Wednesday, January 31, 2018

The Card Concept #85 {Rustic Blooms}- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to join us for 
The Card Concept #85 {Rustic Blooms} Challenge!!! 


We would love to see your card creations using the photo above as your inspiration.

You have until 
Monday, February 5th at noon (EST) to 
link up your card!  Click HERE to join us!

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Card Concept #85 {Rustic Blooms}

Welcome to The Card Concept! Every two weeks we post our inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us and create a card for our challenge gallery.  

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!


Our design team members will also be selecting a style (or combination of styles) and will explain how they were inspired by the challenge.  So come and join us!  We'd love 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!

The styles are explained HERE.

Now for the design team and their inspiration: 

Ruth is taking a break for this challenge- 
please stop by her blog and say "hi"!

Becca is also taking a break for this challenge- 
please stop by her blog and say "hi"!

Julie Gearinger
Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the beautiful 
colors and flowers to create a Classy & Elegant 
Mixed Media easel card!

Kim Heggins
Kim's Inspiration: I was inspired by the sweet spring 
pink bouquet, love all the pretty shades of 
pink for my Classy & Elegant card.

Michele's Inspiration: I loved the rustic wooden panels 
and the pretty flowers in the jar and added them to my 
Freestyle Collage Shabby Chic card!

Nancy Penir
Nancy's Inspiration: All the pretty flowers with the 
rustic wood background inspired 
my Vintage Layered card!

Maureen's Inspiration: My "Clean" Shabby Chic card 
was inspired by the wood background and colours.

Susan's Inspiration: My Clean and Simple watercolored 
card was inspired by the wood background
and the jar of flowers.

Angel Rivera
Angel's Inspiration: I steered away from the 
flowers and focused on the pretty colors 
for my Clean and Layered card!

Mackie's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the pretty 
pink and blue flowers against the woodgrain 
background to create my Mixed Media style card.

Our Rules:

1.  Use the challenge inspiration to create a card.
2.  Use one of the challenge styles to create a card (or if you prefer, combine a few styles).
3.  Explain in a post which style or combination of styles you used and what inspired you from our photo.  
4.  Link your post using our linky (please link to the actual post on your blog and not just your blog).
5.  Please try to comment on the cards ahead of you and behind you in the linky.  Everyone loves comments!

The deadline to participate is 
Monday, February 5th at 12:00 pm EST.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery! 

Winners #84- Sweet Inspiration

Happy Wednesday, Julie here and what a fabulous gallery you created for our "Sweet Inspiration" challenge!  

We are so thankful that you took the time to share your art with us and each week you are making it extremely difficult to pick only four winners! 


Now, onto to our winners for the "Sweet Inspiration" Challenge:


Our main Challenge Winner was chosen by the entire team and 
this week's winner is...

Ines






Hannelie




Congratulations to all of the our winners!!
Please be sure to click on the winning photos to visit their blogs to see how they created their cards and, if you have time, leave them some "love" :-) 


Thanks again for stopping by! Check back in an hour for our next challenge- we look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

The Card Concept #84 {Sweet Inspiration}- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to join us for 
The Card Concept #84 {Sweet Inspiration} Challenge!!! 


We would love to see your card creations using the photo above as your inspiration.

You have until 
Monday, January 22nd at noon (EST) to 
link up your card!  
Click HERE to join us!

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

The Card Concept #84 {Sweet Inspiration}

Happy New Year and welcome back to The Card Concept! We hope all of you had a great holiday and we are thrilled that you are joining us for the New Year!

Before we proceed with our new challenge, we would like to take this time to note that one of our designers, Vicki Finger will be taking a short break from the Design Team.  She is in the process of building a new home/moving and needs some time away from from the DT responsibilities.  We will miss Vicki's beautiful creations on the DT but she is planning on playing along with us and will be back in the fall!! Stop by her blog and say hi!! 

 Now, on to our new challenge- every two weeks we post our inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us and create a card for our challenge gallery.  


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!


Our design team members will also be selecting a style (or combination of styles) and will explain how they were inspired by the challenge.  So come and join us!  We'd love 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!

The styles are explained HERE.

Now for the design team and their inspiration: 

Ruth's Inspiration: Pastels, birthday cake and stripes 
and dots and a good helping of sequins 
for a layered shaker pocket card.

Becca's Inspiration:This photo dripped with elegance.
I loved the soft pink, gray, and rustic combo so
I incorporated that in my Shabby Chic/Mixed Media design. 

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the vintage feel 
of the photo as well as all of the beautiful roses 
to create my Mixed Media/Shabby Chic card!

Kim's Inspiration: I love the sweet cupcakes, 
delicate pearls and pink to make a 
Clean and Simple card. 

Michele's Inspiration: I love the romantic cupcakes 
as well as the feminine embellishments and 
used them in my Freestyle Collage card.

Nancy's Inspiration: Cupcakes, roses and pearls! 
Classy Elegance with this card.

Maureen's Inspiration: My Shabby Chic "Love" card was 
inspired by all the pinks, creams, and natural colours.

Susan's Inspiration: I was inspired by the soft colors 
and the rose buds to make my very
 Clean and Simple card.

Angel will be back with us for the next challenge!

Mackie's Inspiration: My Mixed Media card was inspired 
by the cupcakes and pink!!

Our Rules:

1.  Use the challenge inspiration to create a card.
2.  Use one of the challenge styles to create a card (or if you prefer, combine a few styles).
3.  Explain in a post which style or combination of styles you used and what inspired you from our photo.  
4.  Link your post using our linky (please link to the actual post on your blog and not just your blog).
5.  Please try to comment on the cards ahead of you and behind you in the linky.  Everyone loves comments!

The deadline to participate is 
Monday, January 22nd at 12:00 pm EST.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!