July 2012 Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hello and welcome to the July Card Chain Challenge!

July's CCC had the following challenge options (you could use as many of the following options as you wanted, but you were only required to use one of them):

Color Palette

Sketch

one of the following themes:

Sea/Beach OR Ice Cream OR Friends

And here they are... the July, 2012, CCC's!!!

Arlene in California sent Dawn in New Zealand:

Dawn in New Zealand sent Linda in Minnesota:

Linda in Minnesota sent Karin from The Netherlands:

Karin from The Netherlands sent Deborah (yours truly in Indiana):

Deborah (yours truly in Indiana) sent Loly in Alabama:

Loly in Alabama sent Maria in Maryland:

Maria in Maryland sent Mariette in The Netherlands:

Mariette in The Netherlands sent Lucille in Colorado:

Lucille in Colorado sent Janet in Mauritius:

Janet in Mauritius sent Arlene in California :

And that brings us full circle!

Thank you, everyone, for sharing your artistic talent and doing your part for global relations!

If you want to join in the fun, you can sign up for the

August 2012 Card Chain Challenge

until Wednesday, August 15, 2012, at 11:59 p.m. EST.

All cards exchanged will be revealed here on Saturday, September 1, so stay tuned!

Hope to see you there!

Who's Been Playing

(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!)

So far we've had over 220 cards in this little jaunt - most of whom are regualrs. And where do they come from? Read on....

Past participants have hailed from: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain (aka: England), Greece, Holland (aka: The Netherlands), Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Norway, The Philippines, Scotland, Singapore, Slovenia, Switzerland, South Africa. (We only need to get some countries that begin with K, L, O, Q, R, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z to keep up with our alphabet list! We have 166 countries to go before we have total global participation!!!

As for the USA, past participants include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. We're still missing: Connecticut, both the Dakota's, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, 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.

Read the Revised Guidelines & FAQ's (revised June 01, 2012).

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!