The Card Concept #177 {Make It Masculine}

             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 :-)

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 outdoor 

theme and dark colors to create this 

Clean and Layered card.

Kerry Bunting

Kerry's Inspiration:  The great outdoors inspired

 my 3D Clean and Layered card. 

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the wildlife images, 

the colors and the stitching to create a 

Vintage and Shabby/Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele is taking a break for this challenge!

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the 

colors from the photo for my 

Clean and Layered card.

Karen Letchworth

Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the

masculine outdoor theme when creating my

Clean and Layered style card.

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: Masculine vibes, colors 

and design elements all inspired my 

Clean and Layered card.

LeAnne Pugliese

LeAnne's Inspiration: I was inspired by the plaid 

backgrounds and the masculine theme to 

create my Clean and Layered card.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: The forest animals and 

colors inspired my Clean and Layered

 style card.

 

Kim Singdahlsen

Kim's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered card was inspired 

'by the theme and the colors, and also by the block 

layout with the various plaids.

 

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the warm tones 

and masculine inspiration.  I created a 

Mixed Media 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 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, June 20th 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!