Good morning and welcome to the August 2017 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 August 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!
Both of my cards today use the GORGEOUS florals from Encouraging Words and a similar palette with different mediums!!
I started by stamping the largest flowers and foliage from Encouraging Words onto a piece of watercolor paper with versamark and then heat-embossed them with white embossing powder. Then I filled in the empty spaces with the smaller elements until I had a floral pattern across the entire paper. Next I wet the paper liberally and then watercolored it with aged mahogany, worn lipstick, and chipped sapphire distress ink. I also used a gold watercolor paint from my Finetec palette to add a little shimmer. Once it dried I added a light wash of chipped sapphire to the background and let it dry. Finally I added splatters of distress ink and gold watercolor.
While that was drying I stamped the sentiment from Ever onto dark maroon cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I trimmed it down to a fishtail banner and added the rest of the sentiment die-cut from the Ever dies with gold glitter cardstock. I adhered the banner to the card with regular ATG adhesive and then used foam mounting tape to adhere the glitter cardstock.
My second card is a sort of a play on the first card! I stamped the florals from Encouraging Words using dye inks that resembled the color palette of my first card. Again I started with the largest elements and then filled in with the smaller elements. I stamped the sentiment with dark navy blue ink and added white dots of varying sizes with tonic nuvo crystal drops in gloss white.
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 August release! Good luck!
Happy hopping!!
- Lil’ Inker Designs Blog
- Angelica Suarez
- Amy Kolling
- Chrissy Larson
- Heather Hoffman
- Jennifer Carter
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Karen Baker
- Lisa Henke
- Sarah Jay
- Lil’ Inker Designs Shop
Thanks so much for visiting and have a fabulous day!
Interested in the products I used? To make them easy for you to find, I have listed them below. (Affiliate disclosure can be found here). Your purchases help keep my blog running and I thank you for the support!!
 Lil’ Inker Designs Ever Word Die Shop at: LID |
 Lil’ Inker Designs Ever Stamps Shop at: LID |
 Lil’ Inker Designs Encouraging Words Stamps Shop at: LID |
 Lil’ Inker Designs Encouraging Words Dies Shop at: LID |
 Lil’ Inker Designs Modern Mandalas Stamps Shop at: LID |
 Lil’ Inker Designs Modern Mandalas Dies Shop at: LID |
 Lil’ Inker Designs Hello Dino Stamps Shop at: LID |
 Lil’ Inker Designs Hello Dino Dies Shop at: LID |
 Lil’ Inker Designs Fringe Scalloped Tag Dies Shop at: LID |
 Lil’ Inker Designs Eat Cake Stamps Shop at: LID |
 Lil’ Inker Designs Eat Cake Dies Shop at: LID |
 Lil’ Inker Designs Deco Edge Border Dies Shop at: LID |
 Lil’ Inker Designs Hello Beautiful Cover Up Die Shop at: LID |
Hi Jess ~ Your cards are beautifully done and I instantly fell in love with that Ever die. I have several weddings this year and can see combining that with the words Happily & After. Beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing and I hope your week is awesome. Can’t wait to see what else they’ve got coming our way! ~HUGS~
#kindnessmatters
PS: Just saw the matching stamp set to the EVER die!! So excited!!
Wow Jessica these are beautiful! I loved the pattern you created in the last card, you did such a fabulous job combining sets, too!
Love your designs with the beautiful flowers.
Cute stamp set!
Both of your cards are cheerful and pretty.. love your designs.
Wow! Both your cards are absolutely gorgeous!!!
Beautiful cards!! I love the backgrounds!
Oh Jessica the Encouraging Words set is so beautiful. Both of your cards are fantastic. Well done as always!
Gorgeous cards, Jess!
Beautiful release and your cards really showcase the florals of the Encouraging Words set. Love that ‘Ever’ die too!
These are absolutely gorgeous!!! I love how you used the Encouraging Words set!
There’s that yummy color combo again! LOve your beautiful pattern, Jess … on both!
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Both the cards are Beautiful !
What a pretty card Jess!
Love your “all over” design of both cards. And I also love the color combo of the aged mahogany with the chipped blue sapphire, very pretty!
I love the color palette you chose. The stamped backgrounds you created for wonderful.
Love the clean and simple second card. Thanks for sharing.
A lovely card!
Just LOVE this background. Your use of color is always just spot on!
Your cards are lovely!
So pretty!! Love your cards!! Love the colors!!
Love the ‘most favorite person EVER’ sentiment with those sweet flowers!!
These are so sweet! I love the colorful flowers 🙂
Such amazing pattern making with those backgrounds . Two great designs.
Such cheerful cards.
The flowers are beautiful.
thanks for sharing.