The Card Concept #96 {Golden Table}

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.  

So what will inspire you?  
The beautiful flowers, the gold tableware, the coral hues of the blossoms, the table marker or the woodgrain? Or, maybe something else caught your eye?

Create your card based on our inspiration photo and
 please share it with us in our 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: 

Vicki Finger

Vicki's Inspiration: I love the beautiful golden tones with 

the rich coral of the blooms on the table but I also wanted to 

keep the texture of the wood grain in the table for my 

Classy and Elegant/Clean and Layered card. 

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the coral colors of 
the blossoms, the gold silverware as well as the woodgrain 
to create a Classy and Elegant/Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the colors, the flowers, 
and the idea of a table set for a celebration in my 
Clean and Layered/Mixed Media card.

Kim Lackenbach

Kim's Inspiration- I was inspired by the gold sentiment, 
the beautiful blossoms and woodgrain to create a rustic 
Classy and Elegant card! 

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: I was inspired by the beautiful floral 
arrangement in corals with a hint of gold for my 
Classy and Elegant layered card!

Maureen Plut

Maureen's Inspiration:  My Clean and Layered card was 
inspired by the colours, the florals, the bits of gold 
and the wedding vibe!

Susan Powell

Susan's Inspiration: I was inspired by the woodgrain, the flowers 
and the gold to make my Clean and Layered card.

Angel Rivera

Angel's Inspiration: I was inspired by all of the gold and 
watercolored table marker with the large lettering for 
my Clean and Simple/Classy and Elegant card!

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the gold and pink colors 

for my Classy and Elegant style card.  

I love these colors together!!!

Marcie Sharp

 Marcie's Inspiration: The color scheme, the touches of gold 

and the scripty gold sentiment inspired me to make 
this Classy and Elegant wedding card! 

Pam Staples

Pam's Inspiration: I was inspired by the beautiful flowers 
as well as the colors to create a 
Clean and Layered 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!

FYI- This will be our last challenge before our summer break!  We will be back in September 
with a new season of The Card Concept :-)

The deadline to participate is 

Monday, July 9th at 12:00 pm EDT. 

We hope you can join us and we look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery! 

Winners- #95 {Owl Cherish Our Friendship}

Woohoo, Happy Wednesday!  Julie here with the winner and honorable mentions for our "Owl Cherish Our Friendship" challenge!  

We had such a fun gallery for this challenge!  Full of clever and beautiful creation and you have all made it so difficult to choose only four winners :-)

Thanks again for making our challenge so exciting for all of us- you are all winners for sure!! 

Our main Challenge Winner was chosen by the entire team and 

this week's winner is...

Lisa Mariann

Hannelie

Julie B.

The Grand Stampede

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 final challenge before our summer break- we look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

The Card Concept #95 {Owl Cherish Our Friendship}- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to join us for 
The Card Concept #95 {Owl Cherish Our Friendship} Challenge!!! 

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

You have until Monday, June 25th noon (EDT) to 

link up your card!  Click HERE to join us!

The Card Concept #95 {Owl Cherish Our Friendship}

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.  

Check out our fun inspiration photo for this challenge! What will inspire you?  The owls, patterns, colors, pillows or shapes?  We are looking forward to seeing what inspired you for your card :-)

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: 

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the cute owls 
as well as the bright colors for my Clean and Layered 
Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration:   I love the whimsical owls and 
added them to my cheerful Clean & Layered card!

Kim Lackenbach

Kim's Inspiration- I was inspired to use patterned paper
 to mimic the calico fabric look on my Clean and Layered card. 

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: The patterns and sweet owls inspired 
my layered with a bit of Mixed Media card!

Maureen Plut

Maureen's Inspiration:  My Clean and Layered card was inspired
 by the bold patterns and colours and a winged animal!

Susan Powell

Susan's Inspiration: I was inspired by the quilted pillows
 to make my Clean and Simple paper pieced owl graduation card.

Angel Rivera

Angel's Inspiration: I loved those cute owls peeking around 
and was drawn to the polka dots and the soft blue colors
for my Clean and Simple card!

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered pop-up card was

 inspired by the quilted owls in the photo!

Marcie Sharp

 Marcie's Inspiration: The owl's big eyes, and all the 
lovely patterned papers inspired me to make this 
friendship themed Clean & Layered card. 

Pam Staples

Pam's Inspiration: My Clean and Simple design by was
 inspired by a winged animal along with a bright color
 set against a white background.  

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, June 25th at 12:00 pm EDT.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery! 

Winners #94 {Inspiration on Wheels}

Happy Wednesday, Julie here with the winner and honorable mentions for our "Inspiration on Wheels" challenge!  

We had such a beautiful gallery!  Even with the busy season of graduations and end of the school year, many of you were able to join us and again, it is so difficult to choose only four winners!!

Thanks again for making our challenge so exciting for all of us- you are all winners for sure!! 

Our main Challenge Winner was chosen by the entire team and 

this week's winner is...

Heather H.

Kimberly W.

Stempelfrida

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!

The Card Concept #94 {Inspiration on Wheels}- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to join us for 
The Card Concept #94 {Inspiration on Wheels} Challenge!!! 

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

You have until Monday, June 11th noon (EDT) to 

link up your card!  Click HERE to join us!