The Card Concept #103 {Holiday Treats}

Welcome to The Card Concept! Every two weeks we post our inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us by creating 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 designers 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's inspiration: 

Tangii Crain

Tangii's Inspiration: I LOVE the different shades of the 
red & green, looks a little less "traditional".  I focused
 on these shades for my Clean and Layered card.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the festive colors
 and cupcakes to create a Shabby Chic/Mixed Media
 birthday card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I really felt inspired by the
 idea of sweet holiday treats and the traditional 
holiday colors for my Freestyle Collage card!


Kim Lackenbach

Kim's Inspiration:  I was inspired to stamp multiple cupcakes 
and add candy along with holly embellishments like the inspiration 
photo for my Clean and Layered card. 

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: Those sweet cupcakes in holiday colors 
inspired by Clean and Layered card!

Maureen Plut

Maureen's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered card was 
inspired by pops of red and green on a
 pure white background.

Susan Powell

Susan's Inspiration: The watercolored cupcake was inspired 
by the cupcakes in the photo and is the focus 
of my Clean and Layered card.

Angel Rivera

Angel's taking a break for this challenge- 
please stop by her blog to say "hi"!

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the red and green

 colors and the delicious cupcakes for my 
Clean & Layered card!

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: My Clean & Simple card was inspired by 
the watercolor look of the cupcakes, and the classic Christmas 
red and green colours. 

Pam Staples

Pam's Inspiration:   I was inspired by the cupcake in the
 bottom left corner that looks like a Christmas Tree 
along with the holly for this 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!

The deadline to participate is 

Monday, December 10th at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Tuesday, December 11th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery! 

Winners- #102 {Homestyle Holiday}

Happy Wednesday!  Julie, here with the winner and honorable mentions for our  #102 {Homestyle Holiday} challenge!  

What a gorgeous gallery- all of your cards were spectacular and it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to narrow down the winners!

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

Our main Challenge Winner was chosen by the entire team and 

this week's winner is...

Janet Swanlady

Dana Kirby

Sue

Katie Brooks

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 to all who played along with us! 
We will be posting our new challenge in an hour and 
hope to see your card in our gallery!

The Card Concept #102 {Homestyle Holiday}- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to join us for 
The Card Concept #102 {Homestyle Holiday} Challenge!!! 

We would love to have you join us with your card design
 for our gallery!!

You have until Monday, November 26th at noon (EDT) to 

link up your card!  Click HERE to join us

The Card Concept #102 {Homestyle Holiday}

Welcome to The Card Concept! Every two weeks we post our inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us by creating 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 designers 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's inspiration: 

Tangii Crain

Tangii's Inspiration: I love the rich, warm colors in the 

inspiration photo, they inspired my Clean and Layered card.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the homespun feeling 
as well as the reds, green along with the black plaid in the pillow 

to create a somewhat Shabby Chic /Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I love the car with the tree on top, 
under a starry sky. That always feels like home to me 
and inspired my Mixed Media shaker card.


Kim Lackenbach

Kim's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the rustic gingham
 pattern on the pillow along with the tree to
 create a Clean and Layered card!

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: All the warmth of a wintry Christmas 
inspired my homespun, layered and Mixed Media card.

Maureen Plut

Maureen's Inspiration: My Shabby Chic card was inspired by
 the bokeh lights, the branches as well 
as the red and gold accents.

Susan Powell

Susan's Inspiration: I was inspired by the pillow 
and the greenery to make my Clean and Simple card.

Angel Rivera

Angel's Inspiration: I loved the contrast of the window and 
white walls, which helps make the decorated tree "pop" 
and inspired my Clean and Graphic card!

Mackie Robertson
Mackie is taking a break from the Design Team for the month of November 

to celebrate a wedding in her family! She will be back in December,
 and in the meantime, please stop by her blog and say hi!!

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: The traditional colour scheme, and the 
classic Christmas feel to the picture inspired my 
Classy & Elegant/Clean & Layered card.  

Pam Staples

Pam is on vacation for this challenge. 
 If you have a chance, stop by her blog and say "hi"!

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, November 26th at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Tuesday, November 27th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery! 

Winners- #101 Rustic Fall

Happy Wednesday!  Julie, here with the winner and honorable mentions for our  #101 {Rustic Fall} challenge!  

Wow, as always, we had so many gorgeous entries to choose from in our gallery!!  

It is becoming increasingly difficult for us to narrow down the winners to just four, in fact, this time due to a tie, we have a total of five winners!!

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

Our main Challenge Winner was chosen by the entire team and 

this week's winner is...

Ilse Stouten

Rosemary D.

Claire A.

Lisa Blastick

Lynda Pleckan

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 to all who played along with us! 
We will be posting our new challenge in an hour and 
hope to see your card in our gallery!

The Card Concept #101 {Rustic Fall}- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to join us for 
The Card Concept #101 {Rustic Fall} Challenge!!! 

We would love to have you join us with your card design
 for our gallery!!

You have until Monday, November 12th at noon (EDT) to 

link up your card!  Click HERE to join us!