The holiday season is right around the corner and the team at Ink to Paper is excited to create and share projects. Fall is the season of gratitude, which leads right into the Christmas season of giving. We wanted to dedicate the month of November to a marathon of creative inspiration using our holiday themed stamps and dies. Crafting during the holiday season is very popular, and our collection of stamps and dies will surely inspire you to create along with us throughout the month.
Get ready to learn some fun facts about the company, designers, and of course amazing new ways to create cards, gift tags, and more!
Let’s take a closer look at the gratitude themed product collections we are featuring for today’s CreateAthon! Laurie Schmidlin has shared an amazing card to showcase her gratitude.
Just Sentiments: Grateful Heart Stamps
Inside Greetings: Gratitude Stamps

“Sometimes I struggle with adding sentiments to my projects. It’s easy to forget what an impact sentiments can have to a project. I tend to plan the images and then try to fit a sentiment in as an after thought. I have found it helpful to start creating around a sentiment. For this card, I started with the sentiment from the Inside Greetings: Gratitude set and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to design around it! After stamping that sentiment, I thought about pairing it with a die cut sentiment. From there I decided to add a coordinating sentiment (from the Just Sentiments: Grateful Heart set) stamped randomly on the background layer.”
PRIZE
During Holiday CreateAthon, we are offering a weekly $100 Ink to Paper Gift Certificate!
RULES
Participants may enter the challenge once a day. To enter, participants are required to answer the contest challenge question (posted below) in the comments of the daily post. HINT: Answers to questions may be discovered by reading a designer’s blog post from the respective day. A randomly selected winner with the correct answer will gain an entry to be eligible for the weekly prize. Participants can receive an entry each day a Holiday CreateAthon post is published.
This post will be updated with the randomly selected winner who gains an entry for this week’s prize.
Weekly winners will be posted on the Holiday CreateAthon page.
CHALLENGE
Answer the following question: What is Laurie Schmidlin’s favorite Ink to Paper product?
EDITED TO ADD THE RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER:
Congratulations Colleen B! You will be entered to win the weekly prize!
Laurie has three favorites: Thankful Thoughts stamp set, Lovely Leaves stamp set and the On The Border: Fall For Foliage die.
Laurie has three favorites: Lovely Leaves stamp set, Thankful Thoughts stamp set, and On The Border: Fall For Foliage die set.
The answer to this question is hard and depends on which post you look at. Every week she posts Laurie’s Favorites. But yesterday’s post shared 3 products…Lovely Leaves stamp set, Thankful Thoughts stamp set, and On The Border: Fall For Foliage die set. Today’s post did not list an all time favorite. So I’ll go with yesterday’s post. as my answer.
Laurie’s favorite ITP product is the background stamps. I love “Loosely Woven”, too!
I love these sentiments! So sweet and OMG typing all the shipping labels?!? Nightmare! Laurie doesn’t like to pick favorites but if she has to… it’s the background stamps both Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick.
Laurie’s favorite products are the background stamps. I’ve got to say, they are some of mine as well!
Background stamps!
background stamps!
Her favorite Ink to Paper product is the background stamps, Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick. Lovely card!
Laurie’s favorite product is background stamps. And she shows them off well!!
Laurie’s favorite Papertrey Ink products are Background Stamps.
Background stamps.
Background stamps – especially Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick. I agree – background stamps are the perfect thing to add that little extra something a project needs.
Background stamps.
Laurie favorite Ink to Paper products to use are the background stamps. I am beginning to use those a lot also!
Laurie’s favorite Ink2Paper product is background stamps.
That is a wonderful sentiment. It immediately brought to mind all the people to whom I would like to say it.
Background stamps
Laurie’s favorite Ink to Paper product is Background Stamps – in particular, the Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick Background Stamps.
The background stamps are Laurie’s favorite product.
Laurie’s favorite product from Ink to Paper are the background stamps.
Laurie’s favorite Ink to Paper product are the background stamps.
Lovely card and pretty background creation today1
Background stamps… Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick.
Background stamps, she says….today!
Laurie Schmidlin’s favorite Ink to Paper products are the background stamps! I love the way she used the outline of the leaves and the non-traditional colors on her card.
The background stamps!
Such a beautiful palette on this card! Laurie’s fave Ink to Paper product is the range of background stamps.
Loving today’s card and I believe that Laurie’s favorite product is the the background stamps
Laurie’s favorites are the background stamps.
Laurie’s favorite ITP product are background stamps (for example Loosely Woven & Rustic Brick).
Laurie’s favorite Ink to Paper product are background stamps! She says Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick are perfect for adding texture and pattern to any project.
Backgrounds: loosely woven and worn brick.
Laurie’s favorite Ink to Paper product would be the background stamps! Both Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick.
Laurie says her favorite product is background stamps! Not something I would have guessed.
She loves background stamps.
She creates such beautiful things and her favorite products to do that with are background stamps.
She enjoys creating with background stamps.
She really likes the background stamps.
Laurie says that her favorite Ink to Paper product is…. the background stamps! She says, “Both Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick are perfect for adding texture and pattern to any project!”
Her favorite product(s) are background stamps. specifically Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick for adding texture.
I would say that background stamps are Laurie’s favorite ITP product.
Laurie’s favorite Ink to Paper product is background stamps.
Laurie’s favorite products are background stamps.
Laurie’s favorite Ink To Paper products are background stamps.
She says background stamps!
Her favorite product are the background stamps.
Laurie really likes creating with the background stamps.
Background stamp are Laurie’s favorite product.
Laurie’s favorite product are the background stamps which she uses beautifully.
She loves background stamps. She uses a variety.
Laurie’s favourite Ink to Paper products are background stamps. Cheers.
Background stamps. Love the card and colors.
She likes the background stamps.
Her favorite Ink to Paper product is the background stamps, Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick. Lovely card!
the background stamps
Laura’s favorite Ink to Paper product is the background stamps.
Laurie’s favorite Ink to Paper favorite are the background stamps!
Background stamps, especially loosely woven and rustic brick.
Laurie’s favorites are background stamps. She particularly loves Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick.
Laurie’s favorite Ink to Paper product are the background stamps. Love her beautiful creations!
Laurie’s favorites are background stamps, especially Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick. I love her idea to begin with the sentiment when creating a card. I adore sentiment stamps!
Laurie loves using their background stamps.
Laurie’s favorite Ink to Paper product to use on her cards is the background stamps. She specifically likes to use both the Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick backgrounds.
Background stamps! Which are among my favourites too!
Her favorite(s) are the Background stamps. She always uses them to their best advantage in her card making IMHO!
Loosely Woven and Rustic Brick background stamps are her faves!
Laurie’s favourite ink to Paper products are the background stamps – rustic brick and loosely woven (and I’m right there with her on that!)
Laurie’s favorites are Loosely Woven & Rustic Brick background stamps. This is one amazing card–love the color combo, the background, the sentiment & everything!
Laurie loves background stamps!
Laurie’s favorite product are the background stamps.
Laurie says her favorite Ink to Paper product would probably be the background stamps.
Background stamps! I love Loosely Woven also!
Laurie love the background stamps (me too).
She loves background stamps, so I’ll say that.
Background stamps and who doesn’t love a great pattern? ❤
Laurie’s favorite Ink to Paper product is the background stamps.