The Card Concept: Summertime Fun

 

Hello Crafting friends! It's June 21st, and that means the first day of summer.

The Card Concept has a new challenge, and it's Summertime Fun.

Our photo inspiration has several summer/ocean/sea items for you to

get your crafting juices flowing, as well as color swatches. What is your

favorite? And what style will your card be? 

I would definitely call mine Layered, but clean? Maybe more Mixed Media/Layered.

I used several Lindy's Starburst sprays for a mixed colored sand effect. And 

watercolored the panel of waves. 

Sunbather and accessories: Spellbinders: Day at the Beach

Hope you're inspired to play along. Pick a theme and be sure to add our photo

to your blog. Thanks for the visit, and hope your summer goes swimmingly!

The Card Concept: Patriotic Picnic

 

The Card Concept's back with a new challenge: Patriotic Picnic.

Fun colors too. They and the the pretty geraniums inspired me to create

a Clean and Layered card.

I cut cardstock strips and glued them to my card base for the background.

The Greetery's Botanicuts' Pretty Geraniums are sponge inked and copic colored.

Scallop die is also from the Greetery, and was just the right size for my pot of

geraniums.

Play along for 2 weeks  and remember to add our inspiration photo  to your post.

Have a blessed and safe Memorial Day!

The Card Concept #196 {Patriotic Picnic}

The Card Concept Floral Spring or Garden Birds

 

We have a new challenge at The Card Concept, and it's one that you get to choose!

Floral Spring or Garden Birds.

I chose to give you some inspiration from the Garden Birds photo.
It reminded me of a beach house, with rustic wood and sea grass.

My beach scene began from an old Papertrey Ink stamp set called Fence Line Summer.

(I checked and it's still in stock at PTI, on sale!)

I used the colors from the swatches given, and created my card on a watercolor

background that I splotched with reindeers.

My sentiment is also from PTI, called Little Lift Me Ups.

Play for 2 weeks, and remember to add out photo to your post!

The Card Concept #195 {Floral Spring} or {Garden Birds} 

The Card Concept Spring Bouquet

 

Hi and welcome to a new challenge at The Card Concept: Spring Bouquet

I love the  colors with this photo, and used them for my Clean and Layered card.

Starting with the Greetery stamped background in Ranger's Oxide grey ink, 

I die  cut the Poppystamps trellis )thought it looked lacy over it, and then

the tulips  from the greetery (also inked)

The die cut 'birthday' is also from the Greetery, as is the silver embossed 

wishing you...

Our challenges are for 2 weeks, and hope you're inspired to play along!

The Card Concept #194 {Spring Bouquet} 

The Card Concept Challenge Signs of Spring or Butterfly Blues

 

As March rolls along, we're all anxiously awaiting spring. The Card Concept

has a new challenge for you, and you get to choose what to play with,

Signs of Spring or Butterfly Blues.

The inspiration for my Mixed Media card comes from the Butterfly Blues photo,

and the color swatches given.

My C9 die was cut from a panel I did with Magicals. In powder form, you sprinkle

the colors on your paper, in my case watercolor cardstock, and spray with water.

The result is 'magical'. The colors come to vibrant life, and achieved just the look

I wanted.

The die cut is popped up onto a panel sprayed with Lindys Stamp Gang.

Sentiment: Simply Stamp Blessings/Beatitudes 1

Pick a favorite style and play along! 

The Card Concept #191 {Signs of Spring} or {Blue Butterfly}

The Card Concept: Lucky Charm

 

Hello, and welcome! The Card Concept has a new challenge starting today,

Lucky Charm

Loads of inspiration and a colors chart to play with too!

My card features the. Eucalyptus die from the Greetery, cut from white card stock

and inked with Distress Oxide. 

Loopy bow and Nordic frame also from the Greetery, as is the bird (Robin and Wren).

I'd call my card Layered Shaker (there's sequins behind the vellum window).

You can just barely see those tiny sequins down in. the corner, but they're there!

Come play along, and have fun with. the colors too!

The Card Concept #190 {Lucky Charm}

The Card Concept: Cozy Comfort or Vintage Hearts

 

Good Wednesday Morning! It's the middle of the month, and time for a new

challenge at the Card Concept. 

We have 2 challenge inspiration photos to choose from, and I have a card

for you using the Vintage Hearts photo.

Vintage anything is my choice, and I used the shabby chic hearts, and colors

for my Cozy card.

Before die cutting the heart wreath, I 'distressed' my white cardstock with red paint. 

Using a paintbrush, I painted on stripes of red on a diagonal.

An all die cut card, (except embossed sentiment) I did sponge ink my cocoa cups,

 and the corners of my background paper. 

Style? Layered Mixed Media

Dies from The Greetery: Hearts at Home

The Card Concept #189 {Cozy Comfort} or {Vintage Hearts} 

The Card Concept: Floral Valentine

 

Floral Valentine is the new challenge at the Card Concept. Here is our photo 

inspiration and color swatches.

I love working with dies and die cuts, and chose A Pocket Full of Love, 

from Spellbinders to create my Clean and Elegant pocket card.

I used the colors, shades of pink, green and black and placed. my main die cut on

a black background. Then pieced the colors.

The pocket die reveals a card with a sentiment.

Such a great inspiration photo for this challenge, so many possibilities. Can't wait to see

what you do with it! 

Play along, and remember to choose a style, one of ours or make up your own.

Have a great week!

The Card Concept #188 {Floral Valentine}

The Card Concept: Winter Cocoa or Winter Snow

 

The Card Concept has a new challenge, starting today, and you get to choose

your inspiration again!

This inspiration photo and color swatches seemed to me a real challenge, so

I wanted to try to tackle the colors.

A while back I ordered the Stitch Petal Frame die from Spellbinders, and it 

seemed the perfect choice for incorporating the select colors of the challenge.

We've had a lot of rain here in my Central Valley, good excuse to stay in and

embroider this stitch card.

Head on over to The Card Concept blog to see both challenge photos and

play along! 

Thanks for the visit!

The Card Concept #187 {Winter Cocoa} or {Winter Snow}

The Card Concept: Holiday Gatherings

 

Welcome back to The Card Concept Challenge. 

I hope your holiday was everything wonderful!

The Card Concept is a challenge to create a card using a style. We have several suggestions

for you on our blog, or you can pick one of your own, or even combine 2 or more

styles. I'm excited to be back with this fabulous photo inspiration.

I was immediately drawn to the gold in the photo,  and used plenty of it

on my card. Also the color swatches, the stars, and the goblets. Pretty. much

everything in the photo!

Dies used from The Greetery, and MFT. Background sprays from Lindy's

Stamp Gang.

The Ribbon Maker die from the Greetery was backed with Gold Foil card stock, 

and the goblets were cut from gold as well. 

My card is Elegant Glam, a style I made up! Perfectly acceptable, as I said 

before!

Our challenges are for 2 weeks, and we love seeing your creations!

Happy New Year!

The Card Concept #186 {Holiday Gatherings} 

The Card Concept: Harvest Bounty or Christmas Joy

 

It's time for a new challenge at the Card Concept.  Our theme is: Harvest Bounty or

Christmas Joy. You choose, Autumn theme or Christmas card. With Christmas so near

we thought it would be fun have a dual choice.

I have some Christmas inspiration for you today, and I used the Joy sign on the

top shelf in the picture as the theme of my card.

My card is a shaker, Joy is from Poppystamps, and cut first from silver glitter card

stock and then from white 5 times. Lots of flora from Tim Holtz. 2 sets used here,

Play along with your choice: Harvest Bounty or Christmas Joy 

The Card Concept #182a {Harvest Bounty} or #182b {Christmas Joy}

 

The Card Concept: The Colors of Fall

 

The Colors of Fall, the Card Concepts new challenge begins today!

This photo and it's colors captured my heart, and inspired my Layered and Elegant

card. 

I used the colors of the inspiration photo to a point, but added orange and purple,

and used several new sets from the Greetery's Calico Collection.

The scene is a mix of Rolling Hills, Thankful Heart and Rolling Hills Tree Details.

Play along at the Card Concepts' blog. We love seeing your creations.

The Card Concept #181 {Colors of Fall}