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 fall themed product collections we are featuring for today’s CreateAthon! Laurie Schmidlin and Melissa Phillips have shared amazing cards to celebrate autumn.
It’s A Sign: Love & Kindness Stamps + Dies
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Simply Sweet: Blessed Stamps + Dies
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“Often times I find myself using the same basic layouts over and over even though I spend (or waste) a lot of time trying to come up with something new and different. I have found that most of the time a simple layout is best and not only lets the images shine but better but saves a lot of time as well! Sometimes, simple really is best! This particular layout is one of my go-to ones. You can change up the feel of it by adding different background elements such as patterned paper and/or ribbon like I did here.”
“Sometimes when I feel like my card is lacking personality and just doesn’t feel complete, felt is the answer. The flower dies in the It’s A Sign: Love & Kindness collection are the perfect size for layering and creating dimension and texture and add a perfect finishing touch.”
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’s favorite technique?
EDITED TO ADD THE RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER
Congratulations, Josie! You will be entered to win the weekly prize!
Ink Blending is her favourite technique. Cheers.
She likes to use the same basic layout and change out the background and embellishments for a different feel.
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique.
Her favorite technique is ink blending.
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique. I agree! Live the fall cards today. Beautiful!!
Ink blending
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending.
Laurie’s favorite technique is Ink Blending!
Her favorite technique is ink blending. I just love the buttons and felt in these samples! I will have to give her layout a try – I too find myself going back to the same layouts over and over.
Ink blending!
Ink blending! Simply love all Laurie’s cards….
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique.
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique.
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending.
Ink blending!
Laurie finds that simple layouts are the best. She changes up the design by using different background elements like patterned paper and ribbon. And she does a beautiful job I must add.
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique.
Laurie and I share the same favorite technique.: Ink blending
I love the flowers! The felt is a great idea and the added embellishments! Great sentiment! Laurie’s favorite technique is Ink Blending!
Ink blending and she does it so well!
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending!
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending and it shows in her creations. I always think they look so beautiful and I am working on learning this technique. I think it adds so much more to every card she makes!
Simple is best. She also adds felt if something is lacking.
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Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending.
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending.
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique.
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique.
Laurie prefers the clean and simple approach! For sure it is a time saver as she indicates. However, her example is a bit more embellished than I usually think of as clean and simple.
Ink Blending is Laurie’s favorite. What pretty cards today!!
Ink blending! I just started experimenting with this technique!
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending.
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique to use on her handmade cards and projects!
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Ink blending. I love the sunflowers. And I do the same thing trying new layouts which I find really frustrating. But the right colour combo with a favourite layout and I always get great results. And the felt goes Really well with the leaves Melissa.
Both cards today are lovely! Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique.
Gorgeous cards! Love the sets featured!
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique!
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending
Ink blending. The cards from both the designers are wonderful! Thanks for sharing.
Laurie loves to ink blend. I love these cards.
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique.
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending. And I will agree with her…ink blending adds so much depth to a stamped image. 🙂
Ink blending is her favorite technique.
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending.
Laurie loves ink blending & boy does it show! Love both these cards! I used my felt for a pumpkin card recently & cut some snowflakes, but now I need to use it with flowers again!
Lovely palettes on these cards, Laurie’s fave technique is ink blending.
Her favorite technique is ink blending and she does it so beautifully.
Laurie’s favourite technique is ink blending.
Ink blending!
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique.
Her favorite technique is ink blending.
simple layouts with different background elements
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending.
Hands down – Ink Blending! And love these cards – thank you for the inspiration!!
Laurie’s go to technique (her favorite) is ink blending.
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending.
Ink blending! I have to say I agree. There is something about ink blending that adds a depth to the images or backgrounds! Beautiful projects today.
Ink blending
Ink blending and she does it so well.
Laurie is wild about ink blending (and her ink blending is just gorgeous).
Two gorgeous cards <3 Ink blending is Laurie's favourite technique 🙂
Ink blending is Laurie’s fave technique.
Ink blending is her favorite technique.
Ink blending is her favorite technique.
Her favorite technique is ink blending.
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique.
Laurie says ink blending is definitely her favorite technique!
Love how she used it on this pretty Fall creation.
Ink blending is Laurie’s favorite technique.
Laurie’s favorite is Ink Blending and her projects are fabulous.
Laurie loves ink blending. I love the card design that she says is her go to basic.
Laurie says ink blending is her favorite technique. I always associate Laurie with perfect touches of black, though she used brown rather than black in today’s card. But normally, I love Laurie’s use of black. 🙂
Ink blending is Laurie’s fave technique. Her card is gorgeous!
Ink blending is her favorite technique
Ink blending!
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Ink blending is Laurie’s favourite technique!
Laurie’s favorite technique is ink blending.
Such a beautiful card! Her favorite technique is ink blending.
Laurie loves ink blending as her favorite technique.