Challenge #5 - Winners

Hello Tracey here with the winner's for The Card Concept challenge #5, even with so many of you busy with family for Spring Break we still had 97 of you join in on the fun colour challenge. All of your entries have amazed us as always and it is so hard to pick our favourites! We hope that you continue to play along with our challenges and will be back to play again for Challenge #6 which goes live in one hour at 5:00 AM (PST).

Congratulations to all of our participants for this week's challenge here at The Card Concept. We have each chosen a winner who we liked the best but not necessarily in our design style, and who followed the rules and challenge.

If you are viewing this in Google Reader, please visit our blog, to see the winning projects, by clicking on the pictures.

1. Kay's Choice- Cathy's beautifully decorated tag with that gorgeous butterfly stole my heart!

2. Cathy's Choice: I love Cat's card with the wooden elements and the cute mini banner...so pretty!

3. Lee Ann's choice- I chose Kate's beautiful b'fly. Loving all of the green on green & the design.

4. Karen's Choice: Lisa's card design and repetition of elements in different mediums is lovely.

5. Clean, graphic and FUNNY! Maria's card is a great (and minimal) use of the challenge colours! Ardyth

6. Deanna's Choice: I love how Jen used just a sentiment on her card, yet is still catches the eye.

7. Kerin's choice. Nancy's bright & cheerful layered tulips really caught my eye!

8. Geri's Choice: I love Mary Beth's balanced design that paired a bold sentiment with dainty images.

9. Tracey's Choice: Julie's banner hung by the jute rope is the highlight of her well designed card.

10. Lesley's choice: Wow, I was taken with Kristie's amazing card! I loved the bold, graphic feel!

11. Cindy's Choice:I just love the colors and the clean and graphic design of Sian's card!!

12. Narelle's Choice: So many gorgeous details caught my eye on this amazing card! Congrats Christyne!

13. Debbie's choice: Stacey's holiday card, full of texture and sparkle stole my heart - LOVE!!!

Challenge #5 - Colours

Welcome to The Card Concept. 

We have our own Lesley Croghan joining us as our March Classy & Elegant Guest Designer.  Lesley is the creator of The Card Concept, has a keen eye for design and she is a fabulous designer herself. She also creates fantastic challenge blogs. 

This week we have some colours for you to try! You must use the colours and create your card in one of the styles of the designers. 

The styles are explained HERE.

Clean & Simple

Tracey McNeely 



Spray ink can be used on a CAS card and long as it is used in moderation.

Deanna Dean

I was inspired by the contrast of the brown on the green.

Clean & Graphic

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Add dimension and interest to a simple focal point by 'shading' with darker ink!

Geri Greening

My card was inspired by the colors in the photo & the graphic pattern created by the sticks of the yummy cake pops!

Clean & Layering

Kay Miller

When I saw these colors, I immediately thought they would make a wonderful "guy" card!

Kerin Sylvester

I was inspired by the photo to make lime the main color with accents of Espresso & White

Shabby Chic

Narelle Farrugia 

I took the colours Early Espresso & Gumball Green from the inspiration picture to create my shabby 

flowery creation.

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

I took inspiration from the shapes of the cake pops ... they looked like pretty blooms lined up in a row, so I recreated one using a paper flower, glitter chipboard leaves and a fun paper straw for the stem!

Freestyle Collage

Karen Davis 

This colour combination inspired a birthday theme for me. The large green '50' was my starting point and I 'Freestyled' from there.

Cindy Lovell 

First thing i thought of,was some sort of flowers when i saw the colors.So i choose my flower first and went from there.

Classy & Elegant

Lesley Croghan (Guest Designer)

I was drawn to the fresh colours and the lines of the sticks...so I used an embossing folder to mimic them.

Lee Ann Barrett

I was inspired by the gorgeous green contrasted with the white and dark brown.  The swirls on the candies inspired me to use a flourished template.

Cathy Weber

I was inspired by the decadent chocolate color and circular shape of the yummy treats.

Our Rules

1. Use the Challenge to create a card.
2. Choose one of the design team "styles" to create your card. Click HERE for the different styles summary.
3. Explain in your post which style you used.
4. Link up your blog post here, not your whole blog.
5. Comment on the card ahead of you and behind you in the linky. Everyone loves comments!

This challenge will end on Monday, March 17 at Noon (PST).