July Card Chain Challenge 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 2,313 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 Saturday 29th July 2017. 

•  Your card should arrive at its destination by Monday, 31st July, 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: Cacti / Mythical Creatures / Friendship

or

Products / Techniques: Hemptique cord / Lace / Spray Inking

Sign Up Deadline  

You have until Thursday 6th July, 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 Wednesday 2nd August 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.       

May 2017 - Card Chain Challenge Reveal

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

We had 22 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month (making our total number of exchanged cards 2,313 thus far!) using at least one of the following options:
 

Color Palette Option

or

Sketch Option

or

Theme Options: Stars/ Trees/ Friendship

or

Product/Technique Options: Washi Tape/Origami

Linda in Michigan sent Sabrina in California:

Sabrina in California sent Carol in Scotland

front and inside of card
 

Carol in Scotland sent Marga in Spain:

Marga in Spain sent Dawn in New Zealand:

Dawn in New Zealand sent Gail in Norway:

Gail in Norway sent NanaConnie in California:

NanaConnie in California sent Arlene in California: 

Arlene in California sent Denise in California:

Denise in California sent LaVon in Illinois:

  

LaVon in Illinois sent Jo in England:

Jo in England sent Christi C in Colorado:

Christi C in Colorado sent Sara in Missouri:

Sara in Missouri sent Jerrie in Wisconsin:

Jerrie in Wisconsin sent Deborah in Indiana:

Deborah in Indiana sent Robyn Oliver in Australia:

Robyn Oliver in Australia sent Lorraine in the UK:

Lorraine in the UK sent Greta in Oregon:

Greta in Oregon sent Katie in Georgia:

Katie in Georgia sent Lucille in Colorado:

Lucille in Colorado sent Cat C. in Maryland:

Cat C. in Maryland sent Jutta in British Columbia, Canada:

 

Jutta in British Columbia, Canada sent Linda in Michigan:

And that brings us full circle.

Thank you, everyone, for sharing your artistic talent and doing your part for global relations! We've now exchanged over 2,313 cards by participants from 38 of the 50 United States and 30 countries!!!

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 June Card Chain Challenge from 7th May to 6th June. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on 2nd July, 2017.

The July Card Chain Challenge sign-up begins on 7th June and ends on 6th July. All cards exchanged in that challenge should arrive at their destinations by 31st July and will be revealed here on 2nd August, 2017.

Hope to see you here!

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Deborah, Gail, and Jo

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 31 May, 2017, we've exchanged over 2,313 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.