Competition Winners!

For the last few weeks I have been dying for the next issue of the Australian Simply Cards magazine to arrive in the post as I knew that the winners of the Cardmaker of the Year 2013 were going to be revealed!

Well my magazine (Issue 66) just arrived this morning and I was so excited to see one of my cards in the highly commended section!

The overall winner is Anne-Maree Campbell from Queensland and the runners up were from all over (from Western Australia to New Zealand)! Congratulations to the winner, runners up and highly commendeds. All of the cards are FANTASTIC and I highly recommended buying a copy of the magazine just to have a look! (Plus its full of other cardmaking goodness!)

These are the three cards that I submitted to the competition:

This is my card that made it into the magazine (page 78) as a highly commended entry! Image - Flourishes Picking Wildflowers.

Digital Stamp - Mo Manning End of Summer - coloured with Copic markers

This is a two-fold card (more photos below). Image from Whimsy Stamps - Wee Stamps - Silver Fairy.

With front panel open

With inside panel open. Poem - stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs Footprints set. There is another image from ODBD (same set) embossed with clear embossing powder to the right of the poem.

Looking forward to the Cardmaker of the Year 2014!

Materials List:

Top Card:

• Stamps: Flourishes “Picking Wildflowers” and AnnaBelle Stamps “Flowers with love” – sentiment
• Cardstock: X-Press It blending card, Bazzill 12”x12” textured cardstock (dark blue), DCWV “Sky’s the Limit” (PP) and DCWV “The Homespun Stack”.
• Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities “Gold Labels Four” and Spellbinders Shapeabilities “Fancy Framed Tags Two”, Spellbinders Shapeabilities “Bitty Blossoms” – all cut with the Sizzix Big Shot.
• Ink: Memento “Tuxedo Black” and Distress Ink (DI) “Salty Ocean”, “Chipped Sapphire”, “Crushed Olive” and “Forest Moss”.
• Copic makers: BV01, 11, 13, 17, 23, 25, RV95, 99, R00, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29, YG91, 93, 95, 97, 99, G24, 28, 82, 85, 94, 99, B12, 14, 16, 18, 60, 63, 66, E00, 01, 23, 25, 29, 97, C7, 9, 110 and colourless blender (0).
• Other: American Crafts Zing! clear embossing powder, Distress Stain “Antique Linen”, Tim Holtz Idea-ology brown paperstring, X-Press It double sided tape high tack, X-Press It high tack foam mounting tape, X-Press It clear gel glue, Clearsnap Smooch Spritz Vanilla Shimmer, Stickles “Star Dust”, stylus, Susan’s Garden “3 Pads”, Carl Craft Rose Leaf punch, KaiserCraft Elegant pearl flourish, Inkssentials Glossy Accents, AtYou Spica “clear”, two papercraft pearls and Inkssentials cut + dry foam.

Middle Card
• Stamps: Mo Manning digital stamp “End of Summer”, Colourful Shapes wood stamps “Butterfly” and “Three flowers” (from Spotlight).
• Cardstock: X-Press It blending card, Bazzill 12” x 12” textured cardstock (dark green), DCWV “Sweet Tangerine” – patterned paper (PP).
• Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities “A2 Matting Basics (MB) A” and “A2 Matting Basics B” Spellbinders Nestabilities “5”x7” Matting Basics A” and “5”x7” Matting Basics B” – all cut with the Sizzix Big Shot.
• Ink: Black printer ink (HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus), Distress Ink (DI) “Peeled Paint” and VersaMark watermark stamp pad.
• Copic markers: BV000, 00, 23, YR00, 12, 15, 18, 24, 27, Y11, 13, YG0000, 00, 03, G24, 40, 46, 82, 85, BG70, 72, 75, 78, B00, E0000, 00, 11, 13, 29, 39, 43, 44, 47, 49, N1, 5 and colourless blender (0) + 110.
• Other: Teresa Collins – Tell Your Story – orange seam binding, X-Press It double sided tape high tack, X-Press It high tack foam mounting tape, Beutron Craft Buttons, AtYou Spica #00 Clear, Inkssentials Glossy Accents, American Crafts Zing! clear embossing powder, Scor-Pal (to make card base), Fiskars rotary trimmer and X-Press It clear gel glue (attach buttons).

Bottom Card
• Stamps: Whimsy Stamps – Wee Stamps “Silver Fairy”, Stamp-It sentiments, Our Daily Bread Designs “Footprints Set” and Prima Marketing “5 stamps”.
• Cardstock: X-Press It blending card, Bazzill 12”x12” textured cardstock (pink), KaiserCraft “Vintage Timeless”, “Sweet Nothings”, “Timeless Classics” and Merci “Vintage Romance” (Patterned Papers (PP)).
• Dies: Sizzix circle framelits and Cherry Lynn Designs “Turkish Lace Doily” – cut with Sizzix Big Shot.
• Ink: Memento “Tuxedo Black”, Distress Ink (DI) “Old Paper”, “Spun Sugar”, “Worn Lipstick”, ”Tea Dye”, Distress Stain (DS) “Spun Sugar”, “Antique Linen” and VersaMark Watermark pen.
• Copic markers: BV0000, V000, RV00, R0000, 00, 01, 02, 05, 20, Y000, B0000, 00, E00, 11, 41, 43, 44 and colourless blender (0) marker and various ink.
• Other: FabScraps chipboard word “Je t'aime”, Prima Marketing – Prima Flowers – Fairy Rhymes collection, Green Tara 4 cm white heirloom blooms, X-Press It Tripletac glue, Clearsnap Smooch Spritz Vanilla Shimmer, Ranger Stickles “Star Dust”, X-Press It Mask It, Ranger mini mister, Stampendous! Fran-tage Embossing Powder (EP) “Shabby Pink”, Lindy’s Stamp Gang “Magic Moon Pearls” EP, AtYou Spica #00 clear, Sizzix Texturz Texture Plate “Hearts”, Green Tara 18 mm cream lace, X-Press It clear gel glue, Inkssentials Glossy Accents, American Crafts Zing! clear embossing powder, Prima Marketing Finnabair “Mechanicals” (Vintage Trinkets), Martha Stewart “Classic Butterfly” punch and ScorPal.