The Card Concept #118 {Cacti Clusters}

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. 

This will be our final challenge for this spring/summer season- 
we will be back in the beginning of September with all new challenges!! 

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 was inspired by the greens & purples
 with just a hint of coral/pink for my Clean and Simple card!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the succulents, colors and 
texture to create a Classy and Elegant /Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I was so inspired by the beautiful colors 
and shapes of the succulents that I used them 
in my Clean and Layered desert cacti card!

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: I'm in love with all succulents, 
so that was my focus... Classy and Elegant!

Maureen Plut

Maureen's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered card was 

inspired by the colours and natural elements.

Susan Powell

Susan's Inspiration: My Clean and Simple card was 

inspired by the woodgrain background and

 the succulents.

Angel Rivera

Angel will be taking a break for this challenge- 
if you have time, stop by her blog to say "hi"!

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the beautiful succulents 
to create my Clean & Layered style card.

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: The potted succulents and

 their gorgeous  colours are what inspired my 

Clean and Simple card this week!

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the title 

"cacti clusters" and the colors in the inspiration photo.  
I created a Clean and Layered styled card.

1.  Use the challenge inspiration photo 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, July 8th at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, July 10th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!