Good morning and welcome to the April release for Lil’ Inker Designs! We’re introducing a bunch of gorgeous 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 April 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 three cards I created for this release!
My first card features the GORGEOUS Wreath of Roses stamp set! I stamped it onto watercolor paper with versamark and heat-embossed it with gold tinsel embossing powder. Then I watercolored it with zig clean color real brush markers and a damp paintbrush before die-cutting it with the coordinating die. Next I ran a piece of off-white natural cardstock through my big shot with the Stitched Quatrefoil cover up die to create that awesome textured background! Then I stamped a sentiment from Best Blooms with versamark and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder. I adhered it to the wreath and then used foam mounting tape to adhere the wreath to the background. To finish the card I added a sprinkling of metallic gold sequins!
The first week of May is Teacher Appreciation week and the Apple Shaker die and Apple of My Eye stamp set are perfect to create teacher appreciation cards!
I wanted to create the look of a faux chalkboard as the background of my card. First I die-cut grey cardstock with the Silly Stitched Rectangle dies and then smeared a little white pigment ink on the background with a dauber. I stamped the sentiment using the new Pretty Painted Alphabet set and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. Then I die-cut the background kraft cardstock using our Stitched Woodgrain cover-up die and adhered the chalkboard to it.
Finally I die-cut the Apple Shaker using red and green cardstock and filled the shaker with lots of coordinating sequins!
I love those cute apples! And you could alter the die slightly or use different colored cardstocks to create peaches or tomatoes! LOVE!
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Seeing your shaker card with the new letters as chalkboard writing makes me want them even more! Adorable!
Love these cards especially the adorable teacher appreciation cards. The apple shakers are so cute!
WOW! Really cute cards. Love apples and this will make great cards for teachers.
Such elegant wreath and cute apple shaker
I love the gold embossing on the beautiful wreath card. Those little apple shakers are adorable!
Lovely, romantic flowers, and happy little apples. So thoughtful of you to thank the teacher…that rarely happens!
What great designs! Love that new quatrefoil background!
Fantastic designs with those new products!
Love the wreath of flowers.
The apple shaker is darling.
So many wonderful projects.
thanks for sharing.
Both cards are wonderful, however that wreath is awesome! I love that it has a coordinating die!
Beautiful cards! Love the wreath and those faux chalkboard cards with apple shakers! Bravo!
The texture and dimension added by the quatrefoil die are just amazing. It’s a really nice alternative to a background stamp.
Wow! Fabulous cards!! Your apple shaker cards are really awesome!!! Love them so much!!!
Cute apple shakers! Beautiful wreath card with the gold embossing and the stitched background.
Stunning, I love the gold!
These are BEAUTIFUL!
Fabulous cards!! Really love the chalkboard and shaker apples!!
I really love the gold embossing with the watercolored flowers.
Those apple Thank You cards are beautiful! Thanks for sharing some inspiration!
Such fun card! thanks for sharing all your ideas!
Fabulous cards! Loving the apples and the floral wreath is stunning ♥
The way the blackboard was done with the apple shaker cards is so perfect!
Your wreath card is gorgeous and I LOVE your shaker cards!
I love the colors you used on that beautiful wreath.
Oh wow. I like the colors you chose for your flowers. Beautiful.