Good morning and welcome to the final day of the October 2017 release for Lil’ Inker Designs! We’re introducing a bunch of fabulous holiday stamps and dies and they’re all available right now! Today I’m sharing the last three cards I created for this release!
The floral image from Vintage Christmas Wreath is perfect for coloring and I decided to try it with colored pencils! I started by stamping the image with white pigment ink using my MISTI to give me an outline of the image for easy coloring. Then I put down a layer of white colored pencil and then added colors. You could also do this without the white layer but the colors wouldn’t end up quite as bright! Once I was done coloring I put the panel back into my MISTI and stamped it again with versamark before heat-embossing it with gold embossing powder. I stamped the sentiment and heat-embossed it with the same gold embossing powder. Finally I trimmed the panel down and layered it with white and dark red cardstock!
My last two cards are easy mass-produceable cards when you need to quickly build your Christmas card stash!
I started by die-cutting a white cardstock panel with the Silly Stitched dies and then swiped green dye inks to create an ombre Christmas tree shape. I wasn’t aiming for perfection here…and I really love how it turned out! I die-cut the Christmas Words Tree die from red cardstock to suggest tree trimmings and adhered it over my tree. I also die-cut it from yellow cardstock and cut off the star to add it to my card. I added a little spectrum noir clear sparkle to the star and that was it!
My final card is quite colorful but also CAS! 🙂
I just wanted to play with the Peace Love and Joy set and used pigment inks to create a non traditional holiday palette. I used pigment inks so that I could stamp on kraft cardstock and then layered the panel on pink and white cardstock. Easy peasy! 🙂
And that’s it for the October release! Here’s one more look at all the cards I created for the release!
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
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I love them all! That wreath embossed in gold is stunning…so beautiful!!
Gorgeous one layer card! Love the background TREE behind the Christmas tree die cut! The last card is very SWEET. 🙂
These are all elegant. Love each way you designed
Beautiful cards! Love the wreath against the dark background! Elegant!
Your cards are so elegant!
Three amazing cards!!! Great choiche of colors!!! Love them!!!
Lovely Cards!
So much attention to the detail in that first card – it’s just gorgeous.
Great job on the wreath embossing/coloring! I LOVE that word die too.
That frame on the first one is just gorgeous! Wonderful cards!
Just gorgeous!
Wonderful cards! I love the Joy, Noel, Merry Christmas tree, very creative.
Beautiful cards! I especially love the first one! Thank you for the inspiration!
I’m so anxious to get my hands on that gorgeous wreath, Jess… thanks for showing me one more way to use it!! all beautiful, my friend!
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Wow, the Vintage Christmas Wreath cards is so elegant. Great idea to gold emboss it.
Wonderful cards. Thanks for sharing how you made the first one.
You make the loveliest cards! So inspiring!
I really like all three of your cards! The Vintage Christmas Wreath looks beautiful on the blue card stock. I love how you added the green behind the Christmas Tree Word Die. Your Peace Love Joy card is so fun in the colors you chose! Great job on all three cards!
Beautiful work Jessica, the wreath card is beautifully done and I also love the Christmas Tree Word card.
The Peace, Love & Joy card is so pretty in the non-traditional colors. (I really need to do this!) TFS!
Just adore the vintage wreath card! I’ve enjoyed your card creations with this release, awesome talent!
Fantastic cards.
Love the gold embossing on the first.
You don’t need to add a lot of colors.
The tree made out of the words is
fun. thanks for sharing.
The wreath card is stunning! And the other two are wonderful CAS style & easy to mass produce. Love that.
lovely cards – very stylish:)
Oh Jessica WOW you know I love everything you do but that first card is AMAZING!!!!! they all are. love love love this release..
Holy cow…what an amazing array of gorgeousness. And all so very different. Love what your doing with the navy cardstock, lately.