FQ Country Christmas #4 Bragging Rights Announcement on 5 February 2024

 Grand Champion Card Entry and the Best 3 Wintery Winners Announcement

for FarmQuest Country Christmas Challenge Blog's #4 competition

January 7-February 5, 2024

Anything Goes Country Christmas or "AGCC" with 4 accepted format categories of cards, gift tags, gift card/money holders, and package toppers.

Summary:

We had 10 entries submitted by 7 artists for our #4 competition!!! Woo-hoo! YEE-HAW!!

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 Four (4) artisans will receive bragging rights for FQCCCB's #4 competition! 

1 artisan picked for Grand Champion Card Winner (all #4 entries were card formats).

Our Grand Champion Card Category Winner is Claudia!!!

 #10 submission by Claudia:

snowman globe/aperture plus his buddy to the side; fencing, trees, birds, snowflakes, etc. with a plaid background

Spectacular!!

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Sharing the (at large) Best 3 Wintery Winners badge for FQCCCB's #4 competition:

Best 3 Wintery Winners artisans with their country Christmas charmers are: Lorraine L, Leslie T, and Katrina B!!!

KUDOS!!!!

#4 by Lorraine L= holiday decorated car surrounded by deer, trees, stars, and snowflakes

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#7 by Leslie T = manger scene has a distant town country scene as part of the tri-fold

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#8 by Katrina B = pinecones and pine needles, etc. nature surrounding the candle

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These were all excellent card entries!

We are grateful for our followers, readers, and most especially the participants! All of the entries have been fabulous country wintery scene cards! Thanks for making round #4 a success! (#4 had 10 submissions (coming after January 1). #3 had 17 submissions. #2 had 20 entries! #1 had 19 projects (when we started in October 2023!) 

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FQCCCB #5 will launch at 12 am central time/Chicago on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 and the mailbox will close on March 5, 2024.

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Continuing our quest for farm country creativity all year long,

FQCCCB 

Deanne, Nana Connie, Mary, and Becca

FQCCCB #4 starts on 7 January 2024 for anything goes country Christmas theme

 Howdy! Welcome to the country farm family of challenge blogs called FarmQuest!

This is the 4th challenge blog focused on farm and/or country topics with this specifically to Christmas and winter/snow/ice season outdoor decorations and landscape scenes. 

FarmQuest Country Christmas Challenge Blog

Competitions are always AGCC:

Anything Goes Country Christmas (and again by country, I mean rural/outdoors).

Competitions start and end at 12am CT/Chicago time. Competitions start on the 7th of a month and end on the following 5th.

#4 = January 7-February 5, 2024

Accepted formats are: cards, gift card holders, tags, and/or package toppers like those for treat bags. Think of this as paper-crafting items to give-away at holiday time. 

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The FQCCCB Design Team for Competition #4 is:

DT Mary=

AGCC elements: decorated front door; snowy steps and trees by the door; faux snow using doily; 'season's greetings' sentiment

DT Deanne=

AGCC elements: pine branch with pinecones, cardinal, snow, sentiment 'Christmas'

DT Nana Connie=

AGCC elements: berry foliage, cardinal, sentiment "season"

DT/owner Becca=

AGCC elements: trees/forest, snow, snowman face, sentiment "season"

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Project #2 with a AGCC tag (snowy mountain lake):

Thanks gals for these lovely nature in winter snow settings cards!

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If you're interested in joining the Design Team or to do periodic guest designing, then email me, the owner, Becca S =

questbybecca@gmail.com

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LINK-Up for #4

Re-read this post and check the blog sidebar before submitting for the first time. I hope you like the concept themes and will come back often to participate!