Desktop File: Inspiration.

The Papertrey Ink team is back again to show you another sneak peek called Desktop File: Inspiration. These stamps and dies are meant to go with any sort of Roladex system. I bought an inexpensive one from Staples for my project. This system that Papertrey Ink designed is meant for you to gather your ideas for color combos, sketches, techniques, mini albums, layout ideas, products, etc. related to scrapbooking and card making. There are many possibilities with this!

First, I'll tell you about how I decorated it a little bit, then I will show you the inside!

On the front cover, I cut the die with Soft Stone cardstock and stamped the "design notes" lines. Then I added a Pink Paislee houndstooth tape on the left. "MY" is die cut with the Script Alphabet dies, and I stamped "inspiration" over the little My Mind's Eye tag.

I cut a few more colorful tabs from patterned paper, just to make it fun, and to divide up the sections. The brads are by My Mind's Eye. Red paper is new by Papertrey Ink called Pure Poppy Pattern Pack.

For the inside, so far I have 4 sections started:

1. Color Combos,

2. Sketches,

3. Techniques, and

4. Products.

There are more options in the stamp set, however, that you can save inspiration for: mini books, quotes, embellishments and packaging ideas. I didn't get those added to my file yet.

1. COLOR COMBOS: Here are a few samples of the Color Combos cards. I had fun on Pinterest looking for color combo ideas! I could do an entire Roladex just on color combos!

2. SKETCHES: Here are some of the sketches I have so far. There are vertical, horizontal, square and circle stamps in the set, so you can save ideas for 12x12" layouts also, circle shaped cards or layouts, 8 1/2 x 11" layouts, etc.

Notice the cute arrows and "original source" stamp, so you can remember where you found the idea.

3. TECHNIQUES: Here is a sample of the technique cards I made.

4. PRODUCTS: I really wanted to organize my Papertrey Ink patterned paper packs, so instead of rummaging through the packs to find a pattern when I need one, now I can easily flip through the Roladex. I punched a little circle from each paper in the packs. (Dearest Jane paper pack has 2 patterns.) Now I can see all of my papers at a glance.

I think it would be an amazing system for organizing ink colors and mist colors too. I might use the little rectangle stamp to put all my ink colors on one page, just to have it for a reference when I am trying to decide on a particular color and want to see them all side-by-side.

So, what do you think? Is this something you'd like to do to get your scrapbooking and card making ideas organized? Visit the rest of the team to see how they used the Desktop File: Inspiration stamps and dies.

Ashley Cannon Newell

Betsy Veldman  

Dawn McVey  

Erin Lincoln  

Heather Nichols  

Jessica Witty  

Maile Belles

Melissa Phillips

Nichole Heady

Desktop File project:

STAMPS: Desktop File: Inspiration
INK: True Black, Hawaiian Shores, Pure Poppy, Summer Sunrise
PAPER: Rustic White, Soft Stone cardstock, Aqua Mist Pattern Pack, (gray) My Mind's Eye
DIES: Desktop File Center, Desktop File Left, Script Alphabet Dies
OTHER: seam binding, My Mind's Eye brads and tag, Pink Paislee tape, Smash tape (black).