Wednesday, October 8, 2025

The Card Concept #220 {Autumn Days}

                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 #tcc220).

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: 


Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the autumn colors
 and textures for my Clean and Layered/
Mixed Media card. 


Michele's Inspiration: My inspiration is the pumpkins,of course! 
I LOVE the colors and shapes of pumpkins, a few autumn leaves and a vintage page for my lush Clean and Layered look.

Jolanda's Inspiration: Knitted Throws, Book Pages,
 Pumpkins and Colors for a Clean and Layered 
styled card.


Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the overall 
theme and the beautiful fall colors for my 
Clean and Layered card.


Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the book (printed text), the pumpkins, warm tones, leaves, and the thought of Autumn being Cool & Crisp when creating my Clean and Layered style card to (hopefully) inspire you.

Jennie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the pumpkins, 
cozy blanket and the colors to create a 
Clean and Layered card.


Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by those beautiful fall 
colours for my Clean and Layered card.


Tenia's card is on the way!

The deadline to participate will be  
Monday,  November 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 #219 {Blooms and Butterflies}

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

                        #219 {Blooms and Butterfies} Challenge!

 
What a beautiful gallery!  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..

 

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









   And our three 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 next challenge!