The Card Concept: June 2023

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

The Card Concept #198 {Summertime Fun}

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 Mixed Media card was inspired

by the ocean theme.

Kerry Bunting

Kerry's Inspiration: My Mixed Media slimline card

was inspired by the ocean theme.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the lighthouse and

compass images as well as the colors for my

Clean and Layered/ Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's taking a break for this challenge and
will be back with us in the fall!

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the
overall theme, beach and birds for my
Clean and Layered card.

Karen Letchworth

Karen's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered card was
inspired by the nautical theme, the ship, and the water.

Jenny Martin
Jenny's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered Water-colour
card was inspired by beach scene and birds.

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: The sea theme and beach colors inspired
my Clean and Layered/Mixed Media card.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered style card
was inspired by the nautical theme.

Betty Wright
Betty's taking an extended break.

We are taking a break for the summer and will return in the fall.

This will be our last challenge until September 2023.

The deadline to participate will be

Monday, July 3rd 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 #197 {Industrial Modern} or {Nature Calls}

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

#197 {Industrial Modern} or {Nature Calls} Challenge!

Thank you for playing along with us! As always, your talent makes it very difficult for our DT to narrow down our winners and honorable mentions :-)!

Our Design Team has voted and our Main Winner is...

Akiko Sudano

And our three Honorable Mentions ...

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

Wanda Cullen

Arlene R

Jennie Maier

Also, the winner of our random prize drawing is #13-Mary Marsh!

Mary, please contact us with your mailing address and we will get your prize in the mail to you!

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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, June 14, 2023

The Card Concept #197a {Industrial Modern} or #197b {Nature Calls}- There's Still Time!

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

#197a {Industrial Modern} or #197b {Nature Calls} Challenge!

Our gallery link will be open until

Monday, June 19th at noon (EDT)!

Click HERE to play along!

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

The Card Concept #197a {Industrial Modern} or #197b {Nature Calls}

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 Father's Day on the horizon, we chose a more masculine style inspiration but you do not need to create a Father's Day card. You may decide to use just the colors, 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 inspiration photo (and which photo you chose). Also, please let us know what style and/or styles you chose and don't forget to display our inspiration photo and link back to our challenge :-)

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 card was

inspired by the gears and clocks in the

197a Industrial Modern Inspiration Board.

Kerry Bunting

Kerry's Inspiration: My Mixed Media card was

inspired by the cogs and rusty metal of the

197a Industrial Modern option.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by both photos - the textures

and colors of the Industrial Modern and the images of the

Nature Calls for my slightly shabby Clean and Layered card.

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I was inspired by the 197b Nature Calls

photo to create my Clean and Layered back to

nature card. I love the woodsy palette, the dark oak

leaves, and a tiny white feather.

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the

colors in photo 197a Industrial Modern

for my Clean and Layered card.

Karen Letchworth

Karen's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered card
was inspired by Nature Calls (197b) and

all the fish.

Jenny Martin

Jenny's Inspiration: I was inspired by the #197a photo

and colours to make a Clean and Layered

Industrial style card.

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: The divided panels inspired my
Clean and Layered under the sea birthday card.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors

of 197a Industrial Modern photo to create my

Clean and Layered style card.

Betty Wright

Betty's taking an extended break and

hopes to be back soon!

Plus, our sweet DT, Karen Letchworth has offered a

free prize for a random participant for this challenge.

In order to qualify for the random prize drawing, please make sure to 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.

The deadline to participate will be

Monday, June 19th at 12:00 pm EDT.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

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Also, 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 #196 {Patriotic Picnic}

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

#196 {Patriotic Picnic} Challenge!

Thank you for playing along with us! So many gorgeous entries, we loved each and every one! As always, your talent makes it very difficult for our DT to narrow down our winners and honorable mentions :-)!

Our Design Team has voted and our Main Winner is...

Wanda Cullen