Good morning! Today Lil’ Inker Designs is hopping with the talented ladies over at CardMaker Magazine and we’ve got a fun giveaway for one lucky commenter over on the Lil’ Inker Designs blog! For some personal reasons I missed one of the release days earlier this month for Lil’ Inker Designs so I decided to focus on the GORGEOUS Best Blooms stamp set that I didn’t use during release week.
If you haven’t noticed I’m currently a bit smitten with pinks, corals, and greys and they played beautifully together on these cards!
For my first card I die-cut the florals from white cardstock several times. Then I took the negative and placed it in my MISTI before inlaying each of the die-cut pieces inside the negative. (I hope that makes sense!) Then I lined up the stamps and stamped them. Once they were lined up on the lid of the MISTI it was super easy to mass produce the various floral images. I used three coral inks, two greys, and a black ink for all of the flowers and foliage.
Next I arranged them on a white cardstock panel and then adhered them with a combination of regular ATG adhesive and foam mounting tape. I stamped the sentiment onto dark grey cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I trimmed it down to a banner and then adhered it to the card panel. I trimmed a little off of each side of the panel and then adhered it to a grey cardbase. Finally I finished the card with a sprinkling of sparkling clear sequins!
I had three flowers left over from my first card so I wanted to figure out a way to use them! I used post-it tape to mask off a line on the top third of my card. Then I blended a little grey ink above the post-it tape. I stamped some of the foliage with two shades of grey ink and then removed the post-it tape. Next I stamped the sentiment with black ink and then arranged the flowers on the card. I adhered them with foam mounting tape and then added a few sparkling clear sequins to finish the card!
Seriously though, the Best Blooms set is gorgeous! And I love how easy it is to layer the stamps to create some beautiful flowers! I hope you’ll check it out! 🙂 Thanks so much for visiting and have a fabulous day!
Lil’ Inker Designs is giving away a $35 gift certificate to one lucky commenter! Make sure you leave a comment on the Lil’ Inker Designs blog for a chance to win! 🙂 Your next stop on the hop is the lovely Melissa Bickford! For a full hop list visit the Lil’ Inker Designs blog!
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This is gorgeous! Thanks for being a part of the hop!
Oh, these are just striking, Jessica!! The color palette is beautiful and I love the layout of both cards. Glad to see you crafting again. I hope you are finding peace these days.
Jess, this is outstanding!!! Love your colors and layout!! Love it!
Thanks so much for this beautiful project.
Rock on, girlfriend!
Laura
JESS! LOVE these! The colors are absolutely beautiful!
Love the simplicity and elegance of this card – thanks for sharing it today:)
I love the colors that you chose. The font on the birthday is lovely.
Jessica your cards ARE beautiful. The Best Blooms set is so pretty and I always love it when there are matching dies!
A bit of that gorgeous gray makes all the other colors even prettier, in my eyes, Jess! LOve this darling card! Seems I missed out on the latest release, too … The Best Blooms have piqued my interest … fingers crossed… xx
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Very pretty color combo and design.
Pretty card !
BEautiful card! Love the Blooms!
Love the card; the colors are wonderful together!
Love the Color combination. You have given me ideas for some cards. Thanks!
Oh, this is very pretty!
Sensational card, Jessica! I love the elegance in it’s simplicity! Stunning effect 🙂 TFS and blessings!
Beautiful cards, Jess! Love the color combo! I tend to forget about using gray & you have jump started my creativity! Thanks for the inspiration.
Very pretty cards
and the designs
are great. Love
the colors also.
Carla from Utah
Love your colors! Great card! TFS
Grays and pinks…perfect. Love this card.
So pretty! I love that script font!
Such a lovely card!The beautiful tulips with their gorgeous corals certainly is a great inspiration!
Lovely card!
Such a sophisticated color combo! Those flowers are just wonderful. Cool cards!
These are amazing, Jessica! I love the color combo. The gray makes that pink pop!
I love your new colors. So pretty.