Coffee Lover's 2017 Winter Hop and Lil' Inker Designs

Today's the day we all get to rejoice in the wonderment that is coffee!!  How much do I love thee, let me count the ways.  Well, that would take far too long!  I am blessed to be in the company of tons of other amazing coffee lovers and card makers.  What a great mix so make sure you check out all the amazing creations all along the Winter Coffee Lovers Bloghop.  Here's the card I created for this super fun hop.

I started my card making my own patterned paper with the Unstoppable Stamps and some watercolor.  I swished some paint across the middle of the watercolor paper and then stamped some dots around the swish.  Then I layered a strip of gray card stock with a piece of teal glitter tape over my watercolor swish to create a border.   I added a cute December calendar from some patterned paper before layering on my cup of amazing looking coffee using the Lil' Inker Designs Latte Love Stamps and Latte Love Dies.  This set is AMAZING!!  Totally a must have if you are a coffee lover.  I created this cute sentiment using the Coffee Word Die.  I decided I wanted a little more sentiment but I didn't think it would stand out against the polka dots so I cut a circle shape using the Silly Stitched Die Set and layered it under my cup complete with a sentiment from the Coffee Talk Stamp Set.  Here's a closer look:

Thanks so much for checking out my card today!  I hope you like my winter coffee card and I hope you'll take part in the Winter Coffee Lovers Bloghop.  There are a ton of awesome sponsors including Lil' Inker Designs.  Don't miss out on all the fun or your chance to win the Magical Winter Stamps and Magical Winter Dies.  It's a great prize so come join us for the fun!  There is also a chance to win a Lil' Inker Designs $15 gift certificate flash prize so don't miss out!

Here's what I used today:

 

Lil' Inker Designs June 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 Stephanie'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 project for today features Warm Welcome Stamps, Warm Welcome Dies, Welcome Word Die, and the Fringe Scallop Border Builder Dies.

I started this card with some striped paper that gave me my color inspiration,  I thought it would be super cute to show a solid corner, so I used the Fringe Scallop Border Builder Dies to cut a diagonal for my card base to peek out of.  I seriously love all the Fringe Scallop products.  They add such a fun touch to cards!  Next, I cut the wreath from Warm Welcome Dies out of some orange/brown cardstock and the flowers and banner from a soft cream.  I stamped my flowers, leaves, and banner sentiment using Warm Welcome Stamps.  I added some white accent dots to my stamped images before arranging them and my blue Welcome Word Die to my card front.  Finally, I finished it off with some enamel dots.  I really REALLY love how it all turned out.

Next up, I had tons of fun with the new Coffee Talk Die Set, Coffee Talk Stamp Set, Coffee Word Die, and Dual Dotted Border Builder Dies.

For this card, I wanted to have some fun with layers using the Love You Paper Pack.  I picked 4 fun papers and cut them using the Dual Dotted Border Builder Dies.  After I had them arranged just so, I cut the Coffee Word Die from some of the Mirrored Reflective Specialty Paper which I'll tell you more about below.  I added my word die layered with a vellum Of the Heart Die cut to my card front before creating my fun iced coffee.  I stamped my coffee using the Coffee Talk Stamp Set and colored it with copics before cutting it out with the new Coffee Talk Die Set.  I LOVE having this new die set.  Not only can I make my coffee cozies fun with patterned paper like I did above but I can cut out the straw from fun paper options!  It makes an already awesome set even more fun!  I added a few fun reflective hearts to my card before calling it good. 

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

Angel Rivera

Lea Lawson

Heather Hoffman

Jen Carter

Amy Kolling

 Joy Taylor

 Sarah Jay

 Lisa Henke

 Stephanie Gold

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

Karen Baker

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:

 

Now through June 12th you can get this paper for free with the purchase of the Mirror Mirror Stamps and Dies.  All you have to do is add all three items to your cart and use code MIRRORMIRROR at checkout. 

 

Lil' Inker Designs June 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 few products but before we get into all that I have to make sure you are coming here after visiting Lisa.  If not, head on over to the the Lil' Inker Blog so you don't miss a a stop on the hop.  You won't want to miss a thing!  While you are visiting the Lil' Inker Blog, make sure you go check out the Lil' Inker Store where all of the January release goodies, and a whole lot more, are ready and waiting for you to put in your cart.  Now it's time to show off these fantastic products!  I've packed in tons of products into this last day and I hope you like them.

Coffee.  Do I even need to say more?  I'm a coffee lover and while I like a nice normal cup of coffee in the morning (with a little butter), I LOVE a froo froo coffee drink just as much...maybe more than the next person.  So, I was thrilled with the new Coffee Talk Stamps and couldn't wait to stamp and color this cute little iced coffee!  I stamped it on a tanish paper and stamped my ice.  I colored it in just a bit with some copics but I wanted a little more color so I stamped my cup again on some turquoise paper and cut out just the little cup holder to add to my finished cup.  I love how the ice looks SO real!  I had this cute little coffee but nothing to put it on so, I grabbed this fun washi tape pattern paper but it was too busy so I used a piece of cherry wood veneer that I die cut with the fabulous new Cover Up Die: Eyelet.  I layered this over a piece of lighter veneer and added it to the card front.  I liked it but it still needed something.  I grabbed more pattern paper and my Circles Banners Dies to add a little extra fun to the card.  I added my coffee and for the cute coffee sentiment, I used a rectangle from the Embossed Dots Rectangles Dies.  Such fun all in one card!  

My final card of the release uses the awesome new Dual Dotted Squares Dies.

You guys all know how much I loved the Dual Dotted Rectangles Dies, well, the Dual Dotted Squares Dies are just as amazing!  I had so much fun taking full advantage of the dual cutting on these.  It made creating fun frames a breeze.  All I had to do was pick the papers.  ;)  I went with these awesome gold embellished papers.  I even found this gold hello circle on the back of another paper.  Love when that happens.  This card is all about the diecutting and these are some fabulous dies.  I finished it off with a glitter heart and a copic colored heart that I cut using the Of the Heart Dies.


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

  One more reminder not to miss out on these awesome papers!  ;) 

   

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

Amy Kolling 

Karen Baker

Maureen Merritt 

Lisa Henke

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

Amy Tsuruta (Guest) 

Sarah Jay

Heather Hoffman 

Lea Lawson 

Laura Williams 

Jen Carter

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