Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The Card Concept #206 {April Flowers}

          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.  

If you would like to join us on Instagram, please follow us at our new IG acct-  @thecardconceptchallenges2  

Also, if you post on social media, please tag @thecardconceptchallenges2 and use the hashtag #tccxxx (xxx=challenge # for ex: this challenge would be #tcc206.


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's Inspiration: I was inspired by the jar of flowers 
when I created my Mixed Media card.


Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the floral 
theme for my Clean and Layered card. 



Michele is taking a break for this challenge! 


Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the flowers 
for my Clean and Layered card.


Karen's Inspiration: The colors and flowers
inspired my soft Shabby Chic Vintage card.


Jenny's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colours and 
the pretty colours in the photo to make a 
Clean and Layered Card.


Kerry's Inspiration: The colours and flowers inspired
 my Clean and Layered card



Mackie's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered Style card 
was inspired by the pretty flowers and the colors!



Betty's taking a break for this challenge!


The deadline to participate will be  
Monday, May 13th 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 #205 {Spring Has Sprung}

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

                     #205 {Spring Has Sprung} Challenge!

  Thank you so much for playing along with us this month! 
 
We have such a difficult time narrowing down winners each month since all of your cards are gorgeous!  
 
Our Design Team has voted and here is our Main Winner,
 and our four Honorable Mentions 
(listed in order of appearance in our gallery)


 



   And our four Honorable Mentions ...



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








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 April challenge!