The Card Concept #124 {Ornate Ornaments}- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to play along 
with us for #124 {Ornate Ornaments} Challenge!!! 

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

You have until Monday, December 2nd at noon (EDT) to 

link up your card!  Click HERE to join us!

The Card Concept #124 {Ornate Ornaments}

Welcome to The Card Concept! 

Before we show you our challenge photo, we would like to welcome 
Esther Asbury to The Card Concept Design Team!  

Hello, my name is Esther and I live in the beautiful state of Virginia with my husband, daughter, and two spoiled rotten dogs. I've enjoyed many different hobbies over the years, but have recently narrowed my interest to mainly card-making/paper-crafts. I don't really have one definable style but instead enjoy trying new techniques and experimenting with different products. I hope my work will inspire you to be yourself and create beauty in your own unique way!

We are so excited to have Esther on the team and we know that you will be inspired by her amazing artwork!

Now, on to our new challenge!  As you know, 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.  

Just a reminder, an inspiration photo is exactly that- a starting point for inspiration. Will it be the colors, the overall theme, the texture, the actual items and/or something else that will inspire your card?  

Choose a design style (or combine styles), create a card, and in your blog post, in addition to letting us know what inspired you from the photo, please let us know what style and/or styles you chose.  

At the end of the challenge, our Design Team will choose one Main Winner and at least three Honorable Mentions.  We will announce the winners here on our challenge blog, as well as our Facebook page and 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!

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

Now for the design team's inspiration: 

Esther Asbury

Esther's Inspiration: I was inspired by both the ornaments and 

the teal color to create this Classy &  Elegant Christmas card.

Tangii Crain

Tangii's Inspiration: I used those yummy colors and ornaments 
as inspiration for my Clean and Layered card.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by all of the different shades 
of blue/green as well as the patterns on the ornaments to 
create a Classy and Elegant/ Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration:  I love the beautiful color combination 
and the snowflake star on the top ornament
 and was inspired to create this Clean and Layered card duo.

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: All those delightfully festive ornaments
 in aqua, shiny bright baubles inspired my blinged, 
classy & layered card.

Susan Powell

Susan's Inspiration: The beautiful shiny ornaments with all
of the shades of blue inspired my 
Clean and Simple Mixed Media card!

Angel Rivera

Angel's taking a break for this challenge!

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: All of the shiny baubles inspired 
my Classy & Elegant style Shaker card!

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: The beautiful colours and 
ornament theme is what inspired my 
Clean and Layered Mixed Media card !

Pam Staples

 Pam's taking a break for this challenge!


Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the metallic aqua 
and silver shaped ornaments with touches of snowflakes.
 I created a Clean and Simple Classy and Elegant styled 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) and please display our graphic (inspiration photo) in your blog post.  
5. We do not mind if you combine our challenge with others, but please do not combine ours with another inspiration challenge.   

6.  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 2nd at 12:00 pm EST.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, December 4th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery! 

Winner's #123 {Thanksgiving Table}

Happy Wednesday!  Julie, here with the winner and honorable mentions for our #123 {Thanksgiving Table} challenge!  

Wow, what a fabulous gallery!! We have mentioned it before, but truly every single entry could be a winner!! Our Design Team has such a difficult time narrowing it down to only four winners, so this week, again we have six!!

We had a tie for our main Challenge Winner ...

Lee Ann Barrett 

Anita Trippi 

     And our four Honorable Mentions ...

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

Diedre P.

Linda Callahan

Cat C.

Julia Aston

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" :-) 

Just a reminder, this year we will be highlighting our winners and honorable mentions on our Facebook page as well as on our Pinterest board.  

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 #123 {Thanksgiving Table)- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to play along 
with us for #123 {Thanksgiving Table} Challenge!!! 

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

You have until Monday, November 18th at noon (EDT) to 

link up your card!  Click HERE to join us!

The Card Concept #123 {Thanksgiving Table}

Welcome to The Card Concept! 

Before we show you our challenge photo, we would like to take a moment to say goodbye to Maureen Plut!  She is stepping down from the Design Team so she can spend more time with her family and we will miss her so!   

 It is quite a commitment to be on a Design Team and we have enjoyed seeing all of the beautiful cards and inspiration from Maureen over the past few years. 

Please join us in saying farewell to Maureen- we wish you all the best, Maureen!!

Now, on to our new challenge!  As you know, 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.  

Just a reminder, an inspiration photo is exactly that- a starting point for inspiration. Will it be the colors, the overall theme, the texture, the actual items and/or something else that will inspire your card?  

Choose a design style (or combine styles), create a card, and in your blog post, in addition to letting us know what inspired you from the photo, please let us know what style and/or styles you chose.  

At the end of the challenge, our Design Team will choose one Main Winner and at least three Honorable Mentions.  We will announce the winners here on our challenge blog, as well as our Facebook page and 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!

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

Now for the design team's inspiration: 

Tangii Crain

Tangii is taking a break this week! 
If you have a chance, stop by her blog to say "hi"!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the colors 
along with the black and white checked pillow 
in the background to create a somewhat
clean and layered Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration:  I love the fall colors and that 
big fall pumpkin, and included them in 
my Clean and Layered design.

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: The richness of the holiday 
table and colors inspired my layered 
Classy and Elegant card.

Susan Powell

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

Angel Rivera

Angel's Inspiration: I was inspired by the pop 
of colors for my Clean And Simple card!

Mackie Robertson

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

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: The bright flowers and white candles 
that kept everything fresh looking were what inspired
 my Clean and Layered/Classy and Elegant card. 

Pam Staples

 Pam is taking a break this week! 
If you have a chance, stop by her blog to say "hi"!

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the vases
 of flowers and the blue water glass to 
create a 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) and please display our graphic (inspiration photo) in your blog post.  
5. We do not mind if you combine our challenge with others, but please do not combine ours with another inspiration challenge.   

6.  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 18th at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, November 20th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery! 

Winners #122 {Bountiful Blessings}

Happy Wednesday!  Julie, here with the winner and honorable mentions for our #122 {Bountiful Blessings} challenge!  

Wow, what a spectacular gallery!! Every single entry could be a winner and we had a tough time narrowing it down to only four winners, so this week we have six!!

We had a tie for our main Challenge Winner ...

Cimbacreativefun 

Nancy Thomas 

     And our four Honorable Mentions ...

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

Dana Kirby

SD Pooja

Debbie Bonczek

Papercraft Goddess

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" :-) 

Just a reminder, this year we will be highlighting our winners and honorable mentions on our Facebook page as well as on our Pinterest board.  

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!