The Card Concept #135 {Red, White and Blue}

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 flags to 
create this Clean and Simple patriotic card.

Tangii Crain

Tangii's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the Red, 
White & Blue color palette for my 
Clean and Simple card.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I love all things patriotic and 
was inspired by all of the flags and stars 
to create a Shabby and Vintage 
Memorial Day card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: America, America, the red, white, 
and blue! What could be more inspiring in this 
bold Clean and Graphic card!

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration:  Colors and stars inspired my
Clean and Layered shaker card.


LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne's Inspiration: I was inspired by the country theme
and colors for my Shabby Chic and Vintage card.

Angel Rivera

Angel's taking a break for this challenge!

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: The stars inspired my 
Clean and Simple style card.

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered card 
was inspired by the stripes and the celebratory theme!



Anita Trippi

Anita's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the Patriotic feel 
of the picture for my Clean and Layered style card.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the stars, stripes, 
and hearts 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, May 25th at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, May 27th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!