Friday, December 5, 2014

LID:: December Release:: Day 1



It's the first day of the Lil' Inker Designs December Release and what an awesome release it is! As usual, we have a fabulous hop for you featuring innovative stamps and dies! You should have arrived from Jen's Blog!


I have two projects to show you today and the first uses some of my favorite products from this release. I started by creating a custom, and entirely way too fun, background using the Cover Up Die: Faceted. I die cut this from black cardstock, removed some areas and filled some areas in with purple cardstock pieces (that had also been cut from the Faceted Die.) I topped the background with a die cut rectangle from the really cool Long & Skinny Rectangles Set, then used a sentiment from Hello, Awesome and finished the sentiment block with a die cut word from the Awesome Word Die.



My last project for this release features yet again the Awesome Word Die plus a sentiment from Girl's Best Friend and a die cut ampersand from All About Ampersands Die Set. Love that fancy ampersand!

Your next stop is Kristen!

Don't forget to comment along the hops, as there are three $15 gift certificates up for grabs to the Lil' Inker Designs Store!

38 comments:

  1. ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS cards Karen!!!
    LOVE the BOLD & BEAUTIFUL color combos on both!!!
    LOVE the "stained glass" effect using the wonderful Faceted die, LOVE your AWESOME awesome & ampersand too!!!

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  2. Oh yes...love the purple and gray together are fabulous. And wow...the first one getting all the pieces together was worth it! Fantastic Karen.

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  3. what an awesome card! ;) get it? ;D

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  4. Love these cards, especially the use of that great purple color!

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  5. You know that I ALWAYS love it when you post, right?! These cards are so striking...awesomely bold and fabulous.

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  6. The 'theme' that connects your two cards also captures what they are: AWESOME! Absolute delights!
    ~c

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  7. Great cards! I like how you've used the awesome days several different ways!

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  8. Love, love, love!! You and you alone just sold me on the Awesome word die! Fantastic work Karen!

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  9. Fabulous cards, love the graphic look of the first card and I am such a fan of purple and grey!

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  10. Fabulous Karen! Your first reminds me of a kaleidoscope and I LOVE the purple and gray on the second...I'm not a purple kind of girl either!!

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  11. Great cards. The faceted cover-up will make some awesome backgrounds for sure.

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  12. These are so pretty! Love all the purple!!

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  13. Love the graphic boldness of both these designs!

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  14. Love the black and purple. the black really pops.
    thanks for sharing some great projects.

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  15. How awesome!!! Purple is my favorite color.

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  16. The cover up die is me of my favourites
    from this release and I love how you have created such a beautiful card with it.

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  17. Love the purple and the graphic style of these cards!

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  18. Love that splash of purple on your cards.

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  19. Love your cards! Thanks for sharing. Love ya' Patricia B

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  20. Beautiful cards! Love the purple touch. :)

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  21. Omgsh, your cards are amazing! I love the faceted background with the pop of purple pieced on your 1st card.

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  22. I live the color schemes on your cards. Also the font of the awesome die is perfect.

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  23. Wow! This is a happy pop of color this morning! I love the random bits of purple interspersed throughout your first card accompanied by the pop of blue with the sentiment.

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  24. I'm loving the purple!! Great cards!

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  25. These cards are so amazing Karen, LOVE the purple combos!

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  26. These are very cool and graphic! Great colors!

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  27. Loving the purple! Greta cards. I love the Thanks card.

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  28. I really.really need those ampersand dies!!!

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  29. Both cards just blow me away with their graphic excellence!! They're wonderful!

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