I didn’t use a specific stamp set for this card, instead I used sentiments from the April 2019 Paper Pumpkin and Floral Phrases stamp sets. I love the Delightfully Detailed Laser-cut Specialty Paper and the Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper (DSP). I’m down to just a few bits left over in both. Thanks to Susan Campfield for the inspiration.
Not only do we get to hang out with other crafty folks and see the new products at OnStage but we get to use them too! These are the make & takes designed for us.
And here is what I actually created:
So I haven’t finished this card yet because I’m waiting for the dies, we didn’t have them at OnStage.
This card is a sneak peak of the May Paper Pumpkin kit.
The March 2019 Paper Pumpkin was designed to use numbers on the cards but since I don’t know who these are going to yet, I decided to use a cake stamp. Cake Soiree was a little too girly and I wasn’t sure it would fit well. Sooooo, I pulled out “Birthday Whimsy” from the 2008 Sale-a-Bration. Anyone else still have that set?
Check out the YouTube video for how the cards are designed to look.
This is basically the same as the designed card except I used the cake and moved Happy down to the bottom of the label. I also used gold Wink of Stella on the candles, another throwback.
I did try one with the candles from the stamp set but it was hard to get them lined up:
This is the inside which is as designed.
Here is the second card with just the cake change:
I didn’t like the confetti stamp on the front so I changed it to a strip of Bermuda Bay embossed in the Sequins 3D embossing folder with the same inside:
As usual, the March Paper Pumpkin kit came with extras that I haven’t finished using up yet (maybe I’ll have another post) but I did make two more cards out of them with a pop up in the middle.
Bottom: 1 1/2″ x 6 1/2″, scored at 2″, 4″, 6″
Middle: 1 1/2″ x 5 3/4″, scored at 1 3/4″, 3 1/2″, 5 1/4″
Top: 1 1/2″ x 5″, scored at 1 1/2″, 3″, 4 1/2′
Along the tops I used some strips from the Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut Specialty Paper.
I’m trying to work through partially made items on my craft table and some of the Paper Pumpkins that I just hadn’t gotten to. Well, this post combines two of those. I made all the little elements for the candy boxes for the January 2019 Paper Pumpkin kit but I only needed about 6 of the candy boxes. So….I had a ton of elements left over that I transformed into cards. The paper strips are from the Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack that retired last year (another thing I’m trying to work through). Now I have a stack of cards to donate to Missing GRACE and Cards for Soldiers. Yay!
Happy New Year! I’m back today with an alternative for the December 2018 Paper Pumpkin kit. I really wanted to have the year on each of the months and a picture that went with them so here is what I came up with. (My craft table is a mess right now, you will see why when you see how many stamp sets I used.)
I used the retired Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper on a piece of chipboard I saved from the kit. I ALWAYS save my chipboard, you never know when you will need it. The rings are 1/2″ book rings and I used my Crop-a-dile to punch the holes in the chipboard. I cut the chipboard on my guillotine style cutter after adding the DSP (apparently I need to clean the blade to get a sharper cut). The banner for each year is from Pick A Pennant and done using the Stamparatus.
Inks: Pool Party, Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Pick A Pennant, Colorful Seasons, November 2017 Paper Pumpkin
Inks: Real Red, Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Pick A Pennant, January 2018 Paper Pumpkin, Little Elephant
Inks: Call Me Clover, Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Pick A Pennant, Tabs for Everything, December 2018 Paper Pumpkin
Inks: Pool Party, Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Pick A Pennant, Tabs for Everything, This Little Piggy
Inks: Call Me Clover, Highland Heather, Memento Tuxedo Black, Highland Heather Marker, Call Me Clover Marker
Stamps: Pick A Pennant, Tabs for Everything, This Little Piggy
Inks: Call Me Clover, Grapefruit Grove, Lovely Lipstick, Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Pick A Pennant, June 2017 Paper Pumpkin
Inks: Pool Party, Real Red, Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Pick A Pennant, Tabs for Everything, Birthday Backgrounds
Inks: Pool Party, Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Pick A Pennant, Sheltering Tree
Inks: Grapefruit Grove, Highland Heather, Cajun Craze Marker, Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Pick A Pennant, Sheltering Tree
Inks: Grapefruit Grove, Cajun Craze, Call Me Clover, Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Pick A Pennant, September 2016 Paper Pumpkin
Inks: Grapefruit Grove, Call Me Clover, Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Cajun Craze Marker, Early Espresso Marker, Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Pick A Pennant, September 2015 Paper Pumpkin
Inks: Call Me Clover, Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Pick A Pennant, November 2016 Paper Pumpkin
The chipboard is 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ front and back. The base is 4″ x 4 1/4″ scored at 1″, 2″, & 3″ then folded as above. I attached the chipboard using Beacon 3 in 1 glue.
The July 2018 Paper Pumpkin kit was still on my crafting table so I had to make a few more cards with it. I wanted to use the Basket Weave Dynamic embossing folder, I think it really adds to the cards. I also pulled in Blueberry Bushel, Granny Apple Green, and Poppy Parade to use with the embossing folder.
I love getting my monthly Paper Pumpkin kit but sometimes it’s not exactly something I would use as is. I think 3″ x 3″ cards are adorable but I can’t mail them in that form so I decided to change these to A2 size cards ( 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″). All I did to change them was cut the 3″ x 6″ card base in half ( now I have two of them!), cut the tissue paper to use for background paper and add a Crumb Cake card base. So easy and so cute!
This is what the kit was supposed to make:
