Note that if the deck was designed by someone other than who sold it, it's the artist that wins, not the seller. We kind of threw this together on the spur of the moment, but next year we'll have a more broad group of categories, and hopefully by then we'll have the red & black carpet ready for dignitaries.
I picked "Cardy" or "Cardies" I suppose next year because it sounds kind of like "Tonys", "Oscars" and "Emmys", for example. The website is already up and online but for now just a place-holder. It will be modified to allow for voting using Facebook "likes" as the way it looks we will be ready to have nominations here in a few weeks and a 1-month voting period about one month later, perhaps sooner. Here's the link: 2014 First Annual Playing Card Awards
We're looking for someone to take the lead and host an Instragram account for this, and also maintain a blog on the WordPress site, including making links to the artists and bios for each one of the "top 20" decks (might well be less than 20 since it's decks, not artists being nominated).
And yes - the image will be modified to look right on our black background, it's got transparency turned on so it is "see-through", which just doesn't work well against a black background like we have in our "Lucid Lime" theme here.