January - Sketch Challenge

Good Morning and Happy New Year!

Andreja here with you today and it is my pleasure to host this month's challenges at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. Each month we have a set pattern of challenges to inspire you to create your Christmas cards. The schedule is:

* Sketch *

* Colours *

* Theme/Recipe * 

*Stash/Technique *

Here is our sketch for the first challenge 2020:

Our guest designer this week is:
Elizabeth

Here is some inspiration from the Design Team:


Andreja L

A. Rose

Fabiola

AndrejaM

Goga

Becca



Tracy

Netta

Majda

Branka

Rosi 

Lucinda

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

• This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs
• Only new projects - no back-linking
• Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog
• Please show the graphic on your challenge post
• You must link up by midnight Friday (7.00pm EDT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions
• A maximum of 10 challenges please
• And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 10th January 2020 - that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

Have fun!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner-Pick a Previous 2019 Challenge

Hello everyone and Happy New Year!  

It's been a great year of challenges.

We had such a great turnout for the very last challenge--Pick a Previous 2019 Challenge.  

44 cards to choose from and they were all fabulous!  

It was a very very hard decision and we even had a tie with a couple of cards but....

the WINNER is

#2 Tina!

Congratulations Tina!

We would like to invite you to be a guest designer.

Please contact us here so we can send you the details.

Now on to the HONOURABLE MENTIONS 

(in order of submission) 

#8 Dobrodeine

#12 KathyK

#17 stempelfrida

#18 Rocky

#27 snowmen rainbow

Well done everyone.  A great selection of cards!

We hope you'll enjoy displaying our winners' and honorable mentions' badge on your blog.  

You may collect them from the Badges tab at the top of the page.

Now that 2019 is over, we cannot wait to see the inspirations from all of you throughout 2020!  

It's going to be another fantastic year of beautiful creations.  Get ready as the first challenge will post on Saturday January 4th!

December - Pick a Previous 2019 Challenge - you still have time to play

There is still time to play along with our current Pick a Previous challenge 

and we would love to see what you make.
Join us for the last challenge of 2019!

Here is some extra inspiration from the New Design Team Members


A.Rose

October theme Challenge...Snowmen

AndrejaM

Januar theme challange: Silent night.


Becca

June 8, 2019 color challenge of gray, white, pink, and kraft


Majda

March theme challenge: Gingebread man


And some inspiration from the other members of the team

Tracy

March Colour Challenge - Gold and White


Find the original post, our inspiration cards and the link-up HERE.

Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 27th of  December  -
that's 7.00pm EDT for those of you in the States. 

Have fun!

Winners-November Technique Challenge

Thank you everyone for playing along with our Watercolor Challenge. There was so many entries to choose from!  All were so different and so unique.  It was hard to narrow it down and so many were so close in votes.  

The Design Team has finally chosen so give a round of applause to the following top 3....

Winner goes to

#22 Vicky!

Congratulations Vicky!

We would like to invite you to be a guest designer.

Please contact us here so we can send you the details.

Now the Honorable Mentions are as follows..

#2 Snowman Selfie

#15 Lia

Congratulations everyone!  

We hope you'll enjoy displaying our winners badge on your blog.  You may collect if from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.

December - Pick a Previous 2019 Challenge

Hello everyone, Myrna here. For the whole month of December, our challenge is to Pick a previous 52CCT challenge in 2019. There are lots of challenges available. You can view all the previous challenges by simply clicking on Challenge Archives at the top of the page.
Join us for the last challenge of 2019!

Please add a link to the challenge which you have chosen from this year!
We look forward to seeing your creativity!

Our guest designer this week's challenge is:

Mavricneideje

 I picked technique from January: heat embossing

Here is some inspiration from the Design Team:

Goga
I picked colours from March white and gold

Branka

 I picked the watercoloring from November

Tracy
I picked the Sketch from our June Challenge

Myrna
 I picked the Nutcracker Theme Challenge 



Fabiola
winter tree february 2019

Andreja
I picked Theme "Gingerbread Men" from March

Netta

I picked Theme "Silent Night" from January

Alison
Embossing folder background - March  (or Ribbon - July)

Rosi
I picked the "Snarky" theme  from April.

Lucinda
I picked the purple and white colour challenge from November

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

• This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs
• Only new projects - no back-linking
• Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog
• Please show the graphic on your challenge post
• You must link up by midnight Friday (7.00pm EDT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions
• A maximum of 10 challenges, please
• And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 27th of  December  -
that's 7.00pm EDT for those of you in the States. 

Have fun!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

New Design Team Members

Good morning! 

 Today we are pleased to welcome the NEW Ladies in


The new Ladies are:

A.Rose, AndrejaM, Becca and Majda.

Let the Ladies introduce themselves:



A.Rose

From the age of two, I have always had an instrument of art in my hand. It started with crayons and never stopped. I was signed up to art school after graduation from nursing school but met my hubby and that led me down a different path. I have been rubber stamping for over 45 years. Back then I was only able to find stamps and ink pads in the local drug store. I had my youngest, born with Down’s Syndrome, and stayed home where I began teaching online. After my boys were in school I started working in craft and stamp stores, sadly all now closed. I have been teaching card crafting as well as other crafts for 12 years in the library system. I love to share my “talents” that God gave me with others.



AndrejaM

I am the perfect mix of loving creative mom and meticulous innovative dad who taught me to look at things and situations from at least two points of view. I live on the outskirts of the Barje National park in the heart of Slovenia. My days are full of such and other surprises prepared by my wonderful teenage daughter, a very unique puppy and a wonderful partner who supports my imagination and hobbies. I create always and everywhere, but I prefer to start with white paper and leave my marks on it with various techniques and colors. That's why card making is my happy place.

Becca

Hi!, I'm Becca, a teacher, crafter, and blogger living in the USA heartland. Balancing the demands can be crazy at times but I love being creative. Since age 9, I've tried many different artistic and crafting mediums through school, 4-H club, YMCA classes, and supportive parents throughout childhood and teenage years. As an adult, I've loved expanding these into interior decorating and home décor. Wallpapering was even tackled multiple times! My greatest creative achievement has been constructing and sewing my wedding dress almost 24 years ago!! For the past 10 years, card-making has been my major paper-crafting format. I dabble in the others but love making cards to send to family and friends.

Majda

Hello, I am Majda and I live in Slovenia. I have been passionate about arts and crafts my whole life. I did not discover cardmaking until late 2015 and love every moment of it. It has been an amazing journey and I’m happy to be sharing it with you. So here I am, addicted to making cards which inspired me to try new techniques and styles of cards. Welcome to my creative corner!

We are so pleased to welcome them all to the Design Team.