Holiday Release Hop Day 4

Hi again! Thanks for joining us today! We had soo many awesome goodies release this week that I wanted to stretch out our hop to 4 days to make sure we showcased every little fantastic bit!

I want to recap my projects from earlier this week and I have a few new ones to share as well. But first, a quick look at everything we just released and currently available in our store.

Our Christmas Bits Die Set fantastic! It contains our previously released original jingle bell die from our Jingle Joy Set which is retiring. It was a fun way to continue to have the bell in our store and it just felt right to design all of these other little goodies to go with it. The tree, gingerbread man, bow and merry ornament are proving to be TOTALLY fun and adorable to work with and so compatible with our existing holiday goodies! A great buy for sure!

Our Cover Up Die - Christmas is certainly unique! It cuts a series of connected words and holiday phrases to cover up your card front making for easily mass produced holiday cards that are 100% mailable and MORE!

Well, I'm so glad you finally brought you some larger bell dies. Our Jingle Bell Die Sets are flying outta here! They're fantastic and fun to work with and unique being that they're two pieces that require a quick and easy assembly after cutting. LOVE!

The above three goodies are a modern and fresh approach to our original Jingle Joy Die and Stamp Set which we are retiring. We love these new Jolly and Joy word dies and when paired with our new coordinating Jolly & Joyful Sentiments they are amazing!!

Also, we have marked down our retiring Jingle Joy Stamp Set to $6 and they will remain at this price until they are sold out. 

Here is a recap of the projects I've shared with you this week...

I have so many favorites in this bunch! Here are two more you haven't seen yet...

Here I die cut my Cover Up Die: Christmas from navy paper and layered it over silver glitter paper from American Crafts. It's that plastic paper so the glitter is super smooth. Love that! I stamped my sentiment also in navy on a double ended banner die from our Flags & Tags Die Set and added a Stitched Snowflake in silver glitter paper to the banner adding a silver dot to its center. LOVE THIS

Here I hand cut my hill and die cut my tree from white paper and layered everything on a red card base. I stamped my sentiment from Instant Camera: Christmas Stamp Set and I hand drew my snow using a white chalkboard pen. 

Do you have a favorite project?

This has been a fun week. The Designer's projects have been completely amazing and what's super fun is that we'll have more projects to show you over the next week or so from Taheerah and Isha! 

Don't forget to leave comments along your hop today to be eligible to win one of 2 $10 store credits and maybe just maybe we'll be throwing in a little something else! You have until Sunday, October 20th at 11:30 P.M. EST to comment to win.

Ok, head on over to see Alicia and we'll see you SOON - next month in fact with another cool set of goodies releasing!!

Holiday Release Hop Day 3

Well, hello there! Thanks so much for joining us again today. The team and I are going to share more projects with you today!!

I'm going to get right to it! Here's a little something I made using our new Jingle Bell Die Set, Christmas Bits Dies and last year's Winter Greetings Stamp Set. If you don't already have our Winter Greeting Set you can't beat it for only $10. It has some fantastic sentiments and coordinates perfectly with our previously released Snowflake Dies! As you can see here I'm using all three sizes of jingle bell dies; the smallest from Christmas Bits Die Set and the larger two from our Jingle Bell Die Set.

This was SUPER easy to make! I die cut each bell from the same piece of red glitter card stock from American Crafts. So this was one pass through my machine. Then I assembled the bells by adding their "belts" to each center. Then I tied each with silver twine. To make them look like they were hanging I added three pieces of twine with a glue dot and folded each up and over the top of the card securing the twine with tape to the back side of the white panel. The each bell was adhered in place. I then heat embossed my sentiment. How fun are these bells?

Here's a little photo card I made using my son's picture. I used the bow from our Christmas Bits Die Set to turn the 0 in 2013 into an ornament. The sentiment is from our Instant Camera: Christmas Stamp Set.

Here is a picture of everything we've released this week and they can also all be seen by heading over to our store HERE.

This die set features the original bell from our Jingle Joy Set which we're retiring along with some serious MUST have holiday dies!

 This die is simply stunning....I don't even know what else to say :)

Our Jingle Bell Dies are super fun!

The above three products all work together. Gotta love a cute word die with coordinating phrases especially when the phrases are done in such a cute and quirky font! Use this set to say things like Joy to you and your or Have a jolly Christmas. FUN!!!!

Don't forget to leave some love along the hop today as we'll be choosing two winners to receive a $10 store credit each! Ok, it's day three so I'm keeping it a little shorter than the last two days. If you want to go back to post day 1 click HERE or day 2 click HERE and you can read all about our new products.

Go visit Alicia Thelin and I'll see you tomorrow for the final day of our hop. You will have through Sunday night at 11:30 P.M., EST to leave comments to be eligible to win a prize!

Thanks for stopping by!

New Release Day 2: Holiday Goodies Continued

Heyyyyyy! Thank you so much for all of your wonderful feedback on yesterday's post! These new goodies are definitely fun and I'm glad you think so too!

I'm back to share more projects with you today! But first, another lil' looksie at what's brand new... I'm going to focus on these first...

Jingle Bell Die Set - shown in the photo below assembled. Each of these two dies are a larger size of our original jingle bell die in our Jingle Joy Die & Stamp Set which we are retiring. These are each a perfect size. The large is perfectly over sized and the smaller is just perfect! Each of these dies cut two pieces: the bell base and the bell center or belt. They're pretty unique and the two pieces layered really make a very authentic looking bell! The original die is still available...see more below.

Ok, so when I knew I wanted to keep our original jingle bell die available to customers I thought of adding it with some other little fun holiday dies! Here is our brand new Christmas Bits Die Set! 

Keep in mind that the bell in this set is the exact same as the one released previously in our Jingle Joy Set. So, if you have that set and you want this one too you'll have a little giftie for a friend! Although, I never mind having two of something because it makes crafting a little easier and faster sometimes especially if you know you want to make many cuts from one die.

I am pretty sure that the ornament with the word Merry inside is my favorite. It's a perfect size and super trendy with the word cut out in the center. On the other hand, I have a severe love for each of the other dies in the set too! I am in LOVE with the stitched gingerbread man. I mean, how cute is he? And the little tree is so super cute. You can do lots of things with this one! The bow too can be used for sooo many different things. I think I'm going to try my hand at making tiny presents with my Stitched Mats: Rectangles and Squares and seeing how they look!

Love love love love LOVE our Jolly and Joy word dies! The font is cute and has a handwritten feel which I love. They are fantastic alone on projects or taken to a whole new place when paired with the phrases below. Have a look......

This is our Jolly & Joyful Sentiments Set. It's the perfect neat and cute font to work with our new Word Dies. You can create phrases like Wishing you Joy, Have a Jolly Christmas, Joy to you and yours and much much more! Included in the set are some really fun little elements; snowflake, mistletoe, ornament bow hanger, star and tree. Seriously, I love this tree so much that Karen designed that I decided to make it into a die (in a larger size) and it's included in our Christmas Bits Die Set.

So all of these products can be used together or mixed and matched and are an updated and trendy replacement for our retiring Jingle Joy Die & Stamp Set. The Jingle Joy Dies are already sold out, but since the original bell is available in our Christmas Bits Die Set it makes the Jingle Joy stamp set still totally usable and fun! I even like the smaller bell in the Jingle Bell Die set with it too! This set has been reduced to $6. They will not be restocked once they are sold out.

Last but not least we released another die in our Cover Up Die Collection! It's called Cover Up Die: Christmas!

Oooooooo, Baby! I love this! So, this die cuts a series of Christmas words and phrases in cute fonts along with some snowflakes! It's a unique take on our Cover Up Dies using text instead of shapes. Love this!! I love it so much I even created a video to share a technique I use when cutting with this die. I call it the Rock & Roll Technique and here is a link to the video so you can see it yourself! 

Here are a couple of things I made using our new goodies...

Here I used our Jolly Word Die and Jolly & Joyful Stamps along with our Holly Jolly Dies. Also making an appearance is our Stitched Mats: Rectangles. I first cut the jolly word die centered on my red card base to use the negative cut and layered a woodgrain paper behind it. I love the look. I stamped my phrases around my word and added in my holly dies. Love this!

Here, I wanted our new Merry Ornament Die from our Christmas Bits Die Set to take center stage and I think it does just that here with just a bit of twine and a stamp from our Jolly & Joyful set to create a Merry Christmas card!

I also want to show you again what the finished product looks like using our new Cover Up Die: Christmas because I don't think you can see how amazing it is from the product graphic so here is my card from yesterday.

I have fallen completely in love with all of our new goodies! I just can't stop making things!

Ok, so again 2 $10 store credits are up for grabs and maybe just maybe a little something else so be sure to leave comments for each of our designers! We'll pick our winners from comments left on a secret prize blog.

Everything seen here is in our store today and ready to go to their new homes :)

I'm going to send you on your way to the lovely and talented Alicia Thelin's blog for some crafty goodness! See you tomorrow for day three as our Holiday Release Hop continues!

Thanks for stopping by today!

New Release Day 1: Holiday Goodies

Hi there! I can't believe we are here again with another fun release already! We have some fantastic new goodies to share with you today that are perfect for all of your holiday cards! Let's get right to it!

 Here is everything we are releasing today...

First up above is our Christmas Bits Die Set! It's soooo super adorable! This is a five piece die set containing a Stitched Gingerbread Man, Bow, Tree, Ornament containing the word Merry which is I think my favorite piece and also, our previously released Jingle Bell Die. More on that last one in a few minutes. Each and every one of these pieces is adorable and after working with them for several weeks now I am still discovering ways they can be used for cute cards with some of our existing products. The tree was designed by Karen Baker and also appears in our new Jolly and Joyful Sentiments Stamp Set but in a smaller size. And of course Ariana did an amazing job interpreting my sketches and ideas into some really cute pieces! You will love this set!

Next up, YES - MORE BELLS! So, this is something that we have had TONS and tons of requests more - more of our original bell but in larger sizes and here we've done just that. For those of you not familiar with our original bell die from our Jingle Joy Die Set each bell is two separate die cuts which are shown assembled above. You will love these especially when used with specialty glitter paper giving them lots of pizzaz! You will LOVE these new sizes!

Above are two new word dies we're releasing - jolly and joy - two of my favorite and festive holiday words! These are words we've seen from Lil' Inker in the past but done now in a totally modern and fresh new way. You will love the super cute font and the perfect size of these word dies!

Here is the perfect 3x4 stamp set for our brand new joy and jolly word dies! We call this our Jolly & Joyful Sentiments. We've used a playful font to create phrases which coordinate with our holiday word dies. This set also includes some adorable elements designed by Karen Baker that I truly love and you will too!

Last but not least is what I think is going to be the star of our release.........

This is our brand new Cover Up Die: Christmas! It's a cover up die that cuts a series of holiday words and phrases in great fonts and font combinations and even included within the design are some snowflakes. This is a truly new take on Cover Up Dies seeing as how we've seen lots of shapes but not text - LOOOOOOVE THIS!!! In fact, I love this die so much that I've made a video chat demonstrating a technique that I think you will find useful to give you the best results when using this die at home. 

This is my first video for Lil' Inker Designs - a chat between friends if you will!! Pretend we're having coffee :)  Here goes.....

Ok, so now you have learned that spending more time at your cutting machine running this die through using the technique I explain will save you lots of time in the long run :) and get you the best results!

Here is a project I've made using our new Cover Up Die: Christmas

I just love how a bit of my red card base peeks out all the way around the edges because of how we designed this die! And I just loooove all of the words and fonts and snowflakes packed into this die. It's incredible gorgeous and unique and I think you will LOVE having this in your collection. I made this card is under 5 steps! Cut and score card base, die cut Cover Up Die, adhere to card front, embellish with ribbon! This was truly a team effort between Ariana, Karen and myself! Great job, Ladies!

Here is another project I've made to share with you today. It also features our Cover Up Die: Christmas but also shows you our adorable Stitched Gingerbread Man from our Christmas Bits Die Set. I hand drew his face and added some gold dots for buttons. Also shown here are our Stitched Mats: Squares (out of stock but coming soon) and our Holly Jolly Sentiments. Cover Up Die: Christmas is shown here cut in red on a red card base which gives it a whole new look and use!

One more project for you today. Here I used the largest bell from our Jingle Bell Die Set along with our new Joy Word Die and a phrase from our Jolly & Joyful Sentiments Stamp Set. Seen here is also our Stitched Mats: Rectangles. I am so in love with the font in this set. It's simple, yet there's something fresh and quirky about it at the same time! Adorbs!

Ok, so let me back track for a minute and talk about something else. We are planning to retire our previously released Jingle Joy Die Set seen HERE. (This die set is already sold out) Because everyone has been loving the bell die over the years we wanted to still be able to bring it to you which is why we added it to our Christmas Bits Die Set. So, if you already own our Jingle Joy Set and order the Christmas Bits Die Set you will be receiving a duplicate Jingle Bell Die. However, if you order our Jingle Bell Die Set you will receive two larger sizes of this original die which again is something that I've had customers requesting for a very long time now. 

You will recall that the Jingle Joy Die Set has a coordinating stamp set seen HERE. We are also planning to retire this stamp set but seeing as how you still have access to our original bell die it makes this stamp set still totally usable in lots of fun ways. While supplies last this stamp set has been reduced to $6 and this will be the last time you will be able to purchase it.

More exciting news to share with you today, we are delighted to welcome a very special Guest Designer with us for this release. I am personally a big fan of her work. I just love her style and I can look at a card and know that she made it. Her work has been published lots in CARDS Magazine and she's a fan of Lil' Inker Designs....Welcome Jeanne Jachna of A Kept Life!!!!!!!

Thank you, Jeanne for joining us! We're super excited to have you! Just WAIT until you see what Jeanne has in store for your this week :)

Unfortunately, this week Isha Gupta and Taheerah Atchia will not be joining us. Isha is on holiday and poor Taheerah's goodies must be lost because they haven't arrived to her yet after being in transit for almost a month now :(  Hopefully, they will be to her soon and she will be able to join Isha next week for a product spotlight when we reveal this hop's prize winners.

Speaking of prizes - remember to leave some love and comments for our designers along the way. We will pick a designer's blog as our secret prize blog and pull our winners from comments. So, the more comments you leave this week the better your chances are of winning. We'll be giving away 2 $10 store credits and maybe just maybe a lil' somethin' extra :)

So, I'm going to send you off to hop now to Alicia Thelin's blog. Enjoy our hop today and see you tomorrow for more crafty goodness!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you're loving all of our new goodies and enjoyed my video. I have had the best time crafting over these last few weeks with all of our new goodies. Fun fun!

 

Items Just Restocked!

Hi there!
Just a quick post to let you know that some items have just been recently restocked in our store!

Items include:

Stitched Mats: Circles 

 Stitched Mats: Rectangles 

 Original Pinwheel Die 

 Mini Pinwheel Die

Acorn Dies

Snowflake Dies

All of the above items have just been made available in our store! You can click on the links above to go to the page of your favortite of head on over to our HOME PAGE to see what's new. We have some adorable goodies for Halloween and some new Star Dies that are a MUST HAVE for every paper crafter!

If you have questions, or if there is anything I can do for you please do not hesitate to email me at lilinkerdesigns at gmail dot com. I love hearing from you!

Thanks so much and have a great weekend!