The Card Concept #142 {Autumn Bounty}

                            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, 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 pumpkins 

to create this layered Mixed Media card.

Tangii Crain

Tangii's taking a break for this challenge!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors,

 pumpkins,  and overall theme to create a 

Classy and Elegant/ Shabby and Vintage card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I was inspired by the greens and 

oranges in the color palette, and the lush bucket of late 

autumn blooms for my Freestyle Collage card.

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration:  Layers and layers of rich fall 

colors and textures, inspired my layered 

Classy and Elegant/ Mixed Media card.

LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne's Inspiration: I was inspired by the larger pumpkin 

as well as the words on the bucket to create 

my Clean and Layered card!

Angel Rivera

Angel's card is on the way!

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the beautiful 

colors in the inspiration photo to create my
Clean & Layered style card.

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration:The gorgeous colours and overall 

theme of the inspiration this week inspired

 my Clean and Layered/Mixed Media card.

Anita Trippi

Anita's Inspiration:  The floral hydrangeas and soft

 muted colors were my inspiration for this Mixed Media card.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the 

leaves and rich fall colors 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 , #4 and #5(see above).  

The deadline to participate is 

Monday, November 2nd at 12:00 pm EST.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, November 4th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!