This is a record – I received this month’s Paper Pumpkin, One Great Year, on Friday when I got home from work. Although I had plenty of things that I could be doing on Saturday, I put together the kit. This month it’s a calendar ready for next year. I really love the colours that have been used for this kit and in fact, the whole project which I plan to place on my desk at work.

There are four styles of pages included – the other three are demonstrated by the next three months

and the different styles come in three different colours

and finally

I followed the instructions pretty much to the letter – I swapped the colour of the background on a couple of months (obviously a total irrelevance) but I left off the twine which was supposed to be glued to the back of some of the calendar pieces and and artistically spread around. I find that it tends to look a mess rather than artistic so I don’t do that!

I didn’t add any supplies to the kit, the adhesive dots and dimensionals were all included. So there’s not much to put in the supply list other than prepaid Paper Pumpkin kits. If you go for the 6 month option, you save a dollar per kit, double if you select the year. One of the big benefits of being a Paper Pumpkin subscriber (apart from the fun of getting a mystery kit delivered each month) is that you can buy any of the past kits and refills which are being offered.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Here’s the new video from Stampin’ Up! showing the Paper Pumpkin for this month; a quick look at the shipping information shows that mine should arrive today! My sister and brother-in-law are arriving tonight – I’m going to the airport whilst Martin and our father cook the welcoming (and requested) steak dinner – so I doubt I’ll get to play with it today, although my sister is a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator so she’d probably understand…

How great is this? I’m definitely putting this calendar on my desk at work, I imagine I’ll get many questions about it!

If you didn’t sign up to get this box of fun, you can sign up today and hope that this kit becomes available for purchase by subscribers. But at least you wouldn’t be missing next month’s box.

In case you’re new to Paper Pumpkin and aren’t entirely sure of the details, here’s what the monthly kit in a box subscription is all about:

• Each month you receive a unique, surprise kit with a project. It’s colour-coordinated and everything is cut for you
• Each kit includes stamps, ink, paper, and accessories – everything you need except adhesive which you need sometimes.
• Each kit gives you about a 30 minute creativity escape.
• Your Paper Pumpkin ships around the 15th of the month.
• You need to sign up for a kit by the 10th of the month to get that month’s kit. If you sign up on the 11th of the month, your first kit will come the next month.
• A Paper Pumpkin membership is $19.95 per month (and shipping is included!) There’s no commitment, you can cancel your monthly Paper Pumpkin at anytime. You can also skip a month if you want.
• Just click on the Paper Pumpkin button on the left to sign up.
• The fun of it is that you never know what you’re going to get, but there’s always a stamp set. Once you’re an active subscriber you can also buy old kits and refills where available.

You can also buy a prepaid subscription for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months (the last two save money) for yourself or for that hard to buy for person. A 6 month subscription is only $113.70 (saving a dollar a month) but if you added a few things and pushed it to $150, you’d get 10% of your total to spend again in Stampin’ Rewards so that makes the subscription even more attractive!

See you tomorrow,

Liz