April 2013 Card Chain Challenge Reveal!

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

I have some interesting news to report! I had lost track of my original CCC card numbers because of some sloppy filing, but I was cleaning up my computer folders... and I found 'em! So instead of us having a paltry 960 cards exchanged since we started, we have over 1,023! (This doesn't count the multiple cards people sometimes send. Anybody remember when Paula got on a roll and made her recipient FIVE cards one month? LOL - good times!) The only bad thing about finding out this news is that I missed the chance to celebrate passing the 1,000 mark when it actually occured in March.

So I'm announcing it now:

We've mailed over 1,000 cards through the CCC!

Wooo-whooooo!

I don't know about you, but I feel extremely gratified right now. It makes me feel very good to have contributed something handmade and personal to somebody's mailbox in a time when there's usually nothing in there but bills and ads and other impersonal wastes of paper. I really like knowing I made somebody's day a little brighter by sending them a paper hug. So thank you, ladies, for joining with me in this experience because there's no way I could do it without you!

April's CCC had 18 participants who made some wonderful 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

Sketch

OR

One of the following themes/products: umbrellas or dogs or friends or one of the following products: water

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

Pat in Virginia sent Greta in Oregon: 

Greta in Oregon sent Judy in Alabama:

Judy in Alabama sent Sheila in Wisconsin:

Sheila in Wisconsin sent Linda in Minnesota: 

Linda in Minnesota sent Kim in Australia: 

Kim in Australia sent LaVon in Illinois: 

LaVon in Illinois sent Janet in Mauritius: 

Janet in Mauritius sent Maria in Maryland:

Maria in Maryland sent Jan in Alaska:

Jan in Alaska sent Ava in New Jersey:

Ava in New Jersey sent Deborah (yours truly in Indiana):

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

Loly in Alabama sent Mrs. A in England:

Mrs. A in England sent Dawn in New Zealand:

Dawn in New Zealand sent Lucille in Colorado:

Lucille in Colorado sent Arlene in California:

Arlene in California sent Joy in Ohio:

Joy in Ohio sent Pat in Virginia: 

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 May, 2013, Card Chain Challenge until Friday, May 17, 11:59 p.m., EST. All cards exchanged will be revealed here on Saturday, June 1, so stay tuned....

Hope to see you here!

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Deborah

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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 1,023 cards (!!!) generated in this little jaunt - most of which have been made by regular participants. 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, Italy, 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 165 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).

Comments

[Greta H]

What a terrific collection this month! Good thing I didn't see them first or I might not have mailed mine--so inspired by you talented people!

[Linda W.]

Gorgeous cards, everyone! Another fun CCC - thanks for hosting it, Deborah!!

[Dawn T]

what a totally talent bunch we are.... all of these are awesomely wonderful. Thanks Deborah for hosting this incredible chain challenge. It's always fun to receive "real" mail with a beautiful hand made card.

[Judy Jung]

I don't see Wisconsin mentioned in your list, Deborah ... anyway, it is amazing that over 1,000 cards have been zooming around the world!! Thank you for all you do to make this happen!