More Color Blocking

I know!  I just can't get enough.  I'm having a blast using the  and it's really helping me burn through some extra patterned paper I've been meaning to use.  Today's card is another super simple combo of Lil' Inker Designs products that creates a serious impact.  I just love it!  Here's my card:

I chose these awesome papers from Simple Stories called Say Cheese.  I used the same technique to cut the papers as Monday's card.  I layered them before passing them through my die cut machine to be cut with the Color Blocking Die.  This one cut created three card fronts with different combos of the papers.  Talk about easy!  I chose another coordinating paper to be cut with Boxed Up Birthday Greeting Die and added it to the center of my card.  I was going to make it a shaker but ended up liking the clean look of the papers better.  Here's a closer look:

Thanks so much for checking out my card today!  Don't forget to check out the sale going on at Lil' Inker Designs today and tomorrow!  The sale includes everything except the latest release and for 15% off, I'm sure you can find some great deals!  Make sure you use the code NOSNOW17 and have fun shopping!  I hope you are having a great week.  It's finally warming back up again here.  Here's what I used for my card today:

CTS #141

Good morning everyone!  We had a little peek of autumn last week and now it's all warm and toasty again.  :(  At least I know the cool days are just around the corner.  I'm hoping for a nice LONG autumn this year because I am totally not ready for winter.  My boys love this time of year and have been taking adventure trips in the woods and around the pond on our property each afternoon.  I love watching them head off on their own to explore and be kids.  I am a firm believer in letting kids have time to be kids and have time without mom hovering over every little thing they do...not that I do that.  Ha ha!  My husband snapped this cute picture as the boys were heading out for a big adventure down at the spring.  Micah doesn't usually get to go off on his own like his brothers do but I made an exception for this day and he was just SO excited to be one of the "big" boys.  They got all outfitted with walkie talkies (so I can check in with them) and pocket knives (just the bigs) and when they returned, they had big stories and a list of new things they "need" for exploring.  This makes me one happy mom.

What else makes me happy?  Making cards and playing along at CAS(E) this Sketch.  I hope you liked our sketch for the week and I really hope you'll enjoy my card.

I started with a fun subtle pattern as my card base and then stacked four cuts from Boxed Up Birthday Greeting Die and layered vellum balloons that I cut with the Birthday Balloons Greetings Dies between the layers of my stack.  That allowed me to attach my vellum without being able to see the adhesive through the vellum.  I hate that!  Next, I marked were my strings should go and stamped them using Birthday Balloons Greetings Stamps before I attached my birthday stack to the cardfront.  With the strings stamped, I attached my birthday stack and finished it off with some stars and sequins.

I can't wait to send this birthday card to my nephew.  I think he'll get a kick out of it!  I hope you'll come join us this week at CAS(E) this Sketch.  Have a great day!

Here's what I used for my card:

   

CTS #138

Happy last Thursday of August!  Is that possible?  Wow, were did the summer go?  The boys and I have been busy getting back into the swing of school again.  We've been at it for almost two weeks and I think we may have found our groove.  Don't quote me on that though.  ;)  I am still trying to carve out my crafty time in all this schooling/activity madness but we are getting there.  Having all three boys busy with school work is a little different but my littlest is loving being an official big boy.  Ha ha!

I did get enough time in to craft up a card for this week's CAS(E) this Sketch challenge.  I hope you like it!

I went a little crazy with this card.  I started with a striped background paper and then created a blue and white birthday square with my Boxed Up Birthday Greeting Die.  I cut my square at an angle and attached it to my card base.  Then I stamped and embossed the sentiment from Party Pachyderms on a blue strip which I attached down the cut line.  I have a hard time with cards for guys but I think this will work!  Woo hoo!

I hope you enjoyed my take on the sketch and will join us at CAS(E) this Sketch.  Here's what I used today:

 

Lil' Inker Designs June Monthly Meetup

It's that time again!  Time for this month's, Lil' Inkers Designs' Monthly Meet Up Challenge.  I'm ready to get started.  This challenge is such a blast.  Sharing our love of Lil' Inker products and showing off what we've been up to with them, it doesn't get better than that.  I can hardly wait until you add your creation to the link up!  Let's get this party started!  I'll get to all the nitty gritty of the challenge after I show you my creation.

How summery is this?  I took the Triangle Treat Holder Die With Bunny Treats Dies & Stamps Bundle and changed it up a bit.  My niece has a birthday coming up and I thought this would be a cute summery birthday box.  So, I took the Triangle Treat Holder Die and cut it once in a raspberry colored paper and a grass green paper to get the look of a watermelon wedge.  I hand cut my little seeds and tied it all together with a fun chevron ribbon.  Where does the birthday come in?  Check out the bottom:

I cut and layered a green Boxed Up Birthday Greeting Die over a raspberry Stitched Mats: Dual Stitched Squares.  I attached this to the bottom and added a black puffy heart to bring in the seed element from the side of my Triangle Treat Holder.  I hope you enjoyed my project for this awesome challenge!  Come join us!  Here's how:

Now, here are the details of this awesome challenge!

• Make a new project or share something you've been working on featuring LID goodies!
• Post this project to your blog or favorite gallery. 
• Link your project to our challenge by using the InLinkz tool at the bottom of the challenge post.
• You have through June 18th at 11:30 PM EST to link your project to be eligible to win a prize.  
• Projects should exclusively feature LID goodies to be eligible to win but do not need to exclusively feature LID goodies to join our Meet Up.
• This month's prize is a $50 gift certificate to Lil' Inker Designs! 
• Winners will be announced in a new blog post shortly after June 18th.

An amazing prize, right?  So, get to your crafty space and start playing!  We can't wait to see what you are doing with the amazing products from Lil' Inker Designs.  I'll see you over on the Lil' Inker Designs blog!  Can't wait to play along with you.  Here are the products I used today:

CTS #121

Happy Thursday, everyone!  It's time for another CAS(E) this Sketch challenge and I'm sharing mine with you from our vacation in the upper peninsula of Michigan.  We are hanging out in Ontonagon and having a blast!  The boys can't decide whether to collect rocks, skip rocks, build castles, launch drift wood back into the water, etc.  Needless to say, we are having a great time.  Here's a quick picture of us at the Lake of the Clouds:

The best part of the whole trip is seeing my dad and how far he has come since his injury in the fall.  If you don't remember, he had some serious injuries to his legs after a fall from a tree stand.  His main goal when he started PT was to be able to hunt for rocks with my boys on our vacation and it makes me SO happy to see him down on the beach with the boys noses to the sand looking for the perfect rock or sea (lake?) glass.  It's just awesome! 

This week's sketch is also awesome and I hope you'll come join us at CAS(E) this Sketch to play along.  Here's my card:

I had a ton of fun making this bright birthday card.  I used this really awesome pack of pattern paper that I got at Target awhile ago.  All the papers are SO much fun.  I knew I had to use some fun products to go with it so I grabbed my Lil' Inker Designs Instant Camera Die to cut my green paper.  I was going to swap out the center cut for a different pattern but when I played around, I liked the stripes on the whole panel best.  Next, I cut the Boxed Up Birthday Greeting Die out of some bright pink paper and layered that on my stripes.  I wanted something a little extra in the corner of my greeting so I added a cut heart from Of the Heart Dies.  I layered this all on a fun kraft paper with bright pink words and added some enamels shapes and bling.

I hope you like my take on the sketch and will join us at CAS(E) this Sketch for a fun challenge this week.  Here are the products I used for my card:

   

Lil' Inker Designs April Release Day 2

First, I want to apologize for my post not being up on time.  Apparently, I left it in draft mode....technology!  ;)  It's day two of the Lil' Inker Designs New Release Hop and I'm having the hardest time deciding what to share with you on what days because I think it's all SO amazing!  How's a girl to choose?  Lucky for you, you can get it all right now in the Lil' Inker Store.  How awesome is that?  Awesome pretty much sums up Amy's designs and hopefully you are coming here from her blog.  If not, don't miss out and make sure you start at the beginning of the hop, right here on the Lil' Inker Blog.

Now I get to show off some more goodies including the Perky Posies Die Set, Awesome Blossoms Stamps, Awesome Blossoms Dies, Stitched Mats: Dual Stitched Squares, and the Boxed Up Birthday Greeting Die.  First up, the Perky Posies Die Set.

These flowers are ADORABLE!  I cut a ton of them out of all sorts of pattern papers and have them in a dish on my desk so they are available to add to any card that needs a little something more.  For this card, I cut the Stitched Scallop Border Die from some cute pattern paper and layered it under a cut from Stitched Mats: Long Skinny Rectangles.  Next, I cut the adorable Love Tags Die Set from some linen vellum and looped a bunch of baker's twine through the hole before knotting it at the top.  I layered on as many cute little Perky Posies Dies as I could fit and added a sentiment strip to finish it off.  

Next up, I had some fun with Awesome Blossoms Stamps and Awesome Blossoms Dies.

Again, I did some mass die cutting but this time with the Awesome Blossoms Dies.  Then I stamped them with Awesome Blossoms Stamps in various shades of ink.  I love how you can layer the stamps or not layer them and they still look just as awesome!  I added my flowers to a Stitched Mats: Dual Stitched Square that I had cut and stamped with a sentiment from Awesome Blossoms Stamps.  I chose this black pattern paper and mounted my focal point at an angle to match the angle of the words.  Finally, I trimmed off the overhang to finish the card.

Lastly, my card using the Boxed Up Birthday Greeting Die.

For this card, I cut three windows out of my patterned paper using Stitched Mats: Dual Stitched Squares.  Next, I cut the Boxed Up Birthday Greeting Die from some pearlized paper and added a piece of vellum to the back of it.  I layered this inside the center square of my pattern paper and added that to my card base.  Finally, I added a resin flower, a paperclip ribbon banner, and some enamel dots to finish the look.

Here's a quick look at the products I used today:
 

I hope you enjoyed my creations and will join the rest of the team on the hop.  You'll want to leave comments along the way because Laura gives out a $15 Lil' Inker Designs store credit to a lucky commenter each day of the hop.  It could be you.  I'm sure I'll see you on the hop and tomorrow for another fun day of release projects.  See you then!

Laura/Shop

Heather Hoffman 

Jen Carter

Sarah Jay 

Laura Williams

Lisa Henke 

Lea Lawson

Karen Baker 

Maureen Merritt 

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

Don't forget you can get the new release right now in the Lil' Inker Store!