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Friday, 7 July 2017

August 2017 Card Chain Challenge Sign-Up

Hi there, everyone, and welcome to the August 2017 sign-up post! 

 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 2,337 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 Monday, 28th August 2017. 
  • Your card should arrive at its destination by Thursday, 31st August 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: Ships/Dogs/ Friendship

Products/Techniques: Memory Box/Stencils/Tea Bag Folding

Sign Up Deadline  

You have until Sunday, 6th August 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 Saturday, 2nd September 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. For example: Ann in Texas; Betty in Ontario; Cathy in Wales; Darla in Italy and so on.


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.        
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Sunday, 2 July 2017

June 2017 Card Chain Challenge Reveal

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

We had 24 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month (making our total number of exchanged cards 2,337 thus far!) using at least one of the following options:
 

Color Palette Option

or

Sketch Option

or

Theme Options: Stripes / Houses/ Friendship

or

Product/Technique Options: Penny Black / Glitter / Sewing

Who Sent What To Whom:


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 2,267 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 July Card Chain Challenge from 7 June to 6 July. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on 2 August, 2017.
The August Card Chain Challenge sign-up begins on 7 July and ends on 6 August  All cards exchanged in that challenge should arrive at their destinations by 31 August and will be revealed here on 2 September, 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 30 June, 2017, we've exchanged 2,337 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.
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