July 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 2,758 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 30th July 2019. 

•  Your card should arrive at its destination by 30th July 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: Figures and faces, sunshine and friendship

or

Product / Technique Options: Stencils or watercolouring

Sign Up Deadline  

You have until 6th July 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 2nd August 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.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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

PastCCC Reveal

   

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

May 2019 - Reveal

Hello and welcome to the May 2019 Card Chain Challenge Reveal!

This month we are welcoming new player Kath in the UK to the chain - it's good to have you with us!

We had 19 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month (making our total number of exchanged cards 2,777 thus far!) using at least one of the following options:

Colour Palette Option

or

Sketch Option

or 

Theme Options: Insects, food or friendship

or 

Product / Technique Options: Metal Charms

Who Sent What To Whom

Greta in Oregon sent Kath in the UK

Kath in the UK sent Lucille in Colorado

Lucille in Colorado sent Dee in Kenya

Dee in Kenya sent Denise in California

It's on the way!!
 

Denise in California sent Cat C. in Maryland

Cat C. in Maryland sent Jutta in British Columbia, Canada

Jutta in British Columbia, Canada sent Gail in Norway

Gail in Norway sent Marga in Spain

 

Marga in Spain sent Hilary in the UK

Hilary in the UK sent Robyn Oliver in Australia

Robyn Oliver in Australia sent Janet in Mauritius

Janet in Mauritius sent Jeanne in Minnesota

Jeanne in Minnesota sent Joanne in UK

Joanne in UK sent Jo in England

Jo in England sent Dawn in New Zealand

Dawn in New Zealand sent Helen G. in Ohio

Helen G. in Ohio sent Arlene in California 

 

Arlene in California sent Greta in Oregon

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 2,777 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 June Card Chain Challenge until 6th June. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on 2nd July 2019.

The July Card Chain Challenge sign-up begins on 7th June and ends on 6th July. All cards exchanged in that challenge should arrive at their destinations by 31st July and will be revealed here on 2nd August, 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 May, 2019 we've exchanged over 2,777 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.