Flashback Friday!

Good morning, Jess here for Flashback Friday!!

Each month a member of our design team will be stopping by with a Flashback Friday post and will share a project using a previously released stamps or dies as the focus of the post - and to celebrate our flashback item or items featured will also be on sale for a limited time! Hooray!! :)

And you're in luck because I just couldn't limit myself to one item so you get a special sale on three goodies from Lil' Inker Designs today!!

I wanted to play with the Spring Flowers Dies and Perky Posies Dies and as you'll see I ended up getting a little carried away!  So here are the sets I used today:

Perky Posies Dies

Sending You Stamps

Spring Flowers Dies

I decided to choose a color palette, die-cut all the flowers using those colors, and then just started arranging!  

 For my first card I arranged flowers in the cool shades of teal, light blue, grey, and navy over the Quilted Swirl Stitched Pattern Die and then added the sentiment using our brand new Brush Script Valentine's Day Word Dies.  I also added a handful of sparkling clear sequins to finish the card!

My second card is more of a garden of flower dies over the same Quilted Swirl Stitched Pattern Die ;) I stamped part of the sentiment from Sending You Stamps onto white cardstock and trimmed it into a label.  I adhered it over the flowers with sparkling clear sequins and added the rest of the sentiment die-cut from Brush Script Valentine's Day Word Dies!

My next card was my attempt at CAS!  I kept the background plain and stamped the sentiment from Sending You Stamps!  Then I added a single flower and a few sparkling clear sequins.

My final card is a tighter arrangement of the floral dies focused mainly on the center of the Quilted Swirl Stitched Pattern Die card panel.  I added a bold sentiment using the Everyday Word Tag Dies (I cut off the tag loop) and a sprinkling of sparkling clear sequins!

I hope this inspires you to look at these dies in a new way!  And if you don't already own them then head over to Lil' Inker Designs and take advantage of Laura's fabulous flashback sale! :)

For a limited time only (through February 3rd, 2017 EST) or while supplies last all three of our Sending You Stamps, Perky Posies Dies and Spring Flowers Dies are 15% off! No code is necessary to take advantage of the special pricing on these items. Just add them to your cart and SAVE!

Thank you so much for joining me today for Flashback Friday!! Have an awesome and crafty weekend!

~Jess

December New Release Hop Day 1

Hi there!!!!!!! It's FINALLY new release day for our brand new December Release and MAN oh MAN am I excited to share the new goodies with you today! It's a bit of a smaller release than we've been doing but we really wanted to squeeze in one more release before the year ended!

I would like to get right into sharing the images of everything new we're releasing. Let's GO!

Our new Because Word Die and Because Stamps work tremendously together to create beautiful and modern looking greetings for tons of card giving purposes. I love this little handy die and stamp set and you will love their price point! Yesss!!!

Would you believe it if I told you? We have had this Friend Word Die in inventory for OVER A YEAR NOW!!!!! I know, right? What was I waiting for? Well, we had to make just the right stampable phrases as a companion Friend Stamp Set for you and I think we've done just that. This set is perfect for so many different occasions. It's a must have and again, another FAB price point on this set.

Corner Adorner Stamps were conceived out of an idea to give cardmakers the ability to create gorgeous one layer floral cards without the need to repeatedly mask and this gorgeous flower design is where we landed. 

The sentiments came next and they are some of my favorites. 

Now, that being said this set contains well, hmmm, one sentiment that is a little more frisky then we've ever done before. It's says it without actually saying it if you catch my drift. If you're not sure what AF means, Click Here to go to our website and find out for sure. :)

Our Quilted Stitched Dies are some of our most popular dies and I'm super excited to bring you this newest addition Quilted Stitched So Knotty Die which is a Celtic Knot inspired design and when used will cut this beautiful design into your card fronts with ease. This die is exactly A2 size making die to paper alignment for cutting a breeze.

YAY!!!!! We are finally bringing you a follow up to our original Sassy Script Stamps but this time in the form of Sassy Script Capitals & Numbers!!! These two sets together are FAB!!! 

Now, technically our new Latte Love Stamps and Dies launched on 12/9 with the fun Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop but we're going to show it off today as part of our new release in case you missed it. The stamp set contains two main coffee cups; one solid stampable image and one line art image perfect for coloring or water coloring. Then, we've given you five different latte images which each stamp in the centers allowing you to create the perfect cup. Of course we've also designed a set of dies so that these cups can be cut out perfectly and with ease.

Here are some projects I created to share with you today using Latte Love and Corner Adorner.

Here I started with a pink premade card base which I then cut with our new Quilted Stitched So Knotty Die. LOOK at that pattern. It's sooooo great!!!!! Then, I paper pieced the coffee cup from Latte Love and stamped the pretty, almost snowflake-like coffee center. I made the overall sentiment a little Christmasy by stamping a sentiment from this set and then adding a sentiment from our Holly Jolly Stamps. Also featured here is our Stitched Scallop Border Die.

Here I made a red card base and then did some clear heat embossing using snowflakes from our Cozy Winter Wishes Stamps Set. Then, I stamped and water colored the lineart coffee cup from the set and stamped in that snowflake-ish latte which I LOVE. The sentiment featured here is from our Coffee Cozy Stamps. It was perfect for this card. Also featured here are our Stitched Mats Squares which made for the perfect focal point for my latte. OH and I'm stamping my lattes with two different brown inks that I'm loving; Hero Arts Brown Ombré Ink Pad and Stampin' Up's Brown Sugar. Loving both!

This image was SOO fun to stamp! Now, this stamp is large so be prepared to use a very large stamping block, a CD case or THIS TOOL from Fiskars which is awesome from large stamps.

After coloring with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers I was ready to stamp and heat emboss this sentiment. I have just the right person in mind to send this to! LOVE THIS!! It's so fun and if by chance this one sentiment isn't your cup of tea there are four other sentiments in this set perfect for so many other PG card-giving occasions!

Now, hopefully you're ready to hop on and visit our Design Team. If you are and you do please make sure to leave some comments along the way because we are giving away THE ENTIRE RELEASE to one lucky winner!!!!

To be eligible to win, leave comments for our designers by Sunday 12/18/2016 by 11:30 PM EST.

Here is a list of everyone participating in today's hop:

Laura Pryor <<----You are here

Amy Kolling

Angel Rivera

Chrissy Larson

Heather Hoffman

Jen Carter

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Karen Baker

Lisa Henke

Sarah Jay

Stephanie Gold

Then don't forget to visit our store to read up on and take home your favorite items from this release. 

What do you think of everything?? Loving it??? Have some faves??

ME TOO!!!!

Thank you so much for spending part of your day with us today. We'll see you tomorrow for Day 2 of our new release hop!!!!! 

Love and Merry Christmas Wishes,

Fringe Flower Die - Fun Bookmark Idea & A Great Tutorial

Hi there! Our Designer, Jen Carter, has a fabulous post up on her blog that you just MUST check out! She made the coolest bookmark using our Fringe Flower Die.



Here's a little peak.....



And if that isn't enough cuteness already, check out this one......



Jen took two different colors of felt to make this cutie and she's created a FAB picture tutorial to show you exactly how she did it! Thanks, Jen! I can just see loads of pretty color combos for this technique!

Head on over to Jen's Ink Spot and check out this fun and informative post and learn a technique using our AMAZING Fringe Flower Die just released September 19th!!

And don't forget to visit our shop HERE to check out our brand new Fringe Flower Die. It's a MUST have for fast and fun flowers!

Thanks for stopping by today!