52 Christmas Card Throwdown: August 2025

Saturday, 9 August 2025

August Colour Challenge

Hi, Christmas lovers and card makers.

Before we go any further, we have very sad news. Last week, our GOGA left us forever. We send our sincere condolences to her family at this difficult time. Her creativity will be very much missed. As a small tribute, we would like to share some of her wonderful artwork:

Thanks to everyone who joined us for last week's challenge.

Valentina here with you today to welcome you
to the second challenge of the month at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

It means that it's time for our Colour challenge.
As you may have noticed, I really like pretty pastel colours.
So this time I picked the colours that remind me of the summer:

BABY BLUE, WHITE AND LIGHT BROWN/BEIGE

Remember that only these colours we would like to see on your cards.
Black is allowed as well as touches of metallic colours.

For my second week, here is my colour pick:

Here are beautiful inspirations from our Design Team.

Please click through their blogs for more information and to show your appreciation.

Here are some inspiration from our very creative Design Team:

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 (7.00pm EDT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions
And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

The deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 15th August 2025 -
that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

Have fun!

Wednesday, 6 August 2025

Winner July Stash/Technique Challenge

First of all, we learned of the passing of our friend Goga, and we are deeply saddened.

Our hearts go out to her loved ones during this difficult time, and our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.

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Hello everyone,

We are here to announce the winner of the July Technique/Stash Challenge

It was wonderful seeing all the different foiling and hot embossing

that people have hidden in their stashes.
Plus all of the great cards that were created with them.

it was my last challenge as your hostess

I want to thanks and congrats all of our players

who take time to play with us.

Our Winner of the challenge is

#1 Karen

Congratulations Karen on Winning

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

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

We would also like to give

Honourable Mentions to ...
(in submission order)

#4 Pauline

#7 Nataša

#10 Debbie

Congratulations to you all!
We hope you will enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.
You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.

Saturday, 2 August 2025

August Sketch Challenge

Hi, Chrismas lovers and cardmakers!

Valentina B here and I kindly invite you to join us in the August challenges.

That means we are closer to the next Christmas than we are to the last one. :)
Only 5 months left, and Christmas holidays will be here.
Even though summer is here, it's the perfect time to cool down
a little bit with Christmas cards.

Welcome to August challenges at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.
I hope you will find a lot of inspiration here and that you'll enjoy
playing along with our challenges.

As always, it's time to start the month with a Sketch Challenge.
For my first week, here is my sketch:

You can twist, flip and stretch/squash the sketch, as long as we can still see the basic layout in your card.
We can't wait to see how you'll interpret this sketch and we are looking forward to all the
beautiful cards you'll share with us.

Here are beautiful inspirations from our Design Team.
Please click through their blogs for more information and to show your appreciation.

Our guest designer this week is:

Nataša

Here are some inspiration from our wonderful Design Team: