The Card Concept: August 2020

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

The Card Concept #138d {Sunset at the Shore}- There's Still Time!

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

We would love to have you join us!

You have until Monday, August 31st at noon (EDT) to
link up your card to our gallery!

Click HERE to join us!

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

The Card Concept #138d {Sunset at the Shore}

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.

We normally take a break for the summer, but this year we decided to keep the challenges going all summer long!  The summer has flown by and this is our last summer challenge before our new Fall/Winter Session in September!

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 beach and shells
to create this Clean and Layered card.

Lesley Croghan

Lesley will not be joining us for our final summer challenge since
she is a school teacher and has been preparing for
the upcoming school year. With the COVID-19 pandemic, you can
imagine all of the preparation (not to mention the stress)-
we all wish you a safe and healthy school year, Lesley!
Thanks again for your inspiration and being part of
our Summer Design Team!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors as well as the
entire scene to create a fairly clean Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele will be taking this challenge off and will be
joining us in September for our Fall/Winter 2020 session-
thanks again Michele for being part of our Summer Design Team!

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: The seashells on the sandy beach, and
the warm summer sunset inspired my Mixed Media card.

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: The beautiful sunset and
peaceful setting inspired my
Clean and Layered/Mixed Media card.

Anita Trippi

Anita's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors of the sunset
and lovely shells in the stunning inspiration photo
for my Clean and Layered card.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors and
the beach scene for my Clean and Layered 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 31st at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, September 2nd.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

Winners #138c {Dog Days of Summer}

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

Wow, what a fabulous gallery! So many cute cards, it was almost impossible to pick our favorites this week- each card is a winner for sure!

Since we had such a difficult time narrowing down the favorites to only four, we decided to pick three Main Winners and three Honorable Mentions!

Our Main Winners....

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

Marlena M

Annie A.

Darnell

And our three Honorable Mentions ...

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

Robyn Rasset

Janet Swanlady

Jen W

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 final Summer challenge

(before our Fall/Winter session with our full Design Team)-

check back in an hour for all of the details!

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

The Card Concept #138c {Dog Days of Summer}- There's Still Time!

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

We would love to have you join us!

You have until Monday, August 17th at noon (EDT) to
link up your card to our gallery!

Click HERE to join us!

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

The Card Concept #138c {Dog Days of Summer}

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!

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?

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 adorable doggie

to create this fun Clean and Layered card.

Lesley Croghan

Lesley's Inspiration: I was inspired by the dog theme

for my Clean and Layered card!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the cute dog with the
fun sunglasses as well as the hot red colors of
summer for my Clean and Layered card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: The stylish doggie in the red glasses

was my inspiration for this Clean and Layered card

featuring my sophisticated pup on a Vespa!

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: That precious pup

amidst all those colors inspired my

Clean and Layered card.

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: My Clean and Graphic card was inspired

by the fun summer vibe of the inspiration photo

as well as the colours.

Anita Trippi

Anita's Inspiration: A very literal take on the inspiration

photo- he was so cute - a dog with sunglasses for

2 Clean and Layered cards.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the cute dog and

the colors for my Clean and Simple 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, August 17th at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, August 19th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

Winners #138b Christmas In July

Happy Wednesday! Julie, here with the winners and honorable mentions for our #138b {Christmas In July} challenge!

What a wonderful gallery!! We were so excited to see how many of you were able to participate and the way you were inspired by our challenge!

It is always a tough time for our Design Team to choose our Main Winner and Honorable Mentions, and since we had so many entries, we have two winners along with our three Honorable Mentions..

Our Main Winners ...

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