The Card Concept HOL21 {Christmas Tree, Holiday Decorations or Fav 2021 Card} - There's Still Time!

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

                      #HOL21 {Christmas Tree, Holiday Decorations or Fav 2021 Card} Challenge!

We would love to have you join us! Our gallery link will be open until  

Monday, January 3rd at noon (EST)!  

Click HERE to play along!

The Card Concept HOL21 {Christmas Tree, Holiday Decorations or Fav 2021 Card } Challenge

                      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 Anita Trippi.   

She will be stepping down from the Design Team to due to her work schedule as well as to spend more time with her family.

We will miss Anita greatly, but know that she will continue creating beautiful cards!  We are looking forward to seeing her play along with our challenges in the future! 

Best wishes to you and your family, Anita!

Now, on to our HOL21 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 2021 and the gallery link will remain open until Monday, January 3rd!

Now for the Design Team's favorite card from 2021 and/or Christmas tree/holiday decorations:

Esther Asbury

Esther's Inspiration:  This Mixed Media Blooming Anemone

 card is one of several favorites that I created in 2021.

Kerry Bunting

Kerry's Inspiration:   My favourite holiday card from 

this year was this Mixed Media creation.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: This is one of my favorite cards from this year- 

I love using my older stamps and stash to create

 Mixed Media cards!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's tree is on the way!

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration: I used my favorite Clean and 

Layered holiday card that I made this season. 

 I just love these images.

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: I think this is a favorite of all the 

cards I made this year. Made with The Greetery's Hour Glass 

and Winterberry sets. 

 

LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne's Inspiration: I loved making this front
door card; it was fun to color in the flowers and that 

little watering can complemented the bricks 

in the background!  Fun for spring!

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I loved this Christmas card because 

I love red & black! It makes such a bold statement!

Kim Singdahlsen

Kim's Inspiration: I picked this "hugs" card as my 

favorite of the year because I love the cheerful colors - 

and I know everybody needs hugs after the last few years.

Anita Trippi

Anita's Inspiration: This was one of my favorite cards 

this year - I love the colors and overall design!

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: This is one of my top favorite cards 

of the year. This card has a Vintage/Mixed Media style using 

the Winter Warmth inspiration theme.  

 

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 will be  

Monday, January 3rd at 12:00 pm EST.

We will return with our new Design Team for 2022 on January 4th and our regular inspiration challenge on January 5th, 2022!  

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Winners #165 {Peace on Earth}

  Happy Wednesday!  Julie, here with the Winners and Honorable Mentions for our

#165 {Peace on Earth} Challenge!

Again, wow, what a gorgeous gallery!  We were delighted to see that so many of you were able to play along during this busy holiday season! 

As always, all of your beautiful entries make it extremely difficult for our Design Team to choose winners!  The votes are in and we have a tie for  our Main Winner, they are...

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

KarrenJ

ElizStewart

     And our Honorable Mentions ...

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

Tracy

Allisa Steinlicht

Stamps-n-Lingers

                             

Congratulations to all of our winners!!

We hope that you will take the time to visit each of the Winner/HM 

blogs to see how they created their cards, and, if you have time, leave a comment and show 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 final challenge for 2021!

The Card Concept #165 {Peace on Earth}- There's Still Time!

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

                      #165 {Peace on Earth} Challenge!

We would love to have you join us! Our gallery link will be open until  

Monday, December 13th at noon (EST)!  

Click HERE to play along!

The Card Concept #165 {Peace on Earth}

      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, 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 :-)

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Since we are so close to Christmas, for this challenge we are also allowing tags along with cards to be added to our gallery! 

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:  My Mixed Media tag was inspired 

by the pine branches and bright pops of red.

Kerry Bunting

Kerry's Inspiration:  My ornament-shaped Mixed Media 

card was inspired by the candles, tartan ribbon, foliage 

and 'Peace' feature.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the "Peace on Earth" 

theme as well as the gold and silver for my 

Classy and Elegant style card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele is taking a break and will be back soon!

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the gorgeous

 wreath in the photo for my Clean and Simple card.

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: The gorgeous wreath inspired 

my Clean and Layered card.

 

LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne's Inspiration: I was inspired by the candles, 

the wreath and greenery, and the plaid ribbon 

to create my Clean and Layered card.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration:  My Clean & Layered style card 

was inspired by the green and red colors 

in that beautiful wreath.

Kim Singdahlsen

Kim's Inspiration:My Clean and Layered card was 

inspired by the gorgeous wreath with the big bow

 and the simple "peace" below it.

Anita Trippi

Anita's Inspiration: The wreath, wood wall and 

the colors inspired my Clean and Layered card.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the wreath and plaid

 pattern.  I created a Clean and Simple styled card.

 

The Card Concept Guidelines:

1.  Use the challenge inspiration photo to create a card or a tag (tags for this challenge only)- 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 the linky tool (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 gallery.  Everyone loves comments!

The deadline to participate will be  

Monday, December 13th at 12:00 pm EST.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

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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, direct link to our challenge site and, if possible, explain how you were inspired by our challenge.  Thanks again for playing along with us!

Winners #164 Rustic Holiday

  Happy Wednesday!  Julie, here with the Winners and Honorable Mentions for our

#164 {Rustic Holiday} Challenge!

Wow, what a fabulous gallery!  We were so delighted to see so many different takes on our inspiration challenge, and again, you have made it extremely difficult for our Design Team to choose winners!  The votes are in and our Main Winner is...

Verena Shapiro

     And our four Honorable Mentions ...

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

 Tracy

Libeeti Frenkel

Joanne James

Chrissie

                              

Congratulations to all of our winners!!

We hope that you will take the time to visit each of the Winner/HM 

blogs to see how they created their cards, and, if you have time, leave a comment and show 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 next challenge!