Lil' Inker DT Holiday Release DAY THREE!

Lil' Inker's Design Team Holiday Release DAY THREE!

W E L C O M E...

to the third day of Lil' Inker Designs with agdesigns Design Team New Holiday Release BLOG HOP!

I know you are just as excited as I am to see the second product we have to offer this week.

Well make sure you have started at Laura's Blog to start today's Hop order. I'm here to give you some behind the scenes of the Lil' Inker Designs with agdesigns MAGIC! First if you came here from Sarah Jay's blog you are right on track! Be sure you start commenting with Laura to be eligible to win one of TWO $10 store credits to the new Lil' Inker Designs Store! The girls on the team will have more amaZing projects to share with you the rest of the week so check back often!!

Wednesday and Thursday we are featuring

drum roll please....

the Jingle Joy Die Set 

and coordinating 

Jingle Joy Stamp Set!

Get ready for more Holiday fun and of course MORE cuteness with dies for letters j, y, and l and a two piece jingle bell standing in for an O. Together they can make the words joy or jolly! To add even more versatillity to the dies, the coordinating Jingle Joy Stamp set offers THREE sets of patterns for the j, y and l dies. The first pattern I like to describe as peppermint, then your traditional houndstooth pattern and lastly a candy cane pattern!

Can I JUST say I'm so envious of the design team gals getting to work with these sets!!!
You, again, all know how I love letters!!!

I can not WAIT to get my lil' hands on these
items next week!!!! (yay Laura!)

 

 

One thing I MUST share with you is....

that for the candy cane pattern IF
you flip the J shape upside down
you can make a perfect candy cane!

seeeeeeeeeee!! 

And NOW
for a back stage pass.......


(I hope Laura doesn't mind me publishing her sketches!)

This is where the Holiday release ideas began, right on Laura's kitchen table! After a yummy lunch and taking the morning to play with acorns and fringe flowers!! You never know what the end result will be. BUT you are promised something unique and original right from Laura's inventive and artistic brain!!!

Now be sure to Hop to Laura's blog and get more details and links to the Holiday release products and design team projects!

 I can not wait to have a crafty/mommy/girlie/friend DAY with Laura next weekend to
PLAY PLAY PLAY
with alllll these holiday must haves!
I hope to share some projects THEN.

Now hop on over to Amy's Blog for more holiday goodies!!!!

~enjoy~

=}

ariana

Lil' Inker DT Holiday Release DAY ONE!

Lil' Inker's Design Team Holiday Release DAY ONE!

W E L C O M E...

to the first day of Lil' Inker Designs with agdesigns Design Team November New Release BLOG HOP!
wow WHAT a mouthful!!!

Well make sure you have arrived here from Amy's Blog, in Hop order. I'm not posting a project but am here to say Hi and welcome!  Make sure you start commenting with Laura to be eligible to win one of TWO $10 store credits to the Lil' Inker Designs Store! The girls on the team will have amaZing projects to share with you ALLLLLL week!

So Monday and Tuesday we are featuring

TA-DA....

the Holly Jolly Die Set 

and coordinating 

Holly Jolly Sentiment Stamps!

set of SIX dies!

set of FOURTEEN separate sentiment stamp!

Get ready for Holiday fun and of course cuteness with dies for a tree with trunk, two holly leaves and holly berries. Each of the six dies feature perforated details you will find on our other LID products here.
Then we offer the Holly Jolly Sentiment Stamps in a most adorable font! (you know how I love my fonts :D )

A lil' behind the scenes! Laura is the idea gal! She is constantly sending me sketches and brainstorms of wonderful ideas she has for Lil' Inker Designs Stamps and Die ideas. In my free time (HA) I take the ideas she has and with my graphic design skills whip up actual files on my mac. Holly Jolly was Laura's idea to have a cutie tree that could be very versatile in use and decorating. The leaves and berries could be used alone to make wreaths etc. OR used to decorate the tree and its counterpart tree trunk. ALL of these dies in the set feature what has come to be our signature perforated detail that you can see here in a variety of uses!

Ah fonts are so FUN! There are so many to choose from and with our Holiday sentiment set, Laura has come up with 14 festive stamp sentiments for you to play with! The 14 sentiments are:

boughs of holly
Happy Holidays
Rockin' around the
Merry and Bright
Jingle all the way
Deck the halls
...
Fa la la la la
'Tis the season
Sweet Season's Greetings
Have a holly jolly Christmas
Believe
with


NOW don't you need these in your holiday making SUPPLIES!! Be sure to go to our spankin' new store and buy them TODAY!

Next on the Hop is Jen Carter's blog! Go to get more creative eye candy and inspiration with links to more of Lil' Inker's design team projects! I am looking forward to sharing our second Holiday release product on Wednesday!

~enjoy~

=}

ariana

Lil' Inker Designs Blog Hop FINAL DAY!

Today is the LAST day of 

the Lil' Inker Designs (with ag designs)

Design Team New Release Blog Hop!

We are featuring our NEW Acorn die and Sentiment stamp set!

Its really just ADORABLE see for yourself!

Welcome to the last day of our Hop. If you have arrived from Sarah's Blog then you are on the right path! If not head back to the beginning to check out all of the Design Team's amazing work! So today I am re-purposing my card from yesterday. Now on the last release day of the Lil' Inker Designs Design Team Blog Hop, I can show you how I combined the mini pinwheel die with the brand new Acorn Die Set and Acorn Sentiment Stamps. First up is the Acorn Die Set. I used the cute little leaf die with my magazine flower paper to get a bunch of great fall colors for leaves. I put them on the card in a falling pattern with the Falling for you sentiment from the Acorn Sentiments Set. I hoped to accent the movement of the mini pinwheel. Don't you just love all of these together!  I used a few markers to make the sentiment pop out a bit more. I hand drew some spirals and a make shift stem, to connect the mini pinwheel and falling leaf dies, visually. Here's a bunch more photos of my creation using the leaf die from Acorn Die Set and Acorn Sentiment Stamps with our mini pinwheel die. 

I wish my time with Laura for craftiness was much much longer then I could have done more with this guy too!!!!!

I look forward to crafting again!
At the moment my full time job as a designer in Prepress 
is just soooooo busy!!!!
I'm glad to have the work but it doesn't leave me much time 
also after my two boys run me around at night!!!
:D
But planning a day again, is in the near future, 
with my partner in crime Laura. It is a MUST DO!


Next up on the Acorn trail is Chan. 
Please be sure to HOP along in order to see other creations 
using our final fall release items and leave comments on your way. 
Then you'll be eligible to win one of three available 10$ store credits 
to the Lil' Inker Designs Shop. 
The deadline to post comments for the hop is Sunday, September 25th. 
The three lucky winners will be announced on Laura's Shop Blog 
on Monday, September 26th.


=)

~enjoy~
  ariana

Day Five LID Design Team Blog Hop Path

Laura

Julie Ranae

Emily

Debby

Teresa

Jen

Amy

Sarah

me :)

Chan

Alicia

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Day Two of Lil' Inker Designs DT Blog Hop!

It's day TWO of the Lil' Inker Designs (with ag designs)
Design Team BLOG HOP!


We are featuring for a second day the NEW Fringe Flower Die.


I am Part of today's Hop. I hope you hopped over by way of Teresa's Blog.
If not be sure you go in Hop order and post comments as we are giving away prizes at the end of the Hop.


Here is my project for day two of Fringe Flower Die's.

Being a Graphic Designer and having a strange love of type. This was a study in creative uses of type.


At Laura's house one day I started with kraft card stock from Papertrey Ink that she had already cut into a unique tri-fold card. I then used the black patterned paper from the mini stack B  and W text print series.


I used our Lil' Inker Sentiment Flag die to cut out pieces from an old Catalogue of Typefaces (Fifth Edition) from The Hoefler Type Foundry and another piece from the mini stack. I cut the flags in half and at different lengths to create the pieces under the Flower.


In having so much fun with the Fringe Flower Die I also cut some strips from the Typeface catalogue. I folded one strip in half to make a fringe border of the alphabet on one fold of my card. 


A beautiful sticker with a red border inspired me to use Pure Poppy felt from Papertrey Ink for the focal point of my typographic card. The wonderfully cute Fringe Flower Die made this red felt flower which has a tutorial here. Then still needing a bit of balance, I used a Background Basics: Text Styles stamp by Papertrey Ink with watermark ink by VersaMark on the left side to finish my card. Here are some close ups of my card.

Thanks for hopping and remember to leave a comment to be entered for a chance to win great prizes from Lil' Inker Designs.
Next on the hopping path is your last stop for today at The Lil' inker Store, where you can find these items that I used in my card.

Check back here tomorrow for day three of the New Release Blog Hop by the Lil' Inker Design Team.

~enjoy~

:)

ariana 

Day Two LID Design Team Blog Hop Path

Laura

Emily

Julie Ranae

Debby

Teresa

me ;)

Lil' Inker Designs Store