Challenge #22 - Thank "fall"

Welcome to The Card Concept. 

This week we have a theme for you to try! You must use the theme and create your card in one of the styles of the designers. 

The styles are explained HERE.

Clean & Simple

Laurie Willison 

Fall is my favorite season, so I love this inspiration pic. The leaves were my inspiration for this card.

Clean & Graphic

Geri Greening

 

My design was inspired by the stained glass window resting against the wall, behind the large pumpkin.

Clean & Layering

Kerin Sylvester

I was inspired by the pumpkins and decided to bring in the light beige from the background as well.

Shabby Chic

Narelle Farrugia 

I took the colours from the inspiration picture and used them in my leaves.

Freestyle Collage

Cathy Weber

I used an embossing folder to re-create the siding in the photo.

Classy & Elegant

Colleen Dietrich

I was inspired by the color scheme and of course, the pumpkins!

Wild Card Team

(The Wild Card team have each chosen a style to represent...

visit their blogs to see what they chose!)

Cindy Lovell
 
I was inspired by the pumpkins and the cart from the photo.

Kim Heggins

This is my favorite time of the year...my stamp says it all. I was inspired by the beautiful pumpkins.

Yoonsun Hur

I love the fall season and was inspired by those rustic fall colours!

Sue Trembeth

One of my fav techniques is to layer images onto a text stamp.

Mary Marsh

The fall elements from this rustic photo was inspiration for my card

Kristie Larsen

I wanted to try the simplicity of cut panels combined with some fall flavour.

Our Rules

1. Use the Challenge to create a card.
2. Choose one of the design team "styles" to create your card. Click HERE for the different styles summary.
3. Explain in your post which style you used.
4. Link up your blog post here, not your whole blog.
5. Comment on the card ahead of you and behind you in the linky. Everyone loves comments!

This challenge will end on Monday, November 10 at Noon (PST).

Challenge #21 - Winners

Hello Tracey here with the winners for The Card Concept challenge #21 - Sunflowers! We loved seeing how you were inspired.  The projects in the linkup are all so creative. We have each chosen a winner who we liked the best but not necessarily in our own design style, and who followed the rules and challenge.

Challenge #22 goes live in one hour at 5:00 AM (PST).

If you are viewing this in Google Reader, please visit our blog, to see the winning projects, by clicking on the pictures.

Be sure to click on the images to visit the winning blogs.

1. Yoonsun's Choice: It is so creative. Katie made awesome sunflower using Turkey die set. Brilliant!	2. Deanna's Choice: Karen's sunflowers are beautiful and I love the cute centers. Congrats Karen.	3. Kay's Choice- I loved Anya's fabulous design and beautifully colored sunflowers!
4. Kim's Choice: I love the sweet scene Mary created with a single sunflower and the gingham border.	5. LauraJane's choice:I'm in awe of all the lovely textures in Ceal's card!	6. Mary's choice: a mixed media beauty-Nina painted her sunflower-creative and impressive card
7. Kristie's Choice: Great use of challenge elements with a fun peekaboo border. Creative!	8. Angela's Choice; I'm so drawn to Hannelie's simply beautiful sunflower focal image!	9. Cindy's Choice: I love Andrea's design with the burlap and the pretty colored sunflower!! So pretty!

Challenge #21 ~ Sunflowers ~ There's Still Time!

There is still plenty of time for you to play along with our current challenge  - to create a card using a country/sunflower theme. This challenge will end Monday, October 27th at noon (PST).

There are lots of fabulous entries already, check them out if you'd like some inspiration to get you started! 

Here is a reminder of our rules if you'd like to join in the fun:

1. Use the challenge to create a card

2. Choose one of the design team "styles" to create your card. Click HERE for a summary of the different styles.

3. Explain in your post which style you used. 

4. Link to your blog post for this challenge only, not your whole blog. 

5. Comment on the card ahead of you and behind you in the linky. Everyone loves comments!

Go HERE to link your creation!

Challenge #21 - Sunflowers

Welcome to The Card Concept. 

Hello card makers! We are excited about this challenge and we hope you are too! For this challenge we are looking for a country/sunflower theme! You must use the theme and create your card in one of the styles of the designers. Happy crafting!

The styles are explained HERE.

Deanna Dean

Ground your sentiment by having it touch your image.

Mary Marsh

sunflowers, vase, twine and checkered tablecloth are my inspiration

Sue Trembeth

The black background makes a dramatic "hello die" against the sunflower.

Kay Miller

Yoonsun Hur

I was fascinated by those beautiful sunflowers!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

I took inspiration this week from the colors, flowers, gingham and bow!


Kristie Larsen

This was a challenge for me! I used distress inks and old book paper to create my shabby look.

LauraJane 

I used masks to create a freestyle collage of sunflowers.

Cindy Lovell

I was inspired by the brown and yellow of the sunflowers!!

Angela Maine

A touch of lace for an elegant country feel

Kim Heggins

I added the beautiful rain stones to add a bit of elegance to my sunflowers. 

Our Rules

1. Use the Challenge to create a card.
2. Choose one of the design team "styles" to create your card. Click HERE for the different styles summary.
3. Explain in your post which style you used.
4. Link up your blog post here, not your whole blog.
5. Comment on the card ahead of you and behind you in the linky (if you can). Everyone loves comments!

This challenge will end on Monday, October 27 at Noon (PST).

Challenge #20 - Winners

Hello Tracey here with the winners for The Card Concept challenge #20 - Color Challenge! We loved seeing how you were inspired.  The projects in the linkup are all so creative. We have each chosen a winner who we liked the best but not necessarily in our own design style, and who followed the rules and challenge.

Challenge #21 goes live in one hour at 5:00 AM (PST).

If you are viewing this in Google Reader, please visit our blog, to see the winning projects, by clicking on the pictures.

Challenge #20 ~ A Color Challenge ~ There's Still Time!

There is still plenty of time for you to play along with our current challenge  - to create a card using the colors of the inspiration photo. This challenge will end Monday, October 13th at noon (PST).

There are lots of fabulous entries already, check them out if you'd like some inspiration to get you started! 

Here is a reminder of our rules if you'd like to join in the fun:

1. Use the challenge to create a card

2. Choose one of the design team "styles" to create your card. Click HERE for a summary of the different styles.

3. Explain in your post which style you used. 

4. Link to your blog post for this challenge only, not your whole blog. 

5. Comment on the card ahead of you and behind you in the linky. Everyone loves comments!

Go HERE to link your creation!

Challenge #20 - Colour Challenge

Welcome to The Card Concept. 

This week we have a theme for you to try! You must use the theme and create your card in one of the styles of the designers. 

The styles are explained HERE.

Laurie Willison 

I was inspired by the colors and all I could think of was fall! My favorite time of year!  

Yoonsun Hur

I was inspired by the colours and yummy orange pumpkin!

Geri Greening

Hand drawn black lines paired with bold, block letters & a simple image 
maintain a clean & graphic style.

Kim Heggins

I was inspired by the colors, orange and black, such a wonderful pair and they are not just for Halloween...I love baseball and the San Francisco Giants. 

Kerin Sylvester

I was inspired by the checkered tablecloth and found a DSP that mimicked that pattern.

Sue Trembeth

Using sticky back paper I made my own flame stencil.

Narelle Farrugia 

I decided to use the challenge colours for a pretty flower that I used as my focal point on my card.

Cindy Lovell

When i saw the colors,i,of course thought of Halloween right away!!

Cathy Weber

I used lots of iconic Halloween images and made my own twine closure.

Mary Marsh

Inspiration from fall theme, colors, pumpkins and tablecloth

Colleen Dietrich

The gingham tablecloth, color scheme, and candelabra inspired my card!

Kristie Larson

I love the colour combo and the candelabra made me think of the Victorian Era; hence the damask background

Our Rules

1. Use the Challenge to create a card.
2. Choose one of the design team "styles" to create your card. Click HERE for the different styles summary.
3. Explain in your post which style you used.
4. Link up your blog post here, not your whole blog.
5. Comment on the card ahead of you and behind you in the linky. Everyone loves comments!

This challenge will end on Monday, October 13 at Noon (PST).