Hello and welcome to the November 2017 Card
Chain Challenge Reveal!
This will be our final Reveal for 2017 and we, Deborah, Gail and Jo, wish to thank everyone who has played along and joined in the fun during the past year! It's been a blast and you gals make all the work that goes on behind the scenes totally worthwhile! Thank you so much.
So, let's get down to business one last time for 2017. We had 22 participants
who exchanged cards across the globe this month (making our total number
of exchanged cards 2,451 thus
far!) using at least one of the following options:
or
or
Theme Options:
Blessings/ Deer/ Friendship
or
Product / Technique Options:
Papertrey Ink/ Watercolours
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 2,451 cards by participants from 38 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! (Don't forget to Pin your
favorites!)
Our Next Two Challenges
Hey, Gentle Readers, if you want to join in the fun,
you can sign up for the January Card Chain
Challenge from Thursday, 14th December to Saturday, 6th January. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on Friday 2nd February, 2018.
The February Card Chain Challenge sign-up begins
on Sunday 7th January, 2018. All cards exchanged in that challenge
should arrive at their destinations by Wednesday, 28th February and will be revealed here on Friday 2nd March, 2018. Don't forget that February is a short month!
Hope to see you here!
Thanks for stopping by!
Deborah, 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 1st December, 2017, we've
exchanged over 2,451 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, 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, Idaho, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Montana, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and
Wyoming.
If you're new to the Card Chain Challenge ("CCC") this is an
event where everybody wins. Basically, 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.
