Design Team Tips - Colorful Sentiments

YAY for Friday! It's time for a Design Team Tip with Ink to Paper. Today I'm sharing how I created colorful and eye catching sentiments using the new Frame It Out: Wishes Stamp and Die Collection. I love creating with word and sentiment dies and this is just one more way to stretch the use of them!

I started by stamping the Loosely Woven Background Stamp along the left side of each of my white card bases. One in Berry Sorbet and the other in Hibiscus. I set those aside and then moved onto my sentiments.

To create the colorful background for my sentiment I simply used strips of colorful cardstock that I had in my leftover pile. I attached the strips to a piece of white cardstock and then die-cut them using larger shadow 'Smile' die.

I did the same with the 'Be Well' die. After attaching the bold and colorful sentiments to my card fronts, I stamped the rest of my sentiment onto a strip of True Black.

I added a few die-cut leaves and sequins around each of the sentiments to complete my card!

This is such a great way to use up those leftover strips of cardstock that we always have laying around!

Thanks so much for visiting!

Melissa

STAMPS: Frame It Out: Wishes, Loosely Woven

INK: Berry Sorbet, Hibiscus, Limeade Ice, Fresh Snow

PAPER: Stampers Select White, Sweet Blush, Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Hibiscus, True Black

DIES: Frame It Out: Wishes

OTHER: sequins

Saturday Showcase - Many Anemones

Hi there, friends! Today, the Ink to Paper team is sharing a whole lot of eye candy with projects created with the new Many Anemones Stamp and Die Collection. This is such a gorgeous set and the possibilities when creating with both the stamps and dies are endless. The team has truly put together a variety of different examples and ways you can create cards with these beautiful images!

I chose a fresh color combo and layout for today. I started by stamping one of full outlined flowers directly onto my white card base. I stamped three along the left side and then filled the petals in using the solid images in the following colors … Pale Peony, Summer Sunrise and Melon Berry. I then stamped the leaves surrounding the flowers in Green Parakeet and the leave veins in True Black. Along the right side of my card, I stamped the Fully Woven Background in Pale Peony.

Next, using the Many Anemones Die Collection, I die-cut three more flowers and stamped them in the same colors as the first ones. I attached all three to the front of my card using dimensional foam.

I love the handwritten sentiments in this set … so, so beautiful! I stamped 'beautiful you' in True Black and then to complete my card I added a few clear sequins!

For more inspiration using this beautiful new set, be sure to visit the Ink to Paper Blog!

Thanks so much for visiting with me today. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

xo,

Melissa

STAMPS: Many Anemones, Loosely Woven
INK: Pale Peony, Summer Sunrise, Melon Berry, Green Parakeet, True Black
PAPER: Stampers Select White
DIES: Many Anemones
OTHER: sequins

Transformation Tuesday - You Will Move Mountains

Good morning, sweet friends! Today I'm hosting Transformation Tuesday on the Ink to Paper Blog. I chose one of my clean and simple designs from the recent release and transformed it into yet another clean and simple card. We have many graduations we'll be celebrating in the coming weeks and I thought this would be the perfect chance to stock up on a few cards for the occasions. Clean and simple designs are always a go to for me, especially when I need to mass produce.

Here is my original card using Simply Sweet: YOU. You can find the full post right HERE!

I kept my transformed card very similar to my original, I just switched up the image around the border and used a sentiment that was perfect for a graduate. 

I used the sunburst around the border and stamped it in the following colors … Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest and Hibiscus. I used the Simply Sweet: YOU Die Collection to create my images in the center. I attached the mountain scape that I had die-cut and stamped in Harvest Gold and just above added a sunburst that was die-cut out of white cardstock.

I die-cut and stamped the YOU and then popped it up with dimensional foam and then added the rest of my sentiment, will move mountains, underneath. To complete my card, I added white Nuvo drops inside each of the sunbursts around the border!

Thanks so much for visiting with me today!

xo,

Melissa

STAMPS: Simply Sweet: YOU

INK: Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest, Hibiscus, True Black

PAPER: Stampers Select White, Hibiscus

DIES: Simply Sweet: YOU

OTHER: sequins, white Nuvo Drops

Saturday Showcase - Rustic Brick

Happy Saturday to you, friends! The Ink to Paper team is coming together today to showcase one of the new sets that was just released on the 15th … Rustic Brick Background Stamp Set. This is such a fantastic set and perfect for creating masculine cards, as well as more feminine cards, like my card I created below.

To begin, I cut a white card panel down to 3.75 x 5. On that panel, I stamped one of the Rustic Brick Backgrounds that I had inked up with the following colors … Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus, Orange Zest and Summer Sunrise. I just love the variety of cheerful colors that were stamped with just that one image.

The large 'hello' was die-cut using the Frame It Out: Wishes. I stamped the rest of my sentiment, 'my dear friend', using the coordinating Frame It Out: Wishes Stamp Set. Those were both attached with dimensional foam.

The flowers and leaves are a mix of two new sets. The flowers are from the You Are My Happy Die Collection and the leaves from Tag Creations: Blooming Indulgence. I added those around my sentiment and then finished it off with a few colorful sequins inside my flowers!

There is so much more to see from the rest of the team. Pop on over to the Ink to Paper Blog for more inspiration!

I hope the sun is shining wherever you are today. We've had so many rainy, gloomy days here lately that the sun shining today is a very welcome sight!

xo,

Melissa

STAMPS: Rustic Brick Background, Frame It Out: Wishes

INK: Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, True Black

PAPER: Stampers Select White, Hawaiian Shores, True Black

DIES: Frame It Out: Wishes, You Are My Happy, Tag Creations: Blooming Indulgence

OTHER: sequins

Ink to Paper Countdown - Day 4

Hello there! Day 4 of the Ink to Paper Release Countdown is here and today I have two cards to share with you using the following new products … Tag Creations: Blooming Indulgence, Just Sentiments, Many Anemones and Loosely Woven. 

**All of the new products you see will be available on the new Ink to Paper website on May 15th at 10pm EST!*

Many Anemones and Loosely Woven are the products featured on my first card. I started by stamping the new background, Loosely Woven, along the top of my white card base. Then I stamped one of the beautiful sentiments in Many Anemones, in True Black, on the left side of my card. 

Now for that beautiful bloom! I chose to use the coordinating die collection to create my flower. I used the inlaid technique and filled in each of the flower petals with the following colors … Pale Peony, Summer Sunrise and Melon Berry. 

I die-cut the flower stem and stamped and die-cut two leaves before attaching them all. I popped up my flower with dimensional foam and added a few sequins to complete it!

I just love everything about this new floral set! The options with both the stamp set and die collection make creating endless and that font … just gorgeous!

More beautiful flowers for card #2. Another new product that I'm smitten with ... Tag Creations: Blooming Indulgence. This die collection is FILLED with so many bits and pieces for creating your own beautiful cards and tags!

Everything you see on my card is part of the die collection, minus the sentiment. That is from Many Anemones.

I used Aqua Mist cardstock to die-cut the tag for my flowers to sit on. The flowers are a mix of Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush and Pure Poppy. The banner is two separate pieces. I stamped my sentiment and attached that with dimensional foam and then die-cut the two ends out of Bitty Big: Pale Peony paper and tucked them underneath each side!

That wraps up the countdown for the very first Ink to Paper Release. Tomorrow night is when all of these beautiful new products will be available to you! 

For more inspiration today head on over to the Ink to Paper Blog. Thanks so much for visiting!

xo,

Melissa

YOU MEANS SO MUCH TO ME - 

STAMPS: Many Anemones, Loosely Woven

INK: Pale Peony, Green Parakeet, True Black

PAPER: Pale Peony, Summer Sunrise, Melon Berry, Green Parakeet, Stampers Select White

DIES: Many Anemones

OTHER: sequins

YOU'RE AMAZING -
STAMPS: Many Anemones
INK: True Black
PAPER: Aqua Mist, Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy, Green Parakeet
PATTERN PAPER: Bitty Big: Pale Peony
DIES: Tag Creations: Blooming Indulgence
OTHER: sequins