More October Release Inspiration

Hello! Welcome to some fun inspiration from the Papertrey Ink October release! We had a little bit more time this past month to play with all of the wonderful products from the October release and it was so nice! I have lots of fun projects to share with you today!

First up is this cute little treat bag I created with Betsy's Sweet Holiday Wishes stamp set and dies. I love this set! Layering those cute little cookies was enormous fun! I have made these little bags before out of a 12 x 12 sheet of card stock. They are so easy and so fun to decorate! You can find the Youtube video HERE.

STAMPS: Sweet Holiday Wishes

DIES: Sweet Holiday Wishes

INK: Vintage Jadeite, Classic Kraft, Pure Poppy, Cocoa Bean, Pale Peony

PAPER: Stamper’s Select White, Vintage Jadeite + White patterned paper

OTHER: Baker’s Twine, Pink 12 x 12 Card stock

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Next up is a card created with the new Dress Up Dolls: Let's Bake! Such fun! I paired this adorable little girl  up with some left over cookies from my gift bag and came up with this cute card! 

STAMPS: Dress Up Dolls: Basics, Dress Up Dolls: Elves, Dress Up Dolls: Let’s Bake, Sweet Holiday Wishes

DIES: Dress Up Dolls: Basics, Dress Up Dolls: Elves, Dress Up Dolls: Let’s Bake, Sweet Holiday Wishes

INK: Pure Poppy, True Black, Vintage Jadeite, Classic Kraft, Aqua Mist

PAPER: Stamper’s Select White, Pure Poppy + White patterned paper

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And then... Erin's new Gingerbread Stitching dies!! Oh how I love them! These may be my favorite of all the stitching dies! I had to make one of each! I would love to put them in that cute gift bag and give them to someone, but I don't think I am going to be able to part with them. They need to be on my tree :)

I used brown sequins for their eyes. I tried everything and I thought the brown looked the best :)

And Miss Gingerbread lady all decked out in her fancy apron! Love her!

DIES: Stitched Gingerbread Basic, Stitched Gingerbread Mister, Stitched Gingerbread Miss

FELT: Classic Kraft, Spring Moss, Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy, Snow White

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And this one was created with the new Quick Notes: Holiday stamp and die. For the background, I took a piece of Pure Poppy card stock and splattered it with white acrylic paint!

STAMPS: Quick Notes: Holiday, Cup of Cheer

DIES: Quick Notes: Holiday, Cup of Cheer, Snowflakes

INK: New Leaf, Pure Poppy

PAPER:Stampers Select, Pure Poppy

OTHER: white acrylic paint, sequins

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For this fun card, I used Heather's new Sprig Wreath along with Dawn's Cozy Christmas! Those thermoses are really fun! I love the plaid! 

STAMPS: Sprig Wreath, Cozy Christmas

DIES: Cozy Christmas

INK: New Leaf, Pinefeather, Dark Indigo, Smokey Shadow

PAPER: Stamper’s Select White, Smokey Shadow + White patterned paper

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For this card, I paired up Betsy's Inspired: Hope stamps and dies with her What The Doodle: Snowflake set. I embossed the snowflakes onto watercolor paper with white embossing powder and then watercolored over them with Peerless watercolors.

STAMPS: What The Doodle Snowflakes, Inspired: Hope

DIES: Inspired: Hope

INK: Pinefeather

PAPER: Stamper’s Select White

OTHER: Watercolor paper, Peerless watercolors, white embossing powder, sequins

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For this one I used the new Cover plate: Cozy Christmas 1 die along with the Jingle All the way stamp set and matching dies. The heart is from an older set called Heart Prints, and the leaves are from Happy Notes.

STAMPS: Jingle All The Way, Happy Notes, Heart Prints

DIES: Jingle All The Way, Happy Notes, Heart Prints, Cover Plate: Cozy Christmas 2

INK: Pure Poppy, Stormy Sea, Spring Rain, True Black

PAPER: Stamper’s Select White, Stormy Sea

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Okay I just love the way this card turned out! And it's almost totally flat, so it would mail so easy! I might have to make a few more of these for sending out! I used the new Script Swirls: Christmas from Nichole. I stamped the round sentiment in the center on watercolor paper with waterproof black ink. I then stamped the leaves, berries and snowflakes with dye ink and used a little bit of water in my brush to blend them and make them look watercolored. When they were dry, I speckled a little bit of each color onto my card.

The two little candy canes are from the Dress Up Dolls: Elves set.

STAMPS: Scripted Swirls: Christmas, Dress Up Dolls: Elves

DIES: Dress Up Dolls: Elves

INK: New Leaf, Pure Poppy, Pinefeather, Smokey Shadow

PAPER: Stamper’s Select White

OTHER: Watercolor paper, sequins

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This one I created with Maile's new Shaped Sayings: Christmas. I love that it came with the pine and berries separate! I cut everything out of watercolor paper that I had used Peerless watercolors on. The background I blended some Aqua Mist ink onto and then did some splatters too.

DIES: Shaped Sayings: Christmas

INK: Aqua Mist

PAPER: Stamper’s Select White

OTHER: Watercolor paper, Peerless watercolors, sequins

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I used Maile's newest Splits: Tis The Season for this one. I stamped it onto watercolor paper with waterproof black ink and watercolored it with my Zig Clean Color Brushes. I used a piece of paper from the Woodblock Prints paper pack for my background.

STAMPS:Splits: Tis The Season

DIES: Noted: Scalloped A2

INK: Black Permanent 

PAPER: Stamper’s Select White, Woodblock Prints Paper pack

OTHER: Watercolor paper, Zig Clean Color markers, sequins

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Okay, I hope you have made it all the way down to the bottom of this post, because I saved one of my very favorites for last! I really love the way this card turned out! Now you really can't go wrong with Betsy's Paper Clippings sets and dies, they kind of make the card all by themselves, but I'm going to give myself a little bit of credit here for the colors and stuff :) I used Distress inks on watercolor paper for the background, Chipped Sapphire and Seedless Preserves. I splattered with water and then again with some of the same color ink. The earth was stamped in the new color Dark Indigo, and the banner I colored in with a light blue Copic marker. 

Yes yes! I do like this one! And even though it has a lot of detail, it is surprisingly flat and should send without extra postage! Yay!

STAMPS: Paper Clippings: Joy To The World

DIES: Paper Clilppings: Joy To The world

INK: Dark Indigo, Royal Velvet

PAPER: Stamper’s Select White

OTHER: Distress Inks, Sequins

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Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you are inspired to use some of the many beautiful things that were released during October! This is my favorite time of year for card making and crafting, so I'm going to be creating up a storm!

All of the products I used on these cards can be found at Papertrey Ink!

For more amazing inspiration visit the rest of the Papertrey Ink Design team!

Nichole Heady

Ashley Newell

Amy Sheffer

Betsy Veldman

Danielle Flanders

Dawn McVey

Heather Nichols

Laurie Willison

Lizzie Jones

Melissa Phillips