The Card Concept #31 {Cupcakes} - There's Still Time!

Welcome to the Card Concept! 

You have one week left to join us in our Cupcake themed challenge!!! The team members have created some more inspiration to get you in the crafting mood!!! Won't you join us?

Check out the gorgeous entries in the gallery so far, wow!

The current challenge ends on Monday, March 30th at Noon (PST).

Click HERE to join us!

The Card Concept {Cupcakes}

Welcome to The Card Concept! Each week we offer up a challenge for you to try, and we hope that you will create a card in one of the styles we have offered here.  The team is divided into the different styles and each designer explains how they were inspired by the challenge!  So come and join us and try your hand at a brand new "style" of card making or work in your comfort zone, it is totally up to you!

Photo Source

This week we are hoping this picture inspires you to create any type of card! Feel free to use any of the styles of our team or better yet, share you own style by combining one or more of the styles. We want you to have fun and make a card in a style that you feel good about!

The styles are explained HERE.

The designers have entered their cards below and they have explained the style they used and the way they were inspired...

March Classy & Elegant Guest Designer

Virginia Lu 

Clean & Simple

Kristie Goulet

The yummy cupcakes inspired my CAS design.

Tracey McNeely

I was inspired by the colours and the cupcakes in the photo this challenge.

Clean & Graphic

Geri Greening

The raspberry pink frosting & patterned cupcake liner inspired my paper pieced card.

Clean & Layered

Kerin Sylvester

I was inspired by the swirly pink frosting and lacy background.

Laurie Schmidt

I was inspired by the colorful cupcakes....my favorite!

Shabby Chic

Narelle Farrugia 

My inspiration came from the combination of pretty pinks in the yummy looking frosting.

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

I was inspired by the cupcakes, pretty white doilie and beautiful pops of raspberry color!

Freestyle Collage

Laura Jane

PINK and cupcakes..a girl's dream right?

Cindy Lovell

I was inspired by those yummy looking cupcakes

Classy & Elegant

Angela Maine

You can't resist pink buttercream frosting!

Sheri Gilson

I was inspired by the YUMMY cupcake and pink frosting!

Mixed Media

Yoonsun Hur

I was inspired by the yummy cupcakes topped with the pink frosting!

 Julie Gearinger

I was inspired by the feminine doily and the colors in the frosting. 

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, March 30th at Noon (PST).

The Card Concept Winners

Happy Wednesday! Lesley here! Wow! Thank you to everyone who joined us! The team had a hard time picking winners!!! Congratulations to everyone who played along!

Challenge #31 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.

The Card Concept #30 {Thinking of You} - There's Still Time!

Welcome to the Card Concept! 

You have one week left to join us in our Thinking of You themed challenge!!! The team members have created some more inspiration to get you in the crafting mood!!! Won't you join us?

Check out the gorgeous entries in the gallery so far, wow!

The current challenge ends on Monday, March 16th at Noon (PST).

Click HERE to join us!

The Card Concept #30 {Thinking of You!}

Welcome to The Card Concept! Each week we offer up a challenge for you to try, and we hope that you will create a card in one of the styles we have offered here.  The team is divided into the different styles and each designer explains how they were inspired by the challenge!  So come and join us and try your hand at a brand new "style" of card making or work in your comfort zone, it is totally up to you!

Photo Source

This week we are hoping this picture inspires you to create a Thinking of You card! Feel free to use any of the styles of our team or better yet, share you own style by combining one or more of the styles. We want you to have fun and make a card in a style that you feel good about!

The styles are explained HERE.

The designers have entered their cards below and they have explained the style they used and the way they were inspired...

March Classy & Elegant Guest Designer

Virginia Lu 

This month we are focusing on Classy & Elegant designs and have mega talented Virginia Lu joining us as our guest designer! We are sure you are already familiar with her, but if you aren't you must visit her blog to check our her amazing talent. She is the hostess for the very popular Virginia's View Challenge and currently on the design teams for the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Blog, StampNation and CAS-ual Fridays. Here is how Virginia was inspired by our new challenge...

Clean & Simple

Kristie Goulet

 The fresh flowers inspired me to create my own bouquet.

Tracey McNeely

I was inspired by the feeling of springtime the flowers evoke.

Clean & Graphic

Cindy Lovell

Geri Greening

The lovely mauve lilacs or hyacinth (bottom right in vase) inspired my card.

Clean & Layered

Kerin Sylvester

I was inspired by the "Spring-y" color scheme.

Laurie Schmidt

I love the soft, pretty colors!

Shabby Chic

Narelle Farrugia 

I adore the softness of the colours in the flowers from the inspiration picture, so I tried to match them on my card.

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Freestyle Collage

Laura Jane

I wanted to try a one layer Freestyle/Collage using the color palette from the photo.

Lea Lawson

I was inspired by the beautiful flowers & fresh spring colors.

Classy & Elegant

Angela Maine

My antique version of the inspiration's pretty flowers.

Sheri Gilson

I was inspired by the soft colors and the texture of the vase.

Mixed Media

Yoonsun Hur

I love the lovely blooms so much!!  

Julie Gearinger

I was inspired by the beautiful colors and texture.

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, March 16th at Noon (PST).

Winners

Happy Wednesday! Lesley here! Wow! Thank you to everyone who joined us! The team had a hard time picking winners!!! Congratulations to everyone who played along!

Challenge #30 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.