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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- Lil’ Inker Designs Blog
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- Heather Hoffman
- Jennifer Carter
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Great color choices for the floral wreath. The chalkboard with the painted alphabet is perfect, wonderful idea!
Love the beautiful blooms on the first card. And the new cover up is gorgeous. Also love the little thank you notes. The apple themed stamps and dies are very cute and very useful.
Great cards, my faves are the two shaker cards.
Love the chalkboard look
Gorgeous card, love the wreath!!
What awesome shaker cards girl!!!
Love the apple shakers! So cute!!!
Those apple shakers are adorable & I love the gorgeous Wreath of Roses card! Gorgeous!
The wreath of roses card is gorgeous!! I love the gold embossing with the colors – very classy! The apple shaker cards are adorable, too! Sure to put a smile on a teacher’s face!! Wonderful cards. 🙂
Beautiful cards. Love that sweet wreathe card with the new cover plate die. And those chalk board shakers are so cute.
Love the gold touch on the first card! Thanks for sharing your beautiful cards with us!
Love the way the flowers pop on that background!
The wreath card is amazing! The teachers card is very original!
Stunning cards!! The wreathe of roses is beautiful and I love the chalkboard idea!!
The gold embossing is beautiful and you did a great job with the chalkboard look for the teacher cards! Fun, fun!
The shaker card is too cute
That wreath of roses is beautiful, but you take it to the next level with your card. Thanks for sharing!
SQUEAL!! LOVING LOVING LOVING the New Release!! Such BEAUTIFUL Inspiration too THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!!
Oh my! That wreath of roses is stunning! Love the gold embossing! Gorgeous!