Wednesday, March 13, 2024

The Card Concept #205 {Spring Has Sprung}

             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 #tcc205.


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: 

Esther's Inspiration: My Mixed Media card was 
inspired by the birds and flowers.


Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the bluebirds and 
blossoms  for my fairly simple Mixed Media card!



Michele's card is on the way!



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


Karen's Inspiration: My Clean and Layered Card was
inspired by the sweet pastel colors and the beautiful birds. 


Jenny's Inspiration: I consider my card as 
a Clean and Layered Style, using the colours and 
the picture as my inspiration.


Kerry's Inspiration: The birds, flowers 
and colours all inspired my birdhouse-shaped 
Clean and Layered card.



Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the 
colors of the photo to create my 
Clean and Layered style card.


Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the theme
 and colors for my Clean and Layered Easter card. 


The deadline to participate will be  
Monday, April 8th at 12:00 pm EDT.

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 #204 {Winter Warmth}

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

                       #204 {Winter Warmth} Challenge!

  Thank you so much for playing along with us this month! 
 
We are so thrilled that you were able to join us and all of your cards were gorgeous, which makes it difficult for our DT to narrow down our winner and honorable mentions:-) 
 
Our Design Team has voted and here is our Main Winner,
 and this month, we have four Honorable Mentions 
(listed in order of appearance in our gallery)


 



   And our four 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" :-) 

Just a reminder, this year we will be highlighting our winners and honorable mentions on our Facebook page as well as on our Pinterest board.  

We will be back in an hour with our March challenge! 

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The Card Concept #204 {Winter Warmth}

           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 #tcc204.


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: 

Esther's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors, pine, 
and moose when I created this Mixed Media card.


Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the moose, 
the colors and nature theme for 
my Mixed Media card.


Michele's Inspiration: I love the moose and the tiny 
pines, and the idea of winter warmth for 
my Clean and Layered card!


Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the 
pine trees in the photo along with the 
colors for my Clean& Layered card


Karen's Inspiration: Honestly, I was first inspired by
a card my teammate, Esther, made.  The colors, wildlife,
and textures also inspired my Clean & Layered card.


Jenny's Inspiration: was inspired by the colours 
and the photo to create a Clean and Simple card with a 
little scene using cute dies from Poppy Stamps 
and washi tape for the trees.


Kerry's Inspiration: The colour palette and outdoors 
vibe on the rug inspired my Clean and Layered card.




Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the moose 
and the colors to create my Mixed Media card.



Betty's card is on the way!

The deadline to participate will be  
Monday, March 11th at 12:00 pm EDT.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!
---------------------------------------------------------

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 #203 {New Year Love}

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

                        #203 {New Year Love} Challenge!

Thank you so much for playing along with us!  We were so thrilled that so many could join us this month, and always, we loved each of your cards!! 

It is always difficult for our DT to narrow down our winners and honorable mentions, but ....

Our Design Team has voted and here is our Main Winner,
 and our three Honorable Mentions 
(listed in order of appearance in our gallery)


 







   And our four 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" :-) 

Just a reminder, this year we will be highlighting our winners and honorable mentions on our Facebook page as well as on our Pinterest board.  

We will be back in an hour with our February challenge! 

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

The Card Concept #203 {New Year Love}

 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.  


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: 

Esther's Inspiration: I used the theme and hearts 
from the photo as inspiration for my Mixed Media
 Valentine pockets. 


Julie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the Love theme and 
hearts for my Clean and Layered Mixed Media card. 



Michele's Inspiration: I love the little house and the crisp 
red and white colors, and included them in my 
Clean and Layered New Year Love Easel card.


Karen's Inspiration: I was inspired by the love theme
along with the colors for my Clean and Layered Card


Karen's Inspiration:  I was inspired by the
colors, the houses, hearts, foliage, and warmth
found in the photo when making my sweet little
Free-Style Collage Style card. 


Jenny's Inspiration: I loved everything in this photo, but 
chose the striped heart as my inspiration to make 
a Clean and Layered card.


Kerry's Inspiration: The little houses and 'Our Nest' sign 
inspired my birdhouse Mixed Media card



Mackie's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors and 
the mugs to create my Clean and Layered Style card.


Betty's Inspiration: I was inspired by the colors, cups, 
hearts, snowflakes, and love theme for 
my Clean and Layered styled card.


The deadline to participate will be  
Monday, February 12th at 12:00 pm EDT.

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!
---------------------------------------------------------

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!