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.
Just Sentiments: Be Merry Stamps
Watercolor Textures: Christmas
“Gift giving during the holidays can be stressful and stress is the last thing we want while trying enjoy every bit of the holiday season. I try to keep a few pre-packaged gifts on hand for last minute gift gifting and this year these sweet packages will be perfect for that. I can easily tuck a small gift, sweet treat or gift card inside and hand them out to spread a bit of Christmas cheer!”
“I sometimes feel that creating simple cards and tags is not enough, that each project I make has to be over the top and must feature an arsenal of supplies and fancy techniques. For most of us, however, we lack the time and/or the skill to come up with a project the likes of which has never been seen before! During the holidays, especially, I find the need to simplify my crafting approach as there is not enough time in the day to devote hours to create each card and tag. My tags for today’s post are simply made and don’t require special skills or even products to make them. I’m using basic stamp sets that offer a versatile but varied collection of images and sentiments–Watercolor Textures: Christmas and Just Sentiments: Be Merry. After stamping and heat embossing the images with watermark ink and white embossing powder on die cut Tagged & Labeled 1 tags, I watercolored the background of each tag by mixing a few drops of water and ink refills. If you don’t have the ink refills, don’t worry–you can use regular ink. This simple but colorful method is easy and fun for anyone to try!“
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 did Rebecca use to watercolor the background of her tags?
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Rebecca watercolored the background of each of her tags with a mixing of a few drops of water and ink refills.
Rebecca used water and ink refills. Love her tags! Great tips.
She used a few drops of water and ink refills. Very clever! Love these!
She used water mixed with ink from Ink Refills to colour her backgrounds. Cheers.
This is what Rebecca said, “I watercolored the background of each tag by mixing a few drops of water and ink refills.”
A few drops of water and ink refills. I’m new to the world of watercoloring with ink refills and the subtle pop of color on Rebecca’s tags are beautiful. Melissa has always been one of my favorite PTI (and now Ink to Paper) designers. I’m enjoying this stroll through the past.
She used ink refills mixed with water.
Rebecca used water and ink from re-inkers to watercolor her backgrounds.
Rebecca used water & ink refills to watercolor her oh so very cute tags.
Rebecca mixes a few drops of water and ink refills to watercolor the background of her tags.
Rebecca did her watercoloring by mixing a little water with ink refills.
She used water and ink refills.
water and ink refills. What a fabulous look, and the colours are so pretty. I love simple and clean designs best, and these tags are amazing! And although Rececca may find them simple and easy they are the perfect for my skill set. I really loved today’s post. Thanks Rebecca, I think I just found my tags for Christmas!
To watercolor the background of her tags, Rebecca used a mixture of water and ink refills.
Rebecca used a few drops of water and ink refills to watercolor the background of her tags.
Rebecca used ink refills and water to watercolor her tags.
Rebecca mixed a few drops of water and ink refills to watercolor the background of her tags.
Rebecca used re-inkers with a few drops of water to watercolor her tags.
A few drops of water & ink refills.
Water and ink refills.
Rebecca said she watercolors the background of her tags by mixing a few drops of water and ink refills. Very pretty.
Rebecca used ink refills to watercolor.
Rebecca used PTI Re-inkers and water to watercolor the backgrounds of her beautiful tags.
Rebecca mixed a few drops of water and ink refills. Then used the stamp sets Watercolor Textures Christmas and Just Sentiments: Be Merry.
Rebecca used trinkets with water added.
She mixed a small amount of water and ink refills to watercolor the background of her tags.
drops of water and ink refill.
“A few drops of water and ink refills”, was the technique used.
Rebecca used a few drops of water and ink refills to color her backgrounds.
These are beautiful tags! Rebecca used drops of water and ink refills to do the watercolor background on her STUNNING TAGS!
She watercolored using ink refills and water. Such pretty tags!
Ink refills and water.
Rebecca used water and ink refills to watercolor the background of the tags.
Rebecca used ink refills mixed with a few drops of water to watercolor the tags.
Gorgeous samples in today’s post to show off these pretty designs!
ink refills
Water and ink refills……
mixing a few drops of water and ink refills
Rebecca used ITP Watercolor Textures: Christmas Mini Stamp set and ink refills with some water for the BG.
Rebecca used the new Watercolor Textures stamp plus her ink refills & a few drops of water to create her pretty tags!
She used a mixture of water and ink refills to watercolor them.
Water and ink refills
Rebecca used ink refills mixed with water to watercolor the background of her tags.
She watercolored the background of each tag by mixing a few drops of water and ink refills. Great idea!
She used ink refills with a few drops of water to do the watercoloring.
Rebecca watercolored the background of each tag by mixing a few drops of water and ink refills.
Rebecca used ink refills and a little water.
She watercolored the background of each tag by mixing a few drops of water and ink refills
Water and a few drops of re-inkers
Great simple tags shared today. Rebecca used ink refills mixed with water on her tags.
water and ink refills!
Rebecca mixes a tiny bit of water with ink refills to create the medium that she watercolors the tag background.
Rebecca used water and ink refills to watercolour her tag backgrounds! ?
A few drops of water and ink refills were used by Rebecca to create her background on the tags.
She used a few drops of water and ink refills.
She mixes ink from refills with a few drops of water to create her water colors.
Ink refills and a little water. I love making tags!
She used a few drops of water with the ink refills to create the background
Rebecca used water mixed with ink from Ink Refills to color the backgrounds on the tags.
Rebecca used water and ink refills. Love these!
Rebecca mixes a few drops of water with ink refills to create the background for her tags.
Rebecca mixed a few drops of water and ink refills to watercolor the background of her tags.
Rececca used ink refills with a little water to colour her cards
Rebecca used water and ink refills to watercolor the background of her tags.
Ink refills and water. Love the results.
Heat embossed the images with white embossing powder & watercolored around the images with a few drops of reinker mixed with water.
Ink refills and water!
To create the tag background, Rebecca mixed a few drops of water with ink refills.
Rebecca watercolored the background of each tag by mixing a few drops of water and ink refills.
Love this technique and will have to give it a try!
She used water and ink refills to watercolor the backgrounds.
Rebecca’s used ink refills with a few drops of water to watercolor backgrounds.
She used water and ink refills.
Water and drops of Reinkers. Cute projects!
She used water and ink refills.
She used water & ink refills. Love learning everyone’s helpful hints!
A few drops of water and ink refills. If you
Don’t have refills you can just use the ink.
A bit of water and a bit of ink refills!
Water and ink refills. If you don’t have ink refills, Rebecca says you can use regular ink by pressing ink onto a plastic surface and adding a little water.
I love these tags!! Reinkers and water or ink pad to table with water, made the great watercolor for her tags.