January Theme/Recipe Challenge

Hello friends, thank you to everyone who joined us last week, we loved seeing your purple, silver & white cards!  We've updated our challenges for 2013, we'll be having theme OR recipe challenge weeks.  This week it's a recipe challenge - a Ruth recipe in fact!

The recipe ingredients are:

* patterned paper

* glitter

* and you must decorate the INSIDE of your card as well as the card front.
Told you it was a Ruth recipe!

The DT call is still ongoing.  Don't forget if you want to apply for a place on the Design Team, please put DT after your name when you link up your card, thank you!

Now here are the inspiring cards from the DT~

Mynnette

Outside of card.

Inside of card.

Louise

inside of card

Ruth - card 1

Card front

Inside of card

Ruth - card 2

Card front

Inside of card

Danielle

Card front

Inside of card

Jacqueline

(Front)

(Inside)

Please link just the photo of your card front, thank you!  : )
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January Sketch Challenge Honours

Wow, we had some wonderful cards entered into the sketch challenge, thanks so much to all of you for taking part!  It's SO hard to choose but we've done it and it's now time to reveal our Top Honour and Honourable Mentions!

Honourable Mentions in numerical order:

Sarah Stone # 6

  Sandie # 7

Margaret M # 12

Anita # 19

Patricia Hays # 22

Top Honour goes to:

Clare # 3

Well done to our honoured ladies - please collect your blog badges and display them on your blog with pride!  

We've also chosen a Facebook Favourite which will be announced over there soon so check that out later - it could be you!

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.

Louise

Ruth

Mynnette

Danielle

Jacqueline

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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.

Ruth

Mynnette

Louise

Jacqueline

Danielle

Merry Christmas from 52CCT!

Crackers - Honorable Mentions and Top Honor

Our last challenge of the year - here are our favourites

HONORABLE MENTIONS

DaenY's

Athina

Krafty Karen

Sarah Stone

Asha

TOP HONOR

Kylie

Congratulations ladies - please grab your badges from the usual place.

Merry Christmas folks - see you next year.

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~

Louise

Mynnette

Jacqueline

Ruth

Patty

Danielle