February Sketch Challenge

Hello and Happy February! Can you believe how fast the year is moving on already?  I (Danielle) get the honor of being the hostess for the month of February and have started us out with a sketch challenge.  I think sketches are a great staring point to get your creative juices flowing.  Hope you don't find it too challenging! I think it has a ton of fabulous possibilities and can't wait to see what you come up with!  So let's get started and see the sketch and what the fabulous DT has come up with to inspire you:

Here's our sketch this week~

And check out the inspiration from our DT~

Danielle

Mynnette

Ruth

Louise

Jacqueline

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January Recipe Challenge Honours

It's time to reveal out January Recipe Challenge honours.  I'm so glad you all played along with my Ruth Recipe challenge!  Wow, you certainly rose to the challenge and made some wonderful creations - inside and out!  Without further ado here are the honours:

Honourable Mentions in numerical order:

#1 Meg

# 3 Sarah Stone

#15 Yvonne Garner

#19 Patricia Hays

#20 Vicky

Top Honour goes to:

#5 Pauline P

Many congratulations to our honoured ladies - please make sure you collect your blog badges and show them off!   

Don't forget to pop over to Facebook to see who received our Facebook Favourite honour this week!  

January Technique Challenge

Hello again friends, thanks to everyone who shared their lovely cards with us last week!  It's time for another new type of challenge, we'll be having embellishment OR technique weeks.  This week it's a technique we want to see and the technique is Triple Time Stamping.  This is such a great technique, it's simple but has the wow factor!  Dawn Olchefske produced a great video tutorial for this technique which you can find here.  Can't wait to see what you come up with!

The DT call is still ongoing - but this is the last week.  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 cards the DT made to inspire you.   

Mynnette

Louise

Ruth

Danielle

Jacqueline

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January Colour Challenge Honours

Thanks so much to all of you who took part in last week's challenge, you do make it hard for us to select our winners!  I'm here to announce the honours for our January Colour Challenge - * trumpet fanfare *

Honourable Mentions in numerical order:

#4 Sandie

#7 Sarah Stone

# 10 Pia

#11 Rocky

#12 Daen'Ys

Top Honour goes to:

#2 Brenda B

Well done and congratulations to our honoured ladies - please collect your blog badges so you can proudly show them off!   

We've also chosen a Facebook Favourite which will be updated later on so please go and check out who received that honour this week!

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