Saturday, 12 January 2013

January Colour Challenge

Hello and thank you to everyone who played along last week and shared your lovely cards with us!  It was so nice to see so many folks ready to start making their Christmas cards right at the start of January - keep up that good work, we're always happy to see your Christmas creations!   


This week it's a colour challenge.  We'd like to see purple, metallic silver and white on your cards - this is one of my favourite colour combos for Christmas!


The DT call is ongoing through the whole of January so don't forget to add DT after your name when you link up your card if you'd like to apply to join our DT! 

Now here's the week's inspiration for you from the DT gals.

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Saturday, 5 January 2013

January Sketch Challenge - Plus Design Team Call

Hello friends, welcome to another year of Christmas card challenges from us at 52 {C}CT and a happy new year to you all!  Hope you all had a very happy festive season!  It's Ruth here and I'm hosting the challenges in January.  I think I've been very kind and am breaking you in to 2013 quite gently with a nice and easy sketch layout!  Feel free to rotate or flip the sketch and substitute the rectangle shape - please just make sure we can recognise the layout in your card!
A brand new year is exciting enough - but there's more - we have revamped our challenges for 2013!  We will still have sketch and colour combo challenges but we've decided to make the theme weeks theme OR recipe challenges and the embellishment weeks will be embellishment OR technique challenges.  That's more variety and scope for you - and us!  

And that's not all - to add to the excitement we are having a Design Team call throughout January!  If you would like to apply for a spot on the team please make a card for EVERY January challenge and ensure you add DT after your name when you link up your cards for the challenges - thank you!

Now onto the wonderful inspiration for this week from the DT.




Saturday, 22 December 2012

Crackers - Honorable Mentions and Top Honor

Our last challenge of the year - here are our favourites

HONORABLE MENTIONS






TOP HONOR


Congratulations ladies - please grab your badges from the usual place.
Merry Christmas folks - see you next year.

Saturday, 15 December 2012

December Color Challenge - Honorable Mentions and Top Honors

Hello!  Seems that many people are already quite busy in the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and getting ready for Christmas.  We didn't have a lot of entries this past week for our Color Challenge #12 but what we did get just blew us away.  In our eyes they were all winners and we are so honored that you have shared your amazing talents with us!  It was an extremely tight race - we almost felt like we might need to do a recount on the votes... however we did finally make our picks  and they are (drum roll please)....
HONORABLE MENTIONS (in numerical order of entry)

Meg
 

Asha


And for our TOP HONORS - we had a 3 Way TIE!!!  A 3 Way TIE is quite unusual but we really had a hard time with picking just one and since its the holiday season - we decided we needed to recognize all 3 of our TOP HONOR artists this week. They are (in numerical order of entry):
 Sandy J


Fabiola


Daen'Ys


Congratulations to all the winners!! Thank you everyone for playing along with us.  Don't forget to check out our last challenge for 2012!  Hope you will play along! 

Last Challenge of the Year!

Good morning and welcome to our final Christmas challenge of 2012 - thank you so much for joining us on this journey we hope you have enjoyed it - just don't forget to come back in the New Year so we can do it all over again!

Our Theme for you this week is~
Interpret this as you wish - images of crackers, hats, toys confetti etc - you can even do a joke card it's up to you.
All that remains for me to say now is 'Happy Holidays' from all the DT and a 'Happy New Year' - see you soon in 2013!!!
Here is this week's inspiration from the DT~


Saturday, 8 December 2012

December Sketch Honorable Mentions and Top Honor

Hello all - here are the winners from last week's sketch challenge, the Honorable Mentions are:






Our Top Honor this week goes to:


Congratulations ladies - your winners badges are in the top tab.
Don't forget to check on Facebook for this week's FB Favourite.




December Colour Challenge

Good morning - hope everyone enjoyed last week's sketch, please pop back later for the Honorable Mentions and Top Honor awards.
I have a colour challenge this week for you - take a look

A nice easy one for you this week I think but please remember that to qualify for next week's Top Honor or Honorable Mentions you must stick to these colours only and not add any more - thank you.
One more thing - next week will be our last challenge of 2012 but we will be back in January with more challenges to get you on the right road to Christmas 2013 card preparation!
Here's this week's DT inspiration~

Louise







Sunday, 2 December 2012

November Embellishment Honors

WOW, we had an amazing turnout last week for our pearl challenge!  Thank you!  Let's see the honors from that challenge...

Honorable Mentions~
(in numerical order)





 

Top Honor~

ANOTHER TIE!!!
(in numerical order)

For her amazingly
pearl encrusted
Christmas tree


For her fantastically
gorgeous CAS
holiday creation

LeAnne_CQC165

Congrats to everyone and please grab your badges!  Don't forget to check out our Facebook Page to see this week's FB Fave as well!  See you this week for our sketch challenge!  Merry stamping! :)