Just a reminder that you still have time to join us for our
#196 {Patriotic Picnic} Challenge!
Our gallery link will be open until
Monday, June 5th at noon (EDT)!
Click HERE to play along!
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
The Card Concept #196 {Patriotic Picnic}
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!
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 card
was inspired by the patriotic theme.
Kerry's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered card
was inspired by the flowers and for a hint of
patriotic, I used Australian natives.
Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the flowers, patriotic
theme, ginghams and stars as well as the colors for my
Shabby and Vintage Mixed Media card!
Michele's Inspiration: I went a little outside the box
for my fun Clean and Layered Patriotic Picnic theme,
using red, white, blue, and beige.
using red, white, blue, and beige.
Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the Patriotic
Stars and Stripes in the photo along with the colors
and the flowers for my Clean and Layered card.
Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the
patriotic theme, colors and textures when
creating my Clean Layered card.
Jenny's Inspiration: Definitely the colours, the patterns
and the vase of flowers inspired my
Clean and Layered card
my Clean and Layered card.
Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the red, white
and blue to create my Clean and Layered style card.
Betty's taking an extended break and
will hopefully join us again soon!
The deadline to participate will be
Monday, June 5th at 12:00 pm EDT.
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, 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 #195 {Spring Floral} or {Garden Birds}
Happy Wednesday! Julie, here with the Winners and Honorable Mentions for our
#195 {Floral Spring} or {Garden Birds} Challenge!
Thank you for playing along with us! What a fun gallery! So many different cards from our two inspiration photos and, again, it was very difficult for our DT to narrow down our winners and honorable mentions :-)!
Our Design Team has voted and we have a three way tie for our Main Winner! I think this may be a first for us:-)
listed in order that they appeared in our gallery...
And our three Honorable Mentions ...
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.
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, May 17, 2023
The Card Concept #195 {Floral Spring} or {Garden Birds}- There's Still Time!
Just a reminder that you still have time to join us for our
#195 {Floral Spring} or {Garden Birds} Challenge!
Our gallery link will be open until
Monday, May 22nd at noon (EDT)!
Click HERE to play along!
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
The Card Concept #195 {Floral Spring} or {Garden Birds}
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.
With Mother's Day this coming weekend, we chose a floral inspiration as well as garden birds, but you do not need to create a Mother's Day card. You may decide to use just the colors, images, textures, etc.
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!
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 card
was inspired by both of the inspiration boards.
Kerry's Inspiration: Garden birds were the
inspiration for my Mixed Media card.
Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the Garden Birds
photo for my Clean and Layered Mixed Media card!
I will be posting to my blog later today :-)
Michele's Inspiration: My little Garden Bird was
inspired by the pretty palette, the small birds, and the
round shape for my Clean and Layered card.
Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the
overall theme of Floral Spring and the colors
in the photo for my Clean and Layered card.
Karen's Inspiration: My Vintage Shabby Chic card was
inspired SO much by the gorgeous colors
in the Spring Florals photo.
Jenny's Inspiration: I was inspired by the patterns and
colours of the napkin and table cloth in the first
photo to make a Clean and Layered Card.
Nancy's Inspiration: Colors, and a beached vibe
inspired my Clean and and Layered card.
Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the flowers
and colors to create my Clean and Elegant style card.
Betty is taking an extended break and should be
joining us again soon!
The deadline to participate will be
Monday, May 22nd at 12:00 pm EDT.
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, 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 #194 {Spring Bouquet}
Happy Wednesday! Julie, here with the Winners and Honorable Mentions for our
#194 {Spring Bouquet} Challenge!
Thank you for playing along with us! We had a small gallery but what a gorgeous one! Again, with all of the 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 our Main Winner is ...
And our three Honorable Mentions ...
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.
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!