Lil' Inker Designs May Monthly Meetup!

It's that time again!  Time for this month's, Lil' Inkers Designs' Monthly Meet Up Challenge.  I'm super excited.  I love a challenge and I love to see so many people sharing their love of Lil' Inker products and showing off what we've been up to with them.  It's almost like we are all hanging out crafting together.  If only we could do that.  Wouldn't it be a blast?  I'll get to all the nitty gritty of the challenge after I show you my creation.

I decided to play with the Cover Up Die:  Faceted today to take advantage of that awesome heart built right into the design.  SO cool!  My anniversary is coming up and I thought this would be a fun card to give to the hubby.  I cut the Cover Up Die:  Faceted out of gold poster board and then cut some vellum to fit behind the cut.  I then took a piece of teal colored vellum, cut it out in the shape of the hidden heart, and layered it behind the frosted vellum to dull the color a bit.  I added this to a mint colored card base and tried to decide just how to draw your attention to that heart so I grabbed my Vintage Ink Stamp Set and Vintage Ink Die Set.  I cut and colored this flower to match the little flower on my sentiment sticker.  I loved how similar they looked!  I layered all of this around the heart and then added some extra bling.  I hope you like it!

Now, here are the details of this awesome new 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 May 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 May 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:

Lil' Inker Designs April Release Day 1!

It's time for another amazing release and I'm SO excited!  You have no idea how it has been killing me waiting to share these amazing Lil' Inker Designs goodies with you.  This release is FABULOUS and I hope you are as blown away by the team's creations and the products as I am.  Everything is just wow!  Lucky for you, the whole release is available right now in the Lil' Inker Store.  You should have just enjoyed all the awesome creations over on Maureen's blog and, hopefully, you got here via her blog.  If not, head on over to the the Lil' Inker Blog to start from the beginning so you don't miss a thing.  You will want to see all the amazing creations for this release.

Today, I'm going to show off these amazing products:  Vintage Ink Die Set, Vintage Ink Stamp Set, Just Sayin' Stamp Set, Speech Bubbles 2 Die Set and the We Connect Stamp Set.  First up, a card using the Vintage Ink Die Set and the Vintage Ink Stamp Set.

I have to say, if you like to color, the Vintage Ink Die Set and the Vintage Ink Stamp Set are TOTALLY for you!  I had the best time coloring these images.  I made sure to use black to do some of the shading to try to get that authentic vintage tattoo look.  I love how it turned out.  I cut both the anchor and the banner out and layered them on a patterned piece of paper that I cut with the recently released Stitched Mats: Dual Stitched Rectangles.  I then added that to a cardbase I created with vellum and black cardstock cut with the amazing Cover Up Die: Center Point Chevron.

Next up, I had some fun with Just Sayin' Stamp Set and Speech Bubbles 2 Die Set.

I love these adorable speech bubbles!  They are a great addition to the Lil' Inker die line up.  For this card, I cut two pieces of tannish patterned paper with the Stitched Mats: Dual Stitched Rectangles.  Next I cut two Speech Bubbles 2 bubbles from some pink polkadot papers which I then stamped with some of the hilariously awesome sentiments found in the Just Sayin' Stamp Set.  I finished it off with some twine, a heart from Of the Heart Dies and some heart stickers.  How awesome is that?

Finally, my card using the We Connect Stamp Set.

I stamped those gorgeous circles from the We Connect Stamp Set in a kraft colored ink before coloring them with copics in a similar color.  I then embossed my sentiment from We Connect Stamp Set in a turquoise in the center of my image.  I cut this out and layered it on some matching turquoise cardstock which I also trimmed to the same shape before adding it to my cardfront with two fun patterned papers.  I can see TONS of coloring and black and white potential with this fun stamp set.  I can't wait to play with it some more.  ;)

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

Laura Williams

Lisa Henke 

Heather Hoffman

Karen Baker 

Lea Lawson 

Sarah Jay 

Maureen Merritt 

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

Amy Kolling

Jen Carter

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