Wednesday, March 5, 2014

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 

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



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



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



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


Shabby Chic



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



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.


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).
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Card Concept #5 {Colour Inspiration}

Welcome to The Card Concept. 

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. This month our Guest Designer is Lesley Croghan. She is joining the Classy & Elegant Designers. Lesley is the creator of The Card Concept, has a keen eye for design and she is a fabulous designer herself. Welcome, Lesley!

Lesley Croghan





The styles are explained HERE.


Clean & Simple


Tracey McNeely 

tracey_CC5

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



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



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



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


Shabby Chic



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



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.


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).

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Challenge #4 -Winner's Post

Hello, Tracey here with the winners from Challenge #4 - Use a Floral Theme. We are so overwhelmed with the way that you have all embraced our challenge blog.  Every challenge we are blown away by all of your gorgeous and creative projects. There is so much incredible talent and it makes it so hard to pick our favourites! We hope that you continue to play along with our challenges and will be back to play again this week for Challenge #5 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.



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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Floral Themed Challenge ~ There's Still Time!

Welcome back to The Card Concept!

There is still plenty of time for you to play along with our current challenge  - a floral theme! The challenge will end Monday, March 3rd at noon (PST).

The entries so far have been fabulous, so if you're looking for some inspiration check them out!


Here is a reminder of our rules if you'd like to join in the fun:

1. Use the challenge to create a card

2. Choose one of the design team "styles" to create your card. Click HERE for a summary of the different styles.

3. Explain in your post which style you used. 

4. Link to your blog post for this challenge only, not your whole blog. 

5. Comment on the card ahead of you and behind you in the linky. Everyone loves comments!

Go HERE to link your creation!



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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Challenge #4 - Use a Floral Theme

Welcome to The Card Concept. 

Before we get onto this week's challenge, the team and I want to let you know that we have been having difficulty commenting on both Stampin' Up blogs and blogs with Google+. If you have not heard from us, that is why! We feel badly about this and wish we could leave you some commenting love! We just wanted to let you know!

This week we have a theme for you to try! You must use the theme and create your card in one of the styles of the designers. 
The styles are explained HERE.


Clean & Simple

Tracey McNeely

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 I was inspired by the beautiful roses in the inspiration and the soft peach colour.

I was inspired by the big blooms and these beautiful colors.

Laurie Willison (Guest Designer)


I was completely inspired by the colors and all the different shades of pink/red.  

Clean & Graphic


 To go clean and graphic, punch up the colours, simplify the shapes and use block (not script) text


A tidy font paired with simple embellishments (like 3 small seed pearls) will not compromise a clean & graphic design.
Clean & Layering

I was inspired by the beautiful springlike colors in the photo and of course the lovely flowers :)

I was inspired to use flowers and greenery in a vase, although I used different colors than pictured in the inspiration photo.


Shabby Chic

Narelle Farrugia 

I was totally inspired by the flowers from the inspiration photo so I had a go at making them myself - they're kind of large, but I'm loving them.

I was inspired by the blooms from the vase - fully open, happy and so pretty!

Freestyle Collage

I imagined looking down on the vase, focusing on the rim, the flower layers and the grey/green foliage.
Cindy Lovell 

I started my card with the leaves,and from their i choose my flowers and colors,which of course i was inspired by the photo
Classy & Elegant

I added lots of layers, embossing, flourishes, timeless images and sparkle to create this elegant look.
Cathy Weber



An intricate die cut edge adds instant elegance.


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 3 at Noon (PST).
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