The Card Concept: December 2020

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

#HOL20 {Christmas Tree, Holiday Decorations or Fav 2020 Card} Challenge

Just a reminder that you still have a few days left to play along with us for the

#HOL20 {Christmas Tree, Holiday Decorations or Fav 2020 Card} Challenge!

We would love to have you join us!

You have until Monday, January 4th at noon (EDT) to
link up your card to our gallery!

Click HERE to play along!

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

The Card Concept #HOL20 {Christmas Tree, Holiday Decorations or Fav 2020 Card}

Welcome to The Card Concept!

For those of you who are new to our challenge, every two weeks we normally post an inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us by creating a card for our challenge gallery.

We will be giving our Design Team a well deserved break for the holidays, so we have an easy challenge for all of you for the next few weeks!

Before we give you the details for the next challenge, we would like to say farewell to Tangii Crain. She will be stepping down from the Design Team to spend more time with her family.

We will miss Tangii greatly, but know that she will continue creating beautiful cards- best wishes to you and your family, Tangii!

Also, we will be announcing two new Design Team members for 2021, so stay tuned!!

Now, on to our HOL20 Challenge!

For this challenge, we would like for you to share your favorite card that you created this year (any card that you designed) or a picture of your Christmas tree and/or holiday decorations.

This challenge will be our last one for 2020 and the gallery link will remain open until Monday, January 4th!

Now for the Design Team's favorite card from 2020 and/or Christmas tree/holiday decorations:

Esther Asbury

Esther's Inspiration: My Willow Tree nativity --

My favorite decoration since it reminds me of the

reason we celebrate this season!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: It is difficult for me to choose a favorite card

since I tend to spend hours creating each one, lol!

I had fun creating this Mixed Media card with a distress oxide

background technique and a bit of layering.

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: This is my favorite card of 2020!

It reminds me of our new home and life here in Florida,

where we've said goodbye to all the snow and ice. We're doing

a crabby happy dance as we celebrate the holidays, despite

the difficult year we've all had. Merry Christmas!

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: This Santa was one of several I

made a few years ago, and I look forward to placing him on

our piano in the family room. Complete with tree, toys

and presents, he's a focal point when you enter the room.

LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne's Inspiration: This was my favorite card from 2020...

I love watching the birds from my craft room window, so this

sweet little bird, combined with the soft colors of blue, yellow

and gray, made it one that I enjoyed creating! I would say

that it is Clean and Layered.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie is taking a break for this challenge and
wishes all of you Happy Holidays!

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: My Christmas tree this year is full
of love and decorated with family style ornaments! Lots of
fun ones from our childhood, handmade ones by our children,
pretty baubles gifted to us...I just love it.

Anita Trippi

Anita's Inspiration: This was my favorite card in 2020!
Bright, colorful slimline water colored card.
Happy Holidays to all!

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: This was my favorite card of 2020!

I love the dramatic black background with pops of

colorful flowers and touches of gold!

We look forward to seeing your entry in our gallery!

Since this challenge is just for fun, we will not be choosing a winner at the end of the challenge. We hope that you will join us as our Design Team members will be taking a break for the holidays. We will try to visit your blogs and leave comments, but if we are not able to do so, please know that we are thrilled to have you play along with us.

The deadline to participate is

Monday, January 4th at 12:00 pm EST.

We will return with our new Design Team for 2021 along with our regular inspiration challenge on January 6th, 2021!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Winners #145 {Festive Celebration}

Happy Wednesday! Julie, here with the winners and honorable mentions for our

#145 {Festive Celebration} Challenge!

Wow, what a fun and gorgeous gallery! We loved seeing all of your cards, and as we have mentioned many times before, each one of you could be winners!

Thank you so much for playing along with us!

Our Design Team has voted, and again, we had a few ties

so we have our Main Winner and Four Honorable Mentions....

Rosemary Dennis

And four Honorable Mentions ...

listed in order that they appeared in our gallery...

Johanna- LHC

Cornelia

Joanne James

MKCreate

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.

We will be back in an hour with our last challenge for 2020!

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

The Card Concept #145 {Festive Celebration}- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have a few days left to play along with us for the

#145 {Festive Celebration} Challenge!

We would love to have you join us!

You have until Monday, December 14th at noon (EST) to
link up your card to our gallery!

Click HERE to play along!

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

The Card Concept #145 {Festive Celebration}

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 th

e 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

candles to create this Clean and Layered card.

Tangii Crain

Tangii's taking a break for this challenge!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by all of the

black and gold patterns to create

a Classy and Elegant card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I was inspired by the diamond
shapes and the black candle holders to create
this Clean and Layered look.

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: The rich muted holiday colors

of black and white and gold inspired

my Clean and Layered card.

LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne's Inspiration: The rich black and gold elements

accented with cream were the inspiration for

my Classy and Elegant card this week.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the black and
gold to create my Mixed Media style card.

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered card was
inspired by the black and gold colours, the patterns
on the candles and the overall elegance of the photo.

Anita Trippi

Anita's Inspiration: The colors, designs and textures

of the inspiration photo for this Mixed Media card.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the damask pattern

and colors for my Clean and Layered styled card.

The Card Concept Guidelines:

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 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, December 14th at 12:00 pm EST.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, December 16th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

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FYI- We have noticed that recently a few of our entrants are not following our guidelines, especially #3 , #4 and #5(see above).

We have had to disqualify many entries lately and would love to be able to include all into our voting for Winner/HM!

If you would like to be included in our entries for possible Winner or Honorable Mention, please make sure you include our inspiration photo in your blog post, link to our challenge site and do not include any other inspiration challenges. Thanks again for playing along with us!

Winners- #144 {Holiday Home}

Happy Wednesday! Julie, here with the winners and honorable mentions for our

#144 {Holiday Home} Challenge!

Wow, what a fun and festive gallery! We loved seeing how all of you were inspired, and as we have mentioned many times before, each one of your cards could be winners!

Thank you so much for playing along with us!

Our Design Team has voted, and again, we had a few ties

so we have two Main Winners this time...

listed in order that they appeared in our gallery...

Allisa