Good morning and welcome to the October 2017 release for Lil’ Inker Designs! We’re introducing a bunch of incredible holiday stamps and dies and they’re all available right now! I love that Laura doesn’t make you wait to shop the new release so I totally understand if you want to go shop now, but make sure you come back and comment for a chance to win the entire October release! That’s correct…one lucky commenter will win everything! There’s more details on how to win at the end of my post! Today I’m sharing two cards I created for this release!
I love the modern sketchy look of the Festive Florals stamp set so I did a little loose watercoloring! I stamped all the images with versafine and heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder. Then I watercolored them with my Daniel Smith watercolors and die-cut them with the coordinating dies. Next I die-cut the Geometric Snow Cover-Up die from white cardstock and trimmed it down to create a lacy pattern. I adhered that to an A2 panel of white cardstock and then arranged my festive florals around the cover-up die. I used a mixture of regular adhesive and foam mounting tape to create a little extra dimension!
Then I stamped the sentiment from Festive Florals onto red cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I die-cut it with the Pinking Edge Sentiment Flag dies and adhered it to the card. Finally I added sequins in varying shades of green to finish the card!
My second card also uses Festive Florals but relegates them to more of a background effect! 😉 I stamped them onto a white card base with a variety of blue inks. Then I simply stamped the Joy to the World sentiment set with versamark and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder. I wanted to let the sentiment shine so I left it at that! 🙂 This would be a great design to mass produce in a variety of colors for quick Christmas cards!
And that’s it for day 1! I’ll be back tomorrow with more! 😉
You should have arrived from Jennifer and Karen is your next stop. If you get lost you can find the full hop list below! Leave a comment on each stop along the hop and one lucky commenter will win the entire October release! Good luck!
Happy hopping!!
- Lil’ Inker Designs Blog
- Chrissy Larson
- Heather Hoffman
- Jennifer Carter
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Karen Baker
- Lisa Henke
- Sarah Jay
- Lil’ Inker Designs Shop
Thanks so much for visiting and have a fabulous day!
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This is such a fabulous release — and your projects show ’em off beautifully!! I love each one!
Wow what beautiful and original cards! Thanks for sharing!
I love the poinsettias as blue background flowers. So pretty and clever!
Beautiful card designs, love them!
WOW Jessica how beautiful are these??? I can’t pick a fave here, they are both so beautiful….Well done!
Stunning projects. Thanks for sharing
Festive florals is my favorite from this release. I love your card and especially how you cut the cover up die. Genius!,,
Awesome watercoloring – fabulous release!
Beautiful work on your
cards. I love the white
on white.
Carla from Utah
Great cards! I love how you trimmed down the cover up die to make a lacy look. Also love the sentiment in silver embossing on the second card.
Love the ever so clever & creative ways you’ve used the new products, wonderful work!
Both of your poinsettia cards are beautiful! I also love how you cut and used the new cover plate die on your first card!
Your cards are gorgeous !
Gorgeous!!!
Love the subtlety of the white on white snowflakes and the blue flowers are unexpected and gorgeous!
I am so glad I stopped by. I came to get a closer look at your first card (beautiful!) and was delighted to see your blue beauty! Love that one!!
Both cards are lovely, love the partial use of the cover plate! Another great release!
Wow, these are beautiful. The coloring on the first one is great.
Love these! I really like that poinsettia set. Really beautiful with your watercoloring!
lovely designs. Especialy love the die as embossed background
Wow! Wow! Wow! Stunning colouring and details!!! Your cards are really breathless!!!
Pretty cards! I love your watercoloring and layering on the first card.
Love the black and blue outline stamping.
I don’t like to color and this is a great technique
for me. The poinsettia bunch on the edge
of the card is wonderful.
thanks for sharing.
Elegant cards, beautifully made.
Gorgeous cards! Thanks for sharing. 🙂