Make a Santa Pencil Topper: Lil' Inker Release Day 2

Hello again and welcome to Day 2 of the Lil' Inker Designs Release!  All of the products being shown today are currently available in the Lil' Inker Designs store!  If you are following along in the blog hop you should have come from my friend Amy's fabulous blog! There are three $15 gift certificates to the LID store up for grabs, so the more blogs you comment on, the better your chances are of winning! 

With Christmas on the horizon, many kids, teachers, grandparents, etc are looking for fun, inexpensive, little gifts to give to the special little people in their lives.  I think I've come up with a fun and easy idea that makes a pretty cute little gift!  It's a Make Your Own Santa Pencil Topper using the dies from the new Make a Santa Die & Stamp Set bundle (which also coordinates with the Triangle Treat Holder Die)!

Here's what one of the kits looks like and one of the finished product.  Isn't that so cute?  My daughter can't wait to make one!  She keeps begging me and I tell her she has to wait until I'm done with this post! LOL!

Below are a few more closeup shots of the Make a Santa pencil toppers.

I found these pencils in the Dollar Spot at Target.  After Halloween you should be able to find a variety of pencils very cheaply in lots of Christmas colors!  

For the pink face of the Santa I cut the smallest die from the Stitched Mats: Ovals die set.  You could also cut one of the hat brims in pink for the face.



I used hot glue to adhere my pieces but you could have the kids use fabric glue (mine was all dried up). :)  I cut two of the beards for each kit so that they could be glued together to hold the Santa on the pencil a little better.

For the bag topper I used one of the previously released Stitched Mats: Dual Stitched Square dies (folded in half) and then embossed the image from the also previously released but still trendy Big Christmas stamp set.

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In the kit I included:

Cut from the Make a Santa Die Set:  

1 white felt mustache

2 white felt beards

1 white felt hat trim

1 red felt hat

1 white felt ball for top of hat (or white medium sized pom pom like I used above)

Other items in the kit:

1 pencil 

1 bag for the pencil (1x8)

1 small bag for the other kit contents

2 small black enamel dots

1 medium pink enamel dot

1 pink felt face* 

*(either the hat brim from the Make a Santa die set or 

the smallest oval from the Stitched Mats: Ovals die set)

And, if you don't feel like die cutting all of the kits, pay a child to do it for you.  
My kids enjoy helping me die cut!

I have one more thing to share today and that is a card using another new, fun & trendy stamp set.

I know many of you will fall in love with this cute deer from the new Oh Deer Christmas stamp set!  I stamped her on kraft paper and used my watercolor pencils with an aqua pen to color her.  I stamped the white snowflakes, also from the Oh Deer Christmas stamp set in white pigment ink.  I also added the red berries from the stamp set as well.

The deer was stamped on one of the Wonky Squares dies and attached to gray cardstock that was die cut using the Cover Up Die: Stitched Woodgrain.  The deer & the woodgrain die just seemed to pair so perfectly together.  I finished the card off by tying a silk bow on the side.

 

Make a Santa Die & Stamp Set bundle

Triangle Treat Holder Die

 

Oh Deer Christmas

 Big Christmas

Cover Up Die: Stitched Woodgrain

Wonky Squares

  

Stitched Mats: Dual Stitched Squares

Stitched Mats: Ovals

There's plenty more inspiration to see using the new products today!  Your next stop on the hop is over to Heather's blog!  To see ALL of the new release items & to shop now, click here to visit the Lil' Inker Designs store!

I'm also entering my Oh, Deer card in the SSS Wednesday Challenge: CAS Christmas.

Santa Pencil Topper
Stamps: Lil' Inker Designs Big Christmas
Dies: Lil' Inker Designs Make a Santa Die & Stamp Set bundle,  Big Christmas, Stitched Mats: Dual Stitched Squares, Stitched Mats: Ovals
Other: Felt, Enamel Dots black & pink, White Pom Pom

Oh Deer Card
Stamps: Lil' Inker Designs Oh Deer Christmas
Dies: Cover Up Die: Stitched Woodgrain, Wonky Squares
Coloring Medium: Watercolor pencils & aqua pen

Other: Silk Ribbon
Carstock: PTI Kraft, SSS Gray