The Card Concept #100 {Elegant Fall} & Special Celebration!

Welcome to The Card Concept's 100th Challenge! 

As you know, every two weeks we post our inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us by creating a card for our challenge gallery. 

We are so excited to celebrate our 100th challenge!  For an extra treat and to add to the celebration,  every Designer invited a special Guest Designer to create a card to give you more inspiration than ever!! 

Plus, isn't this photo just gorgeous?  Lesley, our Challenge Creator, has such a wonderful eye for beautiful inspiration photos, doesn't she?  We cannot wait to see what you create for our gallery :-)

We hope you will feel free to use any of the styles we have defined, or create a style of your own with a combination of styles when you design your card.  
We want you to have fun with our inspiration!

Our design team members and their guests will also be selecting a style (or possibly a 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: 

Tangii Crain

Tangii's Inspiration: For my Classy & Elegant card, 
I was inspired by the Gold accents and color palette!

Tangii's Guest Designer-

Amy Tsuruta

Amy was inspired by the pumpkins and gorgeous colors

 to create a fun Clean and Layered card!

Vicki Finger

Vicki's Inspiration:  I love touches of gold to bring 
elegance to any design so I used Gold Heat Embossing, 
Gold Shimmer Cardstock, and Gold Nuvo Drops 
for my Elegant and Layered card.

Vicki's Guest Designer-

Marybeth Lopez

Marybeth was inspired by the beautiful flowers and pumpkins 

to create a Clean and Simple/Classy and Elegant card! 

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the gorgeous roses
 along with the white pumpkins dipped in gold
 to create a Shabby Chic/Mixed Media card!

Julie's Guest Designer- 
Julee Tilman

Julee was inspired by the beautiful 
pumpkins, florals and wood grain imagery 
to create a Shabby Chic card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I was really inspired by the 
beautiful flowers and the shiny gold pumpkins
 for my Clean and Layered/Freestyle Collage card.

Michele's Guest Designer-
Jeanne Jachna

Jeanne was inspired by the elegance of the powder pink 
gold dipped pumpkins, delicate florals and crystal swirls 
shown on the inspiration photo to create a

Classy and Elegant/Freestyle Collage card.

Kim Lackenbach

Kim's Inspiration:  I was inspired by white and 
pink pumpkins and the gold accents for
 my artsy Clean and Layered card.

Kim's Guest Designer-

Danielle Vincent 

Danielle was inspired by the colors and pumpkins 
to create a Clean and Graphic card 
with lots of gold embossing.



Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: Those beautiful pink pumpkins 
in a floral setting, so elegant! I chose to 
create a layered elegant card.

Nancy's Guest Designer-
Marcia Hill

Marcia was inspired by the gorgeous pink pumpkins 
along with the wood pieces to create 
a Clean and Simple card!

Maureen Plut

Maureen's Inspiration:  My Clean and Layered card
 was inspired by the white and pink pumpkins 
and all the wood elements.

Maureen's Guest Designer- 
Cheryl Scrivens

Cheryl was inspired by the sweet vignette of pumpkins 

and colors and designed a Clean and Layered/

 Classy and Elegant card.

Susan Powell

Susan's Inspiration: The colors, the wood grain and 
of course, those gorgeous pumpkins inspired
 my Clean and Layered card.

Susan's Guest Designer-

Nanette Tracy

Nanette was inspired by the non-traditional pretty 

gold and pink color combination to create 

a Clean and Simple card. 

Angel Rivera

Angel's Inspiration: I was inspired by the wood tones and those 
pretty pink pumpkins with a touch of gold to 

create a Clean and Layered card.

Angel's Guest Designer-
Brianna Loeffelbein

Brianna was inspired by the pumpkins and colors to 
create a fun Clean and Layered card!

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the beautiful pinks
and golds for my Classy & Elegant style card! 

Mackie's Guest Designer-
Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Debbie's Clean and Layered card was inspired
 by the pretty pink pumpkins!

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered card was 
inspired by the gold-dipped pumpkins- 
both matte and sparkly! 

Marcie's Guest Designer-

Shona Chambers

Shona was inspired by all the pale pink colours, the gold 
on the pumpkins and all of the beautiful flowers for her
 Clean and Layered card. 

Pam Staples

Pam's Inspiration: My Clean & Layered with a somewhat 
Shabby Chic feel was inspired by the pale pink colors, 
floral and wood texture. 

Pam's Guest Designer-
Brynn Thornburgh

Brynn was inspired by the pumpkins along with the feminine 

combination of the pale pink colors and gold for 

her Shabby Chic/Elegant and Classy 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, October 29th at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Tuesday, October 30th.

We want to thank all of our special Guest Designers for their gorgeous cards and taking the time to celebrate with us!! 

We hope all of you will help us celebrate and look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!