You Made It Monday, Vol. 48

It's time for another You Made It Monday and I can hardly wait to share the amazing creations I have spotted while looking for all that you have shared online for us to enjoy.  You guys made it hard for me this month and it sure seems like more and more of your are sharing your awesome creations which I love.  Keep it up!  We hope you enjoy our monthly You Made It Monday post as much as we enjoy sharing it with you.  So, keep sharing your creations and they could earn you $10 to spend in the Lil' Inker Designs shop.  We hope that will keep you creating with our products and keep you sharing your creations.

Here's this month's sampling of awesome creations!

First up is this beautiful card from Erica, @erica_cacacraft.

I love our Cover Up Dies and I have been seeing more and more of them being used in your card making.  It makes my heart happy to know you love them as much as I do.  This card really shows off the Cover Up Die: Stitched Quatrefoil.  Just look how amazing that background is and I love how Erica added some jewel accents.  Her coloring on the Bouquet of Roses Stamps is spot on (cut with Bouquet of Roses Die) and the shine on the Hello (Everyday Word Tags Dies).  Just finishes off the card perfectly.  Beautiful!

As soon as I spotted this card from Richard (@rlbreaks), I knew it had to be shared!

I just love what Richard did with our Best Blooms Stamps and Best Blooms Dies.  Those blossoms on the vellum just give such a light and airy look to this card.  It's magical.  I love how he embossed the centers.  It really made them pop and his perfect arrangement of all the background florals...WOW! 

Here's a fun little card that I just couldn't resist sharing with you from Biggi, @mimizitrone.

I love the circle created with Silly Stitched Die Set creates the perfect grounding point on a busy card base to make the cute little sheep and bird from Farm Love Stamps and cut with Farm Love Dies pop on this card.  I also love the monotone look with just some pops of red.  Gorgeous!

I spotted another amazing use of our Cover Up Dies on these card by Catherine, @sassafras1974.

Now, here's the deal with this pick...I had to pick just one picture to showcase Catherine's awesome work but if you check out her whole Instagram feed, you will see that she using the Cover Up Die: Geometric Snow in SO many different ways and got so many different looks.  You absolutely must check it out.  I was floored by her creativity.  I chose this one because I love how she combined so many sets.  The bird from Farm Love Stamps looks adorable carrying the banner from Easter Parade Stamps.  Such a cute combo and such happy cards!

Our Final card comes from Leight, @leighhouston11, because I just can't help sharing all the amazing things you guys are doing with the Lovely and Sweet Stamps.

If I didn't know better I would think this was a print for sale on someone cute little Etsy store.  WOW!  Leigh created a true work of art with this card and you will want to check out her Instagram post to read about the fun way she created it.  The colors are so cheery and it is the perfect folksy but modern look.  I couldn't ask for our Lovely and Sweet Stamps to be used in a more outstanding way.  AMAZING!

We hope you enjoyed this glimpse of the amazing creations you guys are sharing using the Lil' Inker Designs products.  I can't wait to see what else I discover in the week's to come and have the pleasure of sharing them with you on our next addition of You Made It Monday.

We want to make sure you know how much we appreciate you sharing your creations with us and others so, I will be awarding the 5 featured You Made It Monday participants each month with a $10 Lil' Inker Designs Gift Certificate!  I'm so excited about this!  You also get to proudly display our special blog badge showing that you were picked as a feature!

If you're featured here in a You Made It Monday Post then you are a WINNER!!!!

To claim your prize, email me at lilinkerdesigns@gmail.com with subject line You Made It Monday Winner and add the "Volume" number as listed in the title of our blog post. So these winners will write in the subject line:

You Made It Monday Vol. 48 Prize Winner

To be a part of our You Made It Monday feature be sure to use (hashtag) #lilinkerdesigns so we can find you on social media and the internet.  5 people will be featured each month and if you are featured you win a $10 store credit to Lil' Inker Designs - yahoooooo!!!!!

We loved your work this week and we're so happy to see it!  

See you soon and happy crafting!!!!

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It's Flashback Friday!

Hello!  Welcome to our Flashback Friday Post where we share projects using previously released stamps and dies as the focus of our inspiration today! 

To celebrate, our flashback items featured will also be ON SALE for a limited time! 

It's Lisa Henke here today and I am so excited to share my little gifty card duo. I just love making cards that match a gift tag or in this case, a Gift Card Holder. Did you know that LID has the cutest little Stitched Gift & Note Card Holder Die? I don't know about you, but we give A LOT of gift cards as gifts. I think they are perfect for anyone and they get to pick out just what they want. I know some people think they are a bit impersonal, but NOT when you dress them up and make them cute with stamps and dies! 

Here, I used some soft grey card stock and stamped a pretty floral background with the Best Blooms stamps and then added some twine and tied on a tag from our Anytime Tags Die Set. 

For my card above, I started with a square card base which I die cut with one of my favorite dies. It's the Quilted Stitched So Knotty Die! I love how quickly and easily it adds texture and visual interest. I then added a few of these cute florals using the Best Blooms Stamps and Dies. Once I adhered these to my card, I wrapped the base with vellum and overlaid it with a die cut using my Smile Word Die.

Here are the items I used on my projects that are ON SALE NOW for Flashback Friday: Stitched Gift & Note Card Holder Die, Quilted Stitched So Knotty Die, Best Blooms Stamps and Best Blooms Dies!

Each of these items will be on sale 20% off for a limited time through July 28th (EST) or while supplies last with the exception of our Stitched Gift & Note Card Holder Die which is 50% off! Yahooo!!!

Here are some other projects from our Design Team Members using the Flashback Friday Sale items. 

Best Blooms

Quilted Stitched So Knotty

Stitched Gift & Note Card Holder Die

I hope you're as inspired as I am to get out these crafty supplies and get inky and I hope you like the brand new projects I made to share with you today!

Shop our Flashback Friday Sale now through 7/28 by visiting Lil' Inker Designs today! 

We'll see you on August 1st with a brand new release! We can't wait!

Thanks so much for joining me today,

Lisa

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April Release Hop Day 3

Hi there!!!!! It's day 3 of our new release hop! It went so fast!!

If by chance you're just joining us today for the first day definitely check out our Day 1 and Day 2 posts. Thanks!!

Let's get right to one last long look at the new items in the store this week along with two projects from Design Team Members supporting each.

Squee. I love it all. So here at my home, which is where I operate Lil' Inker Designs, I've made some changes to dedicate one room for inventory and another for packing and shipping which is also now a craft room as well. A lot happens in this room but something about the change.....I'm more organized and crafting in my new space was soooo enjoyable. I can't WAIT to get up there again and get inky!! Soon!!

Before we get to my projects today, here are two videos I made of me crafting. :)

 How are you enjoying my photographs, by the way? I'm trying to up my game a bit and make them as best as I can make them. It's SO HARD!!!

Up first is a small 4.25" square card featuring our new Silly Stitched Squares Dies, Pretty Painted Stamps and Dies as well as Grad Class Stamps.

I started by stamping my letters to make the word congrats and I used my new Ranger Distress Oxide Inks. Once that was complete I used my Wire Cutting Pliers to clip out the corresponding letters and I used Washi tape to tape them over the stamped image and made one pass through my die cutting machine. I also die cut my card base with the largest die in my Silly Stitched Squares Die Set.

DID YOU KNOW?? Did you know that the largest die in this set cuts a silly stitched border ONLY around the border of  pre-made card base? I love a one layer card and the most efficient and paper-saving way to get a stitched effect around a card base is to have this die NOT cut a square.  I hope that makes sense. :) 

As you can see, I then stamped a grad cap from Grad Class Stamps and some selective stamping of the word 'graduate' which I trimmed out by hand. The rest was simple - apply your patterned paper, arrange your letters and add your cap and sentiment. OH and I used my new Xyron machine to make the letters into stickers. Yes, I said new. I've always wanted one and I finally bought myself one. YAY!

Here, I also used our Silly Stitched Squares but this time the tag die in the set. Isn't is AWESOME!!!! OMGSH I love it so much. My floral images are from the beautiful new Best Blooms Stamps which I cut out using my Best Blooms Dies. The sentiment is actually from our Wreath of Roses Stamps. I really love the fluidity of that font! Now, I have this on hand to add to a gift down the road. Obsessed with this tag die by the way!

Interestingly enough this is first card I made when I started designing for this release and it's the last one I'm sharing! I started by stamping on kraft very much at random with Distress Oxide inks. I just love the way they show up on kraft paper. This was an easy and fun grouping to make. For my sentiment panel I used my So Thankful Label Die and So Thankful Stamps (border on label die). The 'mother' stamp is from our Vintage Label Sentiments Stamps which I finished off with a sentiment from Best Blooms. There's also a little Stitched Chevron Border Die in there and twice!

Of course, you can see it on the left peeking out. Love it! BUT it's also on the right too! I think it's pretty cool that you can use this die to add a solid line of stitching to a design simply.
I love how this came together and I'll be giving this to mom, of course.

We're giving away this entire release to one lucky winner and this one is AWESOME to win because it's a prize value of almost $200!!!!!!! All you have to do to be eligible to win is leave comments for our Design Team members along you way as you hop today! Yup, that's it!! Just make sure you leave them by Sunday 4/9/2017 11:30 PM EST.

Ready to get hopping? Here is a list of everyone participating today:

Laura Pryor/LID Store Blog <<----You are here

Amy Kolling

Chrissy Larson

Heather Hoffman

Jen Carter

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Karen Baker

Lisa Henke

Sarah Jay

Stephanie Gold

Ready to shop?? It's a great time!! Not only do we have all these new goodies for you BUT we've also just restocked a BUNCH of dies that have been out and that you've been waiting for.

or CLICK HERE to go to the HOME PAGE of our store.

We have some posts coming up for You Made It Monday and a special collab hop with one of your favorite card making magazines and their Design Team - that will be fun. Of course, I'll be recapping this post soon and announcing our BIG PRIZE WINNER!!!!!!

Thank you so much to the Lil' Inker Design Team. After reading the Day 1 Posts I literally stood up in front of my computer and slow clapped!! AAAhahaahahahahaha!!! They did an amazing job sharing their creativity with us.

Thank you and we'll be seeing you soon!

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