Hello and welcome to the July 2018 Card
Chain Challenge Reveal!
We had 19 participants
who exchanged cards across the globe this month (making our total number
of exchanged cards 2,615 thus
far!) using at least one of the following options:
Colour Palette Option
or
Sketch Option
or
Theme Options:
Fish, Beach, Friendship
or
Product /Technique Options:
Rubberdance, Washi Tape
This month the Card Chain Challenge is sponsored by
Rubber Dance Stamps
Rubber
Dance is a Norwegian stamp company. All the deeply etched red rubber
stamps are lovingly handmade by the owner Bibi in her home based workshop
and sold unmounted. Bibi has generously provided the new and beautiful Hydrangea which will be given to one of our eligible participants this month.
Gail will be back in a few days to announce the lucky winner of this gorgeous set!
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 a breathtaking 2,615 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!
And don't forget to check back for the results of the July sign-up random draw.
Our Next Challenge
Hey, Gentle Readers, if you want to join in the fun,
you can sign up for the September Card Chain
Challenge from 7th August to 6th September. All cards exchanged 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 1st August, 2018, we've
exchanged over 2,615 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.
