June 2017 Sign-up

Hello and welcome! If this is the first time you've visited the Card Chain Challenge*, we hope you'll sign up and join in the fun! We've now exchanged over 2,100 cards by participants from 38 of the 50 United States and 30 countries.

• This is an international card exchange. Please do not sign up unless you are willing to actually make and send a card.  

• Please email us (cardchainchallenge[at]yahoo[dot]com) a 100-200k photo of your handmade card by Wednesday, 28th June, 2017. 

•  Your card should arrive at its destination by Friday, 30th June, 2017. 
  
  

Challenge Directions 

Make a card using at least one of the following four options. (You can actually use two, three, or all four options, but you are only required to use one of them.)
 

Color Palette Option

(Exact matching is not required.)

or

Sketch Option

(Orient as desired.)

or

Theme Options: Stripes / Houses / Friendship

or

Product / Technique Options: Penny Black / Glitter / Sewing

Sign Up Deadline  

You have until Tuesday, 6th June, 2017, to sign up below.   

Reveal Post

All of the cards with links to their creators' blogs or online photo galleries will be revealed here on Sunday, 2nd July, 2017.

Sign up below (please include a link to your blog/photo gallery). Please sign up using your first name and your state, province or country. EX: Ann in Texas; Betty in Ontario; Cathy in Wales; Darla in Italy.

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for signing up!

Deborah, Gail, and Jo 

*This is an international card exchange - you send a handmade card to the person above you on the list, and you receive one from the person below you on the list. We do a reveal of all the cards with links to the challenge participants' blogs or online photo galleries - which is a great way to increase exposure to your blog or photo gallery!

Helpful Links

Past CCC Reveal

2017 Monthly Design Options

Please read the Rules & FAQs if you want to play along.       

Betty Could Use Some Card Love

Hello, All!

Our Betty has sustained a major injury and it's going to sideline her for awhile. She lives alone, so this compounds the matter. (Read about it here.)

She's probably going to be feeling low over the course of her recovery (4+ weeks it looks like, so we're thinking she could use some encouragement. If you're interested in sending Betty a card, email us at cardchainchallenge[at]yahoo[dot]com. 

Hang in there, Betty!
Gail, Deborah, Jo

April 2017, Card Chain Challenge Reveal!

Hello and welcome to the 2017 April Card Chain Challenge Reveal!

We had 24 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month (making our total 2,291 thus far!) using at least one of the following options:

Color Palette 

OR

Sketch

OR

One of the following themes: – Fruit & Vegetables/Rabbits/Friendship


OR

One of the following products: Perfect Pearls/Die Cuts/Stencils and Embossing Paste


Who Sent What To Whom

LaVon in Illinois sent Mrs. A in England:

Mrs. A in England sent Sabrina in CA:

Sabrina in CA sent Deborah (yours truly) in Indiana:

Deborah (yours truly) in Indiana sent Cat C. in Maryland:

Cat C. in Maryland sent Dawn in New Zealand:

Dawn in New Zealand sent Jo in England:

Jo in England sent Jerrie in Wisconsin:

Jerrie in Wisconsin sent Sara in Missouri:

Sara in Missouri sent Carol in Scotland

Carol in Scotland sent NanaConnie in California:

NanaConnie in California sent Jeanne in Minnesota:

Jeanne in Minnesota sent Lucille in Colorado:

Lucille in Colorado sent Christi C in Colorado:

Christi C in Colorado sent Christy L in California

Christy L in California sent Greta in Oregon:

Greta in Oregon sent Loraine in the UK: 

Lorraine in the UK sent Denise in California:

Denise in California sent Katie in Georgia:

Katie in Georgia sent Arlene in California:

Arlene in California sent Jutta in British Columbia, Canada:

Jutta in British Columbia, Canada sent Robyn Oliver in Australia:

Robyn Oliver in Australia sent Marga in Spain:

Marga in Spain sent Gail in Norway:

Gail in Norway sent LaVon in Illinois:

  
And that brings us full circle.

Thank you, everyone, for sharing your artistic talent and doing your part for global relations!

If you want to see more of these artists' card art, check out their blogs and please leave 'em some love in the comments! (Don't forget to Pin your favorites!)

Our Next Two Challenges

Hey, Gentle Readers, if you want to join in the fun, you can sign up for the May Card Chain Challenge from Friday 7th April to Saturday 6th May. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on Friday 2nd June, 2017.

The June Card Chain Challenge sign-up begins on Monday 7th May and ends on Tuesday 6th June. All cards exchanged in that challenge should arrive at their destinations by 30 June and will be revealed here on Sunday 2nd July, 2017. Hope to see you here!

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Gail, Jo, and Deborah

W H O' S   B E E N   P L A Y I N G

(If you're reading this and have never participated, please consider doing so. And if you see that your country or state has never been represented, you are honor-bound to sign up and show that y'all are friendly and interested in building global peace - and your stamp collection - one card at a time!)

As of 30th April, 2017, we've exchanged over 2,291 cards in this little jaunt - most of which were made by regular participants. And where do they come from? Read on....

Past participants have hailed from: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland (aka: The Netherlands), Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya,  Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Norway, The Philippines, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa. (We only need to get some countries that begin with L, O, Q, R, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z to keep up with our alphabet list! We have 161 countries to go before we have total global participation!!!

As for the USA, past participants come from: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. We're still missing: Connecticut, South Dakota, Delaware, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

If you're new to the Card Chain Challenge ("CCC") this is an event where everybody wins. Basically, you make a card for the person above you on the chain and you receive a card from the person below you on the chain. It's a personalized swap, sort of, and it's a ton of fun! Go here for past Chains.