Monday 24 February 2020

Some very sad news.

By now many of you will be aware that our very dear friend Monika Reeck from Creative with Monika has lost her eldest son, Kevin, who passed away last Thursday.

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If anyone wants her address to send cards, please email me at dottypudding at aol.com.


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I know you'll join Gail and me in sending Monika and her family all our love and sympathy.
Jo x


Friday 7 February 2020

March 2020 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 the challenge. And if you're a frequent-flyer thank you for your continued support of this chain of friendship and fun!

We've now exchanged over 2,907 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 March 31st, 2020. 
  •  Your card should arrive at its destination by March 31st, 2020.

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: Things with Wings / Flowers / Friendship

or

Product / Technique Options: Embossing / Designer Paper

Sign Up Deadline  
You have until 6th March 2020, 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 April, 2020.
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

   

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


Sunday 2 February 2020

January 2020 Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hello and welcome to the January Card Chain Challenge Reveal: our first Reveal of 2020.


We had 18 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month making an amazing total of 2,907 exchanged cards - we're chasing down that 3,000 milestone big time! 

The January options were required to use at least one of the following options:

Colour Palette Option

or

Sketch Option

or 

Theme Options:
New Anything, bears or friendship
or 

Product / Technique Options:
Dies.


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! 

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 February Card Chain Challenge until 6th February. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on 2nd March 2020.

The March Card Chain Challenge sign-up begins on 7th February and ends on 6th March. All cards exchanged in that challenge should arrive at their destinations by March 31st and will be revealed here on 2nd April, 2020.
Hope to see you here!

Thanks for stopping!
Deborah, Gail, and Jo


WHO'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 January, 2020 we've exchanged over 2,907 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.