The Card Concept: April 2025

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

The Card Concept #216 {Spring Celebrations}

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 #tcc216).

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?

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 gradient green cake
and tropical leaves for my mixed media card.

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors, graphic

elements and leaves for my Clean and Layered/

Mixed Media card!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: What's more adorable than

a giraffe? Bring on the cuteness for a

Clean and Layered design.

Jolanda Johnstone
Jolanda's Inspiration: Jungle Safari for a fun
Clean and Layered design.

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the beautiful
pastel colors along with the leave, birthday balloons
and cupcakes for my Clean and Layered card.

Karen Letchworth

Karen's Inspiration: The soft pastels, sweet
color palette and balloons were my inspiration
when creating this Mixed Media card.

Jenny Martin
Jenny's Inspiration: I was inspired by the
colours and Spring theme for my
Mixed Media card.

Tenia Nelson

Tenia's Inspiration: I was inspired by the soft colors

for my Clean and Simple card!

The deadline to participate will be

Monday, May 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!

1. Tinyworks

2. Julia Sager - Julia Sues Stamping

3. Maryann Scrap

4. fabiola

5. Christy Stanford

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Winners #215 {Floral Heart}

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

#215 {Floral Heart} Challenge!

What a beautiful gallery! We were so excited to see all of your gorgeous cards this month! You definitely make it difficult for us to narrow down winners and honorable mentions for sure! Thank you for taking the time to play along with us!

Our Design Team has voted and we have a tie for our Main Winner..