January 2021 Card Chain Challenge Sign Up

Hello and welcome! This will be our final post for 2020, so we'd both like to wish everyone a safe and happy Christmas and send our love and best wishes for 2021. 

Truly, this has been one of the oddest and most difficult years. For many of us crafting, and the friendship that blogging brings, has never been more comforting and helpful. Here's hoping that 2021 is healthier and happier for everyone across the world.

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 3,163 cards by participants from 39 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 January 31st 2021. 

•  Your card should arrive at its destination by January 31st 2021. 
  
  

Challenge Directions 

Make a card using at least one of the following options. (You can actually use two, three, all the options, but you are only required to use one of them.)  

Colour Palette Option

(Exact matching is not required.)

Sketch Option

(Orient as desired.)

Theme Options: Flowers / Balloons / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Colouring / Stencils

 

Sign Up Deadline  

You have until 6th January 2021, 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 February 2021.

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

Thanks for signing up, and have a great Christmas!

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.       

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

November 2020 Card Chain Challenge Reveal

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

We had 27 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month.

 

Total number of cards exchanged thus far by Card Chain Challenge participants is 3,163.  

 

All the cards exchanged this month used at least one of the following options:

Colour Palette Option

or

Sketch Option

or 

Theme Options: Animals with Hooves/Stars/Friendship

or 

Product / Technique Options: Glitter/Aperture Cards

Who Sent What To Whom

Joanne in UK sent Jutta in British Columbia, Canada

Jutta in British Columbia, Canada sent Tina in Slovenia

Tina in Slovenia sent Mia in Greece

Mia in Greece sent Ger Janne in the Netherlands

 

Ger Janne in the Netherlands sent Janis in Idaho

Janis in Idaho sent Chris L in Illinois

Chris L in Illinois sent Arlene in California

Arlene in California sent Lucille in Colorado

Lucille in Colorado sent Dawn in New Zealand

 

It's On The Way!

Dawn in New Zealand sent Linda W in Minnesota 

 

Linda W in Minnesota sent Gail in Norway

Gail in Norway sent Dee in Kenya

Dee in Kenya sent Greta in Oregon

Greta in Oregon sent Gundi in Germany

 

Gundi in Germany sent Suzanne in Pennsylvania

Suzanne in Pennsylvania sent Kath in the UK

Kath in the UK sent Jo in England

Jo in England sent Marianne in Greece

Marianne in Greece sent Hilary in the UK

 

Hilary in the UK sent Renate in the Netherlands

Renate in the Netherlands sent Helen G. in Ohio

Helen G. in Ohio sent Suze in New Zealand

Suze in New Zealand sent Annerieke in the Netherlands

 

Annerieke in the Netherlands sent Nat in Canada

 

Nat in Canada sent Robyn in Australia

Robyn in Australia sent Linda in Michigan

Linda in Michigan sent Joanne in 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 3,163 cards by participants from 39 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!

Our Next Two Challenges

Hey, Gentle Readers, if you want to join in the fun, you can sign up for the December Card Chain Challenge from 7th November to 6th December. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on January 2nd 2021.

 

The January 2021 Sign up will start 7th December

 

Hope to see you here!

Thanks for stopping!

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 30th November, 2020, we've exchanged over 3,163 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, Idaho, 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, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

If you're new to the Card Chain Challenge this is an event where everybody wins. 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.