Card Design Superstar 2018 #2 | My favorite things

Hello again! So for my second entry for the MFT Card Design Superstar challenge 2018 I chose the Coloring Virtuoso category. I am by far not as good as so many talented card makers out there when it comes to coloring and even more - water coloring. However, I had this card idea and I thought I will give it a try :)

I watched the new movie Christopher Robin from Walt Disney because Winnie the Pooh was my absolutely favorite cartoon during my childhood (I blame him for my sweet tooth ;-) ). After that I had this idea in my mind and had to try it.

So I started by diecutting the 'stitched collage frame' die from watercolor paper and adhered the pieces non-permanently to a woodboard. Then I created little scenes for my Pooh with different MFT products. The main character is from 'bitty bears' - it was really hard to decide on which image will make it onto the card.

The clouds, raindrops and the street light is from 'london mouse' (unfortunately a retired set) and last but not least I used the tree from 'modern trees'.

I stamped everything with antique linen distress ink and started by coloring the backgrounds. I mixed differents shades of my brown mijello mission gold watercolors to achieve a sepia kind of look. For the bear(s) I added more yellow and I also made him a red t-shirt. I wanted everything in brownish colors except for the red on the shirt or balloon.

I added the sentiment and heart also included in the bitty bears set and covered the heart with Nuvo jewel drop in strawberry coulis. Last but not least I used a white gel pen for some details.

Thank you for stopping by and have a fun day!

xo

Lisa

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Card Design Superstar 2018 #1 | My favorite things

Hello everyone! Although it was a tough week including a cold and some events I managed to make two cards for the MFT Card Design Superstar Challenge 2018. The first one is for the Clean and Simple Genious Category. I really tried to keep it down and created a feel well card - very appropriate for my cold ;-)

So the first thing I did was diecutting one of the 'stitched basic edges 2' from a white piece of cardstock. However I adhered both pieces together at the back because I just wanted the settle detail.

Then I embossed the sweet tea pot from 'tea party' instead of diecutting it and I also created a "mask" from a piece of white paper and the same dies. Then I added some shading with hickory smoke distress oxide ink to emphasize the tea pot a bit.

I also added tumbled glass distress oxide ink at the very botton of the white cardstock. Then I covered up the images and sprinkled some color droplets (also tumbled glass) for more interest.

I added the sentiment from the 'feel better' stamp set and chose to add a little encouraging cat to my card. I used stamps and dies from 'new best friend' for this and colored it in with Copic markers. 

I wanted a matching card base so I used the hickory smoke distress oxide ink again on a white card base. Last but not least I adhered the card with a piece of white fun foam to the card base.

Thank you for stopping by and have a nice, healthy day!

xo

Lisa 

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