The Card Concept: January 2024

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 used the theme and hearts

from the photo as inspiration for my Mixed Media

Valentine pockets.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the Love theme and

hearts for my Clean and Layered Mixed Media card.

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I love the little house and the crisp

red and white colors, and included them in my

Clean and Layered New Year Love Easel card.

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the love theme
along with the colors for my Clean and Layered Card

Karen Letchworth
Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the
colors, the houses, hearts, foliage, and warmth
found in the photo when making my sweet little
Free-Style Collage Style card.

Jenny Martin
Jenny's Inspiration: I loved everything in this photo, but
chose the striped heart as my inspiration to make
a Clean and Layered card.

Kerry Parkinson
Kerry's Inspiration: The little houses and 'Our Nest' sign
inspired my birdhouse Mixed Media card

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors and
the mugs to create my Clean and Layered Style card.

Betty Wright
Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors, cups,
hearts, snowflakes, and love theme for
my Clean and Layered styled card.

The deadline to participate will be

Monday, February 12th 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!

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

#202 {Christmas Cheer} Challenge!

Thank you so much for playing along with us! We know how challenging it is to be able to create and share your artwork with us during the holiday season and we were so thrilled that so many could join us this month!

As always, you are all very talented and we loved each of your cards!! It was extremely 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)