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!
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 April release!
Happy hopping!!
- Lil’ Inker Designs Blog
- Amy Kolling
- Chrissy Larson
- Heather Hoffman
- Jennifer Carter
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Karen Baker
- Lisa Henke
- Sarah Jay
- Stephanie Gold
- Lil’ Inker Designs Shop
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I was scrolling and saw the rose wreath card and thought it was really pretty but I kept scrolling and saw those SUPER cute Apple shaker cards!! Oh my – absolutely adorable!!!
Wowie!! Gorgeous work as always. Love the wreath of roses, so so pretty. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Cheers
preeti
Love the beautiful wreath. Your apple shakers are fantastic.
What a fabulous wreath to include in a kit. Your card is so artful!
Love the wreath. Looks great how you embossed and colored it!!!!!
Beautiful cards! Love the wreath with such lovely coloring and pretty background! And your apple shaker thank you card is delightful!
Absolutely gorgeous wreath! Love the colors.
Absolutely loved your cards for this blog hop Jess! You ladies are all so talented!
That wreath with the gold embossed flowers is delightful!! And I love the Apple shaker cards. Really cute design!
No way!! Your apple shakers are fantastic Jess!! I love those dies and how you put them on a little chalkboard. So cute! Your wreath is also beautiful. These are all on my must haves or I’ll die list. 😉
Faublous cards, Jessica! That wreath card has a super vintage feel to it, I love it! And those apple shakers make me wish I had kids in school again…well just a little. LOL
I especially liked the shaker teacher thank you card! And the wreath was beautiful with all the nice coloring! Thanks for sharing!
So super cute, love the apple shaker
Oh my gosh. I’m afraid I might need it all. Apple die? Yes. That background die? YES. That wreath? Oh my gosh, I have a pinterest board of wreaths, which means I’m allowed to get that, right? It’s required?
gorgeous floral wreath and I love that cover up die
Absolutely love these 😍
The wreath card is gorgeous! Love the apple shaker cards – so cute!
Oh, wow I love Your cards.
I love those apple thank you cards! They also be perfect for end of year!
Beautiful wreath of flowers
oh my! all of these are fantastic!!! love all the pretty details.
Love your designs! The embossed wreath us gorgeous and your shaker apples are adorable.
Wow love your apple shaker cards, they are so perfect for teachers!!!!!
well the wreath of roses stamps and dies are going in my cart for sure – and you’ve made such a gorgeous card with them – and the little apple shakers are the cutest ever – just might have to have that one too!!
I’m so in love with the apple chalkboard shaker cards, I have family members and friends who are teachers and I cannot think of a better designed and executed card for them! I can’t wait to see more of this gorgeous release from Lil’ Inker designs, and more importantly, get to using them!
Thank you!