January - Sketch winners ....

... Good morning everyone.  I was so pleased to see so many people playing along with our first challenge of the year.  The sketch was one that could be dressed up or kept really simple - and we had examples of both! 

Winner of Sketch Challenge

#8 - Evelyn - You kept exactly to the sketch - even using a star,

but you dressed up your card beautifully.  Love the embossed background

and sweet little birds!

Honourable Mentions

in order of submission

#1 - Sarah Stone

#3 - Brenda

#9 - Kathy C

#11 - Nelleke

#12 - Brenda

Congratulations to you all.  Please pick up your badge from the tab at the top of the blog and display it on your blog.

There's still plenty of time to join in with this week's challenge - I've got a colour challenge for you - all shades of blue.  Please stick to just blues.

Looking forward to seeing your creations!  Have fun!

January Colour Challenge

Good morning Christmas crafters - it's time for our colour challenge and I've gone for shades of blue.  We are having a real arctic blast of winter here in North America and the view from my window is snow and more snow, with bright blue skies!!!  It was lovely to see so many submission for my sketch challenge - and I hope to see just as many, if not more for the blues!!!! 

Please make sure that you use just the colours provided, 
(you may use black for stamping image outlines).

Here is some Christmassy inspiration from our Design Team:

Deborah

Jacqueline

Tanja

Fabiola

Julie 

April

Louise

Gill

Patricia

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Happy 2015!! First challenge of the year

Good morning and welcome back to 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown and our first challenge of the New Year. We do hope that you all had a fantastic Christmas and New Year and are ready to make a start on your stash of 2015 Christmas cards.  You might notice that we've got a new look blog and we also have some new members on the team - do make them welcome.  Now, it's time to have a look at our first challenge - it's a sketch - you can turn it and you don't have to use a star.

Here's some inspiration from the team:

Deborah

Fabiola

Tanja

April

Julie T

Danielle

Jacqueline

Louise

Patricia

Gill

Please make sure you follow these rules when you play along with 52CCT.

• Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.
• No back links - only new projects.
• Please link directly to your POST, not your blog.
• We'd love to see our button on your blogs.
• In order to be considered for Top Honour or Honourable Mention you must link up by midnight (GMT) on Friday.
• You can play in this challenge and 10 others - maximum 11.
• It would be much appreciated if you could turn off word verification to make commenting easier for the team - many thanks.

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Winner and Honorable Mentions for December 2014 Pick a Previous

Hello all! Hope each of you have had a fabulous

Christmas Holiday and are looking forward to the New Year.

We had a terrific turnout for our December 2014

PICK A PREVIOUS challenge.  

In fact we had such amazing entries that 

we had a hard and fast tie between 4 of the entries!!

Oh my what is a DT to do when that happens

 and a prize is offered??

Well...I put the winner's numbers in a hat

and asked my son to pick one out.

Annndddddd...... our WINNER of the $15 prize

from Deedee's Digis

is

Ariane from STAMPINBUZZ Design

who used the previous theme of Stars.

Unfortunately I can't seem to copy her 

beautiful card to show you :o(. 

So please click the link to see it.

Congrats Ariane! Please contact Danielle (by January 4th)

at daniellecraftycpa@yahoo.com 

to get your prize code and start shopping!!  

Now for our Honorable Mentions from December

(in no particular order)

#12 Pia

#38 Nelleke

#15 Vicky

#37 Island Scraps

#24 Island Scraps

#31 Maja

So that's a wrap for 2014.

Our DT has enjoyed a nice break and will

be back on Saturday - January 3rd -with a

whole new slate of challenges to help you 

get your Christmas cards ready for 2015.

Thank you so much for your support!

:Pick a Previous Sketch - Honorable Mentions

Thanks to all who took part in this challenge.

This week our

TOP HONOR

goes to

#11 Sweet Kobylkin

Our

HONORABLE MENTIONS

this week go to

(in numerical order)

#9 Leona

#10 Julie

#14 Deepti

#16 Myrna Sweet

#18 Alison C

Congrats to all - please grab your winners badges from the top tab.

OUR CURRENT CHALLENGE CAN BE FOUND - HERE

There's still time...Reminder for the December Pick ANY Previous 2014 Challenge

Hello!

Just a quick reminder that the December

PICK ANY PREVIOUS 2014 Challenge

is still going on.

You have until December 19th to submit

your gorgeous Christmas card creations

using ANY previous 52CCT 2014 challenge.

Check the tabs at the top for the

different challenge options you have available.

Please just let us know which one you are using.

Don't forget...we have a FABULOUS sponsor

for this month's challenge
Deedee's Digis



You could be the lucky winner of
a $15 gift certificate to Deedee's Shop
if your card is chosen for TOP HONORS.

The ladies at Deedee's Digis have made some more
gorgeous inspiration for us - take a look:

Kathy - used July 2014 color combo and
Pink Christmas


Tamara - using Sketch #30 from July 2014
and Meowy Christmas


Deedee - using Sketch #24 from January 2014
and Peace on Earth


Carol using sketch from July 2014
and Christmas Cardinal



And here's some more inspiration from the 52CCT DT

Danielle - using Sept 2014 Theme #27 "Nordic Christmas"
and Country Christmas

Jacqueline
Using Doodletags and October Sketch

Fabiola using "Dashing Through" and Christmas Landscape  February 2014

Deborah - using "Happy Owl-idays" and May 2014 Sketch

Wishing you all a very
Merry Christmas
and a 
Happy New Year

You can find the Linky for the December challenge HERE.
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Paper Piercing - Honorable Mentions

I'm a little late getting these up - sorry, I will be back with last week's winners tromorrow.

TOP HONOR

#1 Alison

HONORABLE MENTIONS

#2 Em's Paperdaze

#8 April

#11 Julie

#12 Tanja

#14 Vicky

Congratulations all -please grad your winners badges from the top tab.

December Pick a Previous Challenge

Ho Ho Ho what do you know, here it is December
and just a couple weeks to Christmas!

It's a busy time of year for so many,
and yet sometimes crafting saves our sanity.

So... we are ending the year with just one challenge
that will run from December 6th through 19th.

AND....we have a fabulous sponsor
who is offering a terrific prize
for the TOP HONOR winner
of the December challenge.

Prize is $15 in digital images!!

This month you have free range to use ANY of our 2014 challenges.
- Whoo Hoo!  Just remember to tell us what it is.

Don't forget...you have until December 19th to participate
and the winners will be posted at the end of the year.

Thank you for taking part in our Christmas challenges -
we hope you come back next year ready to start again with your festive making.

From all at 52CCT we wish you a very

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

So let's get started with some inspiration from Deedee's DT gals:

Tamara - using Away in a Manger
and Theme Challenge #23 Stars

Deedee - using Gingerbread Angels

Challenge #11 (Pink, Brown and White/Cream)

Now for some festive creations from the 52CCT DT:

Fabiola using Deer Friend
with "Nordic Christmas" September theme

Deborah using Ugly Sweaters
Using October colours

Danielle - Using Country Christmas 

Sketch from February 2014

Louise

Using "Rudolph/ Reindeer" June theme

Patricia

Using August colors

Jacqueline

Using Cardinal and March Colours

We hope to see your beautiful Christmas card in our gallery soon!

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