MFT's 2018 Design Superstar Contest

Hello friends.  Today I'm stopping in to share a few cards I made over the weekend.  My Favorite Things is hosting their 2018 Card Design Superstar Contest this week so I thought I'd have some fun.  I pulled out a bunch of my  My Favorite Things  and spent some much needed play time in my craft room.  I've attached a couple links so if you're interested in entering the contest you can head on over and check it out!

There are three categories and I just couldn't resist the challenge of making a card for all of them.  Here they are along with their supply lists.

Clean and Simple Genius

For this card I kept the card base clean and simple buy stenciling the Grid Stencil in light shade of purple, being sure to fade out the edges.  I diecut the Wine Service dies from white cardstock and stenciled the same shade of purple onto them.  Then, using a darker shade of purple I did some masking and ink blending over the stenciled bottle and glasses.  This gives the illusion that they are transparent like glass.

For this card I used the following supplies from My Favorite Things:

Stamps:  Uncorked

Dies:  Wine Service

Stencil:  Grid Stencil

Paper:  Silver Shine, Black Licorice, Neenah Solar White cardstocks

Coloring Virtuoso

I colored one of my favorite critter stamp sets for this coloring challenge.   I'm a bird lover and these little Birthday Chicks are so stinkin' cute!  I love that there are so many different little birds in the set to choose from and they are so simple to color.  Here I used Copic Markers.  For the card base I did some tone on tone embossing using the Balloon Strings Background stamp and white embossing powder.  Then using some watercolor paper and distress inks I created a blue, watercolor background, then diecut it using the Heart Stax dies.   I layered the heart on top of a larger white heart.  I created the greeting using Brushstroke Birthday Greetings and Label Maker Sentiments.

For this card I used the following supplies from My Favorite Things:

Stamps:  Birthday Chicks, Label Maker Sentiments, Balloon Strings Background.

Dies:  Birthday Chicks coordinating dies, Brushstroke Birthday Greetings, Heart Stax.

Ink:  Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon (Ranger Distress Oxides), clear emboss (Versamark), 

Paper: Razzle Berry, Black Licorice, Neenah Solar White.

Accessories:  Opaque Bright White Superfine embossing powder (WOW!).

 

Innovation Master

I love the playful look of a shaker card but I have to admit I don't make them very often.  I mail most of my cards and sometimes shakers can be a bit bulky.   Using the Merry Christmas Centerpiece die set for this card I was able to avoid all that bulkiness and I didn't have to use any dimensional tape.  I chose to only use the very center of this die  as a shaker so instead of tape I simply diecut and layered four of these circles on top of each other. The transparency sits between the first two layers so there is plenty of room for these little bits to move around.  Copic coloring the Birthday Bears as polar bears, they finished off the Christmas feel of this card perfectly.  I dressed up the little packages by adding my own hand drawn designer wrapping paper. 

For this card I used the following supplies from My Favorite Things:

Stamps:  Birthday Bears

Dies:  Merry Christmas Centerpiece, Circle STAX Set 2

Stencil:  Split Diagonal

Paper:  Silver Shine, Jelly Bean Green, Neenah Solar White

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a great week!