February, 2013, CCC Reveal!

Hello and welcome to the 2013 February Card Chain Challenge Reveal!  

February's CCC had 19 players who made some very nice cards using 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  

These colors are your guideline - exact matching is not necessary.

OR

Sketch

OR

One of the following themes:

St. Patrick's Day  or  Lions/Lambs  or  Friends

OR

One of the following products:

Chipboard  or  stickers

And here they are... the February, 2013, CCC's!!!

Loly in Alabama sent Lucille in Colorado:

Lucille in Colorado sent Linda in Minnesota:

Linda in Minnesota sent Cat from Maryland:

Cat from Maryland sent Pam in Indiana:

Pam in Indiana sent Arlene in California:

 

Arlene in California sent Daria in Wisconsin:

Daria in Wisconsin sent Rebecca in Toronto:

Rebecca in Toronto sent Kim in New Brunswick, Canada:

Kim in New Brunswick, Canada sent Cornelia in New Jersey:

Cornelia in New Jersey sent Sanna from Austria:

Sanna from Austria sent Ava in New Jersey

Ava in New Jersey sent Kim:

Kim sent Janet in Mauritius: 

Janet in Mauritius sent Judy in Alabama:

Judy in Alabama sent  Dawn in New Zealand:

Dawn in New Zealand sent Deborah (yours truly in Indiana):

Deborah (yours truly in Indiana) sent Greta in Oregon:

Greta in Oregon sent Maria in Maryland:

Maria in Maryland sent Loly in Alabama : 

And that brings us full circle!

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

But wait! That's not all! One of our participant's is the winner of this very cool Hero Arts stamp (Skyline - K5736):

The Random Number Generator says our winner is...

 

This may be a little confusing, but Number Eight refers to the sign-up order - which means we start at the last card shown above and count backward, so our winner is...  

Ava in New Jersey!!!

Ava, shoot me an email with your snail mail address, and I'll get your stamp out to you!

If you want to join in the fun, you can sign up for the March 2013 CCC until Wednesday, March 17, 11:59 p.m., EST. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on Monday, April 1, so stay tuned....

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 947 cards generated in this little jaunt - most of whom are regulars. 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, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. We're still missing: Connecticut, both the Dakota's, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, 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).

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Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Deborah

Comments

[janet aka swanlady21]

Wonderful cards and such fun that we get the real thing! But the card I sent was actually not that one - that was just one to advertise the CCC. I think I sent you a copy of it by email on 6 Feb. Looked like this. Looking forward to the one in March.

[Linda W.]

What gorgeous cards, Deborah - thanks for sharing them with us! This was such a fun chain - loved the sketch and colors!

[Kim M.]

Great cards everyone! :-)

[Kim Hall]

Great cards everyone had a fabulous time with this CCC. Thanks for sharing all the wonderful cards.

[Ava Sloane]

Thank you, Deborah! So exciting to win your wonderful stamp!! All of the cards are gorgeous!

[Sanna]

Gorgeous cards! A huge congrats on Ava :)!!