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!
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Beautiful card, love the pinks and gray together. Thanks for sharing.
oh wow pinks, corals and greys look stunning! love it 🙂 thanks for sharing
cheers
preeti
I agree with you- coral and gray is so pretty! I need to try it myself. I love how you did the masking to make a gray area for the sentiment. I will have to borrow that idea since I hate cutting out tiny sentiment strips for some reason!
Beautiful card. Thanks for your always awesome inspiration.
Black and white always looks great with a bold pop of color! Beautiful design!
Plain and simple and so pretty.
Great card.
thanks for sharing.
What stunningly beautiful cards Jess!!!
pretty! love the flowers!
Beautiful flowers and color combo on your gorgeous card!
Great card. I love the color palette.
Wow! Beautiful cards and colors!!! Really adorable!!!
I love these colours too. Great cards.
Both cards are gorgeous! Love the floral images and I’m crushing on this color combo too!!!
Oh, these are BEAUTIFUL! The colors are lovely!
I love your color choices! It is a pretty card!
Love the cards! I really like the gray panel edge along the side. It is something I rarely do but seeing it on your card reminded me what a difference that technique can make, thank you!
Big fan of your work, so pretty!
Nice card!
Very beautiful, elegant and classy. Absolutely love both the cards.
As always….just gorgeous! love how the colours pop right off the white background
I like this card. It’s simple but beautiful. Thanks
Love the clean and simple look of this card!