Thursday 7 December 2023

Card Chain Challenge Sign Up - January 2024

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 are all about spreading love around the world, one handmade card at a time!!
 
 
We've now exchanged over 4,200 cards by participants from 41 of the 50 United States and 33 countries.
  • This is an international card exchange. Please do not sign up unless you are willing to actually make and send a handmade card.  
  • Please email us (craftynomad at gmail dot com) a 100-200k photo of your handmade card by January 25th, 2024
  •  Your card should arrive at its destination by January 31st, 2024

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: Mythical Creatures / Birds / Friendship


Product / Technique Options: Paint or Ink / Splatters
 

Sign Up Deadline  
You have until 6th January 2024, 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, 2024.
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

   
Please read the Rules & FAQs if you want to play along.  
 
We also have some Mailing Tips that might be useful.....    

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Saturday 2 December 2023

November 2023 - Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hello and welcome to the November 2023 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 4,200. 

Before we get into the challenge, look what happened in Mid-November...


Two people, who quite clearly hate having their photograph taken, met in an English country pub for a lovely evening.  No, we don't know them either but it was a nice pub bwahahahahahahaaa.
 
All the cards exchanged this month used at least one of the following options:

Colour Palette Option
(Exact matching is not required)

or

Sketch Option
(Orient as required)

or 

Theme Options:
Winter/ Indian/ Friendship

or 

Product / Technique Options:
Scraps/Quilling


Who Sent What To Whom


 










It's on the Way!





















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 4,200 cards by participants from 41 of the 50 United States and 33 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 honour-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, 2023, we've exchanged over 4,200 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, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands (Holland), Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya,  Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Norway, The Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa and USA. (We only need to get some countries that begin with L, O, Q, R, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z to keep up with our alphabet list!)  Total global participation here we come!!!

As for the USA, past participants come from: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, 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, West Virginia and Wisconsin. We're still missing: South Dakota, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont 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.


Tuesday 7 November 2023

December 2023 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 4,168 cards by participants from 41 of the 50 United States and 33 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 25th December 2023
  •  Your card should arrive at its destination by 31st December 2023. 

Challenge Directions 
 
We are playing TIC-TAC-TIC-TAC-TOE!!


To keep it interesting we've gone with a 5 x 5 grid and things beginning with 'B'!
Pick a line, horizontal, vertical or diagonal, for your card.
Interpret the prompts as you will and exact colour matching is not required!


 
Sign Up Deadline  
You have until 6th December 2023, 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 January 2024.
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

   
Please read the Rules & FAQs if you want to play along.  
 
We also have some Mailing Tips that might be useful.....  

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter