Monday, 7 May 2018

June 2018 - 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 over 2,553 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 28th June, 2018.
  •  Your card should arrive at its destination by 30th June, 2018.

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: Trees /Jungle Animals / Friendship

or
Product / Technique Options: Stitching (Real or Faux)

Sign Up Deadline  
You have until 6th June 2018, 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 Monday 2nd July, 2018.
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.

 In line with new European Data Protection legislation (GDPR) 2018 by linking to our challenge you do so in the knowledge that your name, photograph and link are visible to all who visit this blog and thereby consent to the use of your personal information for the specific purpose of creating the links of the card chain.





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
   
2018 Monthly Design Options

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


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Wednesday, 2 May 2018

April 2018 Card Chain Challenge - Reveal

Hello and welcome to the April 2018 Card Chain Challenge Reveal!

We had 18 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month (making our total number of exchanged cards 2,530 thus far!) using at least one of the following options:

Colour Palette Option

or

Sketch Option

or 

Theme Options: Luck / Rabbits / Friendship
or 

Product / Technique Options: Fussy Cutting


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 2,530 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 May Card Chain Challenge from 7th April to 6th May. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on 2nd June, 2018.

BONUS! If your card arrives at its destination by the last day of May, you'll be eligible to win this month's prize (selected by random draw) just as long as you have adhered to the Card Chain Challenge requirements as detailed in the sign-up post here.

The June Card Chain Challenge sign-up begins on 7th May and ends on 6th June. All cards exchanged in that challenge should arrive at their destinations by 30th June and will be revealed here on 2nd July, 2018.
Hope to see you there!

Thanks for stopping!
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 April 30th, 2018, we've exchanged over 2,530 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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