The Card Concept #138b {Christmas in July}- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to play along 
with us for the #138b {Christmas in July} Challenge!!! 

We would love to have you join us!

You have until Monday, August 3rd at noon (EST) to
link up your card to our gallery!  

Click HERE to join us!

The Card Concept #138b {Christmas in July}

Welcome to The Card Concept-
Summer Edition!  

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.  

As we mentioned at the beginning of our last challenge, we normally take a break for the summer, but this year we are going to keep the challenges going all summer long! 

Please check out this post introducing our Summer Design Team, and don't worry, the rest of our fabulous Design Team will be back with us in September for our Fall Session :-)

Now, on to our challenge inspiration photo- just a reminder, our 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, let us know what inspired you from the photo, what style and/or styles you chose and don't forget to display our inspiration photo and link back to our challenge :-)

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!

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 our Design Team's inspiration: 

Esther Asbury

Esther's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the colors 
and nautical Christmas theme to create
 this Clean and Layered card.

Lesley Croghan

Lesley's Inspiration: I love this inspiration photo! I was 
immediately drawn to the pinks, reds and blues. I also
 loved the vintage feel of the tree and accessories for my 
Classy and Elegant/ Clean and Layered cards!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the blues, pinks along 
with the vintage feel to create a Classy and Elegant/ 
Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I was inspired by the pine tree, 
the tiny starfish and the splashes of red for my 
Clean and Layered Christmas at the beach!

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: The beautiful and bright 
Christmas  tree inspired my graphic 
Clean and Layered card.

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: I just love the fun colours of this 
Christmas scene, and drew my inspiration from that 
and the striped pillow for my Clean and Simple card. 

Anita Trippi

Anita's Inspiration: The wonderful colors of turquoise, 
red and pink along with the sea imagery 
inspired my Clean & Layered card!

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors, the 
ornaments, and the beach elements for my 
Clean and graphic styled shaker 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!

FYI- We have noticed that recently a few of our entrants are not following our rules, especially Rule #3 and  Rule #4 (please see above).  

The deadline to participate is 

Monday, August 3rd at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, August 5th. 

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

Winners #138a {Tropical Treats}

Happy Wednesday!  Julie, here with the winners and honorable mentions for our #138a {Tropical Treats} challenge!

What a gorgeous gallery!! We were so excited to see how you were inspired by our challenge- you are all so talented!

It is always a tough time for our Design Team to choose our Main Winner and Honorable Mentions, but we were finally able to narrow it down to....

Our Main Winner ...

Tenia Nelson

     And our three Honorable Mentions ...

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


Hannelie

SmilynStef

Allisa

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 first Summer challenge that 
will be posted in one hour!

The Card Concept #138a {Tropical Treats}- It's Not Too Late!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to play along 
with us for the #138a {Tropical Treats} Challenge!!! 

We would love to have you join us!

You have until Monday, July 20th at noon (EST) to
link up your card to our gallery!  

Click HERE to join us!

The Card Concept #138a {Tropical Treats}

Welcome to The Card Concept-
Summer Edition!  

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.  

Normally, we take a break for the summer but this year we are going to have challenges all summer long with our Summer Design Team (see our post here introducing the team).  
The rest of our Design Team will be back in September for our Fall Session :-)

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, let us know what inspired you from the photo, what style and/or styles you chose and don't forget to display our inspiration photo and link back to our challenge :-)

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!

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 our Design Team's inspiration: 

Esther Asbury

Esther's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the watermelon 
jello cups to create this Mixed Media shape card.

Lesley Croghan

Lesley's Inspiration: I was inspired by the party theme,
 the black/white cake and the awesome colours for 
my Clean and Layered/Classy and Elegant card!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the bright colors, 
the tropical floral along with the black and white striped 
cake to create a simple Mixed Media/Classy and Elegant card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I was inspired by the bright tropical 
colors, the palms, and that flamingo in my 
Clean and Layered card!

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: Tropical vibes inspired my 
Clean and Layered card.

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: The tropical foliage, the pops of 
black and white, and the flamingo all inspired 
my Clean and Layered card!

Anita Trippi

Anita's Inspiration: The tropical vibe and colors 
from the inspiration photo for a 
Clean and Layered card.


Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the 
tropical theme and patterns for my 
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!

FYI- We have noticed that recently a few of our entrants are not following our rules, especially Rule #3 and  Rule #4 (please see above).  

The deadline to participate is 

Monday, July 20th at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, July 22nd. 

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

Winners #138 {Summer Fun}

Happy Wednesday!  Julie, here with the winners and honorable mentions for our #138 {Summer Fun} challenge!  

Wow, what another great gallery!! We were so excited to see how all of you were inspired by our challenge!

It is always a tough time for our Design Team to choose our Main Winner and Honorable Mentions, but we were finally able to narrow it down to....

Our Main Winner ...

Stephanie L.

     And our three Honorable Mentions ...

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


Marybeth Lopez

Dana Kirby

Lee Ann Barrett

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 first Summer challenge that 
will be posted in one hour!

The Card Concept- Introducing Our Summer Team!

Welcome to The Card Concept!  

We are so excited to announce that we will be continuing our bi-weekly challenge with a few of our Designers for the summer- woohoo!!

We normally take a break from our challenges at the end of June to give our Design Team the summer off, but this year, several of our Designers wanted to keep the fun going all summer long!  

With the pandemic and so many of us still staying at home, we hope that you will be inspired to create a card based on our challenges and join us!

Here is a group shot our our Summer Design Team and 

we have a short bio for each of our designers below....

Esther Asbury
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!

Lesley Croghan

Hi! My name is Lesley and I live in Canada with my family. I’ve been crafting since 2007 and began blogging in 2009. I love to watercolour and I tend to create more clean and layered cards. I love playing with paper and ink!

 Julie Gearinger

Hi Everyone!  I’m Julie- I live in Maryland with my wonderful husband of 37+ 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 have traded winter snow for some year-long sandy beaches here on Florida's Atlantic coast! My husband and I, along with our feline fur babies have found a new home here in tropical Florida where we love the beautiful beaches and the year-round golf! 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 stamping along with all of you!

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!

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.

Anita Trippi
Hi crafting friends! My name is Anita and I am so excited to be part of The Card Concept team. I am originally from Buffalo, NY but have lived for the last 11 years in Durham, North Carolina. I have been married to my best friend for 44 years, We have 3 daughters and 2 grandchildren. Through the years I have been a Decorative Painter and quilter. That love of color translates now into card making! I enjoy mixed media with a somewhat clean and simple style. Let's see what we can create together!

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 are so excited to get started with our summer session!  

Please stop back this Wednesday, July 8th at 8 am EDT to check out our Design Team cards along with our first summer inspiration photo challenge!