July Release Hop Day 1

Helllooooooooo there!!! I am so excited to be here with you these next few days while we share projects made with all the new goodies we're releasing this month! We have so many great new items releasing! Let's get right to showing them off!

First up is a die set that I have been wanting for my own personal collection for some time now. I have a pair of my Grammy's vintage pinking shears and they're beautiful and I love crafting with them. But I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I like to cut a straight line and I like my pinking edges to be as even as possible and I just couldn't get those results with my shears so I came up with an idea for a set of Pinking Edge Sentiment Flags!!

These Pinking Edge Sentiment Flags are very versatile. They can be used for sentiments, focal panels on cards, journaling blogs for scrap pages and so much more. What I like about them is that you can tailor them to many sizes and cut them down for your needs and they can be used horizontally or vertically on any project and we've made those little cuts all nice and neat for you. Love this set!!

Next up is a wee lil' stamp set that I've received numerous requests for and now that we've updated our logo, etc... it was time to bring you what you've been asking for. Introducing our Angel Policy Stamp Set.

This is a set of three stamps all perfect for the back of your cards and tags and projects made with goodies from Lil' Inker Designs. We have lots of customers who create projects with our goodies and are then selling them on Etsy and at craft fairs which we love and encourage so this stamp set is perfect for them or anyone making anything with our items!

Next up is a die and stamp set designed to work perfectly together! Our Seriously word die is unique and fun and done in my hand writing! Use it alone for a fun statement or together with its coordinating Seriously Awesome Stamps to create so many fun greetings!

This is our Seriously Awesome Stamp Set. Together with our Seriously Word Die say things like, "Seriously, we need to get together", "Seriously Awesome" and so much more!

Next up is a brand new set of fabulous weather inspired dies but done in a totally unique way with these stripey die cut clouds. Included in this set are also two little lightning bolts and a "rain" die which is a series of stitched lines which will die cut into your card front or focal panel and create cute rain :)

Our new Cut It Out Clouds & Accessories Die Set just begged for some cute sentiments so we've designed our Dance In the Rain Stamp Set for you! Hand illustrated by Katie Vaz these sentiments are not only perfect to go with our new dies but they are gorgeous to look at and SO FUN!!

Next up is our gorgeous new Sketched Floral Stamp Set which features two super gorgeous and detailed flower blooms and stem but we've also included the silhouettes of these flowers so you really do so many things with them. We've also give you some terrific sentiments in a cool, vintage, hand-held label maker font. What's cool about these sentiments is that you can heat emboss them in white on any color cardstock and make them look like actual vintage labels or stamp these greetings in any color. Lots of possibilities here. This is a great and oh so lovely set!

Of course we had to bring you a set of coordinating dies! Here are our brand new Sketched Floral Dies which can be used beautifully alone but with even more of a striking impact with our coordinating Sketched Floral Stamps.

If you notice, we've given you a neat feature with this die set. The dies cut perfectly oversized blooms so they may be stamped on but we've added our negative stitching feature so that you can cut out these blooms on a card front and be left with this gorgeous stitching detail around the outside of the image. SUPER COOL! The stem in this set is the exact same size as the stamp in our set because we felt this kept a good visual balance so it can be used alone with either stamps or the dies without it appearing too chunky.

Last but certainly not least is another stamp set and coordinating dies which like our Sketched Floral can be used together or separately and I LOVE that! I have one word for you....GORGEOUS!!!!!

You will not believe how gorgeous these feather stamp are until you stamp them for yourself! And I just love the font we've used for the sentiments. It coordinates perfectly with feathers. This is one useful set too and can be used to create cards for birthdays, friendship, encouragement and MORE!! LOVE!

Of course we had to bring you coordinating Fancy Feather Dies! Love these and I REALLY love that they're versatile and can be used alone or together with our coordinating stamps.

For information about these new goodies be sure to visit our Lil' Inker Designs Store HERE.

Sooooooo, what do you think? I am love love loving everything we've released. The only thing I'm sad about is that I feel like I didn't get enough time in my craft room to share as many projects with you as I had hoped to. But I do have a few for you this week. In fact, here's one now :)

(I got a new camera. Are my photos looking better?)

This card features several new goodies:

Cut It Out Clouds & Accessories Die Set

Pinking Edge Sentiment Flags Die Set

and Dance In the Rain Stamp Set

 I couldn't possibly love these dies more. Here I used a basic grey card base and cut my clouds from light grey and stone colored card stock keeping some clouds completely intact and showing off other's stripey-ness. I also used SU's new honey colored paper and ink which I adore. It's a perfect, warm yellow. Tucked in the back there is my rain die. I love how this came together!! The Pinking Edge SF was the perfect panel for my sentiment stamp!

Before I send you hopping on your way - a couple of things to note.....

We'll be giving away a $15 store credit for each of the three days of our hop. The prizes are hidden in one designer's blog, our secret prize blog. So if you leave a comment for each designer you will automatically be entered to win a prize. You'll have through Sunday, August 3rd at 11:30 PM EST to comment to be eligible to win.

Here is everyone participating in our hop today:

Laura/Shop Blog <---you are here

Amy Kolling

Erin Lee Schreiner

Heather Campbell

Jen Carter

Karen Baker

Kristen Foreman

Lea Lawson

Lisa Henke

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Maureen Merritt

Sarah Jay



I hope you're loving everything you see so far! We'll see you tomorrow with more projects to inspire you! Have a great day and thanks so much for joining us today!