The Card Concept #202 {Christmas Cheer}

                 Welcome to The Card Concept !

For those of you who are new to our challenge, every month 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: The colors and theme were the 

inspiration for my Mixed Media card.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors

along with the theme for my 

Classy and Elegant/Clean and Layered card. 

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I love the bright Christmas reds and

 greens, and I wanted to capture the fun and whimsy 

from the inspiration photo for my Clean and Layered card.

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the overall theme,

and the colors for my Clean and Layered card.

Karen Letchworth

Karen's Inspiration: My inspiration came from

the traditional Christmas colors, the Christmas

trees and the snowflakes when creating this

fun Clean and Layered card.

Jenny Martin

Jenny's Inspiration: I also took inspiration from the photo 

and colours to make a Clean and Layered Card. I love the 

modern and stylised look of the photo.

Kerry Parkinson

Kerry's Inspiration: My inspirations were the Christmas 

theme and the predominant colours of red and white 

for my Clean and Layered card.

Mackie Robertson

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

white to create my Clean and Layered Style card.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was like inspired by the colors 

and the Christmas theme for my Clean and 

Layered styled card.

The deadline to participate will be  

Monday, January 8th 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 #201 {Fall Leaves}

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

                          #201 {Fall Leaves} Challenge!

Thank you so much for playing along with us!  As always, you are all so talented and we loved each of your cards!! It was very difficult for our DT to narrow down our winners and honorable mentions, but ....

Our Design Team has voted and here is our Main Winner,

 and our three Honorable Mentions 

(listed in order of appearance in our gallery)

 

Donna Mikasa

   And our three Honorable Mentions ...

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

Nora Noll

Karen Walker

Stamp-n-Lingers

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.  

We will be back in an hour with our December challenge! 

The Card Concept #201 {Fall Leaves}

          Welcome to The Card Concept !

For those of you who are new to our challenge, every month 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: I was inspired by the 

leaves and wood in the photo when I created 

my Mixed Media card.

Julie Gearinger

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

leaves for my Clean and Layered/Mixed Media card.

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I love the bright colors combined 

with the black, and the beautiful tumble of autumn leaves, 

which together made my Clean and Layered card pop.

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the overall 

theme of the photo for my Free Style Collage card.

Karen Letchworth

Karen's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered

card was inspired by the gorgeous colors and

the beautiful leaves in the inspiration photo.

Jenny Martin

Jenny's Inspiration:I was inspired by the leaves and 

colours to create a Clean and Layered Fall card.

Kerry Parkinson

Kerry's Inspiration: I took the leaves as inspiration

for my Mixed Media card and gave them a Christmas twist.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the 

beautiful leaves and colors to create my 

Clean and Layered Style card.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration:   I was inspired by the leaves, colors, 

and theme. I created a Clean and Layered styled card.

The deadline to participate will be  

Monday, December 11th 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 #200 {Autumn Chill}

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

                        #200 {Autumn Chill} Challenge!

Thank you so much for playing along with us!  As always, all of your gorgeous cards make it 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, so our two winners are...

 

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

Kristin Sluhan

Lee Ann Barrett

   And our four Honorable Mentions ...

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

Amanda Mertz

Bobby

Denise Wellerton

Stamps-n-Lingers

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.  

We will be back in an hour with our November challenge! 

The Card Concept #200 {Autumn Chill}

     Welcome to The Card Concept !

For those of you who are new to our challenge, every month 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: I was inspired by the theme and elements 

in the photo when I created my Mixed Media card.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors and leaves 

for my Clean and Layered card. 

Michele K. Henderson

 Michele's Inspiration: I was inspired by the book and the warm 

drink on a chilly day for my Clean and Layered card.

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the different elements 

in the photo, the wood background, the sweater/blanket, 

the book and coffee cup for my Clean and Layered card.

Karen Letchworth

Karen's Inspiration: Karen's Clean and Layered card

was inspired by the colors and books in the photo.

Jenny Martin

Jenny's taking a break for this challenge! 

Kerry Parkinson

Kerry's Inspiration: My simple Shabby layered card was 

inspired by all the elements in the photo.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the fall theme of the

 photo to create my Clean and Elegant style card.

Betty Wright

Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors, leaves, and 

patterns for my Clean and Layered styled card. 

The deadline to participate will be  

Monday, November 6th 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!