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!