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.
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.
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!
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"!
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!
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
big fall pumpkin, and included them in
my Clean and Layered design.
Nancy's Inspiration: The richness of the holiday
table and colors inspired my layered
Classy and Elegant card.
flowers and the colors to make
my Clean and Layered card.
Mackie Robertson
Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the
beautiful, fall colors to create my
Clean & Layered style card.
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.
that kept everything fresh looking were what inspired
my Clean and Layered/Classy and Elegant card.
Pam Staples
If you have a chance, stop by her blog to say "hi"!
Betty Wright
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.
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.
Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, November 20th.
We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!
Fabulous inspiration and challenge, thanks! xoxo
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