Wishing You Joy & Jolly

Hello!! It's time for another Lil' Inker Designs Release!  Yea!  This is a holiday release too!  That is hard to believe also!  How can the holidays be sneaking up on us already?

This month we have a special guest designer with us!  She has such beautiful work and I am so excited to have her join us!  If you are following along in the blog hop, you should have come her blog!  It is none other than Jeanne Jachna!   If you'd like to start at the beginning, visit Laura's blog.

There are prizes up for grabs, so be sure to leave a comment on my post for your chance to win!!

Now, to the cards!  I am pretty sure that I found a new favorite color combo...or at least one I haven't used for a long time!  Turquoise, gray & white!  Love!!

For this first card, I used a few old sets and a few new items!  I love mixing and matching!  I used 3 circles from the Spot On Stamp set and made them into ornaments using a new bow hanging stamp included in the Jolly Joyful Set.  The scalloped stamp at the top is from the Mom & Dad Sentiments set.

The "Wishing You" is also included in the new Jolly Joyful stamp set and the "joy" is a wonderful new die that I cut from white glitter paper. 

To go along with the new "joy" die, there is also a "jolly" die.  Both dies coordinate with the Jolly Joyful stamp set!  I love the options!  Isn't that "jolly" font fun!?  I die cut it out of white glitter paper.  The sentiment also comes from the Jolly Joyful set.

I created this Polaroid with the LID Instant Camera die and the background was made using the previously released Circles & Diamonds Stitched Pattern die.  That jingle bell in the center?  Yep, it's new too!  In fact, with this release there are now 3 sizes of bells available!  A small, medium & large!  This is the largest Jingle Bell Die.  I used a piece of yellow glitter paper for the bell center.

There are so many FUN holiday items in this release!  We have three more days of sneak peeks to share with you!  Tomorrow, I will be showing a fun new cover plate die!  If you want to purchase these items now, they are all currently available in the Lil' Inker Designs store right now!

The new products I showcased today are:

 Ready for more inspiration?  Your next stop on the hop is over to Karen's blog!  Don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win one of two gift certificates to the Lil' Inker Designs store!!

I hope to see you back tomorrow for more LID goodness!

Supplies

Wishing You Joy Card

Stamps: LID Spot On, Jolly Joyful Stamp set, Mom & Dad Sentiments

Dies: LID Joy & Stitched Mats Rectangles

Cardstock: PTI Hawaiian Shores & White, CTMH Gray

'Tis the Season Card

Stamps: LID Jolly Joyful

Dies: LID Jingle Bells, Jolly, Circles & Diamonds Stitched Pattern Die

Twine: Solid Marigold by The Twinery

Cardstock: PTI Hawaiian Shores & White, CTMH Gray, DCWV Glitter Yellow, Silver & white

Patterned Paper: Hawaiian Shores Polka Dots PTI

Sunflowers: In the Round

Hello!  Welcome to another fun Twinery blog challenge, "In the Round"!  Today is my day to post over on The Twinery's blog.

You all know that I am a Kansas girl.  So it only seemed fitting to celebrate the Fall Kansas season with one of the things that I love about living in Kansas...sunflowers!  They are everywhere this time of the year but I especially love driving down the road and seeing the ditches full of yellow sunflowers!  I'm sure I've said that before, but it is true!  They are beautiful!

This challenge asks participants to make a project using circles in our project.  I love to make spiral circles with my twine.  It makes the perfect flower centers and so that is what I focused on with the sunflower.  With so many great choices of twine colors, I could have gone several different ways with the center, but I eventually chose the Solid Cappuccino twine as the perfect Kansas Sunflower center! 

To continue with the circle theme, I added some round gold sequins to the flower centers.  I also rounded the corner of my card.

Since this card has a very Fall nature to it, I couldn't resist adding in some of the beautiful Copper Shimmer twine!  This twine is so beautiful and so perfect for all of those Fall/Autumn projects!  It would be a stunning compliment to all of those pumpkin & leaf projects too!

You have two weeks to play along with this current challenge.

  

There are always great prizes up for grabs and this challenge is no exception!

 I hope you'll play along!

Supplies
Twine: Solid Cappuccino & Copper Shimmer from The Twinery

Impression Plate: Cover Up Die Pieced Chevron

Cardstock: Vintage White PTI

Ink: Harvest & Tomato Red Fresh Ink, Fern Amuse

U Rule!

School has been in session for my kiddos for several weeks now and I've been back at work for over a month now.  Hard to believe!

Since I'm surrounded by all things "school" I decided to play along with this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge to make something with a school theme!

I started with a lined bag.  I love these things!  Then, I used Lil' Inker Designs Notebook Doodle stamp set to create the images.  I added the "U Rule" sentiment because I thought it was perfect for a back-to-school project.  These would make fun gifts for any school event!  I also used some of the stars that were die cut with glitter paper from the "Starry Sky" die and popped them up on the bag.

Inside the bag I placed some colored pencils (since I used a doodle stamp set, it just seemed to make sense to include pencils!) and a ruler (to go along with the "U Rule" sentiment)!  I used a glitter pen to make the planet's rings glittery.  

Very simple.  Very fun.  

Thanks for stopping by!

XOXO

***This is my 2nd post today.  To see my Lil' Inker Designs Release post, please scroll down!***

Hello!  Welcome to another fun challenge from The Twinery!  This time the challenge is to create a project with an "x" in it.

When I thought of using an "x", I decided to make something that could be a love or Valentine's Day card.  I first found two round flair O's to begin the card with.  Flair seems to be all the rage right now, so finding exactly what you want shouldn't be too hard. I happened to find these at Walmart. I positioned the two O's where I wanted them on the card stock panel and then sketched out the X's with a pencil.  I then used a slot punch to punch the slots where the twine would form the letter and threaded the twine through each hole 4 times. For my card I used Blossom, Maraschino & Charcoal twine.

You could use this same technique to spell out a lot of different words!  

I hope you'll play along in this fun challenge! We'd love to see how you interpret it!  As always, there are great prizes that you can win just for playing along!  You can link up your card on The Twinery blog.

Thanks for stopping by today!