Saturday, 24 January 2026

January Technique Challenge


  Good Morning!

Andreja L here with the last challenge of the month at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. 

This week we have a Technique challenge called EASEL CARD





Our guest designer this week is
Pauline



Here is some inspiration from the Design Team:










Tracy











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

Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday, 6th February 2026 - that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

Have fun!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Wednesday, 21 January 2026

Winners - January Colour Challenge

 

Thank you to everyone who participated in our January Colour Challenge.
We had many beautiful entries, making it a tough decision,
but the Design Team has selected the following as our winners.  
Please join us in giving a round of applause to...


WINNER
Congratulations!
We would like to invite you to be a guest designer.
 Please contact us  andreja000lampe@gmail.com  so we can send you the details.




HONORABLE MENTIONS
 (listed in order of submission)








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.


Saturday, 17 January 2026

January Theme Challenge

 Morning All, Andreja L here.

The third Saturday of each month at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is either a theme challenge. For the theme I want to see WINTER SPORTS on your cards. 




 Here is some inspiration from the 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 to make commenting easier - thank you

The deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday, 23th January 2026 - that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

Have fun!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Wednesday, 14 January 2026

Winners - January Sketch Challenge

 

 A huge thank you to everyone who participated in our January Sketch Challenge.

We had many beautiful entries, making it a tough decision,
but the Design Team has selected the following as our winners.  
Please join us in giving a round of applause to...


WINNER
Romana
Congratulations!
We would like to invite you to be a Guest Designer.
 Please contact us andreja000lampe@gmail.com so we can send you the details.




HONORABLE MENTIONS
 (listed in order of submission)


#3 Stephanie







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, 10 January 2026

January Colour Challenge

  

 Good morning, Andreja L here with you today.  

It is time for our monthly colour challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. 

I have been thinking a lot about what colours to choose, then I chose 
KRAFT, GREEN and GOLD 
and only those colours we want to see on your card.


Our guest designer this week is:


Here is some inspiration from the Design Team:




fabiola







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 to make commenting easier - thank you

The deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 16th January 2026 - that's 7.00pm EDT for those of us in the States. 

Have fun!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Wednesday, 7 January 2026

December Technique Challenge Winner

Apologies that we are late with this post, but we are here to announce our winner of the

 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 

with our

 Pick a Previous Technique Challenge!


We had some fabulous entries using all kinds of combinations throughout the year. 

And now, let’s get to the exciting part…


OUR WINNER IS ... 

#6 Trina


Trina, for winning the colour challenge, we would love to invite you to be a Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge. To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.


Our Honourable Mentions are ...
(in submission order)

#2 Silke


#8 Trina again


#16 Susan



Thank you to everyone who joined in and helped make this challenge such a success. Your creativity and generosity in sharing your work made it a real celebration of crafting.

We hope you’ll join us for the current challenge—we love seeing what you create!

Until then, happy crafting!