Monthly Archives: May 2015

Alternate Paper Pumpkin Wish Big

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Yesterday I showed the contents of the July 2014 Paper Pumpkin Wish Big kit made up to the included instructions. There were a lot of remaining pieces so I decided to play with some of them.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin Wish Big kit

I took the negative where I’d removed the stickers to put the word WISH on yesterday’s card and put it on a piece of whisper white. This meant that the card needed to be bigger than standard so I cut a piece of soft sky at 7″ by 7″ and folded it in half. I stuck with the original colour scheme and stamped the sentiment in blackberry bliss. The star image is also included with the stamp set from the paper pumpkin set and is also in blackberry bliss. I surrounded it with one of the silver stars from the kit (there were forty like this and forty from the inside of this star).

For the envelope I used a piece of Irresistibly Yours Specialty DSP (from this year’s Sale-a-bration) which I sponged in soft sky and then used the envelope punch board to make this envelope.

Since there are stickers to make six of the original cards, there are also enough negatives to make six of these. So far, therefore, that’s 12 cards and 6 boxes from this kit with minimal extra supplies! And there’s still more to play with…

See you tomorrow,

Liz

What is Paper Pumpkin?

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I mentioned the Paper Pumpkin kit a couple of weeks ago but didn’t share a kit as an example. Here’s the kit from last July which I just received in my recent Stampin’ Up! order – one perk for Paper Pumpkin subscribers is that you can order past kits. My kit for this month is still in transit. I say that this is the kit, but it’s actually just making the kit according to the instructions – there are quite a few pieces left for other projects after you’ve made six cards and six gift boxes.

Stampin' Up! July 2014 Paper Pumpkin

The “WISH” and the striped border are stickers so they are just applied to the card. The kit includes an exclusive stamp set with ten images and a blackberry bliss ink spot, the hardest part was deciding what to stamp! The silver stars are a large sheet with far more than you need for this, I’ll have to think what else they can be used for – including the stars from the middle of these stars.

There were options for the tag on the box too. The kit has both hearts and star stickers and of course there’s again the choice of which sentiment to use. I’m going to use the remaining 5 cards and boxes for an upcoming class but plan to create some other projects with the leftovers.

I wasn’t very impressed with Paper Pumpkin a year ago but now the kits have improved immensely. I was feeling creatively blocked today and couldn’t come up with anything myself that I wanted to make and it was so easy to open the Paper Pumpkin box and just enjoy making something. No decisions, just create. And now I have leftovers and, even better, a new stamp set.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Endless Birthday Wishes

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My order containing new supplies arrived today as I was returning from my run (a reward for exercising I think!) and so I’ve been playing this afternoon. The kitchen table is even more of a wreck. Maybe I’ll tidy it tomorrow.

I really like the new colour, watermelon wonder. It is soothing some of the sting of strawberry slush retiring. I decided to watercolour the little cake from Endless Birthday Wishes using only watermelon wonder but adding different amounts of water to get three different tones.

Stampin' Up! Endless Birthday Wishes

I gave my piece of watercolour paper a skinny (1/16 inch) basic black mat. I intended to use the new Boho chic embossing folder (and it does look good having used it on a piece of watermelon wonder) but it didn’t go with the image. So I pulled out the lucky stars folder to echo the candles on the cake. I mounted this onto a card base of watermelon wonder.

Then I pulled out the envelope punchboard  – the card is a regular size, but I had received some envelope paper in the new colours and I wanted to try it out. It’s thinner than cardstock and folds nicely into an envelope, plus one side has pattern so you get the look of a ready lined envelope. All I have to do now is decide which colour to try next…

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Painted Petals continued

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I found a new (to me) challenge site today, the City Crafter Challenge Blog and the challenge this week is to focus on flowers. That appears to give me a good reason to pull out Painted Petals again. Okay, it didn’t actually get put away from the other day. The kitchen table is starting to disappear under stamping supplies again. Maybe I’ll tidy it up tomorrow. Or maybe I’ll stamp.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals

The challenge wanted lots of flowers so I started by embossing a piece of so saffron using the Spring Flowers embossing folder. I then stamped the flowers in wild wasabi and so saffron on very vanilla and cut that out with the smallest circle in the framelits circle collection. I used the next largest size to cut out a piece of wild wasabi for my mat. I mounted the embossed piece onto a card base of so saffron and then attached the flower image with dimensionals to give some height.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Fab Friday Five Retiring Colours

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The Fab Friday challenge this week is to use some or all of the five retiring colours. This is indeed a challenge because although strawberry slush is one of my favourite colours, the others leave me a little cold – especially pistachio pudding and crisp cantaloupe. I decided that to make this a true challenge for myself, I should use at least three colours.

Stampin' Up! Endless Birthday Wishes

Here’s the challenge banner:

I cut out ovals from the very vanilla card using the smallest oval framelits (and serious ruler and pencil work). I felt like doing some watercolouring and so did a light wash of the three colours that I chose – coastal cabana, baked brown sugar and strawberry slush getting lighter towards the bottom onto a piece of watercolour paper. Once it dried, I glued the watercolour paper to the back of the very vanilla piece. I then stamped the birthday cake from Endless Birthday Wishes in each ink. This was when I realised my error. The watercolour paper wasn’t glued straight and there was a definite line where the thicker watercolour paper finished. It was my Stampin’ Trimmer to the rescue – I trimmed the card down so that the watercolour paper went all the way to the edges. I then made a card base from very vanilla just a quarter inch larger. The watercoloured piece was popped up on a lot of dimensionals so that it is secure as well as not droopy.

This meant making an odd sized envelope for my 5″ by 3.25″ card which fortunately needs a 7.5″ square piece of card stock. Since I had the stamp inky, I added the birthday cake image to the front of the envelope.