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

Past Card Chain Challenge Reveals

   

Please read the Rules & FAQs if you want to play along.  

 

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October 2023 - Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hello and welcome to the October 2023 Card Chain Challenge Reveal!

We had 34 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month.

 

Total number of cards exchanged thus far by Card Chain Challenge participants is 4,168.

We had one new player this month, Barbara in Switzerland.  Welcome Barbara!

 

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.)

Theme Options: Bears / Balloons / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Something Fluffy / Spotlight Stamping

Who Sent What To Whom

 

Robyn Oliver in Australia sent Arlene in California

Arlene in California sent Lou Z in Australia 

Lou Z in Australia sent Jill in West Virginia

Jill in West Virginia sent Ellie in Illinois

Ellie in Illinois sent Michaela in Austria

Michaela in Austria sent Joanne in California

Joanne in California sent Helen G. in Ohio

Helen G. in Ohio sent Linda in Michigan

Linda in Michigan sent Daja in Germany

Daja in Germany sent Greta in Oregon

Greta in Oregon sent Brenda in the UK

Brenda in the UK sent Hilary in the UK 

Hilary in the UK sent Gundi in Germany

Gundi in Germany sent Patricia in Texas

Patricia in Texas sent Jeanne in Minnesota

Jeanne in Minnesota sent Jo in UK

Jo in UK sent Viv in UK

Viv in UK sent Linda W in Minnesota

Linda W in Minnesota sent Dagmara in Poland

Dagmara in Poland sent Bonnie in Colorado

Bonnie in Colorado sent Julia in Massachusetts

Julia in Massachusetts sent Barbara in Switzerland

Barbara in Switzerland sent Gail in Canada 

Gail in Canada sent Tina in Slovenia

Tina in Slovenia sent Joanne in Connecticut

Joanne in Connecticut sent Dee in Kenya

Dee in Kenya sent Imke in Germany

Imke in Germany sent Renate in the Netherlands

Renate in the Netherlands sent Gail in Norway

Gail in Norway sent Alice in Finland

Alice in Finland sent Pia in Norway

Pia in Norway sent Carol in the UK

Carol in the UK sent  Marianne in Greece

Marianne in Greece sent Robyn Oliver in Australia

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 4,168 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 31st October, 2023, we've exchanged over 4,168 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.