April 2021 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 in the fun! 

 

 

We've now exchanged over 3,245 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 30th April, 2021. 

•  Your card should arrive at its destination by 30th April, 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: Small Furry Animals/Funny/Friendship

Product / Technique Options:   Die Cut/Paint

Sign Up Deadline  

You have until 6th April 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 May 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!

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

February 2021 Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hello and welcome to the February 2021 Card Chain Challenge Reveal!

We had 32 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month.

 

Total number of cards exchanged thus far by Card Chain Challenge participants is 3,245 

 

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

 

Colour Palette Option

(Exact matching is not required.)

Sketch Option

 

(Orient as desired.)

Turns out International Polar Bear Day is on the calendar for February 27th, 

so we're throwing in an additional theme option to celebrate all things Ursus maritimus!

Theme Options: Chinese New Year/ Polar Bears/Love/Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Ribbon/Texture

 

Who Sent What To Whom

 

 Marga in Spain sent Lia in The Netherlands

Lia in The Netherlands sent Linda in Michigan

Linda in Michigan sent Dee in Kenya

 

It's on the way!!!!

 

Dee in Kenya sent Kath in the UK

 

Kath in the UK sent Joanne in UK

 

Joanne in UK sent Gail in Norway

 

Gail in Norway sent Nelleke in the Netherlands

Nelleke in the Netherlands sent Arlene in California

Arlene in California sent Cat C. in Maryland

Cat C. in Maryland sent Lucille in Colorado

 

Lucille in Colorado sent Mia in Greece 

 
Mia in Greece sent Hilary in the UK 

Hilary in the UK sent Elena in Arizona

 

Elena in Arizona sent Janis in Idaho

 
Janis in Idaho sent Betty in Nebraska

 

Betty in Nebraska sent Gundi in Germany

Gundi in Germany sent Robyn Oliver in Australia

Robyn Oliver in Australia sent Jo in England

 
Jo in England sent Linda W in Minnesota

Linda W in Minnesota sent Jeanne in Minnesota

Jeanne in Minnesota sent Julia in Massachusetts

 

Julia in Massachusetts sent Greta in Oregon

Greta in Oregon sent Renate in the Netherlands

 
Renate in the Netherlands sent Sandra in the Netherlands

Sandra in the Netherlands sent Helen G. in Ohio

 
Helen G. in Ohio sent Jutta in British Columbia, Canada

Jutta in British Columbia, Canada sent Suze in New Zealand

Suze in New Zealand sent Tina in Slovenia

Tina in Slovenia sent Annerieke in the Netherlands

Annerieke in the Netherlands sent Marianne in Greece

Marianne in Greece sent GerJanne in the Netherlands

GerJanne in the Netherlands sent Marga in Spain

 

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 3,245 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 March Card Chain Challenge from 7th February to 6th March. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on 2nd April, 2021.

The April Card Chain Challenge sign-up begins on 7 March and ends on 6 April. All cards exchanged in that challenge should arrive at their destinations by 30 April and will be revealed here on 2nd May, 2021.

 

Hope to see you here!

Thanks for stopping by!

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 March, 2021 we've exchanged over 3,245 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.