The Card Concept #107 {Rainbow Cupcakes}

Welcome to The Card Concept! Every two weeks we post our inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us by creating a card for our challenge gallery. 

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!

Our designers will also be selecting a style (or combination of styles) and will explain how they were inspired by the challenge.  So come and join us!  We'd love 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!

The styles are explained HERE.

Now for the design team's inspiration: 

Tangii Crain

Tangii's Inspiration: I was inspired by the rainbow of colors, 
the layered look and celebration feel of the photo 
to create a Clean and Layered card!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the rainbow colors 
against the dark background to create a 
Clean and Layered/ Mixed Media card! 

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I love those rainbow treats and 
dark background, and used them in my layered 
Freestyle Collage card. Yum!


Kim Lackenbach

Kim's Inspiration: I was inspired by the rainbow colors 
and the cupcakes to create a baking themed 
Clean and Layered birthday card.

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: All those yummy cupcakes were the
 inspiration for my not so Clean (confetti!)and Layered card.

Maureen Plut

Maureen's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered card was inspired 
by the yummy rainbow of colours on a neutral background.


Susan Powell

Susan's Inspiration: My Clean and Simple card was inspired
 by the rainbow of colors and my sentiment tower was
 inspired by the tower of cupcakes.

Angel Rivera

Angel's  Inspiration: I was inspired by the rainbow colors
 against the textured background for 
my Clean and Graphic card!



Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the rainbow colors 
to make this fun Clean & Layered style card!

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: My Clean & Simple card was inspired 
by the fantastic cupcakes, and the slight 
chalkboard/vintage feel of the backdrop. 

Pam Staples

Pam's Inspiration: My Clean and Simple card features a 
background inspired the rainbow of colors and a cake 
inspired by the cupcakes on a white table.

Our Rules:

1.  Use the challenge inspiration to create a card.

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).

5.  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, February 4th at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, February 6th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery! 

Winners #106- Pink Party

Happy Wednesday!  Julie, here with the winner and honorable mentions for our #106 {Pink Party} challenge!  

Wow, we had so many gorgeous entries!  All of the cards are so beautiful and you are all so talented!! 

Every card linked to our gallery could be a winner, and it was very difficult to choose only four winners, so this week we had a tie and we will be highlighting five!

Thanks again for making our challenge so much fun for all of us- 
you are definitely all winners for sure!! 

Our main Challenge Winner was chosen by the entire team and 

this week's winner is...

Kathy Schweinfurth

Cat

Rosali

Lisa Bzibziak

Maria F

Congratulations to all of the our winners!!

Please be sure to click on the winning photos to visit their blogs to see how they created their cards and, if you have time, leave them some "love" :-) 

Thanks again to all who played along with us! 
We hope you will join us in our new challenge 
that will be posted in an hour!

The Card Concept #106 {Pink Party}- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to join us for 
The Card Concept #106 {Pink Party} Challenge!!! 

We would love to have you join us with your card design
 for our gallery!!

You have until Monday, January 21st at noon (EST) to 

link up your card!  Click HERE to join us

The Card Concept #106 {Pink Party}

 Happy New Year! Welcome to The Card Concept! 
Every two weeks we post our inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us by creating a card for our challenge gallery. 

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!

Our designers will also be selecting a style (or combination of styles) and will explain how they were inspired by the challenge.  So come and join us!  We'd love 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!

The styles are explained HERE.

Now for the design team's inspiration: 

Tangii Crain

Tangii's Inspiration: I was inspired by all of those yummy 
pinks and the hint of black & gold for 
my Clean and Layered card!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the black and white 
along with all of the beautiful shades of pink to create 

a vintage Mixed Media card! 

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: I love the deep, bright shades of pink, 
the fullness of the flowers, and the circular shapes, and added
 those fun elements in my Clean and Layered card.


Kim Lackenbach

Kim's Inspiration:  The pink tones, black accents and  gold metal
 inspired my Clean and Layered/Clean and Graphic card. 

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: All that clean fresh white and the 
bright pink peonies inspired my 
Classy and Elegant card.

Maureen Plut

Maureen's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered/ Classy and Elegant
 card was inspired by the flowers, the colours, and the hint of gold.

Susan Powell

Susan's Inspiration: My Clean and Simple card was inspired 
by the colors and the black polka-dotted plate.

Angel Rivera

Angel's  Inspiration: I was inspired by those pretty pink
 flowers with little touches of black and gold for my 
Clean and Layered/ Clean and Graphic card!

Mackie Robertson

Mackie's Inspiration: I love pink!!! So that's what 
inspired my Classy and Elegant style card!

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: The gorgeous flowers along with the
 elegant black and gold of the table settings
 inspired my Classy and Elegant card. 

Pam Staples

Pam's Inspiration: I was inspired by the white space 
with the POP of Pink along with the contrast of the
 Black and White plate for this Classy and Elegant card.

Our Rules:

1.  Use the challenge inspiration to create a card.

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).

5.  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, January 21st at 12:00 pm EDT.

Our Challenge Winner and the Honorable Mentions will be announced on Wednesday, January 23rd.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery! 

The Card Concept #105 {Christmas Tree}- There's Still Time!

Just a reminder that you still have plenty of time left to join us for 
The Card Concept #105 {Christmas Tree} Challenge!!! 

We would love to have you join us with your favorite card design 
that you created from 2018 or a photo of your 
Christmas tree  for our gallery!!

You have until Monday, January 7th at noon (EST) to 

link up your card!  Click HERE to join us

Winners #104 {Elegant Holiday}

Happy Thursday!  Julie, here with the winner and honorable mentions for our  #104 {Elegant Holiday} challenge!  

What a gorgeous inspirational gallery!  Every entry was wonderful and it is becoming increasingly difficult to choose only four winners!

Thanks again for making our challenge so much fun for all of us- 
you are definitely all winners for sure!! 

Our main Challenge Winner was chosen by the entire team and 

this week's winner is...

Wanda Cullen

Lynda Pleckan

Karen W.

Zowie Dixon

Congratulations to all of the our winners!!

Please be sure to click on the winning photos to visit their blogs to see how they created their cards and, if you have time, leave them some "love" :-) 

Thanks again to all who played along with us! 
We hope you will join us in our current 
#105 {Christmas Tree} challenge- 
see all of the details and inspiration here!

The Card Concept #105 {Christmas Tree}

Welcome to The Card Concept! Normally, every two weeks we post our inspiration photo challenge and hope that you will join us by creating a card for our challenge gallery. 

Due to the Christmas and New Year holiday, this bi-weekly challenge

 will be a bit different.  

Please feel free to post one of your favorite cards that you designed from 2018 (and tell us why it is your favorite) or, if you prefer, share a photo of your Christmas tree with all of us. 

Our Designers will try to comment as they can for this challenge and we are hoping to visit your blogs and see your favorite card from 2018 or 

Christmas trees :-)

Now for the design team's inspiration: 

Tangii Crain

Tangii is taking a break for this challenge. 
If you have a chance, stop by her blog to say "hi"!

Julie Gearinger

Julie's Inspiration: This card was one of my favorites in 2018 

and was originally designed for our challenge #91.  Since Mixed Media/

Shabby Chic is my favorite design style, I think this card represents 

both styles and I love the vintage image along with the verse sentiment!

Michele K. Henderson

Michele's Inspiration: This card, which I named, "Is Anybody Home?" 

was my very favorite from 2018, featured in May. I love the

 bright colors in the color palette, and the tiny details

 in the camper too!

Kim Lackenbach

Kim's Inspiration: This card was one of my favorites from

 2018 because I love the gold embossed sentiment and the 

patterned papers of this Clean and Layered card!

Nancy Penir

Nancy's Inspiration: Our 9 1/2' tree (one of our four trees!) in 

the great room. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Maureen Plut

Maureen's Inspiration:  This card was one of my favourites this year.  

I made it for  one of our May challenges.  I love the colours, the layout,

 and the long flowing twine.

Susan Powell

Susan's Inspiration:  This card was one of my favorites this year. 

I made it for my daughter who challenged me with a request 

for a birthday card for a friend whose favorite things are cats, 

dinosaurs and outerspace. I thought 'challenge accepted!'

Angel Rivera

Angel's Inspiration: This was my favorite card this year- I love 
the cute unicorn image as well as the detailed background! 
So fresh and fun!!

Mackie Robertson

Mackie is is taking a break for this challenge. 

If you have a chance, stop by her blog to say "hi"!

Marcie Sharp

Marcie's Inspiration: This was my favourite card this year. 

I jumped back into the alcohol ink craze and made many cards

 using them this year. This one uses alcohol inks and of course 

a bold and glittery sentiment! 

Pam Staples

Pam's Inspiration: This is my in-laws Christmas Tree taken on 

Christmas Eve but before all the gifts were placed under the tree.

 It's a real tree which reminds me of how much I love real trees. The 

Christmas Card is the actual card that I've sent out to close family 

and friends along with some of my best customers. I love the 

Buffalo Check (and, to think, I almost didn't buy the stamp!). I grew 

up in Minnesota and Deer just really feel like Christmas for me.

1.  Use the challenge inspiration to create a card.

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).

5.  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, January 7th at 12:00 pm EDT.

Since this challenge is for "fun" , we will not have a Challenge Winner or Honorable Mentions/

We will resume with our normal photo inspiration challenge on Wednesday, January 9th.

We look forward to seeing your artwork/photos in our gallery! 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!