Good morning and welcome to the September 2017 release for Lil’ Inker Designs! We’re introducing a bunch of gorgeous autumn 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 September 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!
My first card uses cute critters from A Haunting We Will Go to create a fun Halloween scene! 🙂 I started by stamping the critters with copic-friendly ink, colored them with copic markers, and die-cut them with the coordinating dies. Then I smooshed blueprint sketch, chipped sapphire, wilted violet, and black soot distress ink onto my craft mat, spritzed it with shimmer spray, and pressed a piece of watercolor paper into the ink to create a spooky night sky! After it dried I spritzed it again with shimmer spray and then flicked white and silver acrylic paint over the background and set it aside.
After the background dried I created some spooky trees by stamping some of the bare stems from a few floral sets with versamark and then heat-embossed them with white embossing powder. Then I used the Deco Edge Border dies from August’s release to create the ground for my scene. I stamped the sentiment from A Haunting We Will Go onto the black cardstock with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I tucked my bunny into the scene and then added the bats with a combination of regular adhesive and foam mounting tape! Spooky but super cute! 😉
My second card uses some of the gorgeous foliage stamps from Thankful Thoughts in a unconventional autumn palette of lavender and green. I started by stamping the flowers and leaves using a variety of pigment inks. I let them dry for a few minutes and then die-cut them with the coordinating dies. I also die-cut the frame from dark brown cardstock and the banner from purple cardstock. I added a little bit of shading to the banner with copic markers and then stamped the sentiment from Thankful Thoughts with versamark before heat-embossing it with white embossing powder. I die-cut the Thankful Word die from light purple cardstock and covered it with a coating of spectrum noir clear sparkle.
I ran a piece of cream cardstock through my bigshot with the Woodgrain die and then arranged my wreath over the panel. I used liquid adhesive to adhere the wreath and foliage and then used foam mounting tape for the large flower. I trimmed the sides of the woodgrain panel and then adhered it to a white card base!
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 September 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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These are both awesome projects in their own unique ways. Love them, Jess! Thank you so much!
Laura
Two fabulous cards! Love the inked background on the first one and that die cut background on the second one is amazing!
I love Lil’ Inker Designs and I your cards!
Love your spooky Halloween card, the night sky is amazing!
Too cute is right, that Halloween card is amazing!
I can’t get over the bunny in the pumpkin suit. As always, your cards are lovely!
I love your use of color in these cards. Non traditional colors are my favorite. Your first card is adorable. The font in the sentiment is so different from what I’ve been seeing, I really like it! Great cards!!
Both cards are so beautiful and so very different from each other. The Halloween scene is adorable with a fabulous background, and your Thankful card is absolute perfection! I LOVE the purple tones!
Cute new products from Lil’ Inkers! Your cards are wonderful! I really like the purple and green color combo.
Beautiful cards and I love the blending. I am not very good at blending but you aced it. Love them
I love those little critters in costumes. They are so adorable. Great release from Lil Inker 🙂
Both cards are really gorgeous. Love the backgrounds on both!
Very nice different cards. Your galaxy background on the first one is really stunning !! And the second is very classy. Great job !
Wow! Adorable cards!!! Love them!!!
Your bunny is definitely too cute to spook. He’s adorable! The card you created with the new square grapevine wreath is beautiful. I love the colors you chose for it!
Wow – that is a gorgeous spooky background Jessica ! Love both cards but the Halloween one is my favorite!!!! TFS.
Love the wreath that you made. Cute.
Stunning cards! I love the background of the first one and the clean a simple look of the second card. Thanks for sharing!
LOVE that Haunting we will go set. Those little characters are awesome! That’s another must have for me this Halloween! Thanks for sharing!
Your 2nd card speaks to my sense of style. I ❤️ all of it. The wood grain cover die using cream card stock and the lavender/green color palette for the foliage and flowers. A beautiful way to say thanks! Thank you for sharing!
Awesome cards! I love the Thankful card. This release is wonderful.
These are both gorgeous! Love the cute little bunny and also the beautiful flowers on the second card!
What awesome cards! The spooky one is super cute!
SQUEAL!! AWESOME Cards!! I LOVE the Scene you created!! That Wreath is BEAUTIFUL too!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)