December 2021 Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hello and welcome to the December 2021 Card Chain Challenge Reveal! Gail and Jo both hope that your Christmas was merry and that Santa brought you lots and lots of new crafting goodies!   We would like to wish you all a happy New Year and let's hope 2022 is awesome for us all. 

We had 18 fabulous participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month.

 

Total number of cards exchanged thus far by Card Chain Challenge participants is 3,505

 

For December we played TIC-TAC-TIC-TAC-TOE!!

 

To keep it interesting we've went with a 5 x 5 grid!!!

 Pick a line, horizontal, vertical or diagonal, for your card.

 

Who Sent What To Whom

 

Nelleke in the Netherlands sent Helen G. in Ohio

Helen G. in Ohio sent Jeanne in Minnesota

Jeanne in Minnesota sent Hilary in the UK

 

Hilary in the UK sent Suze in New Zealand

Suze in New Zealand sent Gundi in Germany

and a very pretty inside too

Gundi in Germany sent Joanne in UK

Joanne in UK sent  Jo in England

Jo in England sent Linda W in Minnesota

Linda W in Minnesota sent Gail in Norway

Gail in Norway sent Brenda in the UK

 

Brenda in the UK sent Pia in Norway

Pia in Norway sent Ellie in Illinois

Ellie in Illinois sent Tina in Slovenia

 

Tina in Slovenia sent Mia in Greece

Mia in Greece sent Marianne in Greece

Marianne in Greece sent Arlene in California

Arlene in California sent Dee in Kenya

Dee in Kenya sent Nelleke in the Netherlands     

 

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 3,505 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!

Want to join the fun????

Hey, Gentle Readers, if you want to join in the fun you can sign up for the Card Chain Challenge.  All sign ups run in advance, from the 7th of the preceding month to the 6th of the exchange month.  All reveals happen on the 2nd of the month after the exchange is complete.

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 31st December, 2021, we've exchanged over 3,505 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.