Wednesday 29 January 2014

Recipe Winners

It's time for winner, everyone!  We had some super amazingly awesome and fabulous entries for our last challenge, so it was totally hard, but we've narrowed it down!

Top Honor Goes To~


Congrats, Vicky!  Grab your badge--very well deserved!

Honorable Mentions are~
(Numerical Order)






Congrats to you all!  Go and grab your badge!

We hope you join us within the next few days for a chance to win this week's challenge--it's Double Embossing!  HUGS and merry stamping to you all! :)

Saturday 25 January 2014

Double Embossing

Ever heard of Double Embossing?  It's where you use both types of embossing--both heat and dry!  Yep, you guessed it!  This week....

...we'd like to see some~

And here's some inspiration from the DT~



Please make sure to follow these rules when you play along with us here at 52CCT! :)

*Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.

*We would love it if you added our button to the side of your blog

*Please make sure to link to your POST, not your blog.

*Please make sure NOT to back link.

*In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link up by Friday at 6:00pm GMT.

*You are free to enter this challenge and 10 others only.

*We'd really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily! We know a lot of you do this for safety, but it takes a very long time to comment when verification is activated, and you may lose your comments from us...just sayin'. ;)

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Wednesday 22 January 2014

Winner of Colour Challenge .....

.... Sorry I'm a bit late with this post.  You rocked the colour challenge, so much so that we actually have a tie for the Top Honours!  The winning cards are:






They are both fabulous cards, don't forget to grab your winner's badge and display it on your blog.

And now to our Honourable Mentions in order of entry they are:

#7 Silvia
#9 Monika
# 19 DaenYs

Once again, don't forget to grab your badge and display it proudly on your blog.  Congratulations to you all!

Don't forget there's still time to join in with this week's challenge to use the recipe that Mynnette set:

Monochromatic, CAS, ribbon and a gem

That's all for now.

Saturday 18 January 2014

A January Recipe

How's your week been, friends?  I hope it's been going well!  It's time for another fun challenge here at 52CCT and this week we've got a recipe for your crafting pleasure!

Here it is~

And some DT inspiration~



Please make sure to follow these rules when you play along with us here at 52CCT! :)

*Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.

*We would love it if you added our button to the side of your blog

*Please make sure to link to your POST, not your blog.

*Please make sure NOT to back link.

*In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link up by Friday at 6:00pm GMT.

*You are free to enter this challenge and 10 others only.

*We'd really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily! We know a lot of you do this for safety, but it takes a very long time to comment when verification is activated, and you may lose your comments from us...just sayin'. ;)

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Thursday 16 January 2014

Winner, Winner - First Challenge of 2014

Oh my did you all have fun with our sketch this past week!  Some of your were even inspired to create several cards using that great format.   We sure had fun looking at all your beautiful entries and you definitely made it difficult for us to choose the Winner of our First Challenge of 2014. We had an absolutely dead-heat tie with two lovely cards - so this week we have 2 winners! 

Please join me in congratulating the 2 ladies sharing the TOP HONOURS spotlight. 
Raise the roof for (in order of entry)
image


#20 Tinie


Super job ladies - please grab your winner's badge and display it proudly!

Now on to our HONOURABLE MENTIONS (in numerical order of entry):
#1 Carol N
#2 Judy V
#9 Pam
#13 Ellen Parker
#29 Daen'Ys

Congrats - you all rocked this challenge. Can't wait to see what you do with our current color challenge!




Saturday 11 January 2014

January Color Challenge

Hi again, to all our friends!  We're so excited to see you guys starting early on your holiday cards--we love seeing them every single week!  We've got another new challenge coming at you--it's a color challenge this week!  And it's non-traditional colors this time around!

Here are the colors~

And some DT inspiration~

Please make sure to follow these rules when you play along with us here at 52CCT! :)

*Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.

*We would love it if you added our button to the side of your blog

*Please make sure to link to your POST, not your blog.

*Please make sure NOT to back link.

*In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link up by Friday at 6:00pm GMT.

*You are free to enter this challenge and 10 others only.

*We'd really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily! We know a lot of you do this for safety, but it takes a very long time to comment when verification is activated, and you may lose your comments from us...just sayin'. ;)

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Saturday 4 January 2014

Happy 2014! First Challenge of the New Year.

Hello, all!  Welcome to another year here at 52CCT!  We've got a new look, some new DT members and some fabulous new challenges coming your way!


Here's the first challenge of the year~

And some inspiration from the DT~

Please make sure to follow these rules when you play along with us here at 52CCT! :)

*Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.

*We would love it if you added our button to the side of your blog

*Please make sure to link to your POST, not your blog.

*Please make sure NOT to back link.

*In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link up by Friday at 6:00pm GMT.

*You are free to enter this challenge and 10 others only.

*We'd really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily! We know a lot of you do this for safety, but it takes a very long time to comment when verification is activated, and you may lose your comments from us...just sayin'. ;)

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Wednesday 1 January 2014

Happy New Year! Winners from 2013 December Challenge

Happy New Year! Whoot Whoot!  Hope each and every one of you had a blessed Christmas holiday and that as you look back on 2013 there were many good memories to keep.  We are looking forward to a new year of challenges at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown -  stay tuned soon for that later in the week when our first challenge of 2014 goes live.  But for now.... let's announce the Honors from our last Challenge of 2013.

Our WINNER of the DECEMBER TWO WEEK Challenge (Pick A Previous Challenge) is 

Well done Sue - Congrats!  Such lovely depth and gorgeous glow around the candles.

And for our HONORABLE MENTIONS (in numerical order of entry):
Sandie #1

Sue #2




Congratulations to all of you for your absolutely beautiful Christmas creations!  Thanks for playing with us in 2013 - hope to see you back in 2014 soon!