52 Christmas Card Throwdown

WINNER - August Technique Challenge

2026-09-09T12:00:00.000+01:00

We would like to thank everyone who participated in the

August Technique Challenge of Fractured Cards.

You used a wide variety of styles and themes to create your entries.
It made the choice hard, though; it was fun seeing all the creativity.

We would like to congratulate

Tadeja

Tadeja, for winning the technique challenge, we would love to invite you to be a

Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge.
To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

We would also like to give Honourable Mentions to the following
(in submission order)

#1 Brenda

#5 Rosi

#12 Urska

#14 Andrea

Congratulations to you all!

We hope you will enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.

You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.

PS. As I sign off from my hosting duties for the year, I would love to thank everyone who has participated in the challenges I chose for my month. I have loved seeing all of your wonderful designs using my suggestions. Happy Crafting - Tracy B

September Sketch Challenge

2026-09-05T06:00:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone

and welcome to the first September challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

It's Majda here with you today.

This month I have the honour to moderate the challenges and as always we start with a sketch.

I hope you have some time to play along ...

You can stretch this or use different shapes as long as we can see the basic sketch on your card.

We can't wait to see you interpret this sketch

and we're looking forward to all the beautiful cards you'll share with us!

Our Guest Designer this week is:

Urška

My creation:

For more inspiration, here are the creations of the design team:

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

- This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs
- Only new projects - no back-linking
- Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog
- Please show the graphic on your challenge post
- You must link up by Midnight Friday (GMT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions

- And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

- Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 11th September 2026

Have fun!

Winner - August Theme Challenge

2026-08-26T12:00:00.000+01:00

Hello Everyone,
We are here to announce the winner of the
August Theme Challenge.

The theme for this month was ...

We had 15 wonderful entries using this theme. The team have chosen

#13 Natasa

as the winner of this theme.

Congratulations on the win. As the winner of our colour challenge, we would love to invite you to be a Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge. To accept, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

Also, our Honourable Mentions this week are ...
(in order of submission)

#2 Diane H

#5 Darlene

#11 Colien

#15 Junigarten

Congratulations to you all. Please grab your badges from the link at the top of our page.

We would like to thank everyone who created along with our August Theme. We hope that you will consider creating along with the Technique Challenge, which is still happening until midnight GMT on Friday 4th September 2026 - that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

August Technique Challenge

2026-08-22T06:00:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone, Tracy again.

It is time for me to set my last challenge as Host. Before I get into that, I want to thank everyone who has joined in on the challenges I have set. It has been wonderful to see what you have created.

For the week 4 challenge, I got to choose between a Technique and a Stash item to highlight; I chose ...

Here is a YouTube video that shows a birthday card and the technique.

video LINK

This card looks complicated but is very easy once you have seen the technique. There are many ways that this can be interpreted. Scrap patterned paper can be used, and not just a square either. The design team and I look forward to seeing what you create and share with us.

Our Guest Designer this week is
Donna

Now this is what the design team did with this technique

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs
Only new projects - no back-linking
Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog
Please show the graphic on your challenge post
You must link up by midnight Friday (7.00pm EDT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions
And please turn off word verification to make commenting easier - thank you

The deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 4th September 2026 -
that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

Have fun!

Winner - August Colour Challenge

2026-08-19T12:00:00.000+01:00

Hello Everyone,
We are here to announce the winner of the
August Colour Challenge.

To remind everyone of the combination that we were creating, here it is again.

We had 15 wonderful entries, and from those entries, we have chosen

#1 LoopyLou

Also, our Honourable Mentions this week are ...
(in submission order)

#3 Amanda

#7 Brenda

#9 Urska

#12 Renata

Congratulations to you all. Please grab your badge from the tab at the top of the blog.

We would like to thank everyone who created along with our August Colour Challenge. We hope that you will consider creating along with the Theme Challenge, which is still happening until midnight GMT on Friday 21st August 2026 - that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

August Theme Challenge

2026-08-15T06:00:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone,

Tracy here again, and it is time to share what my theme is for week 3 of August.

This is one of my most fun challenges to set each time I host,
as I love seeing how everyone uses the theme.

This time around, I chose a theme I am familiar with because I live in Australia, where Christmas is celebrated in Summer. So no snow in my part of the world.

I hope that you have fun creating with this theme. If you don't have any products that are this theme exactly, then think about using some of your summer-themed products, add a Christmas-type present and change out the sentiment - and you have a Christmas without snow.

Our Guest designer this week is
Anne

Thank you for being a part of the creative team this week. We love your creation.

Now here is more inspiration from the design team.

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs
Only new projects - no back-linking
Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog
Please show the graphic on your challenge post
You must link up by midnight Friday (7.00pm EDT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions
And please turn off word verification to make commenting easier - thank you

The deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 24th August 2026 -
that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

Winner - August Sketch Challenge

2026-08-12T10:01:07.086+01:00

Hello Everyone,

It is time for us to announce the winner of the August Sketch Challenge.

To remind everyone, this is the sketch that we used.

We were glad to see 7 entries. Of those entries, we have chosen

#7 Urska

As the winner of our sketch challenge, we would love to invite you to be a Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge. To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

We would also like to give Honourable mentions to the following entries.

#1 Leslie

#3 Natasha

We would like to thank everyone who created along with our August Sketch. We hope that you will consider creating along with the Colour Challenge, which is still happening until midnight GMT on Friday 14th August 2026 - that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

August Colour Challenge

2026-08-08T06:00:00.000+01:00

Hello, everyone!

Welcome to the 2nd Saturday in August; it is time for a Colour Challenge.
I admit I always struggle to set up this challenge and then make the cards.

Here is the combination that I came up with.

I hope that you have fun with this combination.

You can also use a little of the neutrals of Black and White. But only as a complement to the main colours.
Looking forward to seeing how you use these colours on your creations.

Our Guest Designer this week is

Erika

Thank you for being a part of the team this week and for your wonderful creation.

Now it is time for us to show you how we used these colours.

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs
Only new projects - no back-linking
Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog
Please show the graphic on your challenge post
You must link up by midnight Friday (7.00pm EDT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions
And please turn off word verification to make commenting easier - thank you

The deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 14th August 2026 -
that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

Have fun!

July Technique Challenge Winner

2026-08-05T07:00:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone who joined us to create with the July Technique Challenge.

It was wonderful to see your stencilled creations - thank you!

We want to congratulate our WINNER

#8 Urska

Urska, for winning the Technique challenge, we would love to invite you to be a

Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge.

To take up this invite please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

And we want to give Honourable Mentions to
(in submission order)

#3 Charmaine

#10 Natasa

Congratulations everyone!

We hope you will enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.

You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.

August Sketch Challenge

2026-08-01T06:00:00.000+01:00

Hello, everyone!

Welcome to the August Challenges! I am Tracy. I will be setting the challenges this month.
I hope you enjoy playing along with our challenges.
I hope you have time and are inspired to join us.

It's the first Saturday, which means it's time for a Sketch Challenge.

We can't wait to see how you interpret this sketch. We're looking forward to all the

beautiful cards you'll share with us!

And this week our wonderful Guest designer is

Kath

Thank you so much for creating such a wonderful card from my sketch.

Now it's time for the design team and I to show our interpretation of the sketch

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs
Only new projects - no back-linking
Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog
Please show the graphic on your challenge post
You must link up by midnight Friday (7.00pm EDT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions
And please turn off word verification to make commenting easier - thank you

The deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 7th August 2026 -
that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

Have fun!

Winner July Theme Challenge

2026-07-29T07:00:00.000+01:00

Thank you to everyone who took part in our

July Theme Challenge

It was wonderful to see so many bauble themed cards in our gallery and you gave us a difficult job in selecting the top ones!

Congratulations go to our winner, who is

#5 Shacks Papercrafts

As the winner of our theme challenge, we would love to invite you to be a Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge. To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

This week's Honourable Mentions are

#10 Brenda B

#11 Urska

Thanks go to everyone who took part in our challenge and shared such lovely creations

We hope you’ll join us for our current challenge —we love seeing what you create!

Until then, happy crafting!

July Technique Challenge

2026-07-25T06:00:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the new challenge of 52 Christmas Card Throwdown,

Deborah here, with my final challenge for July, and we are ending with our Technique/Stash Challenge.

For the next week, we are inviting you to play with stencils in creating your card.

Here are our cards...

Tracy

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

- This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs

- Only new projects - no back-linking

- Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog

- Please show the graphic on your challenge post

- You must link up by Midnight Friday (GMT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions

- A maximum of 10 challenges, please

- And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

- Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 31st July 2026

Have fun!

Winner July Colour Challenge

2026-07-22T07:00:00.000+01:00

We would love to thank those of you who participated in our

July Colour Challenge

We didn't have a huge number of entries, but we loved seeing the variety of styles, sizes and designs everyone used. So much creativity in our gallery!

We would like to congratulate our winner, who is

#5 Donna

Donna, for winning the colour challenge, we would love to invite you to be a Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge. To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

We just have one Honourable Mention this week, which is

#7 Urska

Thank you to everyone who joined in and helped make this challenge such a success. Your creativity and generosity in sharing your work made it a real celebration of crafting.

We hope you’ll join us for the current challenge—we love seeing what you create!

Until then, happy crafting!

July Theme Challenge

2026-07-18T06:00:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone!

Deborah here again - welcome to the third challenge of the month on the

52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

It's our theme week and I've opted for Baubles,

a theme that's very traditional. You can use baubles of any shape or style on your cards and we're looking forwards to seeing your creations

Here are our cards...

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

- This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs

- Only new projects - no back-linking

- Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog

- Please show the graphic on your challenge post

- You must link up by Midnight Friday (GMT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions

- A maximum of 10 challenges, please

- And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

- Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 24th July 2026

Have fun!

Winners July Sketch Challenge

2026-07-15T12:00:00.000+01:00

We would love to thank everyone who participated in our

Julu Sketch Challenge

There was such a variety of styles, sizes and designs used to create the entries.

It made the choice hard, but it was fun seeing all the creativity.

We would like to congratulate our winner, who is

#8 Erika

Erika, for winning our sketch challenge we'd love to invite you to be a Guest Designer for a future challenge. To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

Our Honourable Mentions are:

(in order of submission)

#2 Donna

#3 Natasa

#5 Urska

Thank you to everyone who joined in and helped make this challenge such a success. Your creativity and generosity in sharing your work made it a real celebration of crafting.

We hope you’ll join us for the current challenge—we love seeing what you create!

Until then, happy crafting!

July Colour Challenge

2026-07-11T06:00:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone!

It's Deborah here, to welcome you to the second challenge of the month.

For this challenge, I have chosen a soft colour combination that are not a traditional Christmas ones.

I hope you're inspired to play along with this - we can't wait to see what you create!

Our wonderful Guest Designer this week is

Lynda

Here are our cards...

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

- This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs

- Only new projects - no back-linking

- Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog

- Please show the graphic on your challenge post

- You must link up by Midnight Friday (GMT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions

- A maximum of 10 challenges, please

- And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

- Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 17th July 2026

Have fun!

Winner June Technique Challenge

2026-07-08T05:00:00.000+01:00

We would love to thank everyone who participated in our

June Technique Challenge

Such a variety of styles and themes was used to create the entries.

It made the choice, though hard, it was fun seeing all the creativity.

We would like to congratulate

#6 Kath

Kath, for winning the technique challenge, we would love to invite you to be a
Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge.
To take up this invite, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

And we want to give Honourable Mentions to
(in submission order)

#7 Kate

#10 Susan

#14 Joanne

Congratulations to you all!

We hope you will enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.

You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.

July Sketch Challenge

2026-07-04T06:00:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone

and welcome to the first July challenge at

52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

I'm Deborah and I'm hosting our challenges this month.

As always we start with a sketch and I hope you will come and play along with us.

You can stretch this or use different shapes as long as we can see the basic sketch on your card.

We can't wait to see you interpret this sketch and we're looking forward to all the beautiful cards you'll share with us!

Myself and the team are looking forward to seeing what you create and share with us.

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

- Only new projects - no back-linking

- Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog

- Please show the graphic on your challenge post

- You must link up by Midnight Friday (GMT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions

- A maximum of 10 challenges, please

- And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

- Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 10th July 2026

Have fun!

Winner June Theme Challenge

2026-07-01T07:00:00.000+01:00

Good Morning!

We would love to thank everyone who participated with our
June Theme Challenge. We selected the following cards and the winner is

#6 Colien

Colien, for winning the technique challenge, we would love to invite you to be a
Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge.
To take up this invite, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

And we want to give Honourable Mentions to
(in submission order)

# AuntySue

#4 Vicki

#13 Debbie

Congratulations to you all!

We hope you will enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.

You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.

June Technique Challenge

2026-06-27T06:00:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the new challenge of 52 Christmas Card Throwdown,

Fabiola here, this is my final challenge for June.

I am ending with the Technique/Stash Challenge.

For the next weeks, we are going to play with embossing folder.

I love the embossing technique, such a versatile way to create.

Our wonderful Guest Designer this week is

Here are our cards

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

- Only new projects - no back-linking

- Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog

- Please show the graphic on your challenge post

- You must link up by Midnight Friday (GMT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions

- A maximum of 10 challenges, please

- And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

- Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 3th July 2026

Have fun!

Winner June Color Challenge

2026-06-25T20:56:37.136+01:00

Apologies that we are late with this post,

I am delighted to announce who won the June color challenge of

52 Christmas Card Throwdown

OUR WINNER IS ...

#1 Loopyloo

Loopyloo, for winning the colour challenge, we would love to invite you to be a Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge. To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

Our Honourable Mentions are ...
(in submission order)

#2 Cindy

#3 Cindy again

#4 Taja

Thank you to everyone who joined in and helped make this challenge such a success. Your creativity and generosity in sharing your work made it a real celebration of crafting.

We hope you’ll join us for the current challenge—we love seeing what you create!

Until then, happy crafting!

June Theme Challenge

2026-06-20T06:00:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone!

Fabiola again, to welcome you for the third challenge of the month on the

52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

My theme is Snowmen,

a theme that you can interpret in a funny or cute way;

we love all creations featuring these characters, women, men, or children.

I can’t wait to see what kind of holiday snowmen, you’re going to show us.

Our guest designer this week is:

Here are our Snowmen

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

- This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs

- Only new projects - no back-linking

- Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog

- Please show the graphic on your challenge post

- You must link up by Midnight Friday (GMT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions

- A maximum of 10 challenges, please

- And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

- Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 26th June 2026

Winner June Sketch Challenge

2026-06-17T14:40:43.421+01:00

We would love to thank everyone who participated in our

June Sketch Challenge

Such a variety of styles, sizes and design was used to create the entries.

It made the choice, though hard, it was fun seeing all the creativity.

We would like to congratulate

#4 Colien

Colien, for winning the technique challenge, we would love to invite you to be a

Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge.
To take up this invite, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

And we want to give Honourable Mentions to
(in submission order)

#3 Gerjanne

#5 Taja

#7 Cindy

Congratulations to you all!

We hope you will enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.

You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.

June Colour Challenge

2026-06-13T06:00:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone!

It's Fabiola here with you today to welcome you to the second challenge of the month.

For this challenge, I have chosen a bright colour combination.

I hope you like it and you'll have a lot of fun!

Our Guest Designer this week is

Here is our cards...

Andreja M

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

- This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs

- Only new projects - no back-linking

- Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog

- Please show the graphic on your challenge post

- You must link up by Midnight Friday (GMT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions

- A maximum of 10 challenges, please

- And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

- Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 19th June 2026

Have fun!

May Technique/Stash Challenge winner

2026-06-10T09:22:33.186+01:00

Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone who joined us to create with the May Technique Challenge.

a few players but many gorgeous creations!

thank you!

We want to congratulate our WINNER

#5 Leslie

Leslie, for winning the Technique challenge, we would love to invite you to be a

Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge.
To take up this invite please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

And we want to give Honourable Mentions to
(in submission order)

#6 Vicky

#4 Tadeja

#7 Natasa

Congratulations to you all!

We hope you will enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.

You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.