May 2020 - Card Chain Challenge Sign Up

Hello and welcome you lovely people! Gail and Jo would like to send you all a big 'virtual' hug and lots of love in these strange, challenging times. We both hope that you and your families are keeping well and following the national guidelines for your country to keep you safe. We had a little debate about whether to keep this challenge running during the next few weeks and months and have decided that yes, we'll keep the challenge going as we all need a little lockdown fun and distraction. Obviously, if you feel unable to participate that's totally your choice - some countries have more stringent lockdown policies than others and you must do what you feel is best for you and your loved ones.

So, let's get this party started...

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 2,953 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 May 2020. 

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

Theme Options: Repeat (more than one of something)/ Fruit / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Stickers / Brushos

Sign Up Deadline  

You have until  6th May 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 June 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.        

March 2020 - Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hello and welcome to the March 2020 Card Chain Challenge Reveal!

We had 23 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month (making our total number of exchanged cards 2,953 thus far!) using at least one of the following options:

Colour Palette Option

or

Sketch Option

or 

Theme Options: Things with Wings/ Flowers/ friendship

or 

Product / Technique Options:  Embossing/ Design Paper

Who Sent What To Whom

Dee in Kenya sent Ger Janne in The Netherlands

Ger Janne in The Netherlands sent Gundi in Germany

Gundi in Germany sent Lucille in Colorado

Lucille in Colorado sent Jutta in British Columbia, Canada

Jutta in British Columbia, Canada sent Dawn in New Zealand

Dawn in New Zealand sent Jo in England

Jo in England sent Marga in Spain

Marga in Spain sent Linda in Michigan

It's on the way!!

Linda in Michigan sent Kath in the UK

 Kath in the UK sent Suze in New Zealand

Suze in New Zealand sent Joanne in UK

Joanne in UK sent Linda W in Minnesota

Linda W in Minnesota sent Tina in Slovenia

Tina in Slovenia sent Robyn Oliver in Australia

Robyn Oliver in Australia sent Arlene in California

Arlene in California sent Greta in Oregon

Greta in Oregon sent Suzanne in Pennsylvania

Suzanne in Pennsylvania sent Chris in Illinois

Chris in Illinois sent Cat in California

Cat in California sent Gail in Norway

Gail in Norway sent Mia in Greece

(it made it!!!! Updated 1st June)
 

Mia in Greece sent Hilary in the UK

Hilary in the UK sent Dee in Kenya 

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 2,953 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 from 7th March to 6th April. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on May 2nd 2020.

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 now, we've exchanged over 2,953 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.