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2019 Card Design Superstar – Entry for Clean & Simple Genius

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My Favorite Things have kicked off their yearly Card Design Superstar competition. I wanted of course to enter this year too!

First out is the Clean & Simple Genius category, and I would say that most of my cards fall into that category, less is more have always been my motto. The promt for the challenge says:

Here is your chance to showcase your innate understanding of design. White space, color theory, and design rules are critical components of pulling off a beautifully clean & simple look. You understand that sometimes, less is more, and you aren’t afraid to show it!

The challenge rules are to use exclusively MFT products when it comes to stamps, dies stencils and pattern papers, but you can use cardstocks and inks from other manufacturers if you don’t have the MFT ones. (there are more rules and you can find them on their website)

I knew I wanted to do an autumn card, the temperatures here have been falling and the leaves are turning orange. So for my first card I use the Fall Friends stampset.

For the background I have used a smootching technique, where I press a inkpad on to my Tim Holtz glass mat, spray a little bit of water to make the ink move, and then smootch the paper into the ink puddle. I repeated that a couple of times, drying the card with a heat gun in between. I both used different amounts of water in the ink and also different ink colors. As a last couple of layers I also added some oxide ink, they give a lovely almost chalk like finish. And then I took some dark brown ink and splattered with a number 4 brush for small pricks of brown to break up my little sea of orange.

I’ve chosen to add my blob of color (and my little focal images) in the bottom left corner, using the rule of thirds technique placing them on the lower left intersection, as it will give good balance and a little bit of air around the characters. I also used the color and small splatters to pull the eye towards the end of the card.

My last addition to the card was the sentiment, I was contemplating to leave it out but after stepping away for awhile decided that the top was to white and needed that little extra detail. The sentiment was stamped on a the first background panel I made, that didn’t came out as I wanted. But it worked perfectly for the sentiment.

Hope you like the card and you enjoyed my little thought process on how I made the card.

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Blowing Kisses | Clean & Simple Valentine Cards

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Good morning everyone! It’s been awhile! I apparently went on a three month hiatus, it wasn’t really planned. I ran out of time preparing for my three week vacation in December and when I got home life and mostly health sort of got in my way. But I finally sat down to do some coloring and gosh did I enjoy it, so I thought I would share the cards I ended up doing.

I did record everything so I also got a video tutorial for you, (I’m on a roll!). When I sat down I decided to work towards my only DT right now. Have been stepping down from most of them, feeling that I’ve not been dependable I decided to just do my own thing. However Make It Crafty was my first DT and when Zoe asked me to stay on I couldn’t say no, I do love her stamps and chippies and her!

I’m using Bailey Blowing Kisses Digi, and decided to print her out with some different opacity, going from 100% down to 25% to decided on which was my favorite. And I think I decided that 25% is a real nice one. Next time I might get even lower to see if I can do true no-line coloring.

After not coloring for three months! Gosh that is a long time, I thought starting in my comfort zone would be a good bet, not making it too hard on myself,. So I gave Bailey some pink hair and kept the rest of the image more neutral letting her expression and her har do the talking. I ended up coloring two images as I really wanted to try another kind of hair texture after the first one. I ended up using the footage from the second one as it was my favorite, who doesn’t love glittery hair?

To finish it off I made two very clean and simple cards. Really trying to make the image the star of the card, and with the softness that was created by having lighter lines, making the cards really simple made the images pop a lot more.

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Clean & Simple Christmas – Upgrade the Background

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Hi Everyone! Marika here with another card and tutorial. Todays card is based on a wonderful chipboard sentiment from Make It Crafty. I wanted it to be the main part of the card so I concentrated on making the background simple and clean to make that sentiment pop just a little bit extra. 

After doing the ink blending I felt that it was a little bit to clean, I wanted to add some more texture to it. So I whipped out a stencil from Create A Smile Stamps and one of my newest purchases, a tub of 3D Glossy Gel from Prima. The glossy gel is like a texture paste but in gel form so it makes a very soft and glossy texture and that paired perfectly with texture from the watercolour card stock I used for the blending. 

To finish it up I picked out a sentiment from Tweet Holidays by My Favourite Stamps that ended in Christmas, and then cut the Christmas away and letting my chipboard word being that last word. It was a real fun card to make and relatively quick, not counting the drying time of that gel tho.

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