Lil' Inker Designs May Release Day #2

It's day two of the Lil' Inker Designs New Release Hop and I get to share even more fun goodies with you today! I'm sure you've already been eyeing all the awesome new items, lucky for you, you can get it all right now in the Lil' Inker Store. Hopefully, you checked out all of Amy's blog amazing creations before hopping here. If not, make sure you check it out and if you get lost along the hop you can always find your spot by going to the Lil' Inker Blog. For now, I'm ready to show off some more fun stuff!

I'm sticking with butterflies today and sharing this card that I made with the Spread Your Wings Stamps.

I used two different gray card stocks to make my card base with a little strip of rose gold thrown in for good measure.  Next, I smooshed some gray water colors on the back of the large butterfly in the Spread Your Wings Stamps and stamped it on some watercolor paper. I dried it with my heat gun before embossing the image in rose gold over the smoosh. Next, I cut it out around the water color lines and decided where I would place it on my card. Before, sticking it down with foam tape, I stamped the sentiment also from Spread Your Wings Stamps and some smaller butterflies in various gray tones. I added small marker tip dots to the background with some metallic markers and a plack fine line copic pen. Here's a closer look:

Thanks for checking out my card for today and don't forget about our giveaway!

You'll want to leave comments along the way because Laura is giving away the ENTIRE NEW RELEASE to a lucky commenter during the new release hop. The winner could be you. I hope you are enjoying our new release! We love sharing these awesome products with you! Be sure to keep hopping, here's the list:

Laura/Shop

 Amy Kolling

Chrissy Larson <---Yup, that's me!!!

 Heather Hoffman

Karen Baker

Kimberly Rendino

Laura Williams 

Lisa Henke

Don't forget you can check out the new release right now in the Lil' Inker Store and you can get all the goodies I used today. Here's what I used:

         

A Second Helping of Sweet!

Are you ready for this?  No, I mean are you really ready for this?  This release is not for the faint of heart because it will inspire lots of gasping and "oh my goshing".  Seriously, when these sets arrived in that happy little envelope from Nicole, I was so stupefied by awesomeness that I just stared at them with a crazy goofy grin on my face.  The look only got crazier and giddiness only increased as I got to play with them.  In all actuality, these stamps should come with a warning label.  **May induce extreme happiness and giddiness.**  I will also warn you that they may distract you to the point of abandoning all household chores to play with your new stamps.  I had to do 10 loads of laundry yesterday and I blame it all on these stamps.  So, consider yourself warned!

I had the extreme pleasure of playing with both Happy Birthday and Balloons this month.  Aren't I lucky?  Yup, I felt that way too!  Check them out:

They are totally as cute as they look!  So much fun to be had.  Ready to see what I created?

First up, a cute card for a creative kid in my life.  I wanted to create something for my youngest who is a purple lover and obsessed with drawing at the moment.  He got a hold of a pad of Post Its the other day and I'm still finding them stuck all over the place with little scribbles on them.  He just loves to share his art!   I used Artsy Fartsy with Happy Birthday to create this fun card for my budding artist.  I wanted a little pattern on my background so I embossed it with a chevron embossing folder.  The "birthday" portion of the sentiment is embossed in white to make it pop.  I colored the crayon box with copics and added a little extra bling which I'm sure my guy will LOVE.  A simple card but super fun with such an awesome sentiment set. 

This next card was inspired by a card I saw on Jennifer McGuire's blog awhile ago.  My balloon card was cut by my trusty Silhouette Cameo and made the perfect backdrop for the banner from Announcing.  I chose a fun combo of text styles from Happy Birthday to stamp onto my banner and finished the whole thing off with some fun puffy stickers, enamel dots, and bling.  This card was one of the 100 cards I made for my church to mail out for birthdays.  I made 25 of this design and I have to say, they were super simple but looked like WAY more work.  I will totally be going back to this design.    

To show off Balloons, I went right to my pocket scrapbooking cards.  This card has been sitting on the corner of my desk for months just waiting for the perfect stamp set to inspire me.  I loved how it looked like the sky but wasn't so obvious.  The little bit of banner at the bottom was just the perfect spot for my balloons to rise out of.  I masked the banner with a bit of post it (after I tracked down the rest of the pad) and stamped my strings.  I stamped a TON of these balloons and colored an entire sheet of cardstock worth of them for my Brother Scan and Cut to take care of the cutting for me.  Love this machine and I blame it all on Nicole's video for talking me into it.  ;)  I wanted to color the balloons in a soft almost translucent sort of way and I liked how they all turned out.  I especially liked not having to fussy cut each and every one.  I popped them up on their strings, layered the card on a banner I created with some cork patterned paper and finished it all off with some bling and cork asterisks.    

My last card uses a 4x6 journaling card for the center portion of the card layered on some glitter paper.  I used a 3x4 journaling card to create the frame for the Balloons to be floating out of.  I stamped the Balloons on fun colored vellum.  I'm still working on my vellum stamping technique.  I am not the steadiest stamper in the world but they turned out really well in spite of my shakiness.  ;)  I layered my balloons in the frame and arranged them on the background.  I finished it off with a strip of paper with my sentiment and three little pearls.  I love how the vellum gave the translucent look I was going for but I wish I would have added some stings.  I think that would have really finished it all off.  Either way, I love the colors and feel of the card and I hope you do also.

I hope you enjoyed my creations with these awesome stamp sets.  You can pick them up at the Sweet Stamp Shop and for today only, you can use this awesome coupon code:  MR210.  It will get you 10% off the new release so you can play with Happy Birthday and Balloons yourself.  Have fun shopping and thanks so much for stopping by!

One Super SWEET May Release!

Hope you are having a SWEET day.  It's a perfect day for a new release from Sweet Stamp Shop, don't you think?  If you haven't already checked out the Sweet Stamp Shop blog, you will want to do that.  The design team has really created some amazing things this go round.

I got to play with a new set that I know will become a staple in your stamp arsenal, Handcrafted.  This set is AWESOME and will make for card backs that are as fun as your card fronts.  Don't believe me?  Check out what I've created with this set.

My first card front uses Elegant Sentiments to create a really fun birthday card.  I wanted the back to look like it goes with the front so I brought some of the gold to the back.  Then I found a banner die cut in the same color as my card front to be the home to my cute Handcrafted sentiment.  Since this card had glitter and bling, I knew this sentiment was perfect!  I used the "by" portion from another sentiment in this set and then signed my name to finish the banner.  Finally, I tossed a star on there.  Hey, a little extra sparkle never hurts, right?

I love the "watercolored by" sentiment in this set.  It even looks like it was watercolored when you stamp it!  LOVE!  I knew I needed to use it which meant that I was going to be watercoloring my card.  Then I had the idea that my favorite squirrel from Cheeky should hold a sign with my "watercolored by" on it.  This idea led to my nut card front.  How funny that the back of my card actually inspired the front.  Seems backwards but it totally worked for this card.  I am not a huge fan of my signature so I decided to use alphabet stickers for my name instead.  It turned out super cute and how cool that the back is just as fun as the front?

The boys and I have been doing tons of crafty projects in the last couple weeks so I was totally inspired to create a crafty birthday card using the Artsy Fartsy stamp set.  After I finished my stamping, coloring, cutting, and layering, I turned my attention to the back of this fun card.  I wanted to add a little personality to the back and what better way to do that than with the world's cutest panda, Panda Face?  When I saw his little "oops" face, I knew he was going to have a bit of a crafty oops on the back of my card.  Again, the sentiments from Handcrafted fit perfectly to create a super fun card back.  How cute is "paper and glue and me too"...I just adore it!

I hope you enjoyed a little peek at both sides of my cards.  To be honest, I don't usually put a ton of effort into the back of a card but Handcrafted will be making me think twice about spicing things up on the back.  I mean, we have two sides to the outside of a card...why not make the most of both of them?

If you absolutely must have Handcrafted (you do, believe me) you can get it today at the Sweet Stamp Shop and the best part is, Nicole is offering a coupon code (MR110) good for 10% off all new release sets.  Can't beat that!  So go, shop, and then be amazed at all the fun you can have with Sweet goodies.  You can see some of the fun things people have been doing with Sweet Stamps on our Pinterest boards.  You will love all the extra inspiration you get by following Sweet Stamp Shop on Pinterest.  Get pinning and creating.  Can't wait to see what you create and thanks for sharing a bit of your day with me!  Have a great one!