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.
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!
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.
to create this Clean and Layered card.
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!
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!
entire scene to create a fairly clean Mixed Media card!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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!
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