August Sketch Challenge - Winners

Hello, thanks for all your lovely entries for our August Sketch - it was a pleasure looking at them all. It did however make voting very difficult!

Here are our favourites

TOP HONOR

#11 Rosina

HONORABLE MENTIONS

(in numerical order)

#1 Meg

#2 Judy V

#3 Steph C

#7 Ellen

#12 Nelleke

Congratulations ladies - your winners badges are in the top tabs - wear them with pride!

August Colour Challenge

Hello everyone - and welcome to the 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown challenge.  I'm Gill, and I'm here with you again this week, where it's time for a colour challenge.  I would like you to use all the colours from this week's inspiration board, displayed in the graphic below - white, cream, silver and gold...

It's not often I mix white with cream, or silver and gold, but I think they can look really pretty together, and so very festive too.  Please feel free to use whatever techniques and embellishments you wish - the sky's the limit. I can't wait to see your amazing creations...

To help you, here's some inspiration from the Design Team ...

Gill

Mynn

Louise

Fabiola

Danielle

Deborah

Asha

Ruth

Patricia

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.

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July Blog Hop Winners

It's time to reveal the winners of our Christmas in July Blog Hop!

We, at the Design Team, were super-excited to launch our very first blog hop during the month of July.  

If you missed it, you can still hop along to see the amazing creations from the Design Team here.

A BIG thank you to everyone who joined in the hop, entered their creations and left comments, 

both to those of you who visit us regularly, and those who joined us for the first time - we hope 

you'll come back and join us again soon. The Design Team ladies love visiting 

each and every one of your blogs to see your amazing Christmas creations. 

You truly are an amazing group of crafters.

So, as promised, here is our list of winners, each receiving a prize of crafting goodies, 

lovingly donated by members of the Design Team ...

Top Honor for the Sketch is~

#22 - In a World of Craft


Top Honor for the Color challenge is~
#2 - Pia

Top Honor for the Recipe is~
#6 - The Diamond Dragonfly


Top Honor for the Stash challenge is~
#8 - Pia

And our honorable mentions are (in no particular order)~
 Myrna Sweet 


Meg


Shauna


Rosina


Island Scraps

Well done everyone! Don't forget to download your winner's badge and display it proudly on your blog!


Now on to our prize winners!

The winner of the prize from Asha's blog is~
Anet Van Zyl who said:
"Gorgeous Christmas card Asha, I love the cute image and the paper. Fabulous colouring. 

Sending you and Rosie hugs. Anet x"
Asha will be contacting you directly through GooglePlus to claim your prize!


The winner of the prize from Danielle's blog is~
Shauna K who said:
"What a fun non-traditional colored Christmas card! :)"
Please contact Danielle at daniellecraftycpaATyahooDOTcom to claim your prize!


The winner of the prize from Deborah's blog is~
Denise Storck who said:
"Thanks for the inspiration! Admire your work very much!"
Please contact Deborah at deborahfringsATgmailDOTcom to claim your prize!


The winner of the prize from Fabiola's blog is~
Shauna who said:
"Lovely card! I like the white on white. You have created a great scene"
Please contact Fabiola at fajaquesAThotmailDOTch to claim your prize!


The winner of the prize from Mynn's blog is~
Cheryl who said:
"I like the tree! It looks to be the same exact tree as in the prompt! Thanks for sharing!"
Please contact Mynn at onastampageATyahooDOTcom to claim your prize!


The winner of the prize from Patricia's blog is~
Kathy Schweinfurth who said:
"Wow – what a gorgeous card! The silver really pops!!"
Patricia will contact you at the email address you provided when you left your comment.


The winner of the prize from Ruth's blog is~
Meg who said:
"Fantastic cards love every one of them and couldn't pick a favourite, thanks for all the inspiration and lovely comments."
Please contact Ruth at ruthmuz74ATgmailDOTcom to claim your prize!

One last little thing, there is still plenty of time to enter our current sketch challenge - we would love to see what you create next.

Happy crafting!

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August sketch challenge

Hello and welcome to a brand new challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown. I'm Gill and I shall be your hostess for the month of August. With just 20 weeks to go to the big day, I hope you'll join me, and the rest of the Design Team, to play along with our themes, sketches and challenges. I have the privilege of being a part of a fabulous team of ladies, creating Christmas-themed cards each week, all year long, to give inspiration for your seasonal projects.

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined our blog hop during the month of July. We hope you enjoyed hopping along with us - we were certainly blown away with all the fabulous entries we received. There were, of course, prizes up for grabs, and the list of winners will be posted on Wednesday, so do please check back again here then.

Now, after all this excitement, it's onto this week's challenge, and we have a new sketch for you ...

You can use any method, colours and products you choose for your card - just remember to keep it Christmas.  We would love to see what you make.

Some inspiration from the Design Team to help you ...

Gill

Mynn

Louise

Fabiola

Danielle

Deborah

Ruth

Asha

Patricia

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.

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June Stash Challenge Winners

What a lot of charmers you are! Well, what a lot of lovely charms anyway, we loved all your cards for last weeks stash challenge. It is my final pleasure, as the hostess for June, to announce the winners and runners up. This time we really couldn't decide and so the top honour is shared by two fabulously creative crafters...

Tinie

and

Rosina

Honourable Mentions to

in no particular order

Pat

Ellen

Myrna

Zora

Well done to everyone! Please take your winners' badges, if you would like one, to display on your blogs. For the whole of July we have our blog hop so please have a look at the challenges, link up your card and hop along to our blogs and leave a comment...there are prizes up for grabs!

Christmas in July Blog Hop!

Hello, friends!  Welcome to July at 52CCT!  We've got a super fun surprise for you this month--WE'RE DOING A BLOG HOP!!!  The hop will run from today (July 5th) until July 31st at noon GMT.  Winners will be announced by August 6th.  AND THERE ARE PRIZES HIDDEN ALONG THE WAY, so make sure to do the whole hop and link up a project here!

So, what do you need to do to participate and have a chance to win?!  Leave a comment at each stop along the way (including this post) and then make a Christmas creation based on one or all of the following prompts and then link it up below!

Here is the hop order~

You are here. ---> 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown <---You are here.

Jacqueline

Mynn

Asha

Danielle

Deborah

Fabiola

Gill

Louise

Patricia

Ruth
Judy V
Margaret

And here are the prompts~

(Choose one, two, three, or all four!)

Four different shades of pink from lightest to darkest, grey and light green.

Thank you for coming by to leave a comment!  Don't forget--leave a comment at each stop for multiple chances to win honors and prizes!  Your next stop will be Jacqueline's blog!  Merry hopping!

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 July 31st at Noon 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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Reindeer Challenge Winners

It's time to announce the winners of our Reindeer challenge from last week.  The gallery looked amazing with all your reindeer cards -in fact all of the entries were fabulous, it was so hard to choose this week. The DT votes have been tallied and our top honour this week goes to....

Rosina

with this beautiful crisp winter scene, featuring Rudolph.

Honourable Mentions go to (in no particular order)

Ellen

Pat

Kobylkin

Tinie

Well done to everyone and please help yourself to the winners' badges, to display proudly on your blogs. There is still plenty of time to join in with this week's challenge, where we want to see your Christmas projects incorporating charms.

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! :)