April Card Chain Challenge

It's the last Friday in March, so that means it's time for the April Card Chain Challenge (CCC)! 

In March we had  participants from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, France, (NEW!) Germany, (NEW!) Ireland, Mauritius, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and the United States. If we add in past participating countries Croatia and Japan, we're now up to 15 countries represented thus far! That's only 180 countries to go before we can say we have complete global participation!!! (Of course, I'm still working onthe alphabet, too, so are there any H or K, etc countrywomen out there who would like to play?)

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:

Biscuit, Grilled Peach, Poppy, Plum, Deep Purple

Note: the colors and names are a guide - 

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

Template:

Theme:

Asian  OR  Earth Day  OR  Friendship  

Deadlines

Mr. Linky sign-up: 11:59 p.m., EST, Thursday, April 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 Thursday, April 8, 2010, in your area of the world, to the Receiver if she lives in a different country. If Receiver lives in yoru country, you have until Thursday, April15th. 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, Thursday, April 15, 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 March CCC results will be posted on Thursday, April 1, 2010,  

and they are Napoleon Dynamite sweet !!!

Comments

[Marcy K]

Looking forward to this challenge! SO much fun!!

[Agata]

Wow! This color combo is great!

[katherineee]

I joined this CCC since last month and i had so much fun! Now, I graduated and need to be back to my country which is no longer domestic. Now. i am international of this CCC. I am from Hong Kong and the letter starts from H!! haha!

[Deborah Nolan]

Well, how cool is THAT?! We have an H!!! And Hong Kong!!!

Deborah

[jaemom]

Wow, these CCC's look reeaallly fun! Think I must hold off for now. Hope to jump in sometime, though! You're so fun, Deborah!

[Janet Ribet]

What gorgeous rich colours! Better start dreaming up something good.

[Heather Maria]

Thanks again Deborah, looking forward to thinking up something for this challenge!

[Simone Naoum]

This is my first card chain challenge and im sooo looking forward to it! Looks like soo much fun! Thanks Deborah!

[Fika]

I'm so excited this time i did not late in signing up.. :)

[Fika]

I'm so excited this time i did not late in signing up.. :)

[Jette/Denmark]

I´ll try this for my first time, seems to be lots of fun :)

[Daria Z.]

It finally came up for me.

[Monika Reeck]

Wohoo Fika one above Jette....not so far from me...dear Deborah I still not get card from Marcy oooh.... :(

[Judy Jung]

Finally, I have signed up! Would hate to miss the April Card Chain!!

[dustypenny (aka Joy)]

Ok, Deborah... how do you come up with these challenge options? Thanks for hosting!

[Deborah Nolan]

Joy, in answer to how I come up with these challenge options...  er... Im kind of flying by the seat of my pants on them! Lets see. For the palette, I keep my eye open for pleasing color combos I see in the world. For the template, I open Photoshop and throw some shapes around until Im either out of interest or out of time. (I think some of my template designs are difficult to work with because Im not terribly good at that part - which is why I give you other options - LOL!) And the theme is whatever holiday is one the horizon and something that might possibly work in a generic way - like friendship.

Deborah