Wednesday, February 12, 2025

The Card Concept #214 {Valentine Fun}

           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 #tcc214).

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 
'theme and roses when I created my 
Mixed Media card.


Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the vintage 
feel, hearts, flowers and gold bird cage for
 my Mixed Media/ Shabby and Vintage card!



Michele's Inspiration: I felt so inspired by the bird, books, 
and colors and brought them to my Clean and Layered card. 


Jolanda's Inspiration: I was inspired by the vintage 
elements, colors and roses for my Shabby and Vintage/
Freestyle Collage card! 



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



Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors,
the hearts, and the softness of the photo when
creating my Mixed Media card.


Jenny's Inspiration:The colours and the shape birdcage 
reminded me of the mailbox. My style of my card is 
Shabby Chic/Vintage.


Tenia's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors and the 
hearts theme for my Clean and Simple card. 


The deadline to participate will be  
Monday, March 10th at 12:00 pm EST.

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 #213 {Winter Solace}

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

                          #213 {Winter Solace} Challenge!

 
What a beautiful gallery!  All of your gorgeous cards make it so difficult narrowing down winners each month.  We are thankful that you took the time to play along with us! 
 
Our Design Team has voted and here is our Main Winner..

 

listed in order that they appeared 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" :-) 

Also, if you have a chance, check out our Facebook page as well as on our Pinterest board to see all of our Challenge and Honorable Mention winners!  

Please join us in an hour for our February 2025 Challenge!