Papercraft & Cricut Card Challenges November 2026

Three sketches every Thursday: a scrapbook layout, a card and an art journal page, usually with a theme. Post your project to the ACOT project gallery and tick the challenge under "Add Submission to Contests/Challenges". A random winner per sketch gets 1000 Cherry Points, and everyone else who enters gets 100.

A weekly card sketch challenge for clean-lined cards. Follow the layout, tag your entry with the challenge keyword and link up on the blog. You can combine it with up to 3 other challenges, but not another sketch challenge.

Tag: #FMS + the challenge number (e.g. #FMS759)

A weekly card challenge on a monthly rotation: week 1 is Die Week, week 2 a word, week 3 a mood board, week 4 Anything Goes with a stencil, and week 5 CASE a design team member. Post a new project, use their graphic, and link it in the Linky Tools form by Wednesday at 6 PM Eastern.

A layouts-only scrapbooking challenge. Each month a design-team host sets a series of weekly prompts. Add your layout to the Inlinkz with your name and the challenge number, one link-up per challenge. Top picks can become guest designers.

A new theme every Wednesday on Simon Says Stamp's challenge blog. Make something new and add it to the Inlinkz on the post. Up to 5 new creations go into a random draw for a $25 Simon Says Stamp voucher. Entries close the next Wednesday at 8am Ohio time.

Tag: #ssswchallenge

The long-running weekly color challenge in the Splitcoaststampers forums: three colors plus a "dessert" color, with the challenge number as your gallery keyword. The host picks a weekly favorite. Posting in the forums needs a Splitcoast login.

Tag: Keyword: the CC number (e.g. CC1120)

Each week brings a 3x3 board of prompts: colors, techniques, card shapes and themes. Pick any three in a row, column or diagonal, make your project, link back and add it to the Inlinkz. Designer's Choice picks can be asked to guest design.

Tag: #tictactoechallenge + the week's tag (e.g. #tttc304)

A twice-monthly card and papercraft challenge with a theme and a rotating digital-stamp sponsor. Link your project in the post's linky list for a chance at the sponsor prize.

A die-cut challenge blog: every project has to include a die cut, whether from manual dies or a cutting machine. A new theme goes up every other Friday. Follow the blog and link up to 3 entries in the post's Inlinkz link party.

A year-round Christmas card and craft challenge, handy for getting a stack of holiday cards done early. Recent challenges have all been "Anything Christmas Goes". Link up through the Inlinkz on the post.

Lawn Fawn's own challenge blog. Each two-week challenge has a theme, and your project should feature Lawn Fawn stamps, dies, stencils or papers. Link up at the end of the post. A random entrant wins a $50 Lawn Fawn gift certificate.

A birthday-card challenge with an optional "topping" (a design twist) every two weeks. Skip the topping and it's Anything Goes, as long as it's a birthday card. Use their graphic and link back. You can combine it with up to 4 other challenges, and digital images must be hand-colored.

Each month an Altenew designer shares a photo, and you make a project inspired by it. Altenew products should be the focus, but other brands are fine. Enter as many times as you like through the Inlinkz. Four winners get a $30 Altenew gift certificate.

A monthly multi-craft challenge: cards, tags, scrapbook pages and other makes are all welcome. Projects must be new, and fully digitally colored work isn't accepted. Multiple entries are allowed through the Inlinkz. There is a random winner and a design-team pick.

A bilingual German/English monthly challenge. Any handmade craft counts, but the theme has to show and purely digital work is out. You need an active blog with a link back, up to 3 entries, and you must follow the blog to win. Winners and design-team favorites are posted on the 15th of the next month.

Twenty days of festive cutting-machine projects (Cricut, Silhouette, ScanNCut). A new project unlocks each day at 9am Eastern. With a free ticket, each cut file is free to download for 24 hours. A paid Instant Access Bundle unlocks everything at once.