June Card Chain Challenge - 2010

It's the last week of May, so that means it's time to sign up for the June Card Chain Challenge (CCC)! 

In May we had  participants from Canada, Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, , Indonesia, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, (NEW!!!) Slovenia, (NEW!!!) Switzerland, and the United States! If we add in past participating countries Australia, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, and Mauritius, we're now up to 19 countries represented thus far!

Only 174 countries to go before we get complete global participation!!! (Of course, we're still working on the alphabet, too, so participants from countries beginning in K, L, O, Q, R, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z are especially welcome!!!)

NEWS FLASH! I have recently remembered that Vatican City is a country, and we're going to have a real challenge on our hands to get that country to participate - do priests craft? Do any of the workers have citizenship in VC? Do they craft?! Anybody that can figure out a way to get one of their citizens to play will get a very special reward!!!

And just for the record, we've had 67 people participate thus far! Yessirree, Bob! We're shrinking the globe one card at a time!!!

For anyone new to the CCC, the basic idea is that you receive a fellow cardmaker's snail mail address, make her a card, and send it off. The next person on the list does the same thing with you, and so on. Each person makes a card for the person immediately above her in the chain, and the first person in the chain makes a card for the last person in the chain.

Everybody gets a hand-crafted card so everybody wins!

You also post the card you receive in the online gallery of your choice, and I will post these blog/gallery addresses on my blog along with a picture of the card. Everybody gets increased visibility and/or blog traffic, so everybody wins!

The whole process is fairly straightforward, so the chances of my screwing up are minimal. Everybody - except me - avoids administrative duties, so everybody wins!

Please click here to read Eligibility, Guidelines & FAQ's

3 Challenge Options

You can use as many of the following options as you like, but you're only required to use one of them.

Color Palette:

Aqua, Psychedelic Purple, Hot Magenta, Burnt Orange, Peachy Parchment

Note: the colors and names are a guide - 

so don't stress out if you can't get a perfect match.

Template:

 

Theme:

Father's Day  OR  Farm* OR  Friendship

*As in farm-related because it's National Dairy Month! (You can include other barnyard, non-milk-producing animals, scenes, etc, though.) Here's an example:

 

Deadlines

Mr. Linky sign-up: 11:59 p.m., EST, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. If this is your first CCC, please send your email and snail mail and a link to one of your online photo galleries to:

Mail your card: postmarked no later than Saturday, June 12, 2010, in your area of the world, to the Receiver if she lives in a different country. If Receiver lives in your country, you have until Saturday, June 19th. Make sure to send Receiver an email telling her to be on the lookout! 

Upload and send me a link to the card you made: email me a picture of the card you made no later than midnight, Saturday, June 19, 2010. (I prefer you email the picture as soon as you've uploaded it to your computer - makes it easier for me to keep track of everything.)

If you have any questions, please email me or leave a comment. Also please check out the FAQ post.

I hope you'll consider trying this. Feel free to ask those who've participated thus far: it's thrilling to open your mailbox and find a handmade card (especially when it's got foreign stamps on it)!

The May CCC results will be posted on Tuesday, June 1, 2010,  

and they are rather wonderful!!!

Comments

[Deirdre]

Deborah, hope you are feeling a little better. Managed to sign up again this month..woohoo!!

[Linda W.]

Hi Deborah - hope you're doing better every day! Don't wear yourself out with this but saying that we love you doing it!! Take care - hugs to you!

[jaemom]

I am so impressed that you're still keeping up the CCC. Not sure if I can participate this month, but I'll see!

[Monika Reeck]

I am happy you are back Deborah...hope everything will be better soon dear...pray for you here in Muenchen, Germany. Monika

[NancyK]

I finally have a reason to use all those barnyard animal stamps I have...must have been a '90s fad. I'm praying you are feeling better every day...
bless you,
nancy

[Barb :)]

Looking forward to another one, Deb! Thank you! Hoping you're feeling better with each day! :)

[Janet Ribet]

I'm glad to make this CCC - don't know how I missed the last one.

[Alice W.]

LOL! love the "Farm" theme!! =)

[dustypenny (aka Joy)]

You are too funny, Deborah! I'm already looking forward to this June CCC! Hope you start feeling better soon!

[Betty]

i'm so glad you're back with us deb - i missed reading your quirky blog. hope u get better soon.