The Card Concept #120 {Cozy Cottage}

Welcome to The Card Concept! 

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

We are looking forward to seeing what inspires you-
will it be the colors, the overall theme, the items or something else?  
Choose a design or combine styles, create a card and come play along!

At the end of the challenge, our Design Team will choose one Main Winner and at least three Honorable Mentions plus in addition to announcing the winners here on our challenge blog, we will be also be posting their cards on 
our Facebook page as well as our new Pinterest board.  

Again, as we mentioned above, 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!

You will notice that 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 for 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!

Again, in case you missed the link above, the styles are explained HERE.

Now for the design team's inspiration: 

Tangii Crain

Tangii's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors and 
patterns of the photo for my Mixed Media card!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors
as well as all of the patterns and textures 
to create a Shabby and Vintage/Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I love the color palette in the 
photo, crisp blues and a touch of yellow in a country 
cottage kitchen. I used them to create a 
Clean and Layered floral arrangement.

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: I was inspired by the warmth
 and cozy layers of the nook to create a 
Classy and Elegant/Freestyle Collage card!

Maureen Plut

Maureen's Inspiration: The blue and yellow palette 
inspired my back to school Clean and Layered card.

Susan Powell

Susan's Inspiration: I was inspired by all the
blue and white to make my 
Clean and Simple/Graphic card.

Angel Rivera

Angel's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the lovely blue 
and white combo with pops of yellow for my fairly 
Clean and Simple card.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the 
pretty blues and white to create my 
Classy & Elegant style gatefold card.

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: The curtains, florals 
and gorgeous shades of buttery yellow 
inspired my Classy & Elegant card. 

Pam Staples 
Pam is taking a break for this challenge- 
stop by her blog to say "hi"!

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration:  The striped blue and toile 
patterns with a pop of yellow flowers inspired 
my Clean and Layered card.

The Card Concept Rules:

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, October 7th at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, October 9th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery! 

Winners #119 (Beautiful Butterflies}- Winners

Happy Wednesday!  Julie, here with the winner and honorable mentions for our #119 {Beautiful Butterflies} challenge!  

We were so excited to see all of your entries and 
what wonderful talent in our gallery!  

We have mentioned it before, but you make it so difficult for our DT to only choose only four winners, so this time, we chose five!!

This year we will be highlighting our winners and honorable mentions on our Facebook page as well as on our Pinterest board.  

Our main Challenge Winner was chosen by the entire team and 

this week's winner is...

LeAnne

And our four Honorable Mentions ...

...Listed in order that they appeared in the gallery...

Hannelie

Karen Finkle

Robyn Oliver

Amanda Mertz

Congratulations to all of the our winners!!

Please be sure to click on the winner's names 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 hope you will join us in our new challenge 
to be posted in one hour!

The Card Concept #119 {Beautiful Butterflies}- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to join us for our  
#119 {Beautiful Butterflies} Challenge!!! 

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

You have until Monday, September 23rd at noon (EDT) to 

link up your card!  Click HERE to join us!

The Card Concept #119 {Beautiful Butterflies}

Welcome back to The Card Concept! We are so thrilled to be back designing along with all of you!

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

Our Design Team will choose one Main Winner and at least three Honorable Mentions for each challenge.  

A new change this year is that in addition to posting the winners on our challenge blog, we will be also be posting the winners cards on 
our Facebook page as well as our new Pinterest board.  

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

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the beautiful 
butterflies and colors to create 
a simple Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I was inspired by the beautiful 
watercolor look of the butterflies for my 
easy breezy Clean and Simple/Mixed Media card!

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration:  Butterflies! I decided to 
create a rather Clean and Elegant 
card with a bit of layering.

Maureen Plut

Maureen's Inspiration: My vintage layered card was 
inspired by the gorgeous butterflies and colours.

Susan Powell

Susan's Inspiration: My Clean and Simple card was
 inspired by the butterflies and the colors.

Angel Rivera

Angel's Inspiration: I was inspired by the pop of color 
from the butterflies on a neutral background for 
my Clean And Simple card.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the 
pretty colors and butterflies to make 
my Clean & Elegant style card.

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: The layout of the butterflies are 
what inspired me today for my Clean & Layered card. 

Pam Staples 
Pam's taking a break for this challenge- 
if you have the time, stop by her blog to say "hi"!

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the textures, 
colors, and butterflies to create a Vintage style 
Clean and Elegant 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, September 23rd at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, September 25th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery! 

Happy September and Welcome to our 2019-2020 Design Team!

Welcome back to The Card Concept!  We hope all of you had a great summer and we are so excited to be back with our bi-weekly challenges!

We will be resuming our challenges next week on

Wednesday, September 11th  at 8 am EDT, but in the meantime, 

 we wanted introduce you to our wonderful 2019-2020 Design Team!

Tangii Crain

Hello, my name is Tangii and I love Latte's and makin' pretty things!  I love stamping/paper crafting, coloring, quilting and decorating my home.  I live in my dream home in Southern Nevada with my amazing Hubby, my Favorite child (our blonde lab, Huck) and a sprinkling of my kiddos, lol (one lives with us full time, one is frequently away at College and one is most frequently here though her home is up the road, lol).  One of my newest loves is traveling with my Hubby, a hobby we've taken up now that the kiddo's are "grown"... and I #LoveThisLife

 Julie Gearinger

Hi Everyone!  I’m Julie- I live in Maryland with my wonderful husband of 36+ years and our beautiful "fur-baby", Victoria.  I have been artistic all of my life and love creating cards, sewing, painting and recently, vintage junk journals!  Since I love to experiment, my style tends to be a bit eclectic. Hopefully I will inspire you to create a card and join us!

 Michele K. Henderson

Hi! My name is Michele. I am a northern transplant to a sweet Southern town here in the deep South. My husband and I, along with our four feline fur babies live in steamy Alabama where we love Southern style barbecue and Crimson Tide football! I've been artsy all my life but started card making a few years ago and fell in love with this wonderful crafting community. I love working with layers of paper and color and am thrilled to be part of The Card Concept Challenge Design Team!

Nancy Penir

Hi! I'm Nancy Penir, and I'm overjoyed to be part of my favorite challenges, The Card Concept! Married, mom of 5, and grandmother of 11 darlings; 6 boys, 5 girls. I'd like to say my life's slowed down with an empty nest, but I've filled it with crafting! I love making cards, sewing, keeping up the garden, (we live on 2 1/2 acres), raising chickens, and watching it all grow! I've found the most wonderful community of talent and kindness through all of you. Nurturing our connection is my passion! Style? Making layers and patterns all work on a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" canvas!

Maureen Plut

 I am a St. Patrick's day baby from Beautiful British Columbia, Canada with a passion for card making. When I'm not in the studio, I'm a Grade One elementary teacher, happy wife to Tony, proud mom to Jake, and loving Grandmoe to Ashlynn and Beckham.  I am honoured to be part of The Card Concept as a Shabby Chic designer and design primarily in a Shabby Chic style!

Susan Powell

Hi there! My name is Susan. I live in a small town in Beautiful British Columbia, Canada with my husband of 25+ years and one of our daughters (who is getting ready to go off to University). Our other daughter left a few years ago and is almost finished her schooling. There aren't any craft stores where I live but thankfully there's the internet or I'd go crazy. My husband and my kids would tell you that's not a long trip - haha. By day I'm an Education Assistant in the town high school (we only have one) and by night I'm a stamper. I love all styles of cardmaking but usually find myself gravitating towards the CAS style. 

Angel Rivera

Hi all!  My name is Angel and I am from Louisiana but live just north of San Antonio, TX with my hubby of over 22 years and the two youngest of our three boys (19, 16, and 13). I started out as a scrapbooker way back in 1998 (decorative-edged scissors, anyone??), then slowly moved over to card making about 11 years ago.  I feel my style is mostly Clean And Simple (CAS) but every now and then I get a bit fancier ;)  I am thrilled to be part of The Card Concept Design Team!

Mackie Robertson

Hello! My name is Mackie Robertson! I am so excited to be part of  The Card Concept Challenge team!! Here is a little background about me. I have a very understanding husband, a grown son, a dog and cat. I am a retired Dental Hygienist, but I still work in my dental office as the dental hygiene practice manager. I went to my first  Stampin' Up party about 10 years ago and I have been inky ever since! I love ALL styles of stamping...from CAS to Mixed Media. If I'm not in my craft room creating something, then I am on Pinterest or Blogland looking at other's creations for inspiration! I am currently on the design team for Paper Sweeties.  I just love it!  I started my blog to share my creations, and  to hopefully inspire others to join this wonderful art form! Happy Stamping!

Marcie Sharp

 I'm a fun-loving, dance party enthusiast living in rural Ontario that fills my time with creativity! My two children keep me busy with their interests and my husband and I enjoy geocaching with them. I'm an avid reader and lead the book club at our local library. My cardmaking style adapts to whatever mood I'm in. I range from feeling comfortable creating clean, bold designs with pops of colour and sparkle, to lots of layers and fussier designs. I enjoy creating felt flower creations and spray-painting and adding glitter to anything in our house the family will allow.

 Pam Staples

Hi, my name is Pam... I'm SunnyGirlScraps! A MN girl living in Smithfield, NC with my husband, Mike. Our son, Caleb, is 8 1/2 years old.  We have 2 Golden Retrievers & a senior kitty. I'm a 2-time cancer survivor! Living life is my passion... being a mom, creating & traveling. I love a fun summer road trip to MN with Caleb to spend time at the lake. I started Scrapbooking over 25 years ago then discovered Stampin' Up! and I've been making cards since 2009.  I'm also on the DT for Paper Craft Crew Challenges and participate in numerous creative blog hops. So excited to be here! 

Betty Wright

Hello, I am Betty. I am thrilled to design for The Card Concept Challenge. Inspiration Challenges are my favorite.  I live in North Carolina with my husband, Greg, and our two cats. I am a high school English teacher. I have two children. My daughter Erica is a nurse, and my son Dawson is in college. I feel I have always done some sort of crafting since I was a kid. However, I really started paper crafting when I was a stay at home mom. I started scrapbooking our memories which led to cardmaking. 

We hope that all of you will stop back next week 
on Wed., September 11th at 8 am EDT 
to join us with our new challenge!!