Welcome to The Card Concept
Before we start our new challenge, we wanted to announce that this will be Marcie Sharp's last challenge with us.
We are sad to see her go, but she is stepping down from the Design Team to spend more time with her family and her brand-new flower farm business!
We will miss Marcie's beautiful artwork and wish her all the best for the
future!
Now, on to our next challenge!
For those of you who are new to our challenge, every two weeks we will post our inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us by creating a card for our challenge gallery.
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!
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 butterflies
and colors when I created this Clean and Simple card
Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the beautiful butterfly
along with the regal jewel tone colors to create a
fairly simple Mixed Media card!
Michele's Inspiration: I was inspired by the rich jewel
tones and the butterfly to create my
Clean and Layered card.
Karen's Inspiration: My inspiration was the beautiful
butterfly for my Clean and Layered card.
Nancy's Inspiration: The bright bold jewel tone colors of the
butterfly against the greens inspired
my Clean and Layered card.
LeAnne's Inspiration: I was inspired by the jewel tones
of the butterfly to create my
Clean and Layered card.
butterflies to create my Clean & Layered style card.
Marcie's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered/Mixed Media
card was directly inspired by the gorgeous
colourful butterfly.
Kim's Inspiration: Marcie and I were inspired in the same
way -by the big, brilliantly-colored butterfly -
and we even used the die but I used it to
create a Classy and Elegant card.
Anita's Inspiration: I was totally inspired by the green
background and colorful butterfly for this
Classy & Elegant card.
Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the butterfly, colors,
and blurred textured green background. I created a
Mixed Media Styled Card.
The Card Concept Guidelines:
1. Use the challenge inspiration photo to create a card- no back linking.
2. Use one of the challenge styles to create a card (or if you prefer, combine a few styles).
3. Explain in a post which style or combination of styles you used and what inspired you from our photo.
4. Link your post using our linky (please link to the actual post on your blog and not just your blog) and please display our inspiration photo in your blog post.
5. We do not mind if you combine our challenge with others, but please do not combine ours with another inspiration challenge.
6. Please try to comment on the cards ahead of you and behind you in the linky. Everyone loves comments!
The deadline to participate is
Monday, March 29th at 12:00 pm EDT.
Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, March 31st.
We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!
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FYI- We have noticed that recently a few of our entrants are not following our guidelines, especially #3 , #4 and #5(see above).
We have had to disqualify many entries lately and would love to be able to include all into our voting for Winner/HM!
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, link to our challenge site and do not include any other inspiration challenges. Thanks again for playing along with us!
