World Card Making Day

Happy World Cardmaking Day, everyone!  I hope you all have some time to head to your crafty spaces and make some amazing creations.  Lil' Inker Designs is having a great sale today in honor of all the cardmakers out there and I hope you'll check it out.  You'll enjoy 10% off your order of anything in the Cover Up Dies or Quilted Stitched Dies categories including this brand new die we are releasing today called Diagonal Plaid!  It's an awesome sale and an awesome new product all in celebration of an awesome day...AWESOME!  ;)  Do you want to see what this new die can do?  Here's what I created:

I used some wood grain paper to create this tone on tone background using the new Diagonal Plaid.  I just love having this die along with Perfectly Plaid.  So many fun ways to use them on their own or combined.  Just make two cuts and flip one and you get a totally different look!  I stuck with just one cut since I was afraid any more would look too busy with the wood grain.  I added a strip of vellum along the middle following one of the lines of the Diagonal Plaid die.  To this, I added a sentiment from Festive Florals Stamps and a strip of metallic green paper.  Then, I got to work arranging the Festive Florals Stamps that I water colored and cut with Festive Florals Dies along the bottom corner of my card.  I added some sequins and enamel dots to finish the card and I'm super happy to add it to my Christmas card stash.  Here's a closer look:

 
I hope you guys are all having a great World Card Making Day and I can't wait to get out and see what you all are creating!  Have a great day and make sure to check out the awesome sale over at Lil' Inker Designs.

Here's what I used today:

     

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 October Release Day #1

Hi, you guys!  It's day one of the Lil' Inker Designs New Release Blog Hop and I'm super excited to share all the new products with you!  I think you are really going to enjoy this release and all the new inspiration from our team.  It's packed with fun, as always and, lucky for you, all the new products are available right now at the Lil' Inker Store!  We have an amazing blog hop for you today so, hopefully, you are coming from Amy's blog and if not, you won't want to miss her amazing creations or anyone's for that matter!  So make sure you didn't miss anyone and start at the Lil' Inker Blog.  Now for the fun!

My first card uses the awesome Festive Florals Stamps and Festive Florals Dies. 

I started this card with a kraft card base and a plan to use some nontraditional Christmas colors.  I stamped and embossed my poinsettias from Festive Florals Stamps on a piece of pink cardstock with a black glitter embossing powder.  Next, I stamped, embossed, and cut a poinsettia from a wine cardstock using the Festive Florals Dies.  I trimmed my pink so that it took up a small portion of the lower card and attached it to the card front.  I stamped a sentiment on an off white cardstock with Festive Florals Stamps and layered it over the pink to make a sentiment banner.  I finished the card up by popping my wine colored poinsettia with some foam tape.  Here's another peek:

Since I'm on a floral kick, I'll share what I made with the Vintage Christmas Wreath Stamps and Vintage Christmas Wreath Dies.

I searched through my patterned paper stash for a paper that looked a little vintage.  I lucked out and found two sheets of this postcard style paper.  I used the Vintage Christmas Wreath Dies to cut out my wreath from one piece in the same exact spot where I would be placing it on the second sheet.  Then I stamped using Vintage Christmas Wreath Stamps and colored my wreath with copics.  I attached it to the other piece but I felt it needed a little more of the florals so I stamped parts of the wreath in two corners to bring the same look to the cardbase.  Here's a closer look:

I have three cards today and my final card uses the Noel Word Die.

I found this fun star paper and cut coordinating papers with Stitched Mats: Long & Skinny Rectangles to layer across my card to create a great spot for my focal point to land.  I had a gold tree ring cardstock piece that I have been hording so I cut a portion of that out and popped it up with some foam tape before adding the Noel Word Die which is cut from red metallic paper.  I added a fun little Rudolph nose, some twine, and some glitter stars to finish off this card!  Here's another look:

Don't want to forget about our giveaway!

You'll want to leave comments along the way because Laura is giving away the ENTIRE NEW RELEASE to a lucky commenter during the new release hop.  The winner could be you.  I hope you are enjoying our new release!  We love sharing these awesome products with you!  Be sure to keep hopping, here's the list:

Laura/Shop

 Amy Kolling

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

 Heather Hoffman

Jen Carter

 Jessica Frost Ballas

Karen Baker

Lisa Henke

Don't forget you can check out the new release right now in the Lil' Inker Store and you can get all the goodies I used today.  Here's what I used: