The Card Concept: May 2024

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

The Card Concept #207 {Red, White and Blue}

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 #tcc207.

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

when I created my Mixed Media card.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the patriotic theme

for my Clean and Layered Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele is taking a break for this challenge!

Karen Ksenzakovic

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

Karen Letchworth
Karen's Inspiration: The patriotic colors and
images inspired this Clean and Layered
(with a bit vintage vibe) card.

Jenny Martin
Jenny's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colours and
the red flowers to create a Clean and Layered
Christmas card.

Kerry Parkinson
Kerry's Inspiration: The bold primary colours, stars and
stripes inspired my Clean and Graphic child's card.

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired to create

my Clean and Layered Style card by the

pretty red flowers and the colors.

Betty Wright
Betty was inspired by the colors, stars, and theme for
her Clean and Layered card!

The deadline to participate will be

Monday, June 10th 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 #206 {April Flowers}

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

#206 {April Flowers} Challenge!

Thank you so much for playing along with us this month!

We had such a fabulous gallery, wow!! The Design Team really had a tough time narrowing down winners each month since all of your cards were absolutely gorgeous!

Our Design Team has voted and we have a

tie for our Main Winner and four Honorable Mentions

(listed in order of appearance in our gallery)