Color Throwdown Wednesday!

Well, Hiya Honey! Thanks for stopping by today! I'm here because it's Color Throwdown Wednesday! This week Bar is our hostess and she picked colors that were right up my alley. Love these...have a look!


For some reason, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do until yesterday. I was chatting with Tammy and she had mentioned Sentiment Flags to me and I realized it's been sadly neglected with all this Pinwheel die and stamp set release business. So I pulled it out and here's what I created...



I thought this little bear holding the flag would be soooo cute. Both the flag pole and flag border are images from the Sentiment Flags stamp set which you can find HERE. I also used some of my most favorite papers; Thrift Shop from October Afternoon. I was also able to incorporate some texture with a cork scalloped border, hemp twine, buttons and brads. I'm so sad that my sewing machine is deadsville! I cleaned her out and everything and she still didn't work! I've got to get to my Grammy's to get the oil! If that doesn't work to the repair shop the ol' girl will go...the sewing machine. Not Grammy!

Want to play along with our challenge? Head on over to the Color Throwdown Blog and read up on all the deets then make a card or other paper crafted (i.e. tangible) project and link it to the CTD blog using the linky tool we provide. It's really fun! I hope you will.

On a side note, the pinwheel dies are in my lil' hands and the stamps will be here by the end of the week. Honestly, I am giddy to be able to release these to you. I think you are going to love them. No idea what I'm talking about? Scroll down and see some of my most recent posts using these new products. Then, follow me here or at the shop and keep up to date on all the new release info!

Head on over to the blogs of the Color Throwdown Designers. Their work will inspire you immensely and you just won't be able to resist playing along!

Tammy Hershberger
Kristin Bueter
Broni Holcombe
Barbara Anders
Danielle Kennedy
Cathy Indelicato
LeAnne Pugliese
Keva Brown, March Guest Designer.

Before I go, I've just realized this is our last week with Keva Brown, our March Guest Designer. I have had more fun chatting with Keva over the last few weeks! She's an awesome designer and it's been a pleasure being able to work with her. Thanks, Keva!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Stamps: Sentiment Flags(Lil' Inker Designs), Honey Bear(TCP)
Paper: kraft(PTI), Basic Black(SU!), Thrift Shop(October Afternoon), cork sheet(AC Moore)
Ink: Copic markers, Tuxedo Black(Memento), Real Red(SU!)
Accessories: Sentiment Flags die(Lil' Inker Designs), buttons, jute twine(PTI), hemp twine(SU!), brads(my stash), large scallop border die(MFT)

Tag With Frame

Helloooo!!! I really wanted to participate in the challenge today at PaperTrey Ink to make a tag with a frame. I love love making tags and I thought it would be a fun challenge to try a frame.
Here's what I came up with....



I started out by cutting a 2 inch oval from my Cricut. I adhered the oval to the center of my Fillable Frames 4 and then ran it through my Big Shot and the result was a frame made out of the FF 4 die cut. I then stamped my frame with Background Basics: Text Styles. Then this was adhered to a black, polka-dotted textured base with foam tape making this fun 3-D frame.

I cut a kraft Sentiment Flag and stamped it with my dotted SF border added my large glitter heart and small red heart and then stamped my sentiment on my Sentiment Flag. My sentiment if from the Delightful Dahlia set from PTI. Here's a detail shot to show the frame layers.



I added my focal image frame and flag to a tag base which I jazzed up with some hearts with stitching, fun black, polka-dotted paper.

This was really fun to make! Off to link it up to the PTI Blog. You can read about the challenge and prize in this post HERE!

Thanks for stopping by!

Ingredients:
Stamps: Sentiment Flags(Lil' Inker Designs), Delightful Dahlia, Text Styles(PTI)
Paper: Confetti Cream, Real Red, Basic Black(SU!), kraft(PTI), Circa(Cosmo Cricket)
Ink: Real Red(SU!), Brilliance Graphite Black
Accessories: Sentiment Flags die(Lil' Inker Designs), Fillable Frames #4 die, double ended banner die(PTI), Cricut, 3 hearts punch, hemp twine, button, texture plate(SU!) small scallop border die(MFT), sewing machine

Day Two: Chicken Girl Release Day!

Here I am again as promised with a project made using the Meowy Christmas image from Chicken Girl's October collection available only at I Heart Papers! Here's a peek at the entire collection:

Chase the Snowflakes, Meowy Christmas, Gobble You Up, Good Cheer
And here's what I did with the Meowy Christmas image:

I have to be honest, I was planning to use the Meowy Christmas sentiment as well, but my paper jammed in my printer and it's late because I'm Last Minute Laura and with my son's room across the way it will cause too much commotion to fix, so a wintery birthday wishes it is! HA! Happy accident, though, right?!
Anywhoo, my colors were inspired by the Mitten Weather collection from October Afternoon which I also got from I Heart Papers. I really love this combo of plum and aqua!
My layout uses this week's Sketch For You To Try from Jen del Muro.
Oh I just love this little Meowy Christmas image! It was so fun to color and work with! I couldn't believe I was coloring hats and mittens and punching out snowflakes this early. So I added in some of my favorite details as of late; a pleated stitched border! And of course ribbon, but this time it's accented with a kraft button which I die cut from a Sizzix button die that I've had but don't think I've ever used and I threaded it with some of my new baker's twine in this lovely almost aqua green. Of course I squeezed in a Sentiment Flag die and stamp! You can check out my new die and stamp set HERE. I am loving this flag die and stamp set! I think you will too!
Before I leave you to enjoy your Sunday, please take a few minutes to head on over to I Heart Papers for all your papercrafting goodies AND please visit my fellow Chicken Girls' blogs for more fun projects using the new release images!
Tammy
Lori
Loretta
Christy
Kate
Michele
Judy
On a sad note, this will be my last release as a member of the Chicken Girl Design Team. I can't believe six months has gone by! I have to first thank my dear friend Tammy Hershberger for recommending me to Kate Baldwin for her design team and to Kate for welcoming me onto the team and for her generosity as well. I have thoroughly enjoyed this experience and I hope we can work together in a similar capacity in the very near future. Last but not certainly least, A HUGE SHOUT OUT TO Jannie Ho our Chicken Girl Designs illustrator. Jannie, you've created some of THE MOST DELIGHTFUL images with this line and it's been an honor being able to represent your talents! Thank you!
If you're here, you're awesome! Thanks for stopping by today!

Ingredients:
Stamps: Meowy Christmas(Chicken Girl Designs from I Heart Papers), Sentiment Flags(Lil' Inker Designs)
Paper: Aqua Mist, kraft(PTI), Perfect Plum(SU!), Mitten Weather(Oct Afternoon from IHP)
Ink: Copic markers, Perfect Plum(SU!), Aqua Mist(PTI)
Accessories: Sentiment Flags die(Lil' Inker Designs), Aqua Mist ribbon(PTI), button die(Sizzix), baker's twine(Paper Treats on ETSY), snowflake punch(Martha Stewart), Small scallop border die(MFT), polka dot and snowflake embossing folders(Cuttle Bug)

I'm Sponsoring the Color Throwdown Today!!!

Happy Wednesday! My wonderful friends at the Color Throwdown Challenge are FABULOUS and agreed to let Lil' Inker Designs (me) sponsor today's challenge!! So in addition to using the awesome colors today, each of the design team members and our new guestie, Carla Suto, is using the very first product I designed with ag designs called Sentiment Flags!
Get ready to play! One LUCKY WINNER will be chosen from this week's Throwdown's participants to receive a Sentiment Flag die and stamp set. And to show you even MORE love and FREE a die and stamp set, click on over to my shop blog for a chance to win there as well!! YAY!
Sentiment Flags is a die with a ribbon-tail end perfect for adding cute little sentiment panels to all your paper crafting projects. But why stop there? Together with ag designs we created a coordinating stamp set to *dress up* the Sentiment Flags die. The stamp set contains 5 fun borders and 5 uniquely-fonted sentiments as well as a cutey flag pole stamp to bring your sentiment to the center stage.
Let's have a look at the yummy colors for today...

And here is how I put these colors together with Sentiment Flags...

Card One:


In the interest of keeping today's long post as short and sweet as possible, I will direct you to the ingredients list at the bottom of this post, but will mention a couple of goodies. Here I used my Sentiment Flags die with kraft paper and stamped the fun dotted-line border in Elegant Eggplant ink and the Happy Birthday sentiment in Perfect Plum ink. I just LOVE how Sentiment Flags can finish off a project! I love love love the kraft flag. Also, you'll notice a parcel tag and some baker's twine which I will also link to in the ingredients section.

Card Two:

This might be my favorite of the two because I've used Sentiment Flags in a totally new way by making the flags into a banner. It was really easy to do. I die cut 4 Sentiment Flags and stamped each with the polka-dotted border and cut them down a bit and added my HB2U sentiment from some purple sticky letters I've had hanging around forever. I added a top border to each using a small scallop border die(MFT) and tied them together with some of my new baker's twine and a couple of purple buttons I've also had forever. I couldn't resist using kraft banners again. I just love the way they look with the purple ink. This is also a special card because it uses these cutey bunny and gift images from Chicken Girl Designs available at I Heart Papers from a set called Best Wishes.

Sentiment Flags die and stamp set are each made by the leading manufacturers in the USA and if you purchase dies and clear stamps from popular online retailers you are already familiar with the quality. It was my goal to bring you only the best products available. That's so important to me.

Sentiment Flags retails in my shop for $15 plus s&h. Click HERE to get to the shop and then use the Add to Cart button to make your purchase securely via PayPal or major credit card. I hope I've intrigued you with Sentiment Flags and hope you will click on over to the store to have a better look. Please also feel free to browse my recent posts here on my design blog as I've been using lots of Sentiment Flags to give you lots of inspiration.

BIG THANKS to my design team friends for supporting me! Your support and encouragement means the world to me. THANK YOU! Please visit their blogs for more FABULOUS inspiration using today's colors and Sentiment Flags!

Tammy Hershberger(sitting this week out, MISS YOU, Feel better!*Kristin Bueter*Broni Holcombe*Barbara Anders*Danielle Kennedy*LeAnne Pugliese*And our new Guestie for October, Carla Suto
Don't forget to play along! Make a card or other paper craft related project and link it to the Color Throwdown blog using the InLinkz tool! You don't have to use the exact colors, just what's close. Remember, there is a prize this week for one lucky winner!
I would really love your feedback on my projects and new products! I'd love for you to leave a comment!
Thanks for stopping by today!

Ingredients Card 1
Stamps: Sentiment Flags(Lil' Inker Designs), YOF: Morning Glories(PTI)
Paper: kraft(PTI), Early Espresso, Perfect Plum, Very Vanilla(SU!), Mitten Weather(Cosmo Cricket, available at I Heart Papers)
Ink: Copic markers, Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum(SU!)
Accessories: Sentiment Flag die(Lil' Inker Designs), Medium Parcel Tag(Mish Mash on ETSY), Chocolate Baker's Twine(Paper Treats ETSY store), brown button(PTI), Elegant Eggplant ribbon(SU!), sewing machine
Ingredients Card 2
Stamps: Sentiment Flags(Lil' Inker Designs), Best Wishes(Chicken Girl Designs available at I Heart Papers)
Paper: kraft(PTI), Early Espresso, Perfect Plum, Very Vanilla(SU!), Mitten Weather(Cosmo Cricket, available at I Heart Papers)
Ink: Copic markers, Elegant Eggplant(SU!)
Accessories: Sentiment Flags die(Lil' Inker Designs), baker's twine(Paper Treats ETSY), buttons and pop up dot(my stash), sewing machine, small scallop border die(MFT)

Whooo's Ready for Fall?

Apparently not me based on my color palette here, ha! Isn't this a great image for Fall? It's from Chicken Girl Designs' September release available exclusively at I Heart Papers. You can pick up a copy of this digi image for only $2.50 or the entire collection for $8.50. Such a steal for all these cute images.

To make this card, I first colored my image with Copics which I got from I Heart Papers to coordinate with my digital papers from Cosmo Cricket called Nutmeg. Available HERE at Jessica Sprague's site. Fabulous fall papers in fun colors! I just discovered a small selection of digi papers from them. I didn't know Cosmo Cricket did digi papers but was excited to discover them! Then I decided to use this week's Sketch for You To Try from Jen del Muro for my layout! Of course, I've adapted it a tad to fit my needs, but all the elements are there, I think! Love Jen's sketches!

I added in some pleated paper, stitching, buttons and a SENTIMENT FLAG!! No big surprise there! I can't help myself. I think the die just makes for the cutest way to add a sentiment to projects I reach for it almost every time now. Here I printed my sentiment from Chicken Girl in brown text (modified in Word) directly onto Blush Blossom card stock and cut it out with my Sentiment Flag die. I love that I don't have to cut the ribbon tails. If you don't already own Sentiment Flags, click HERE to read more about it or get yours today! I think everyone should have these products and not because I designed them....because I love them and you will too!
Please visit Kate at the I Heart Papers store. She is busy working adding in new goodies all the time and she has all the HOT and TRENDY paper crafting items you want!
Thanks for stopping by today! I will be back tomorrow with my CTD project of the week!

Ingredients
Stamps: Who's Ready for Fall (Chicken Girl Designs)
Paper: Kraft, Spring Moss, Aqua Mist, Ocean Tides(PTI), Blush Blossom(SU!), Nutmeg digi collection(Cosmos Cricket)
Ink: Copics
Accessories: Sentiment Flag die(Lil' Inker Designs), hemp twine(SU!), Spring Mix Vintage buttons, leaf die(PTI), Spellbinders Nesties

Color Throwdown Day! More Sentiment Flags and a Chicken Girl Giveaway!!

Good Morning! It's my favorite day of the week! I have a fun project to share with you today featuring my new die and stamp set, Sentiment Flags (available now and will begin shipping TOMORROW) as well as this great image from Chicken Girl Designs and OF COURSE, today's Color Throwdown colors. Tammy is our Throwdown Hostess this week and she's got a sweet combo for us. Check it out:

Here's what I made:

I started with this fun image from Chicken Girl Designs available exclusively at I Heart Papers called On the Moove. It's one of the images from the August release and it's totally my favorite. And today, one lucky commenter on this post will be entered to win a FREE August Release image of their choice!
As soon as I saw this image I knew I had to make a little scene and have her driving on a little road! As I was putting this together over the weekend I thought this scene would be a perfect way to incorporate the flag pole image from the Sentiment Flags stamp set! I stamped the polka-dotted border (one of 5 fun borders in the set) around the "On the Moove" sentiment in Tempting Turquoise which I printed from my computer and stamped my flag pole in Basic Grey ink from SU!. I popped up her sunglasses with foam dots for some added dimension.
I layered my focal panel on Melon Mambo and then on some Lemon Tart paper not Daffodil Delight, which just worked better I thought. But that's the beauty of this challenge, you can use what you have that's close. I thought my cloud paper background was also pretty close to turquoise :)
How can you play? Make a card or other papercraft related project and upload it to your blog or online gallery(using keyword CTD109) and then link it to the Color Throwdown Blog by using the InLinkz tool and a direct link to your post or gallery picture. Not sure on the direct link? Check out the detailed instructions on the CTD blog for some extra help.
For more information on Sentiment Flags stamp set and coordinating die, please visit Shop Lil' Inker. For more fabulous Chicken Girl Designs digi stamps and all your facorite crafting supplies visit I Heart Papers. And don't forget to leave a comment to be eligible to win a free August digi image from Chicken Girl.
Please visit the Throwdown design team for loads of inspiration using this week's colors:
Tammy Hershberger
Kristin Bueter
Broni Holcombe
Barbara Anders
Danielle Kennedy
LeAnne Pugliese
And Silke Ledlow, our Guest Designer for September!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Ingredients:
Stamps: Sentiment Flags(Lil' Inker Designs w/ ag designs), On the Moove, grass stamps from Hugs from a Bug set(Chicken Girl from I Heart Papers)
Paper: Lemon Tart(PTI), Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzaz, Basic Grey(SU!), XXX
Ink: Copic markers, Tempting Turquoise(SU!)
Accessories: Sentiment Flags die(Lil' Inker Designs), scoring tool, ruler, foam dots, white gel pen

Chicken Girl & Sentiment Flags

Hi All! Nice to see you today! I'm here to share a project I made using this cute image from Chicken Girl Designs called Just A Note available at I Heart Papers and my new Sentiment Flags die and stamp set available through my blog exclusively! Sentiment Flags are scheduled to arrive this week and I plan to start shipping on Thursday! YAY! You can read more about Sentiment Flags, my new must have die and coordinating stamp set in these posts on Shop Lil' Inker HERE and HERE.

I couldn't help look at this image and think "You Rock" and I believe I am casing the so caseable and lovable, Tammy Hershberger. I used my GIMP free image editing program to erase the doggie (sorry, man) and merge the kittie and the bird together to match up with my "You Rock" sentiment. Whatta ya think??

After editing my image, I printed it and colored it with Copics. I knew I wanted to use this week's SFYTT from Jen del Muro, however, my focal image is a rectangle to better suit my image. I then worked the layout with my Thrift Shop papers from October Afternoon, also available at I Heart Papers.

For my Sentiment Flag panel, I custom created You Rock! in MS Word with the Quill Script font and printed it. Then I used my Sentiment Flag die to cut it out as well as my Sentiment Flags stamp set to stamp the red stitched border. Cute, huh?

Please stop by and visit I Heart Papers to check out the full Just A Note image as well as the most current releases for August and for loads and loads of paper crafting supplies including all the delicious and wildly popular new papers from CHA still arriving in the I Heart Papers store as we speak.

Please also visit my shop to grab your copy of Sentiment Flags stamp set and coordinating die. UPDATE: the stamp sets are arriving this week and I am going to begin shipping ALL orders on Thursday! YAY!
Thanks for stopping by!

Ingredients:
Stamps: Just A Note(Chicken Girl Designs), Sentiment Flags(Lil' Inker Designs w/ ag designs)
Paper: kraft(PTI), Thrift Shop(October Afternoon)
Ink: Copic markers, Real Red(SU!)
Accessories: Sentiment Flag die(Lil' Inker Designs), linen thread, button(SU!), nesties(Spellbinders)

Color Throwdown Day, Lots of Projects & Sentiment Flag Pre-Order Starts TODAY!!

I have sooooo much to share today! Let's get right down to business! As promised last week, today's post is jammed packed with projects and exciting stuff!
Today, I am the Color Throwdown Challenge hostess! And I've picked some yummy colors for you to play with. Check it out:

I actually started by making the diaper cake below. But let's talk about this baby card first! Yes, it's another baby card from me!! But I promise this is it for a while. At least a week or so anyways!!I am going to keep it simple on the details since I have so much to share. That being said, I love how this card turned out! It's so neat and clean! I love that you can see the Spica glitter I added to the wings of the bee in this photo!


I made this diaper cake for my mom to give as a gift to her bosses DIL as a shower present. I've actually made a few diaper cakes. I started first making them with my mother in law and just thought they were the greatest! Each individual diaper is hand rolled and then the "cake" layers are made and put together. I then embellished with a little paper crafting and the duck-blankie on top. I also squeezed in some wash cloths in place of diapers for a little pop of color.




Next up, I made 2 of these cards as thank you's for the generous sponsors and friends who supported our 100th challenge celebration. You might be thinking that was a while ago and you're right! But it's never too late to say thank you! I made these scallop-petal flowers from kraft paper and stamped the top layer with Basic Backgrounds Text Styles for a little something extra and topped off with jumbo lemon tart buttons. I really love the glitter border I added to the bottom which I learned from one of Nichole Heady's posts. Loved that when I saw her do it! I really like how these turned out! I was happy to have been able to incorporate some vellum paper. I love how soft it makes a project feel!


Remember to upload your challenge cards to the Color Throwdown Challenge blog HERE and stop to visit the design team members for some beautiful inspiration!

Tammy Hershberger
Broni Holcombe
Barbara Anders
Danielle Kennedy
And help us welcome the amazing Silke Ledlow, our Guest Designer for September!

Wait there's MORE!!! I've been talking and talking about the upcoming release of Sentiment Flags stamp set and the coordinating die....WELL....I decided to offer a pre-order beginning TODAY! The dies are in my hot little hands. I'm just waiting for the stamps to arrive. I expect to start shipping them within 7-10 days or as soon as they arrive! I'm so excited about this I'm giddy! In an effort to keep this post as short as possible, I invite you to click on over to Shop Lil' Inker where I have more exciting details about the pre-order and the products!! You're going to LOVE IT!
I've had sample dies in my possession for months now and I tell ya, I can't stop reaching for it!! And now that I have the stamp set to play with! WATCH OUT!!! It's AMAZING to be able to dress up this cute little shape with uniquely fonted sentiments and borders that everyone will LOVE!!! I hope you will!! See you at Shop Lil' Inker!!!!
Thanks so so much for coming by today! Please leave a comment! I LOVE getting them oh so much :)

Ingredients(All):
Stamps: Baby Button Bitsackground Basics Polka Dots and Text Styles, Turning A New Leaf(PTI), Thank You sentiment(Verve)
Paper: Kraft, Lemon Tart(PTI), Vellum(SU!)
Ink: Craft White, Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip(SU!), Spica clear glitter pen
Accessories: Lemon Tart buttons, ribbon, Beautiful Blooms dies, linen/canvase texture plate(PTI), scallop border punch, hemp twine(SU!), corner rounder(marvy), crystal fine glitter(Martha Stewart)
Diaper Cake accessories: Wash cloths from Gerber, Duckie Blankie(Carters), empty paper towel roll(for inside cake structure), LOTS of elastics(various sizes), 100 diapers newborn and size 1, foil platter for presentation

Sentiment Flags - A Fresh Sample !

Hello! I didn't know I would be back this soon with a fresh sample using the new Sentiment Flag die and stamp set! I was so excited to finally have the stamps in hand I flew into my craft room tonight and whipped this up:

Do you like? Do you love? Here's a close up. This is just one of 5 borders in the set and one of 5 sentiments. I'm calling it Sentiment Flag die and Sentiment Flags stamp set. I personally am totally in love with this Happy Birthday sentiment. It's just so fun and with the polka dot border! I'm giggly!

I love love love that I FINALLY have a stamp set to dress up my sentiment flags! Yayyyyy!!!I owe a HUGE thank you to Ariana Grant for working with me on this! You can check out her blog HERE. We have a whole big bunch of ideas in the works that we are going to bring to life!
Again, I invite you to follow not only this blog but the shop blog too which is where you will be able to find our products for sale once we launch them.
Well...whatta ya think? Since this is truly important to me I would really love to hear from you if you have a minute to leave a comment!
Thanks for stopping by!

Ingredients:
Stamps: flag border and sentiment from Sentiment Flags(Lil'Inker with a.g. designs), polka dots, Blooming Button Bits(PTI)
Paper: white, Raspberry Fizz(PTI), Pear Pizzaz(SU!)
Ink: Old Olive, Rose Red(SU!), Brilliance Graphite Black
Accessories: Sentiment Flag Die(Lil' Inker with a.g. designs), felt, texture plate(PTI), ribbon, button, rhinestones, brads(my stash), scallop border punch(SU!), stitches rub-ons(unknown)