Wednesday, April 26, 2023

The Card Concept #194 {Spring Bouquet}

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's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered double-flap 
fun fold card was inspired by the nests and flowers.


Kerry's Inspiration: My Mixed Media card was 
inspired by the candle, flowers and colour palette.


Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the soft pinks, blues 
as well as the gorgeous flowers and touches of silver for 
my Shabby and Vintage Mixed Media card!


Michele's Inspiration: I loved the soft pastel and 
the delicate blossoms and used them in my 
sweet Clean and Simple card.


Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the 
flowers in the center of the table and the 
 pastel colors for my Clean and Simple card.


Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the
gorgeous colors and the elegant dinner
theme when creating my Shabby Chic/Vintage 
Freestyle Collage card.

Jenny's Inspiration: i was totally inspired
by the photo 
and the colours to 
create a Clean and Simple/ 
Mixed Media Card.


Nancy's Inspiration: The soft pastel colors inspired 
my Clean and Layered card.



Mackie's Inspiration: The soft colors and flowers 
inspired my Mixed Media card.

Betty is taking an extended break- 
she hopes to be back soon!



The deadline to participate will be  
Monday, May 8th at 12:00 pm EDT.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!
---------------------------------------------------------

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, and, if possible, explain how you were inspired by our challenge.  Also, please make sure that we are the only inspiration challenge and direct link to our challenge site.  
Thanks again for playing along with us!

Winners #193 {New Arrival} or {Busy Bee}

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

                                #193 {New Arrival} or {Busy Bee} Challenge!

Thank you for playing along with us!  With your beautiful cards in our gallery, it was very difficult for our DT to narrow down our winners and honorable mentions :-)!

Our Design Team has voted and we have a tie for our Main Winner.. the two Winners are...


 
(listed in order that they appeared in our gallery


     And our three Honorable Mentions ...



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







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.  

Please stop back at 8 am EDT to check out our new challenge! 

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

The Card Concept #193 {New Arrival} or {Busy Bee} - There's Still Time!

   Just a reminder that you still have time to join us for our 

      #193 {New Arrival} or {Busy Bee} Challenge!







Our gallery link will be open until  
Monday, April 24th at noon (EDT)!  
Click HERE to play along!

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

The Card Concept #193 {New Arrival} or {Busy Bee}

     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.  

This challenge is our double challenge - the second challenge of every month, we are posting two challenge photos!  You can choose whichever photo you prefer, or you could create two separate cards, one for each photo!    

We hope this new option will be one that you enjoy as much as we do- our Designers will let you know which one they decided as well. 

Remember, 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's Inspiration:  My fun fold Clean and Layered card 
was inspired by the cute critters in the New Arrival
 inspiration photo.


Kerry's Inspiration: The adorable woodland animals 
inspired my Clean and Simple baby card.


Julie's Inspiration- I was inspired by the bees, honeycomb 
patterns and dark colors for my Shabby and Vintage/ 
Mixed Media card!


Michele's Inspiration: I LOVE that sweet little orange fox 
next to a white cake, and included the, 
in my Clean and Layered card.


Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by photo 
193b Busy Bee. The bees, hives and colors 
inspired my Clean and Layered card.
Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors and
images in the Busy Bee photo when creating my
Clean and Layered Card.

Jenny's Inspiration: I was also inspired by the cute critters 
in the 1st photo to create a Clean and Layered 
welcome baby card.


Nancy's Inspiration: Honey Bees and honey glow
inspired my Shabby and Vintage style 
layered card.

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the the 
cute little raccoon to create my 
Clean and Layered style card.


Betty's taking an extended break- 
please stop by her blog to say hi!




The deadline to participate will be  
Monday,  April 24th at 12:00 pm EDT.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!
---------------------------------------------------------

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, and, if possible, explain how you were inspired by our challenge.  Also, please make sure that we are the only inspiration challenge and direct link to our challenge site.  
Thanks again for playing along with us!

Winners #192 {Happy Easter}

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

                                #192 {Happy Easter}  Challenge!

Thank you for playing along with us! 
All of the entries in our gallery are amazing, and, again, 
you have made it so difficult for our DT to narrow down 
our winners and honorable mentions :-)!

Our Design Team has voted and we have a tie for our Main Winner.. the two Winners are...


 
(listed in order that they appeared in our gallery


     And our three Honorable Mentions ...



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









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.  

Please stop back at 8 am EDT to check out our new challenge! 

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

The Card Concept #192 {Happy Easter}- There's Still Time!

               Just a reminder that you still have time to join us for our 

                   #192 {Happy Easter} Challenge!




Our gallery link will be open until  
Monday, April 10th at noon (EDT)!  
Click HERE to play along!