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.

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

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

Jo x

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

Past CCC Reveal

   

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

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

Arlene in California sent Gail in Norway 

Gail in Norway sent Kath in the UK 

Kath in the UK sent Hilary in the UK

Hilary in the UK sent Lucille in Colorado 

Lucille in Colorado sent Greta in Oregon

Greta in Oregon sent Jo in England

Jo in England sent Robyn Oliver in Australia

Robyn Oliver in Australia sent Joanne in UK

Joanne in UK sent Shylaa in India 

Shylaa in India sent Jeanne in Minnesota

Jeanne in Minnesota sent Chris in Ilinois

Chris in Ilinois sent Marga in Spain

Marga in Spain sent Tina in Slovenia

Tina in Slovenia sent Suze in New Zealand

Suze in New Zealand sent Helen G. in Ohio

Helen G. in Ohio sent Cat in California

Cat in California sent Suzanne in Pennsylvania 

Suzanne in Pennsylvania sent Arlene in California

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.