Christmas Card Challenge 2013
 

A Video of How To Upload

Monthly Threads
 

Sign Ups
 

Who is signed up, and what they're goal is per month .... remember now, there is NO SCORE KEEPING!

I will be sending out a motivational PM to those who sign up...if you DO NOT WANT PM's please let me know when you sign up to keep you off that list.

Just remember that is not written in stone, make what "YOU" want/need!

Links of Inspiration
 

Jingle Belles Awesome Blog for inspiration

//www.splitcoaststampers.com/re...itterpainting/
Beautiful technique for a Christmassy Look!!

Operation Write Home
Great Idea of what to do with cards!

Here's one of helpful info.. Resizing Pics for uploading
Photo too large to Upload? No problem!

Kelly's idea for Grouping her cards
//www.splitcoaststampers.com/fo...7-post282.html

Carla's Blog
Carla's Scraps

Watch for the Merry Monday Challenges!
Always Playing with Paper


Check this out! Cool 3D project!
http://craftingpassions.blogspot.com...-tutorial.html

Angela aka Arizona Maine has a cool tutorial for her awesome bow
http://fromthetoolshed.blogspot.com/...r-project.html

Julie's Tutorial on her bow making
http://www.stampingwithjuliegearinge...bow-tying.html

Check out how she makes her big red bow!
http://stuckonstampin.blogspot.com/s...of%20Christmas

Resizing ....
 

if you use Kodak Easy Share DaisyDude shared this info.

For those using Kodak Easy Share:

Click on the pictures you want to resize.
Go to 'File' and choose 'export'
Choose a place to save your pics.
Choose the option 'Specify Size'. The limit for SCS I think is 2048 pixels.
Then hit 'Export'.

You should then be able to upload the resized pics to SCS.

iPhoto is similar. Choose your pics, hit 'export' then use the resize boxes. Neither height nor width can be larger than 2048.



From mustlovecats ..... upload from a Mac and this is what I do.
Open your photo, click on the background of the photo so that Tools appears in the bar at the top. Click on it and then on adjust size. I change the first size to 5, save and then voila it's perfect for uploading.
Not too difficult and I did pretty much the same process when I used windows before

Monthly Challenges
 

Each month someone from our group will present a challenge to help inspire an idea!

***if you ladies would like to go post a HELLO on your month to mark a spot, you can edit it later to add you challenge!***

January will be presented by Sheri aka Ksnurse (and her challenge is - make your cards in non-traditional colors

February will be presented by Ina aka yellowrose46, the challenge is to use a Winter sport

March will be presented by Susan aka Cards Are Me..her challenge is to have a good look at your Christmas stash and seek out these items and find a fun way to craft with them

April is going to be posted by Stacy aka JBGreenDawn and she says (make a Christmas gift tag or folding gift card from the scraps)

May will be presented by Sue aka stampinspooky, her challenge for you is to make a card using the sketch SC161

June is going to be posted by Debbie aka grammatroll (Her challenge to you is to make quilt cards)

July will be presented by Sharon aka smadson, she has challenged us to make a Christmas Card using Red, White and Blue

August's Challenge will be presented by Alison aka newstampinaddict her challenge is to make a Monochromatic Card

September will be presented by Peggy aka pegmac...Use Falling Snow on your card

October will be presented by Susan aka Cards Are Me, her challenge is to make a card that is folded differently, such as an easel, gatefold, pocket, etc

November, Bonnie aka raduse wants to present our challenge this month, and it will be to use up some scraps or some of your forgotten stash

Vikki Jo, You have been busy in between taking the dogs outside! :)

Can't believe you got all of 2013 set up!

So, sign me up for 4 cards a month again.

And I can be a challenge hostess in January.

You are awesome, GF!
Sharon

Thanks again, Vikki Jo, for all your hard work. And thanks for the inspiration links.

I'll sign up for five per month again for 2013. Now, back to finishing off 2012 :D!!

Vikki jo I can't believe how organised you are, couldn't believe it when I went in to post my cards.

Sign me up again for four cards again and thanks so much for keeping this going next year, its such a great help not having to rush at the last minute.

Count me in again ... 6 amonth

Oh, Vikki Jo, I see that someone already has January. So how about July?
:)
sharon

AWESOME
 

Got you down!


Sorry I didn't have the months already picked marked... wanna pick a different month?

AWESOME
 

Got you down for 2013!

AWESOME
 

Got ya down Raye!

LOL
 

I will put you down for July! Thank you!

Sign ups 2nd list
 

Hi all, since Kelli has to bow out next yr., Vikki asked me to help with the cheerleading duties. I just love cheerleader outfits so of course I said yes...and of course mine will be pink and sparkly...;) so get ready for lots of RAH RAH RAH!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!

This list will be duplicate of VickiJo's so that I can try to keep track of the peeps playing along, if 2 of us do this, hopefully no one will get lost

1: Smadson--3 ____________________101: Tizzy--4
2: Dihere--5_______________________102: RDey--4
3: Jan31--4_______________________103: Deborahmarie--5
4: Creepsmom--6___________________104: 2 manycookbooks--
5: Ksnurse--8______________________105: jetstudio29--4
6: Oddesigns--10___________________106: bettyjoanes--5
7: Margscardcrazy--3+2_____________107: jenig132002--5
8: pegmac71--5____________________108: nisiWJ--4
9: Greywolf--8_____________________109: Mayapple--5
10: Rransedell--4___________________110: KayM-2
11: Mathilda--15____________________111: must love cats--1
12: Cards are me--4_________________112: stampramma--5
13: Joyousgirl80--5__________________113: stiz2003--3
14: Crazysexycool--1________________114: berlycece--12
15: cr8iveme--8____________________115: bekkahloo--6
16: Jay_Bee--13____________________116: MEnmystamps--6
17: suzys1104--4___________________117: beetle 76 - 5
18: sophiecat--10___________________118: countrybumpkin - 12
19: JBGreendawn--6_________________119: terrie.mcnulty - 6
20: sewbusymom--6_________________120: stamptician - 4
21: pvilbaum--5_____________________121: cmg.sweet - 3
22: ruthmarie--5____________________122: KayinFl - 4
23: yellowrose46--4_________________123: GGnurse - 3
24: cook22--4______________________124: Annsforte3 - 12
25: swldebbie--6 ___________________125: Chaoscornerau-2
26: jill with a g--6___________________126:
27: sue25wmu--6
28: lharnish--5
29: newstampinaddict--8
30: deeburt--2+2
31: stampinspooky--5
32: bon2stamp--4
33: BarbieP--4
34: scootsv--5
35: auntangie--?
36: ohmypaper--5
37: stampersandee--5-10
38: shelia--5
39: kanatanewf--10
40: bittybadger--4
41: amylovesnormajean--4
42: triasimite--4
43: Stamp300--10
44: susie nelson--8
45: 2cutecats--5
46: bfarley--3
47: longislandjean--3
48: pennysmum--4
49: grammatroll--4
50: tryingtofindtime--4
51: ahlers5--4
52: Arizona Maine--15
53: chktg716--7
54: JadeOnline--6
55: happileastamppin--2
56: fionna51--4-5
57: Arlene_C--6
58: Precious Kitty--8
59: susanbri--10
60: bath belle
61: stampindoe--10
62: cjzim--6
63: craftidomesticdiva
64: ImaRed--5-10
65: Julie-Gearinger-20
66: ceeedee--6-10
67: Regina BD--10+3
68: mandie 1777--5
69: stampinWrose--6
70: carolc1027--10
71: LMcAree--5
72: horseygal--4
73: bradley's-mom--5
74: lilluvsstampin--4
75: wdoherty--8
76: navywifearmymom--4
77: Sarah38--2
78: HamiltonGal--4
79: DCinKit--6
80: Shellebelle--8
81: Cndnstampr--4
82: mschoener--5
83: artystamper--4
84: audreyann--5
85: cat09tails--6 & 4
86: margscardcrazy--
87: lada--
88: jromom1--
89: photobugohio--5
90: bh_dallas--6
91: smile60--5
92: fionaB--6
93: cjsmom0802
94: studbo--4
95: kacopan--12
96: scamper64--10
97: Scamper64--10
98: janaZ--4
99: suefel--4
100: WIP papercrafts--4

Oh and I guess I better get my booty signed up too....heehee....I'll do 6 a month this yr

Hi all!! Vickijo thanks for all you do!! Amazing that you have 2013 well under way!
Sign me up for 5 cards per month and I will be glad to do a challenge for March.

O my gosh just went in to post Septembers and discovered 2013's are already up :shock: now thats scarry but count me in Vikki Jo, I will do three cards and two tags again and if I have time I will do more. :lol:

Cheers

I'm in! The last two years have convinced me that I need to get these done throughout the year.

I'm not sure how many yet. I did 10/month this year, and I'm going to see how many extras I have (if any) before I decide how many I need to do in 2012.

I've still got Oct. & Nov. to finish for this year, but sign me up for 8 again in 2013.

Sheri, so good of you to step in to help encourage and keep track of this group. VikkiJo, thanks again for all you do.

I wasn't very sucessful last year but lets give it another go for 4 per month

Sign me up again. My goal is 4 cards a month. Thanks for keeping this going Vikki Jo.

Mathilda
 

Only came across this challenge recently ... great way to get Christmas cards done throughout the year ... sign me up for 15 cards each month. Thanks for all you do Vickijo ...

YIPPEE!!! Look at all you over achievers gearing up already for another yr of gettin it done early....

WOW! You ladies rock. I had such a great year making Christmas cards every month. Please sign me up for 4 each month. Thank you for all you do :p

This is my first year playing along. Count me in for five cards a month!

hello, Count me as well for next year - for me ... is just 1 per month by I set myself for 2 each month - I will try to post more than 1 as I like my charity work and it has started to grow so I put my time to this.
Hope to your work which truly inspired me all the time.

Nathalia....welcome..it feels so good to be doing them leisurely and not in a rush at the last minute...this yr was my first and I'm so glad I did....

welcome back all the rest of y'all.....1 is good if that's what you need....whatever works for you is fine, we are here to encourage and cheer you on, not set any rules...

May I please sign up for 6 cards a month?

Please sign me up for a bakers dozen each month - it has really helped me this year.
Thank you

PHEW
 

Carol you gave me quite the scare! Someone already got cards done for 2013?


Off to see them and get you linked over to 2012.

In all honesty I was NOT going to look at this thread until December , then I saw how many posts were on already i had to be nosy!

So touched by all of you repeaters! Thank you for jumping in again, isn't it a wonderful feeling to not have to get cracking on cards in a scramble next month?

I will be back to mark you all down .... I haven't created my spread sheet yet for 2013. I am such a slacker! LOL

Please sign me up for 10 cards/month, same as my commitment for 2012, though I've been making more than 10/month. 203 cards so far for 2012 and I haven't even done my November card yet so this challenge definitely worked for me! I have lots of extra cards to donate to Cards for the Troops even though I only have a few designs without any glitter. I come up with one design for each month and mass produce with variations as I go along. Thanks for hosting again Vikki Jo!

of course I am in... this year I have done 6 per month from Jan - Sept. ( which was more than enough cards for me and some for the booth... but, if I had had more at the booth they would have sold. so, I think I will do 6 a month and start now... :)

Do you still need hosts?

Please sign me up for 6 cards a month.

Thanks,
Cindy

Saw this challenge about August this year and was always going to sign up but just never did. So sign me up now - right at the beginning. I will do 5 cards per month.

Thanks for keeping this going so I can get myself organized for next Christmas. As I only have about 10 cards done for this Christmas. But I'm on my way to stamp today hoping to change that number significantly. Because it is officially the Christmas season!

great ladies....I've got you signed up for the fun....

Stacy, VikkiJo is taking care of the challenges so you might PM her, it looks like there are some months still needing a challenge host