The Card Concept #131 {Woodland Nursery}

Welcome to The Card Concept!  

For those of you who are new to our challenge, 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 the deer and 
wood to create this Classy and Elegant/ 
Clean and Layered card.

Tangii Crain

Tangii is taking a break and will join us 
for the next challenge!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the cute animals, 

wood and the nursery theme to create a 

Mixed Media/ Clean and Layered card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I LOVE these adorable little animals, 
the tiny blue bird, and the woodland colors, 
and included them in my Clean and Layered card.

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the sweet animals 
and the four square layout for my Classy and Elegant/ 
Clean and Layered card!



LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne's Inspiration: I was inspired by all those 
adorable woodland animals for my Clean and Layered 
card this week!

Angel Rivera

Angel's Inspiration: I was inspired by the cute animals 
and the little bit of blue for my Clean and Simple card.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: The animals were the inspiration 
for my Clean and Layered Style card.

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered card was 
inspired by the animals, spring theme and the layout!

Anita Trippi

Anita's Inspiration: The cute critters and four window 
layout inspired my Clean and Layered card.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the woodland 
animals and the wood background to create a 
Clean and Layered styled card.

The Card Concept Rules:

1.  Use the challenge inspiration photo to create a card- no back linking.

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, March 30th at 12:00 pm EST.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, April 1st.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!