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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Wow gorgeous creations! The first card is simply stunning!
Fabulous work on all
the cards and I love
the Christmas tree
card, neat use of
the ink.
Carla from Utah
LOVE your addition behind the tree really completes the look and I am so obsessed with that Peace, Love and Joy set…
Great creative ways you’ve used the new products on this fabulous release!
Love the dark cardstock and the wreath.. Go colored pencils! I love mine and cant wait try this technique.
I love your cards always. I like how you showed the top one with colored pencils inside! Gave it a whole new look!
I just love that gold embossing. Stunning projects. TFS
Wow the gold embossing of the wreath is beautiful as well as your other cards
As always, I love all the cards, but that first one is really a knockout! Those bold colors are striking!
Love that gorgeous wreath! Your cards are all so beautiful. My favorite is the poinsettia on white but I love the adorable reindeer & his cute sayings also. Great hop!!
Amazing cards as always, Jess!
Wow! Love all your cards, they are each so different! The gold on the wreath is gorgeous against the blue background and your in swiped tree is perfect behind the word die.
Such a gorgeous set of Christmas spirit cards !!
So elegant. Love the gold embossing.
Awesome cards! The gold embossed wreath is my favourite. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Gorgeous! I love the rich look of the gold and deep red on the blue!
All of your cards are just beautiful. Especially love your wreath card. Gold embossing gets me every time.
That first one is so stunning!! I also love seeing ways to mass produce the simpler designs as I make all kinds during the holiday as well!! Great style!
I’m lovin’ this new release. methinks the Christmas Words Die is my fav; thanx for the inspiration and blog candy opp!