25 Days of Christmas Tags and Lil' Inker Designs

Good morning!!  I'm super excited to be part of today's 25 Days of Christmas Tags post and to be working with Tracey for Day 6.  I just love her!  She's the sweetest person and I'm so so lucky to have gotten the chance to meet her in person and get to craft with her for a wonderful long weekend.  I can't wait until we can do it again.  Well, today, Lil' Inker Designs is joining forces with Tracey and I'm super excited to share my creations with all of you.

I decided this time around I'd make an assortment of fun tags with an assortment of awesome Lil' Inker Designs products!  First up, I cut various tags using the Anytime Tags 2 Die Set,  Dotted Tag Dies, and Ornamental Christmas Tag Dies.  I also made sure to cut that cute little shape that goes around each hole in gold because I knew I was going with a black, white, and gold color theme.  Then I got to stamping and embossing.  The large black tag uses stamps from Rustic Christmas.  The large white tag uses images from the new Festive Florals Stamps.  Next up, and oldie but goodies the snowflakes are from Cozy Winter Wishes.  The small Dotted Tag was created using one of the patterns on the trees in the Filled Christmas Tree Stamps.  The final tag uses the bell tag die from Ornamental Christmas Tag Dies and a stamp from Ornamental Christmas Stamps.  Here's a closer look:

Thanks so much for stopping in to check out my project for Day 6 of 25 Days of Christmas Tags.  If you haven't checked out today's post.  Make sure to visit.  You will find out all about how you can win an awesome prize from Lil' Inker Designs and you can see all the other amazing tags!

Also, be sure to check out all the past posts and keep watching for more.  There are other amazing sponsors just like Lil' Inker Designs giving out prizes for all sorts of things.  All the details are on the 25 Days of Christmas Tags posts.  Thanks so much, Tracey for having us!!  Keep having tag making fun.  :)

It's A Great Day For a Coffee...Hop!

I'm a little slow getting this post going this morning but I have been pretty sick this week.  It was the kind of sick where you can't even taste your coffee.  Is there anything worse than that?  It sure didn't stop me from drinking it though.  Ha ha!  Despite feeling a little under the weather, I couldn't help but join Amy in the Holiday Coffee Lover's Bloghop.  I am, after all, a MAJOR coffee-a-holic and I adore a good coffee card.  ;)  Make sure you check out Amy's post for all the awesome info and to check out the amazing sponsors for this bloghop.  It really warms my heart to see all this love of coffee.  ;)

Here's my creation for the hop:

I decided to go with some packaging since I got this awesome bag in my Studio Calico kit for the month.  It's gorgeous!  I used Anytime Tags Die Set 2 to create my tags and the Awesome Word Die and Seriously Awesome Stamps for my sentiment.  I decided to have my coffee cup dangle from the tag on some of the gold twine which meant I needed something dangling at the other end too so why not use some layered Snowflake Dies?  My coffee cup was made using the Coffee Cozy Die Set, Coffee Cozy Stamps , and Cozy Winter Wishes Stamp Set.  I'm thinking this could be fun with a gift card and some fun coffee accessories inside.  We'll see!  ;)

I hope you will join us on the hop!  Make sure to check out Amy's post for all the details!  Thanks for stopping by!

Lil' Inker Designs October Release Day 2

It's day two of our amazing Lil' Inker Designs October release bloghop.  Hopefully, you are coming from Amy's blog.  If not, you might want to go to the Lil' Inker blog to make sure you start at the beginning.

You are going to love the products I'm showing today just as much as yesterday's amazing designs.  Lucky for you, all the items from the October release are already available in the Lil' Inker Store.  You can have it all on its way to you while you sit back and enjoy the inspiration all along the bloghop.  Oh!  Don't forget to comment as you go, Laura is giving away a $15 credit to 3 lucky hoppers.  Awesome!

This first card uses the new Cover Up Die:  Snowflakes and, boy, is this an amazing die.  You may think I'm crazy but my favorite thing about this is the fact that there is white space.  So many cover dies that I find are crammed full of whatever shape they are using and they leave no space for your eye to rest and really enjoy what you are looking at.  I guess, to me, they can be busy.  The Cover Up Die:  Snowflakes is simple perfection.  Just look:

For my card, I cut two of these gorgeous die cuts, one in navy and one in vellum.  Let's see what you think.

I layered these die cuts (a bit offset) on some mirrored cardstock.  I love the little peek of the vellum around the edges of each snowflake.  Finishing the card was easy, a sentiment from the Cozy Winter Wishes Stamp Set embossed in white on vellum and some coordinating enamel dots and the card was done.  See how not every snowflake touches another?  That is why I love this so much.  Each snowflake gets its own shining moment.  Gorgeous!

Next up, I'm going to play with some more snowflakes using the Cozy Winter Wishes Stamp Set.  I wanted to make a small wintery scene with these wonderful snowflakes so I decided to use the Border Builders Die Set on this card as well.

Here's how I used them:

First up, I inked a cut from Stitched Mats:  Rounded Rectangle Dies to look like a winter sky.  Then I used Border Builders Die Set to make a hill with glitter paper and another with pearlized paper.  I stamped my snowflakes from the Cozy Winter Wishes Stamp Set in black and embossed one in silver on a bit of vellum which I thought looked awesome (I'll be doing that again!).  I finished the card off with a strip of vellum stamped with a sentiment from Cozy Winter Wishes Stamp Set and a little bling. 

My last card uses another fun stamp set, Big Christmas Stamp Set.  These sentiments can carry a card all on their own.  Just look...

I was wondering in a store one day with my coffee in hand and I saw the most adorable packaging.  It was wood and gold but SUPER simple.  When I saw the Big Christmas Stamp Set I knew I wanted to do a play on that packaging.  I found some wood panel patterned paper in my stash and cut the Small Bow Die from gold glitter paper to hold this awesome kraft and gold glitter tag that I had in my stash.  To make the sentiment pop with all that glitter, I cut a piece of acetate to wrap around the tag.  I stamped and embossed the sentiment in black and it really pops...no additional bling needed.  ;)

I hope you liked my cards today and I'm so happy you stopped by to see what I created with all these amazing Lil' Inker Designs products.  You better get going though, if you want to get to all the amazing blogs in today's hop.  See you again tomorrow!

Laura/Shop

Amy Kolling

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

Erin Lee Schreiner 

Jen Carter

Karen Baker

Kristen Foreman

Laura Williams

Lea Lawson

Lisa Henke

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Maureen Merritt

Sarah Jay

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