May 2020 - Card Chain Challenge Reveal and Blog Hop

Hello card friends and welcome to the May 2020 Card Chain Challenge Reveal! 
This is a very special post as we have hit a milestone: 

3,000 cards exchanged  

How awesome is that?!!  3,000 times spreading love around the world one card at a time.  

We think this calls for a celebration and we want YOU to come and join the fun!!!!   

We'll be having a series of games on the blog during June and you'll need to follow us and keep checking back to make sure you don't miss anything.  Psssst, don't tell anyone but there will be prizes...   Oh, OK, tell everyone!!  Let's have fun and party like it's 2021.......  

Anyhoo, onward to the May Reveal and we have decided to turn it into a blog hop!!  So enjoy the cards, hop over to the sender's post,  leave a little love and we will be randomly selecting 3 comments left between today and the 28th June to win some prizes.  More info to come soon......

We had 24 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month and we'd like to thank Kathy in the UK for pushing us to our 3,000 card milestone! There may be a few gaps due to the current postal system difficulties, but feast your eyes on what was sent in this chain:

Our options were:

Colour Palette Option

or

Sketch Option

Orient as required

or 

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

or 

Product / Technique Options: Stickers/Brushos

Who Sent What To Whom

Kath in the UK sent Linda in Michigan

Linda in Michigan sent Suze in New Zealand 

Suze in New Zealand sent Dawn in New Zealand

Dawn in New Zealand sent Jeanne in Minnesota

(added 15th June)

Jeanne in Minnesota sent Gail in Norway

Gail in Norway sent Linda W in Minnesota

Linda W in Minnesota sent Robyn in Australia

Robyn in Australia sent Cat in Maryland

Cat in Maryland sent Betty in Nebraska

Betty in Nebraska sent Hilary in the UK

Hilary in the UK sent Mia in Greece

Mia in Greece sent Gundi in Germany

Gundi in Germany sent Tina in Slovenia

 

Tina in Slovenia sent Chris in Illinois

Chris in Illinois sent Suzanne in Pennsylvania

Suzanne in Pennsylvania sent Helen G. in Ohio

Helen G. in Ohio sent GerJanne in the Netherlands

GerJanne in the Netherlands sent Greta in Oregon

Greta in Oregon sent Lucille in Colorado

Lucille in Colorado sent Jo in England

It's on the way!

Jo in England sent Karen in Virginia

Karen in Virginia sent Arlene in California

Arlene in California sent Dee in Kenya

Dee in Kenya sent Kath in the UK

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 3,000 cards by participants from 30 countries and 38 of the 50 United States!

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!)

There are still a few days left to sign up for the June exchange and don't forget to hurry back on June 7th for the July sign up AND all the fun and games too!

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 2020, we've exchanged over 3,000 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.