Month Four: Classic & Elegant

Hello friends and WELCOME home to House of Cards!  This challenge idea was the brain child of co-owner Mynnette--she wanted to have a reason to practice different card making styles and so the purpose of this challenge is to encourage YOU to branch out and try different card making styles along with her and the fabulous DT we've got here!  We hope that you will learn a lot and that you will participate with us each week here and practice your card making talents.  :)

Not sure what we're looking for and want some clarification on what constitutes each style we feature here at HOC?  Help is at hand with our useful Definitions of Styles tab. 

Unsure about what Classic & Elegant style means? Think a greeting card from Hallmark.  These are not really cards that fit into any other category.  They usually feature floral or other classic elements.  Less embellishments than Shabby & Vintage or Fun & Cute, but more than CAS.

Now, onto our October challenge!  This month we will be working with this wonderful sketch layout.  Feel free to rotate the sketch and/or use different shapes - as long as the original sketch comes through to us, it's all good!

 

And this week we'd like to see

CLASSIC & ELEGANT CARDS.

Here's our Classic & Elegant DT with some samples~

Alica 

Anita 

Donna

John

Mynnette

Ruth

Shauna

Please follow our HOUSE RULES when you participate in our challenges to make things fair for all participants and to help the DT out when commenting, etc.  Here they are:

• You must follow the weekly card style and theme in the project that you choose to link up.
• You may join in other challenges other than ours, but please keep it to a maximum of 10 (ours and 9 more).
• You must link up with the POST address, not your entire blog address.
• Please link back to our challenge in your entry post so that others know where to come to play along!
• Do not expect a comment if you have Word Verification turned on. We do our best to comment, but it takes quite a bit of time to figure out what in the world you're supposed to type when Word Verification is used. Please opt for comment moderation as a most wonderful alternative!
• HAVE FUN!

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Winner: Month Four Cute & Fun

Thank you so much to everyone who played along last week with our cute & fun sketch challenge!!!  We had some amazing entries and we loved everything we saw!  Our team has now voted and so we've got a winner to announce.

Winner:  Margaret M.

We hope that you will have a chance to play along with our sketch this month.  

Month Four: Clean & Simple

Hello friends and WELCOME home to House of Cards!  This challenge idea was the brain child of co-owner Mynnette--she wanted to have a reason to practice different card making styles and so the purpose of this challenge is to encourage YOU to branch out and try different card making styles along with her and the fabulous DT we've got here!  We hope that you will learn a lot and that you will participate with us each week here and practice your card making talents.  :)

Not sure what we're looking for and want some clarification on what constitutes each style we feature here at HOC?  Help is at hand with our useful Definitions of Styles tab. 

Clean & Simple cards use minimal or NO embellishment.  There should be lots of "white space" present on your card--open space with no stamping or anything else.  One layer cards are usually considered CAS as long as they are not covered in stamping.

Now, onto our October challenge!  This month we will be working with this wonderful sketch layout.  Feel free to rotate the sketch and/or use different shapes - as long as the original sketch comes through to us, it's all good!

And this week we'd like to see

CLEAN & SIMPLE CARDS.

Here's our CAS DT with some samples~

Mia

Mynnette

Nancy

Rosi/Daen'Ys

Sue T.

Tara

Vicki

Please follow our HOUSE RULES when you participate in our challenges to make things fair for all participants and to help the DT out when commenting, etc.  Here they are:

• You must follow the weekly card style and theme in the project that you choose to link up.
• You may join in other challenges other than ours, but please keep it to a maximum of 10 (ours and 9 more).
• You must link up with the POST address, not your entire blog address.
• Please link back to our challenge in your entry post so that others know where to come to play along!
• Do not expect a comment if you have Word Verification turned on. We do our best to comment, but it takes quite a bit of time to figure out what in the world you're supposed to type when Word Verification is used. Please opt for comment moderation as a most wonderful alternative!
• HAVE FUN!

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