The Card Chain Challenge: October 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 4,495 cards by participants from 41 of the 50 United States and 33 countries.

Exciting news!!!

This month the Card Chain Challenge is again being generously sponsored by

Relatively Thoughtful

Relatively Thoughtful is a craft paper Designer and Brand product supplier that offers a range of unique and creative products for crafting enthusiasts. Based in the UK our website features a variety of craft supplies, and we pride ourselves on providing high-quality products at affordable prices, with exceptional customer service. We have created our own brand and designs which we believe are unique and inspiring and these are available in both real and digital format. Check our website for free gifts and our current challenge.

Relatively Thoughtful are offering 2 Digital kits for one randomly selected person who completes the requirements of the November Card Chain Challenge. The kits being offered this month are from the new Sherlock collection and you will get both the Background Papers and the Evidence Kit. Thank you so much Relatively Thoughtful. I realise not everyone uses digital art so if you would like to be considered for the random draw please leave a comment at the bottom of this post or message me and I'll add your name to the list.

Relatively Thoughtful are also offering a 10% discount for all our players!! This discount applies to digital and physical products in the shop so we should all be able to benefit from this. I will include the discount code with the Card Chain Challenge contact email. If you shop please do use our discount code.

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Please remember

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 November 2024.

Your card should arrive at its destination by 30th November 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: Nativity / Steampunk / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Patterned Paper / Tunnel Card

Sign Up Deadline

You have until 6th November 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 December 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.

We also have some Mailing Tips that might be useful.....

Hello and welcome to the September 2024 Card Chain Challenge Reveal!

Have you seen the 15th Birthday post??
Don't forget to leave a comment....

We had 28 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month.

Total number of cards exchanged thus far by Card Chain Challenge participants is 4,495

We are being very generously sponsored by

Relatively Thoughtful

For September they offered a £30 gift voucher to the shop. I put everyone into random draw and he came up with (me, me, me, me ,me) number 17........... The lucky winner is

BRENDA in the UK

Congrats Brenda on winning this awesome prize and big huge thanks to Relatively Thoughtful for sponsoring us. Remember to leave a comment on the October sign up if you want to be considered for the digital kit that is the October prize. Still time to sign up for October.

Back to September........

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: Egypt / Paws / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Embossing Powder / Inlaid Die Cut

Who Sent What To Whom

Daja in Germany sent Jeanne in Minnesota

Jeanne in Minnesota sent Marianne in Greece

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 4,495 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 September 2024, we've exchanged over 4,495 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.

The Card Chain Challenge

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Card Chain Challenge Sign Up - November 2024

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Card Chain Challenge Reveal September 2024

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