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 Christmas themed product collections we are featuring for today’s CreateAthon! Laurie Schmidlin and Melissa Phillips have shared these beautiful cards to get you thinking outside of the box.
Season of Joy Stamps + Dies
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Peaceful Forest Stamps + Dies
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“Try using a variety of different embossing powders when stamping your trees. I’ve used white glitter, aqua glitter, and pink glitter in two shades to create this card. This creates lovely wintery shades, perfect for a holiday card.”
“I’ve mentioned before that I struggle with adding larger sentiments to a card with other images. I usually always start designing a card with the images in mind first and then add the sentiments as an almost after thought. I did the opposite with this card. I really wanted the emphasis on the sentiments and planned the card around them. Embossing the trees in the background for a subtle pattern was the perfect way to draw the eye to the Joy sentiment.”
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 type of stamps and dies?
EDITED TO ADD THE RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER
Congratulations, Karen Walker! You will be entered to win the weekly prize!
Floral stamps are Laurie’s favorite.
Laurie’s favorite stamp sets are florals.
Florals are her favorite; she has twice as many florals as other stamps!
Laurie’s favorite type of stamps and dies are flowers.
I found that question difficult to answer based on what Laurie said on her blog. She loves the two stamp and die sets featured today as among her favourites but then later in the blog she states that she loves flower stamps most of all so I am not really sure what the correct answer should be as she did not mention floral dies!
Flowers- She has many and does so many lovely things with them!
Laurie’s favorite type of stamps are floral sets.
She has twice as many floral stamp sets and can rarely pass up on a new one, so I’ll say floral sets.
Laurie loves flower stamp sets, and has twice as many as any other kind.
I would say that she loves floral or flower stamps & dies.
Florals.
Season of Joy and Peaceful Forest sets.
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I LOVE the Peaceful Trees set!!! Beautiful cards and embossing by Melissa! Laurie’s two fav die and stamp sets are Season of Joy and Peaceful Forest sets
Laurie’s favorite are floral stamps
I find this ambiguous. Season of Joy and Peaceful Forest are two of her favorites but she also says generally she loves floral stamps ( without mentioning dies but I guess they go together). One of those! ?
Florals are her favorite. Mine is lighthouses. These cards are stunning!!!
Floral
Florals are her favorites.
Florals!
What gorgeous creations! Love the Peaceful Forest set, and Season of Joy is just lovely!
Laurie’s favorite type of stamps and dies are floral designs.
Laurie loves floral stamps/dies.
Laurie loves floral stamps and she has twice as many of them than any other type of stamp.
Floral stamps and dies are Laurie’s favorites. I think it’s my biggest collection too!
Laurie’s favourite type of stamps are florals
Laurie is a floral lover! She makes beautiful cards no matter the theme of the stamps or dies!
Laurie has more flower stamps and dies in her stash – so the answer if florals – and I’m certainly with her in that department!!
Laurie loves flower stamp sets. I can’t blame her, there are so many different kinds of flowers that it is easy to justify purchasing a lot of them!
Laurie loves florals, and two of her favorites are the Season of Joy and Peaceful Forest sets.
Season of joy
Peaceful forest
Laurie mentions that Season of Joy and Peaceful Forest sets are some of her favorites sets.
She also mentions she has lots of floral stamps! (Sounds like me; it’s hard for me to turn down floral stamps, LOL).
Floral stamps/dies are Laurie’s favorites. The Peaceful Forest stamp set is one I immediately knew I wanted & it’s at the top of my wishlist!
Floral stamps are Laurie’s favorite.
Her favorite stamps are floral ones.
I’m going to say florals (like me!) but she does mention Season of Joy and Peaceful Forest as well.
Floral!
Florals and I have to say she makes the most beautiful floral cards <3
She loves floral ones.
Floral stamps are her favorites to work with.
Laurie mentioned that she has twice as many flower stamp sets as any other kind! So….I would say she loves all types of floral stamp sets.
Flower stamps are her favorite!
Laurie said flower stamps are her favorite and she has twice as many flower stamp sets as any other kind.
Floral/Flowers as well as the two sets used in today’s blog post!
Laurie loves florals. I’m with her!
Florals!
Flowers and/or floral designs are Laurie’s favorites.
Floral stamps are Laurie’s absolute favorite stamps! I like a variety of kinds of stamps but I must admit, florals have been growing on me too. 🙂
Floral stamps are Laurie’s favorites.
Flower stamps!
Laurie’s favorite stamps are flowers. Mine too, I cannot pass one up.
Laurie’s favorite types of stamps are flower stamps.
Her favorite stamps are florals!
Laurie loves flower stamps – as do I!
Floral stamps/dies are Laurie’s favorite. She has twice as many floral stamps then any other.
Laurie’s favorite stamps and dies are flower sets! I, too, like florals and had to make myself stop ordering them!
Laurie loves flower stamps and dies!
Gorgeous cards today. Claire’s favorite stamps are florals. I’ m just like her. Always hard to resist when florals are part of a new release.
Laurie loves flowers! I agree with her statement about always “needing” every floral set I see!
Floral stamps and dies are Laurie’s favorites.
Florals! I think many of us are in this category!
Laurie’s favorite type of stamps and dies are floral sets – me too!
Thanks for the giveaway!
All things flowers.
Floral’s as she can’t pass up on a floral stamp set- She has many and does so many amazing paper crafts with them!
Laurie loves floral stamps. They are gorgeous and so many beautiful sets to choose from.
Laurie’s favorite is floral stamps and dies. I have a weakness for flower stamps too. I’m drawn to them.
Laurie’s favorite are floral stamps!
Florals are her favorite!
Florals are her favorites!
Laurie’s favorites are floral sets.
flowers – me too!
Laurie’s favorite stamps and dies are Florals!
Florals are her favourite type of stamps. She didn’t mention favourite dies in her blog post.
Laurie’s favorite are floral stamp sets.
Laurie loves flower stamps.
Laurie enjoys florals and she makes beautiful things with them
Flower stamps & dies are her favorite!
She loves flowers. Me too! I love the soft colors and embossing on the trees.
She said she loves floral stamps, but I’m not sure about dies as that wasn’t mentioned…
Anything flowers are her favorite
Laurie’s favorite stamps are florals – a woman after my own heart!
Laurie’s favorites are florals.
Love the soft palettes in these beautiful cards, florals are Laurie’s fave.
Laurie loves floral stamps. They are hard to resist.