Twinkle Little Star

Hello crafters, and welcome back to a CAS card that can be mass produced and varied in color just to your liking. It's so easy and fast to assemble, you could even make it your base design for cards that you "just" send out – you know, nothing super fancy and time consuming, but it still looks gorgeous and will make the recipient appreciate it.

You can keep the card base white, as I did, to make the color of the stars shine even more, or you could go with a colored card base and then adjust what you use for the stars to give it contrast. Really, there are no limits to what you can do.

Not sure if you can make it out, but I die cut the stars with the Lil' Inkers Stitched Stars dies, which give the stars a stitched border on the inside. What you can't see is that you also get a stitched border on the outside, so with a little planning ahead, you could create cards with both the positive and negative die cuts.

For the glitter, I used regular glitter paper I purchased in a store, but Make The Day Special now has a complete assortment of awesome microfine glitters in a ton of colors, so you can make your own glitter paper very easily. I'm still waiting for the mail to deliver my glitter, but expect a tutorial on that very soon.

Some twine messiness behind the star adds some character to the card – if you are not sure you like it, put the mess down, then just lay your stars (or whatever shape you use) on top of the twine and compare it to how it looks without. I'm always surprised at the difference it makes, in a good way.

I hope you enjoyed the card - thanks for stopping by and reading!

Special Guest

We have a special Guest Designer today - Michelle from The Card Grotto is a Lil Inkers fan so I asked her to do a guest spot to coincide with the release of new goodies which are in store today.  Michelle is using products from earlier releases - some of which are currently out of stock - but restocks were posted from the States on Friday so will be with us, along with lots more new goodies, in a couple of weeks. 

Spot On

I have two cards to share with you today, the first uses the new Spot On stamp set along with the Stitched Stars dies.

Here is the video showing how I made it:

As you can see, I kept the stamping quite minimal using two stamps from the Spot On set. I then ran the panel through my Cuttlebug using the Stitched Stars dies but embossed these without cutting. I think they give an added texture and interest to the card. I then finished off with a few Sprinkles and mounted it to a Citrus Slice card base with foam tape.

 

 

My next card uses the Spot On stamp set as well but this time I used two of the spots to create a focal point. I took the solid circle image and stamped this in the top centre of a white cardstock panel with MFT Blu Raspberry Ink and then followed up with one of the patterned circles either side. I stamped the sentiment from the Modern Mehndi set below in black ink.  

 

I then took a small heart die and cut this from the centre of the middle circle. The panel has been popped up with foam tape on to a Robins Egg card base adding a little white cardstock behind the heart for contrast. I then finished off the card by using the clear Wink Of Stella brush pen on the spots and added a small rhinestone in the centre of the heart.

 

 

 

I would like to say a big thank you to Tara and Make The Day Special for having me today. The new release from Lil' Inker Designs will be in the shop today :)

 

 Thanks Michelle - we've loved having you!  

 

Big News!

So I've been teasing you all for a while about the next new brand that was coming to store and today is finally the day I can reveal who it is as we have our first selection of their stamps and dies in store ready and waiting for you.   I know this is is going to excite you as so many of you have constantly been asking for this brand and were so disappointed when I told you that this brand did not do wholesale.   Well, it took A LOT of persuasion on my part, but I am now very happy to say that Laura has finally agreed to give me a go and we are now SUPER PROUD to be the sole UK stockist of:

I told you it was BIG news!   We don't have EVERYTHING just yet - but we do have a good selection of their latest releases in both stamps and dies plus a few older sets that really caught my eye.  If there is something you would like that isn't in store - send me a message through the contacts form on the store and I will add it to my next order - however please note that the SQUARE, RECTANGLE and ROUND STITCHED MAT STACKS are NOT available for WHOLESALE.  Sorry - I know that will disappoint you but there is plenty of other lovely stuff to play with.  Here's a little inspiration from my first play....

I used the gorgeous Frames and Flowers Die to make 2 cards - you get 3 frames from the one die with the signature stitching we all love Lil Inker's for :-D   This is a super set as you also get some flower and leaf dies so I die cut some leaves from patterned paper and one of the flowers from felt and used those to decorate the frame.  I used a little washi for decoration and then used one of the great sentiments from Shiny Happy Sentiments to finish it off - simple but effective.

You can go masculine with the centre of the frame - I used another sentiment from Shiny Happy Sentiments and embossed it in silver.  I then used another set of dies - the really lovely Stitched Stars but I decided to go for the negative space as you get the lovely stitching around that too so it makes an AMAZING background.  I arranged them on my silver mirri matt and die cut them a couple of times until I filled the whole matt and then simply popped the sentiment panel on top.

The problems with the store are all over now - so the new Lil Inkers section is open as well as Lawn Fawn Pre-Orders which I have extended until 6pm today to make up for the issues over the weekend.

Enjoy the rest of your bank holiday weekend and Happy Crafting.

Tara