August 2018 Card Chain Challenge Sign-Up

Hello and welcome to the August Sign-Up! 
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 2,596 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 August 30th, 2018. 

•  Your card should arrive at its destination by August 31st, 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: Lighthouse / Fruit / Friendship

or

Product / Technique Options: Stencils

Sign-Up Deadline  

You have until 6th August 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 2nd September 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.

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

   

2018 Monthly Design Options

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

June 2018 Card Chain Challenge Reveal

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

We had 20 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month (making our total number of exchanged cards 2,596 thus far!) using at least one of the following options:

Colour Palette Option

or

Sketch Option

or 

Theme Options:
Trees/Jungle Animals/Friendship

or 

Product / Technique Options:
Stitching - Real or Faux

Who Sent What To Whom:

Gail in Norway sent Karen from California 

Karen in California sent LaVon in Illinois

LaVon in Illinois sent Denise in California

Denise in California sent Lucille in Colorado

Lucille in Colorado sent Lorraine in the UK 

Lorraine in the UK sent Anne in NZ

Anne in NZ sent Marga in Spain

Marga in Spain sent Jutta in Canada

 

 Jutta in Canada sent Dee in Kenya

On it's way 

 Dee in Kenya sent Janet in Mauritius 

Janet in Mauritius sent Shylaa in India

Shylaa in India sent Greta in Oregon

 

Greta in Oregon sent Jo in England

 

Jo in England sent Arlene in California

Arlene in California sent Betty in Nebraska

Betty in Nebraska sent Jerrie in Wisconsin

Jerrie in Wisconsin sent Jane in Great Britain

Jane in Great Britain sent Helen G. in Ohio

Helen G. in Ohio sent Dawn in New Zealand

Dawn in New Zealand sent Gail in Norway

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 2,596 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 until July 6th. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on August 2nd, 2018.

The August Card Chain Challenge sign-up begins on 7th July and ends on 6th August. All cards exchanged in that challenge should arrive at their destinations by 31st August and will be revealed here on 2nd September, 2018.

Hope to see you here!

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 30th June, 2018, we've exchanged over 2,596 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.