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!
Learn a little more about Papertrey Ink in an interview with one of the owners, Jane.
Let’s take a closer look at the product collections we are featuring for today’s CreateAthon! Melissa Phillips and Laurie Schmidlin have shared these adorable cards.
Rustic Brick Background Stamps
Just Sentiments: Tagged Stamps
“Vellum is definitely my favorite specialty paper“
“I love working with the Rustic Brick Background stamp set. This time I combined it with embossing powder and water, hoping the colors I used would resemble an old, red brick house. The watercolor effect adds age and texture and I can’t wait to try it with other colors!”
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: On Melissa’s card, what adds age and texture?
EDITED TO ADD THE RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER
Congratulations, Marilyn M! You will be entered to win the weekly prize!
The watercolor effect adds age and texture.
She added age and texture by using embossing powder and water with the brick background stamp to get a watercolor effect.
The watercolour effect adds age and texture. Cheers.
Embossing powder and water. It really does look aged. Wonderful!
The watercolor effect adds age and texture! Amazing products and projects! ?
Melissa used embossing powder and water to add a watercolor texture and old age look to the bricks.
The watercolor effect adds age and texture!
The watercolor effect
The watercolor effect adds age and texture.
The watercolor effect provides age and texture.
The watercolor effect Melissa created using water and embossing powder created age and texture with the Rustic brick background stamp. Love her card as well as Laurie’s card.
The watercolor effect, which she achieved through embossing powder and water.
The watercolor effect of embossing and water with the Rustic Brick Background give Melissa’s card age and texture! Love the card too!
watercolor effect
The watercolor effect adds age & texture!
Watercolor effect- embossing powder and water
On Melissa’s card the the watercoloring effect adds age and texture.
embossing powder and water – “…the watercolor effect adds age and texture”
The watercolor effect on the brick.
Melissa said that the watercolor effects adds age and texture.
The watercolor effect
WATERCOLOR EFFECTS. It truly looks like old brick!
The watercolor effect of embossing powder and water adds age and texture,
Embossing powder and water.
Melissa used embossing powder and water to create a watercolor effect.
Embossing powder.
The watercolor effect adds age and texture.
The watercolor effects. How gorgeous is her use of this!
The watercolor effect adds
Embossing powder and water is what Melissa used to add a watercolor texture and old age look to the bricks
Watercolor effect adds age & texture.
Watercolor effect!
The watercolour adds age and texture. Love it.
Melissa said that the watercolor effects, using water and embossing powder with the Rustic Brick Background stamp, add age and texture to achieve the look of old red brick. Beautiful card, Melissa!
watercolor gives age and texture on the embossed bricks – great technique!
She used watercolor and embossing powder.
Embossing powder & water. The watercolor effect adds age and texture.
The watercolor effect adds beautiful age and texture. Can’t wait to try it.
Stamping, combined with embossing powder and water adds to the age and texture.
The watercolor effect adds age and texture to Melissa’s card!
embossing powder & water
The watercolor effect by using embossing powder and water adds age and texture.
On Melissa’s card, the watercolor effects add texture and age.
The watercolor effect that she used.
The watercolor effect is the answer. Wonderful cards!
The watercolor effect adds age and texture. Gosh, her card is beautiful!
The watercolor effect. What a fun look!
Watercolor definitely can add age and texture! Love it.
The watercolor effect adds all the age and texture, looks amazing!
The watercolor effect adds age and texture.
Watercolor effect. Great card.
The watercolor effect adds age and texture to Melissa’s beautifully layered card. Laurie’s has such a lovely palette.
Watercolor combined with embossing powder gives Melissa’s card an aged and vintage feel and look.
The watercolor effect adds age and texture. Going to have to try this out. Love the look.
The water color effect from embossing powder and water. Hers looks great!
The watercolor effect is what she used.
The watercolor effect by using embossing powder and water adds age and texture.
The watercolor effect of combining the stamp with embossing powder and water. It looks awesome!
The watercolour effect on the Rustic Brick Background stamp adds age and texture.
Embossing powder and water. Looks fabulous
The watercolor effect.
It is the watercolour effect
She says the watercolor effect adds age and texture!
The watercolor effect adds age and texture
The watercolor effect adds age and texture.
The watercolor effect adds age and texture
“The watercolor effect adds age and texture“ along with embossing powder. I love how it looks!
The watercolor effect.
The watercolor effect gives age and texture according to Melissa. Her card is gorgeous!
The watercolor effect adds age and texture
Watercolor effect adds age and texture.
Melissa combined embossing powder and water to create a watercolor effect that adds age and texture to her beautiful card!
The watercolor effect.
The watercolor effect.
Rustic Brick Background stamp set combined with embossing powder and water, hoping the colors used would resemble an old, red brick house.
The watercolor effect adds age and texture
Rustic Brick Background stamp set combined it with embossing powder and watercolors
The watercolour effect adds age and texture to the stamped and embossed background.
Melissa used embossing powder and water to create a watercolor effect which adds age and texture.
Thanks for the giveaway and Happy Thanksgiving!
The watercolor effect of embossing powder and water adds age and texture and I can’t wait to try it with other colors!
The watercolor effect! It turned out amazing!!