The Card Concept #201 {Fall Leaves}

          Welcome to The Card Concept !

For those of you who are new to our challenge, every month we will post our inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us by creating a card for our challenge gallery.  

Just a reminder, an inspiration photo is exactly that- a starting point for inspiration. Will it be the colors, the overall theme, the texture, the actual items and/or something else that will inspire your card? 

Choose a design style (or combine styles), create a card, and in your blog post, let us know what inspired you from the photo, what style and/or styles you chose and don't forget to display our inspiration photo and link back to our challenge :-)

At the end of the challenge, our Design Team will choose one Main Winner and at least three Honorable Mentions.  We will announce the winners here on our challenge blog, as well as our Facebook page and our new Pinterest board.  

Again, as we mentioned above, please feel free to use any of the styles we have defined or create your own with a combination of styles.  We want you to have fun with our inspiration!

So come and join us!  We'd love for you to try your hand at a brand new style of card making or feel free to work in your comfort zone.  It is totally up to you!

In case you missed the link above, the styles are explained HERE.

Now for our Design Team's inspiration: 

Esther Asbury

Esther's Inspiration: I was inspired by the 

leaves and wood in the photo when I created 

my Mixed Media card.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors and 

leaves for my Clean and Layered/Mixed Media card.

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I love the bright colors combined 

with the black, and the beautiful tumble of autumn leaves, 

which together made my Clean and Layered card pop.

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the overall 

theme of the photo for my Free Style Collage card.

Karen Letchworth

Karen's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered

card was inspired by the gorgeous colors and

the beautiful leaves in the inspiration photo.

Jenny Martin

Jenny's Inspiration:I was inspired by the leaves and 

colours to create a Clean and Layered Fall card.

Kerry Parkinson

Kerry's Inspiration: I took the leaves as inspiration

for my Mixed Media card and gave them a Christmas twist.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the 

beautiful leaves and colors to create my 

Clean and Layered Style card.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration:   I was inspired by the leaves, colors, 

and theme. I created a Clean and Layered styled card.

The deadline to participate will be  

Monday, December 11th at 12:00 pm EDT.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

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If you would like to be included in our entries for possible Winner or Honorable Mention, please make sure you include our inspiration photo in your blog post, and, if possible, explain how you were inspired by our challenge.  Also, please make sure that we are the only inspiration challenge and direct link to our challenge site.  

Thanks again for playing along with us!

Winners #200 {Autumn Chill}

 Happy Wednesday! Julie, here with the Winners and Honorable Mentions for our  

                        #200 {Autumn Chill} Challenge!

Thank you so much for playing along with us!  As always, all of your gorgeous cards make it very difficult for our DT to narrow down our winners and honorable mentions :-)!

Our Design Team has voted and we have a tie for our Main Winner, so our two winners are...

 

listed in order that they appeared in our gallery...

Kristin Sluhan

Lee Ann Barrett

   And our four Honorable Mentions ...

 listed in order that they appeared in our gallery...

Amanda Mertz

Bobby

Denise Wellerton

Stamps-n-Lingers

Congratulations to all of our winners!!

We hope that you will take the time to visit each of the Winner/HM 

blogs to see how they created their cards, and, if you have time, leave a comment and show them some "love" :-) 

Just a reminder, this year we will be highlighting our winners and honorable mentions on our Facebook page as well as on our Pinterest board.  

We will be back in an hour with our November challenge! 

The Card Concept #200 {Autumn Chill}

     Welcome to The Card Concept !

For those of you who are new to our challenge, every month we will post our inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us by creating a card for our challenge gallery.  

Just a reminder, an inspiration photo is exactly that- a starting point for inspiration. Will it be the colors, the overall theme, the texture, the actual items and/or something else that will inspire your card? 

Choose a design style (or combine styles), create a card, and in your blog post, let us know what inspired you from the photo, what style and/or styles you chose and don't forget to display our inspiration photo and link back to our challenge :-)

At the end of the challenge, our Design Team will choose one Main Winner and at least three Honorable Mentions.  We will announce the winners here on our challenge blog, as well as our Facebook page and our new Pinterest board.  

Again, as we mentioned above, please feel free to use any of the styles we have defined or create your own with a combination of styles.  We want you to have fun with our inspiration!

So come and join us!  We'd love for you to try your hand at a brand new style of card making or feel free to work in your comfort zone.  It is totally up to you!

In case you missed the link above, the styles are explained HERE.

Now for our Design Team's inspiration: 

Esther Asbury

Esther's Inspiration: I was inspired by the theme and elements 

in the photo when I created my Mixed Media card.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors and leaves 

for my Clean and Layered card. 

Michele K. Henderson

 Michele's Inspiration: I was inspired by the book and the warm 

drink on a chilly day for my Clean and Layered card.

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the different elements 

in the photo, the wood background, the sweater/blanket, 

the book and coffee cup for my Clean and Layered card.

Karen Letchworth

Karen's Inspiration: Karen's Clean and Layered card

was inspired by the colors and books in the photo.

Jenny Martin

Jenny's taking a break for this challenge! 

Kerry Parkinson

Kerry's Inspiration: My simple Shabby layered card was 

inspired by all the elements in the photo.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the fall theme of the

 photo to create my Clean and Elegant style card.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors, leaves, and 

patterns for my Clean and Layered styled card. 

The deadline to participate will be  

Monday, November 6th at 12:00 pm EDT.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

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If you would like to be included in our entries for possible Winner or Honorable Mention, please make sure you include our inspiration photo in your blog post, and, if possible, explain how you were inspired by our challenge.  Also, please make sure that we are the only inspiration challenge and direct link to our challenge site.  

Thanks again for playing along with us!

Winners #199 {Country Style}

 Happy Wednesday! Julie, here with the Winners and Honorable Mentions for our  

                        #199 {Country Style} Challenge!

Thank you for playing along with us!  As always, your talent makes it very difficult for our DT to narrow down our winners and honorable mentions :-)!

Our Design Team has voted and we have a tie for our Main Winner, so our two winners are...

 

listed in order that they appeared in our gallery...

Donna Phelan

LeAnne Pugliese

   And our three Honorable Mentions ...

 listed in order that they appeared in our gallery...

Jenny Maier

Dena J

Karen Walker

Congratulations to all of our winners!!

We hope that you will take the time to visit each of the Winner/HM 

blogs to see how they created their cards, and, if you have time, leave a comment and show them some "love" :-) 

Just a reminder, this year we will be highlighting our winners and honorable mentions on our Facebook page as well as on our Pinterest board.  

We will be back in an hour with our October challenge! 

The Card Concept #199 {Country Style}

            Welcome to The Card Concept !

We are changing things up a bit for 2023-2024 and we will now offer a monthly challenge (vs. bi-weekly)!

For those of you who are new to our challenge, every month we will post our inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us by creating a card for our challenge gallery.  

If you would like to join us on Instagram, please follow us at our new IG acct-  @thecardconceptchallenges2.  

Also, if you post on social media, please tag @thecardconceptchallenges2 and use the hashtag #tccxxx (xxx=challenge # for ex: this challenge would be #tcc199.

At the end of the challenge, our Design Team will choose one Main Winner and at least three Honorable Mentions.  We will announce the winners here on our challenge blog, as well as our Facebook page and our new Pinterest board.  

Just a reminder, an inspiration photo is exactly that - a starting point for inspiration. Will it be the colors, the overall theme, the texture, the actual items and/or something else that will inspire your card? 

Choose a design style  (or combine styles), create a card, and in your blog post, let us know what inspired you from the the photo, what style and/or styles you chose and don't forget to display our inspiration photo and link back to our challenge :-)

Again, as we mentioned above, please feel free to use any of the styles we have defined or create your own with a combination of styles.  We want you to have fun with our inspiration!

So come and join us!  We'd love for you to try your hand at a brand new style of card making or feel free to work in your comfort zone.  It is totally up to you!

In case you missed the link above, the styles are explained HERE.

Now for our Design Team's inspiration: 

Esther Asbury

Esther's Inspiration: I was inspired by the theme to create 

these matching Mixed Media cards.

Kerry Parkinson

Kerry's Inspiration: My Mixed Media card was inspired by 

the theme, flowers and gingham.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: My Shabby and Vintage/Mixed Media 

card was inspired by the sunflowers in the wreath. 

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's card is on the way!

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the sunflowers in 

the photo and the black Gingham and red ribbons 

for my Clean and Layered card

Karen Letchworth

Karen's Inspiration: My Shabby Chic Farm card was

inspired by the barn image, rooster, gingham ribbon,

and the overall color scheme and farmhouse feel.

Jenny Martin

Jenny will be back with us for next month's challenge!

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the rooster and 

the farm theme to create my Clean and Elegant Style card.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the sunflowers, 

background, and welcome sentiment. 

I created a Clean and Simple styled card. 

The deadline to participate will be  

Monday, October 9th at 12:00 pm EDT.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

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If you would like to be included in our entries for possible Winner or Honorable Mention, please make sure you include our inspiration photo in your blog post, and, if possible, explain how you were inspired by our challenge.  Also, please make sure that we are the only inspiration challenge and direct link to our challenge site.  

Thanks again for playing along with us!