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.  :)

Lil' Inker Designs September Release Day 3!

Well, it's the last day of our new release hop at Lil' Inker Designs and I'm super excited to show off these last couple products.  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 Angel'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.  You can also check out the Lil' Inker Store where all of the new release goodies, and a whole lot more, are ready and waiting for you to put in your cart!

For this fun little project, I went a little batty!  I used the adorable Batty Hugger Die & Stamp Bundle, the Halloween Word Tags Dies,  Dotted Tag Dies, and the Ombre Stripes Paper Pack.

I started this fun little project with a tag cut using the Dotted Tag Dies from the Ombre Stripes Paper Pack.  I wanted a little extra fun and to bring the purple from the bucket of eye gumballs to the tag so I used the Halloween Word Tags Dies to add a sentiment and a pop of color to my card.  With that done, I cut out two cute Batty Huggers so I could stick them together giving my bat polka dot wings.  I stamped and embossed his smile and his belly using stamps from the Batty Hugger Die & Stamp Bundle.  Then I felt this guy really needed some googly eyes to go with the eye gumballs I created with a food safe edible marker.  I think it makes a great little gift and look at the pop you get when our bat's wings are opened:  

Next, I created a fun little card using the Spiderweb Greeting Die Set and Lollipop & Pencil Treat Holder Die.

I started with this fun gold stripe paper as my card base and cut the Lollipop & Pencil Treat Holder Die from black and gold paper to add a fun layer before I added my focal point plus it gave me a great place for a bow!  I cut the Spiderweb Greeting Die Set web window from black paper and gold paper so I could layer the sentiments just right.  Then I cut the spider from green glitter paper to add just a bit of color.  I layered my spider and bling on the web window backed with vellum before placing it on my card front.  Here's a closer peek:

 

My final project for this release includes the Pumpkin Flower Greetings Stamps and the Dual Stitched Pumpkin & Grateful Word Die Set.

I wanted to create some fun napkin rings for my Thanksgiving table...yup, planning ahead!  I carefully folded and wrapped my napkins before tying them with ribbon.  Then I got to work on my pumpkins.  I cut each one from a different fall paper using the Dual Stitched Pumpkin.  I stamped the lighter colored pumpkins with various fall colors with the Flower Greetings Stamps.  I colored some in and added glitter to others.  I filled the space on some with sentiments from Flower Greetings Stamps and on others, I used the "Grateful" cut using the Grateful Word Die.  I also used some images from So Thankful Stamps to add a little more interest to some.  Here's a closer look:

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 hope you enjoyed out new release!  We love sharing these awesome products with you!  Be sure to keep hopping, here's the list:

Laura/Shop

Heather Hoffman

Jessica Frost Ballas

Lisa Henke

 Amy Kolling

Karen Baker

Jen Carter

Stephanie Gold

Angel Rivera

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

Sarah Jay

Joy Taylor

Don't forget you can check out the new release right now in the Lil' Inker Store! Here's what I used for my projects today:

 

Laura's Birthday & Lil' Inker Designs Anniversary Bloghop!

Hello everyone and happy birthday, Laura and Lil' Inker Designs!!!!  If you are just stumbling on my blog then maybe you haven't heard but the Lil' Inker Designs design team decided to surprise our fearless leader, Laura, with a little birthday bloghop to thank her for everything she does for us.  We are super excited to share with you all some our favorite Lil' Inker Designs creations and we hope you'll enjoy the hop as much as we enjoyed sneaking around to plan it.

First up, I want to make sure you know about the awesome sale Laura is offering to you guys TODAY ONLY!  Check it out:

Make sure to check out the Lil' Inker Blog to read all the details!  Now it's time for me to share some of my favorite cards from my time with Lil' Inker Designs.  It was not easy to choose but I went ahead and stuck to birthday cards!  :)

I did some mass die cutting to make this card using 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.  Still one of my favorite cards!

This card from the most recent release will always be a favorite!  I actually started this card playing around with all the different combos of dies and stamp options available using Doodled Daisies Stamps and Doodled Daisies Dies.  These are really fun to play with and I enjoyed mixing and matching solid stamps with the image stamps.  When my desk was full of flowers, I realized I better figure out what I wanted to do with them all.  I found this green pattern paper that reminded me of the doodled quality of my stamped images so I went with that for a card base.  Next, I new I was dying to use the Happy Birthday Border Die so I cut it from black to make it really stand out against the green.  I added it to my card front using some foam tape so I had plenty of room to arrange flowers in front and behind the cut.  I laid all my flowers out so I could get the alignment of the swirly sprig just right before stamping it in black on my patterned paper.  Next, I fastened all my blooms to my card.  All done!  One more:

This final card just made me think of Laura!  She could totally pass for 29!  :)  I couldn't wait to use these Dotted Tag Dies!  They are SO cute.  So, I cut a tag out of a fun navy patterned paper and added a star from the Stitched Stars Die Set.  I stamped my sentiment from Keep It Sassy Stamps around my star and the Awesome Word Die that I added to build my full sentiment.  I added a ribbon and then put my tag on this card front cut using the Dual Dotted Rectangles Dies.  I added another cute stamp from Keep It Sassy to finish off my sentiment just below the tag before adding a little bling to the card as a finishing touch. 

I hope you enjoyed my creations and will join the rest of the team on the hop.  Don't forget to check out the sale in the Lil' Inker Store.

Laura/Shop

Heather Hoffman

Jessica Frost Ballas

Sarah Jay

Stephanie Gold

Joy Taylor

Angel Rivera

Lisa Henke

Amy Kolling

Jen Carter

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

Karen Baker

Ariana Grant

Have fun on the hop and happy birthday, Laura!!!!  Here are the products I used for these creations: