Card Maker of the Year 2022

Every year, the Practical Publishing Company arranges a competition amongst crafters to choose 4 crafters who will get the title "Card Maker of the Year". In addition to huge prizes, the winners will be featured in the magazine "Simply Cards & Papercraft", and they will earn a spot on the Papercraft Magazines Design Team, meaning they’ll be commissioned to create projects for Simply Cards & Papercraft, Papercraft Essentials, Die-cutting Essentials and Creative Stamping! In other words, the winner´s papercrafting careers will change in the blink of an eye. Here are this years lucky winners.

I decided to try my luck, without having any expectations of being one of the lucky ones. So, a few weeks before the deadline, I created my entries, and sent them off in the mail. Two of the entries can be cards, while the third should be a different kind of papercrafted item.

For my two cards I made a Z Fold card, using papers from Graphic 45 - the three photos above, and a shaker card - below.

Then, for my third project, I decided to make a one page (12"x12") interactive mini-album. I called it "The Little Book of Samples". Since it has a many pages all holding some sort of sample, it takes a lot of photos to show everything! Please excuse all the photos below!🫣

Thanks for looking!😊

Bursts of Joy!🫧🐭🫧

Todays card is a Lawn Fawn Magic Iris card with the camera add-on. I have once again used some of the cute mice, this time with focus on the Bubbles of Joy stamp and die set.

I started out with a black card base, a metallic camera with black details, and then I built a scene with mice blowing and chasing bubbles on top of that.

I felt that the card would get too crowded if I put a sentiment on the front, so I stamped on the inside of the card instead. 🫧🐭🫧🐭🫧🐭🫧 It was a fun card to make!🫧🐭🫧 Thanks for looking!