June 2020 Card Chain Challenge Sign up

Hello and welcome, it's good to have you here in these difficult times! 

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 2,976 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 June 30th 2020. 

•  Your card should arrive at its destination by June 30th 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: The Beach / CAS / Friendship

Product / Technique Options:  Book Paper / Tape

Sign Up Deadline  

You have until 6th June 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 July, 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.        

April 2020 - Card Chain Challenge Reveal

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

We had 23 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month (making our total number of exchanged cards 2,976 thus far!) using at least one of the following options:

Colour Palette Option

or

Sketch Option

or 

Theme Options: The Movies / Hats / Friendship

or 

Product / Technique Options: Glitter / Brads

Who Sent What To Whom

Tina in Slovenia sent Dee in Kenya

Dee in Kenya sent Jutta in British Columbia, Canada 

 

Jutta in British Columbia, Canada sent GerJanne in the Netherlands

GerJanne in the Netherlands sent Cat C. in Maryland

Cat C. in Maryland sent Chris in Illinois

Chris in Ilinois 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 Robyn Oliver in Australia 

Robyn Oliver in Australia sent Betty in Nebraska

Betty in Nebraska sent Greta in Oregon

Greta in Oregon sent Hilary in the UK

Hilary in the UK sent Jo in England

Jo in England sent Joanne in UK

Joanne in UK sent Suzanne in Pennsylvania

Suzanne in Pennsylvania sent Lucille in Colorado

Lucille in Colorado sent Kath in the UK

Kath in the UK sent  Linda W in Minnesota

Linda W in Minnesota sent Suze in New Zealand

 

 Suze in New Zealand sent Mia in Greece

Mia in Greece sent Gail in Norway

Gail in Norway sent Gundi in Germany

Gundi in Germany sent Tina in Slovenia

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 2,976 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 May Card Chain Challenge from 7th April to 6th May. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on 2nd June, 2020.

The June Card Chain Challenge sign-up begins on 7th May and ends on 6th June. All cards exchanged in that challenge should arrive at their destinations by 30th June and will be revealed here on 2nd July, 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 30April, 2020, we've exchanged over 2,976 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.