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!

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 Clean and Layered card

was inspired by the patriotic theme.

Kerry Bunting

Kerry's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered card 

was inspired by the flowers and for a hint of 

patriotic, I used Australian natives.

Julie Gearinger

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 K. Henderson

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.

Karen Ksenzakovic

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 Letchworth

Karen's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the

patriotic theme, colors and textures when

creating my Clean Layered card.

Jenny Martin

Jenny's Inspiration: Definitely the colours, the patterns 

and the vase of flowers inspired my 

Clean and Layered card

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: Red, white & blue inspired 

my Clean and Layered card.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the red, white 

and blue to create my Clean and Layered style card.

  

Betty Wright

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!