May 2019 - 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 2,719 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 (craftynomad at gmail dot com) a 100-200k photo of your handmade card by May 29th, 2019. 

•  Your card should arrive at its destination by May 30th, 2019. 
  
  

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: Insects / Food / Friendship

or

Product / Technique Options: Metal Charms

Sign Up Deadline  

You have until May 6th, 2019, 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 June 2nd, 2019.

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.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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

   

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

March 2019 - Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hello and welcome to the March 2019 Card Chain Challenge Reveal! A big thank you to all our players - you are amazing and you make this challenge so special by encircling the world with friendship and creativity each month.

We had 21 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month (making our total number of exchanged cards 2,740 thus far!) using at least one of the following options:

Color Palette Option

(Exact matching is not required.)

or

Sketch Option

(Orient as desired.)

or

Theme Options: Spring/ Flowers / Friendship

or

Product / Technique Options: Stamping or Decoupage

 

Who Sent What To Whom:

Jane in Great Britain sent Dee in Kenya 

 

Dee in Kenya sent Joanne in UK 

 

Joanne in UK sent Arlene in California 

Arlene in California sent Marga in Spain 

Marga in Spain sent Linda in Michigan 

Linda in Michigan sent Gail in Norway

Gail in Norway sent Betty in Nebraska 

Betty in Nebraska sent Dawn in New Zealand

Dawn in New Zealand sent Jo in England

Jo in England sent Cat C. in Maryland

Cat C. in Maryland sent Jeanne in Minnesota

Jeanne in Minnesota sent Jerrie in Wisconsin

Jerrie in Wisconsin sent Hilary in the UK

Hilary in the UK sent Shylaa in India

Shylaa in India sent Janet in Mauritius

Janet in Mauritius sent Denise in California

Denise in California sent  Greta in Oregon

Greta in Oregon sent Lucille in Colorado

 

Lucille in Colorado sent Helen G. in Ohio

Helen G. in Ohio sent Lorraine in the UK 

Lorraine in the UK sent Jane in Great Britain

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 2,740 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 Challenge

Hey, Gentle Readers, if you want to join in the fun, you can sign up for the April Card Chain Challenge until 6th April. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on 2nd May, 2019.

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 31st March , 2019, we've exchanged over 2,740 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.