September 2012 Theme Challenge

How did you like the colours we had for you last week? Please pop back later to see who our winners are.
We have a cracking theme for you this week - plenty of scope for your Christmas creations I think - take a look

Here's what the dt have made to inspire and delight you this week - don't forget to pop over to our personal blogs and say hi - just click on our names to hop on over.

Mynnette

Danielle

Louise

Ruth

Jacqueline

Patty



Please link up your projects below, and follow these rules:

*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.

*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 enter this challenge and 10 others only.

*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'. ;)

September Sketch Top Honors and Honorable Mentions

Entries were a bit thin on the ground last week but the dt have voted and here are our winners

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Meg

Sally B

Skye

Kerry Louise

Fabiola

We have 2

TOP HONORS

this week

Vicky

Birgit/Biggan

Congratulations to all the winners - don't forget to grab your badges from the tab at the top.

Please pop over now to Facebook to find who is this week's Facebook Favourite.

September 2012 Color Challenge

Thanks for taking part in last week's Sketch Challenge - our Honorable Mentions will be posted later along with our Facebook Favourite - don't forget to 'Like' our page to find out who it is.
This week we have our Colour Challenge and this is what Mynette has come up with for us to play with

Please note that these colours are the only ones you should use and cards submitted using any additional colours may not be considered for our Honorable Mentions - don't be scared though, just scroll down to take inspiration from the fabulous work made by the dt this week. Please remember to click on the names and visit the blogs - we love to hear from you!

Jacqueline

Mynnette

Danielle

Louise

Ruth

Patty

Please link up your projects below, and follow these rules:

*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.

*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 enter this challenge and 10 others only.

*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'. ;)

Top honor and Honorable Mentions for August Embellishment Challenge

Hi - Jacqueline here, hope you had fun playing with your chipboard pieces last week - we all had fun choosing our favourite. Here they are

Honorable Mentions this week go to

Betty Benton

Rocky

Susan

Kylie

Meg

Our Top Honor this week goes to 

Birgit/Biggan

Congratulations all - your badges are at the top in the Winners Badges tab, please copy them and display them on your blogs.
We also have a FaceBook Favourite this week so please do check out our page.

September 2012 Sketch Challenge

Can you believe that we are into September already? Can you believe that it's only 3 months to December? Wow - but there's still time to stock pile a few cards - here's how........ join in our challenges of course!
This month it's Mynnette's turn to choose what we do and we start with this fantastic sketch - take a look

Please feel free to rotate or flip the sketch and some of the shapes may be substituted too however we still need to see the basic sketch in your Christmas cards.

Now scroll down to see what the dt have come up with for you this week - don't forget to click on the names to visit the blogs

Jacqueline

Louise

Mynnette

Danielle

Ruth

Patty

Please link up your projects below, and follow these rules:

*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.

*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 enter this challenge and 10 others only.

*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'. ;)

Honorable Mentions and Top Honor for August Theme Challenge #8

Oh Wow!  The DT was just blown away with all the amazing entries we saw this week for our Theme Challenge - Christmas Song or Hymn - such great talent and inspiration from all of you.  You had us all singing Christmas tunes in our heads as we were popping into your blogs.  Ruth was even asking if someone knew a good remedy to get a song "un-stuck" from her head - LOL.  Won't be too long really before we are singing for real.  And won't it feel good that you have most if not all your Christmas cards ready because you have been playing along with us each week?  We so appreciate each and every one of you and are so glad that you continue to share with use.  

Ok so enough chit-chat... I (Danielle) do tend to be a bit wordy sometimes, my apologies.  Once again you made it so very difficult for us to narrow it down to just 5 Honorable Mentions and the Top Honor... but nonetheless here are our choices: 

Honorable Mention (in numeric order):

#2 Helen





#9 - Kylie

#13 - Susie

#17 - Eileen

#20 - Sarah

 



Congratulations to all of you! Don't forget to grab your badge and display it proudly on your blogs. 

And our Top Honor this week at 52CCT goes to ..... #12 Brigit/Biggan and #14 Leesa aka the Navy Wife (we had tie!).  Both of your cards were just too fabulous and we couldn't decide between them so Congrats to both of you! Grab your badge and display it with pride!    

Here is Brigit's card

 

and here is Leesa's card

Congrats!!! Grab your badge and display it with pride for your fabulous creations. 

Don't forget to check our our current challenge... an embellishment challenge that might have you feeling a little "chippy".  Merry Crafting!

August 2012 Embellishment Challenge

Good morning all and welcome to 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown. It's the forth week of the month and that means it's time for some Embellishments. This week we want to see you decorating your cards with pieces of Chipboard - take a look

 Please scroll down to view all the lovely samples the dt have made to inspire and delight you with and don't forget to click on our names and visit our blogs

Mynnette

Jacqueline

Danielle

Louise

Ruth

Patty

Please link up your projects below, and follow these rules:

*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.

*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 enter this challenge and 10 others only.

*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'. ;)

Honorable Mentions and Top Honors for the August 2012 Color Challenge

Hello all you lovely Christmas crafters.  There were some amazing entries this week for the August 2012 Color Challenge.  We were absolutely blown away by your Red, Black and Metalic Silver creations and you made it difficult for us to narrow it down for our award selections. Thank you all so much for supporting our challenge and for sharing your wonderful creations with us each week.  We are so thankful that you do!!! Without further ado please read on to see the DT choices this week.

Honorable Mentions (in numerical order):

#1 - Birgit

#3 Clare

#5 Susan

#8 - Kylie

#10 Debbie

And our Top Honor this week goes to..... for her gorgeous poinsettia creation is... #7 Rocky

 

Congratulations ladies - grab  your badges and display them proudly on your blog.  Don't forget to check out the Theme Challenge this week.  We just can't WAIT to see what you come up with!  Merry Crafting!