LID Black Friday Sale & 25 Tags of Christmas

What a day to be part of Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags.  I get to share with your my tag AND an awesome Black Friday Sale going on at Lil' Inker Designs as we speak.  First up, let me share the tag that I made to celebrate this awesome day!

  

I started by cutting my favorite tag of all my tag dies, Anytime Tags 2, from some wine colored cardstock.  Next, I grabbed some gray cardstock and cut it with the Perfectly Plaid die and cut out a portion using the same Anytime Tags 2 to attach to my tag.  I wanted to make a more masculine card so I pulled out my  Rustic Christmas stamps and got to stamping and coloring before cutting them with Rustic Christmas dies.  I layered my trees and adorable hatted bear on my tag before adding a sentiment with pearlized blue cardstock cut with the Merry Christmas Word Die.  I finished the card off with some snowflakes and sequins.  Here's a close up:

Laura is offering a fun prize for today's hop.  Make sure you read all about it at the Lil' Inker Designs Blog. 

Also, did someone say SALE??  You also won't want to miss the amazing Black Friday Sale!  All items in the store are 30% to 50% off.  You don't even need a code!  To top it all off, your can choose free items depending on how much you spend.  Does it get any better than that?  Just shop the Lil' Inker Store from 11/23/2018 - 11/25/2018.  

   

Here's a little more info on the gift with purchase.  Make sure you add the product to your qualifying cart and use the right code.

Spend $75 choose either:

Peace, Love and Joy Stamps (BF18PEACE)
'TIs the Season Stamps (BF18SEASON)

Spend $100 choose either:

So Very Kind Die (BF18KIND)
Bow Die Small (BF18BOW)

Spend $150 choose between:

Spring Wreath Die (BF18SPRING)
Cover Up Die: Geometric Snow (BF18SNOW)
Stitched Gift and Note Card Holder Die (BF18GIFT)

Thanks for checking out my post for the day.  I hope you have a great holiday!  Here's what I used for my tag.

Some of the product links included are affiliate links. You can use them at no cost to you with a big thanks from me!

Anytime Tags 2 Shop at: LID	Perfectly Plaid Shop at: LID	Rustic Christmas Stamps Shop at: LID	Rustic Christmas Dies Shop at: LID
Merry Christmas Word Die Shop at: LID	American Crafts Jute Shop at: FS | SSS	Scrapbook Adhesives Foam Squares (Black) Shop at: SC	Scotch ATG Adhesive Gun Shop at: SC
Sizzix Big Shot Shop at: SC

Black Friday Sale At Lil' Inker Designs

Happy Black Friday everyone!!  I hope you get all the amazing deals you are after today or if you are just relaxing at home, like I am, I hope it's the most relaxing day ever.  I wanted to make sure to hop on here today to share some info about the Black Friday sale on the Lil' Inker Store.  I have a couple of cards to share with you today in honor of this awesome sale and I hope you enjoy them!

My first card uses the new Unstoppable Stamps.  I created a fun rainbow background and when it was done, it reminded me of an animal print so I decided to use one of my favorite party animals, an elephant from Party Pachyderms.  I used the Party Pachyderms Die Set to cut him out and fussy cut a balloon to go in his trunk.  I created a border with the Happy Birthday Border Die and added some patterned paper to break up the black.  Here's a closer look:

I also created a card using some more of my favorite older products that will be on sale!  I just love how elegant this card turned out.

I started with this awesome cardstock color and the amazing Stitched Quatrefoil Die.  I love LOVE the pattern this leaves behind!  Next, I colored an adorable birthday banner from Blossoms Banners Stamps and cut it with the Blossoms Banners Dies.  I was going to simply layer it on the card but them I decided to go with some gray stripes first and I love the finished look.  Here's a closer one:

Thanks so much for checking out my cards today and I hope you'll stop over at the Lil' Inker Store and take advantage of the awesome Black Friday Sale going on now.  There are tons of products for 50% off and 25% off the rest!  Can't beat that!  While you are there, sign up for the newsletter!  You won't want to miss out on the extra special deals you'll find in there.  Just to show you how awesome the newsletter deals are, I'm going to share with you the one from the most recent.  Aren't you lucky??

Aren't you glad you won't be missing out on this one?  So, get over to the Lil' Inker Store and check out the sale.  I'd really appreciate it if you used a link to the store of products from my blog as I get a little bonus for sending you all that way.  Don't worry, it won't do anything more than help me out!  I appreciate it!  Here's what I used for my cards today:

   

   

   

Lil' Inker Designs Black Friday Sale and Mini New Release

Today's a super fun Lil' Inker Designs mini release hop as we gear up for an awesome Black Friday Sale.  Hopefully, you started out at the the Lil' Inker Blog so you don't miss a stop on the hop and have come here from the amazing Amy's blog.  If you are feeling a little lost, make sure you hop back to the Lil' Inker Blog to get back on the trail of fun.  All of these new items will be available in the  Lil' Inker Store Friday and you will also be able to save on some of the items that have been on your wishlist!  So, sit back, enjoy the hop and get ready to get your shop on.   

I'll start with the new Magical Winter Stamps and Magical Winter Dies since you may have seen a glimpse of this card in the banner.

I just love all the cute wintery images in this set and some super fun unicorns.  I decided to showcase how this set can be used for so much more than just wintery cards!  So, I started by stamping a unicorn from Magical Winter Stamps and cutting it with the Magical Winter Dies before coloring.  I wanted to keep it soft and magical!  I used a Wink of Stella gold pen for the horn.  I set my unicorn to the side and started building my background.  I started by stamping my sentiment on a piece of white paper and layering that on some black to create a border.  Then I used this to determine where to ink the card base.  Then I created a patterned paper for the bottom portion using the dots from the Peace, Love & Joy Stamps.  I attached this paper to the bottom of my inked card base and then cut out some vellum clouds using the Border Builders Die Set.  I layered the clouds with some foam tape and attached them to my sentiment border and then finally to my card base.  Finally, I attached my unicorn with a little more foam tape.  I added some white accents to my unicorn with a gel pen.  Here's a closer look:

My next card shows off the coolest stamp set EVER!!  This set is everything the name describes, Unstoppable Stamps.

This collection of dots and dashes will have you creating backgrounds for days.  I had a hard time stopping myself.  I embossed them, stamped them, rainbow colored them.  It was too much fun.  Finally, I had to get down to making a card so, I started working with the fun stripes in the Unstoppable Stamp set.  I stamped, flipped, offset, and stamped some more and I just LOVE the pattern it created.  With an awesome patterned cardbase ready, all I had to do was decide on a cool sentiment and image to finish it off.  The sentiment was easy because the Unstoppable Stamps set also has some AWESOME sentiments.  Then I realized that the sketchy look of the Sketched Floral Stamps was exactly what this card needed.  So, I started creating a border by selectively cutting a portion of the flower out with the Sketched Floral Die Set and cutting the rest into a border shape to stamp my sentiment.  I layered this on a black strip and then added it to my card.  A few sequins and the card was done.  Here's a closer peek:

I hope you enjoyed my peek at the mini release items coming to the Lil' Inker Store this Friday.  You also won't want to miss the amazing Black Friday Sale!  All items in the store are 25% with some being 50% off.  You don't even need a code!  Just shop the Lil' Inker Store from 11/24/2017 - 11/26/2017.  Can't beat that!   

 Also, don't forget to comment along the hop for a chance to win the whole release!!

I have another card to share on Black Friday using some of my favorite sale items and the new release.  I hope you can handle the wait!  I know one way to make the wait easier!  Continue on the hop with Heather Hoffman!  You won't want to miss what she comes up with.  She's amazing.  Don't forget to be come back and check out my card Friday!  Have fun hoping and here's what I used today:

CTS #150 Take 2 with Reverse Confetti & A Sale!!

I told you I'd be back with another take on our CAS(E) this Sketch 2-week challenge!  To top it all off, can you believe that there is another awesome sale that I get to share with you today?  In case you didn't see the Reverse Confetti Blog already this morning, you need to check it out!  All the details of the sale can be found there but since you were nice enough to check here first, I've got a card to share with you using some of the fun goodies Reverse Confetti is known for!  I hope you like it!

For my card, I decided to change the orientation of the sketch.  I used the Layered Snowflake Confetti Cuts to create some shiny silver snowflakes with fun centers.  These dies have SO many possibilities.  I love them!  After layering my snowflakes on their green panel, I added a sentiment using the Winter Words Confetti Cuts.  I went a little dot crazy with my Uniball pen and then some red Stickles but I think it turned out super fun!  Here's a closer look:

   
I hope you enjoyed my card today!  Don't forget to check out the sale at Reverse Confetti!  Here's a little peek but make sure to stop by the blog for all the details! 

A Card & A Sale!

Good morning!!  I hope you guys are having a great week.  I'm enjoying a nice lazy morning with nothing to run and go do today.  Wow, that doesn't happen often so I plan to take full advantage of having an easy day.  I'm sure I'll fill it up with Thanksgiving prep but at least it will be because I want to!  Ha ha!  ;)  I have a quick card to share and I wanted to make sure you go check out the winners and Black Friday Sale post over at the Lil' Inkers Designs blog.  Here's my card:

I started with a paper that already had the initial sentiment on it but I thought it needed some dressing up.  Since I'm ALWAYS making birthday cards, I figured I'd turn this into one as well.  So I grabbed my We Connect Stamps and stamped them on either side of the sentiment.  I chose them because they reminded me of a modern take on balloons.  I colored them in with some copics in primary colors.  The card needed a little something to make it a true birthday card so I added a sentiment from Party Pachyderms.  Perfect!

I hope you liked my card and don't forget to check out the Lil' Inker Designs blog for information on the awesome Black Friday Sale!

Here are the products I used for today's card: