cards

in stock to brighten up the holidays for all my loved ones. 

So choosing quick greeting card making is completely appropriate for me. 

I'm just curious if it's for you too ;) 

Can't wait to see what you will come up with!

Our guest designer this week is:

Urška

Here is my creation ...

For more inspiration, here are the creations of the design team: 

Fabiola

AndrejaM

Tracey

ELFi

Tracy

Branka

AndrejaL

Valentina B

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 31th October 2025.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners October Colour Challenge

Hello and a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our October Colour Challenge.

We had many beautiful entries and as always it was hard to make a decision,

the design team finally chose the following winners.    

Please join us in giving a round of applause to ...

WINNER

#12 Tadeja

Congratulations 

We would like to invite you to be a guest designer.

Please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

 (listed in order of submission)

#8 Renate

#13 Urška

#15 Andrea's Paper Antics

Congratulations to you all!  

We hope you'll enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.  

You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here. 

October Theme Challenge

Hello everyone!

Majda again, to welcome you for the third challenge of the month 

on the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. 

Because I love gnomes on holiday cards, gnomes will be the theme this month.

I'm curious to see what kind of gnomes you'll choose?!

I can't wait to see what you create.

Our Guest Designer this week is

Karen

Here is my creation ...

For more inspiration, here are the creations of the design team: 

Fabiola

AndrejaM

Tracey

Branka

ELFi

Andreja L

Valentina B

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 October 2025.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners October Sketch Challenge

Hello and a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our October Sketch Challenge.

We had many beautiful entries and as always it was hard to make a decision,

the design team finally chose the following winners:

    

#6 Papierelle

Congratulations !

Congratulations!

We would like to invite you to be our Guest Designer.

 Please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

 (listed in order of submission)

 #1 Pat G

#2 Urška

#7 Erika

 Congratulations to you all!

For playing with us at our Christmas challenges.

We hope you'll enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog. 

You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page.

Don't forget to enter our Colour Challenge, which is open until

Midnight (GMT) Friday, 17th October 2025.

October Colour Challenge

  

Hello everyone!

 Majda here with you today to welcome you for the second challenge of the month. 

For this challenge, I have chosen three colours - red, green and brown

 that I myself use often 

when creating Christmas cards!

I hope you like it and you'll have a lot of fun :)

Our Guest Designer this week is: 

Silke

Here is my creation ...

For more inspiration, here are the creations of the design team: 

Fabiola

AndrejaM

Tracey

Branka

Gill

ELFi

AndrejaL

Tracy

Valentina B

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 October 2025.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter