Here’s another idea of what to do with the leftover pieces once you’ve used the orange flower from the Paper Pumpkin February 2016 kit, Hello Sunshine.
I wanted a circular stamp for the middle of the flower and found the perfect shaped sentiment in Sunburst Sayings which I stamped on very vanilla in pear pizzazz. Then using a paper piercing tool to help, I picked up the orange pieces one at a time and placed them around the sentiment, working outwards. The idea was to have a kind of exploding flower look which I think worked. I mounted this onto a card base of calypso coral and then grabbed one of my precut liners, this one from the retired backgrounds DSP – there’s a new pack to replace these (and I have it) but I’m still using up the liners that I cut previously.
Tomorrow there’s a new challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches – there’s still time to play with this week’s challenge – so my post will be going out later at just before 8am to coordinate with that.
Wow. We’re up to Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate 5. And I have a couple more ideas too! This card sat on my desk for a few days whilst I thought how to complete it. In the end, I decided to allow the gold “squiggle” to be the star of the card and add extra gold to make it more lush and elegant. Let me know if you think I succeeded!
This is the official embellishment that is leftover after making the kit cards (I’m planning to make mine on Friday with friends) and it’s so beautiful. I stuck it onto a piece of very vanilla and then bordered it with a piece of gold foil 1/8 inch larger. Normally I leave my layers intact because depending on the colour, you can see that there are cut outs! Not with this card, I decided to cut out a fairly large rectangle out of the gold foil since it only comes a couple of sheets at a time. I cut the thanks out using the Hello You dies in blackberry bliss and used the 2-way glue pen to adhere it. I have finally decided on the 2-way glue pen as my favourite way to add die cut words – unless you squeeze, you don’t get extra glue that oozes around your word as with the multipurpose glue and it doesn’t dry too fast like the fine tip pen. I know that this is the third day in a row for blackberry bliss, but it feels a supremely rich and elegant colour to me and perfect for this card.
Since I’d cut out a lot of the gold foil, I didn’t want to have a dent in the front of my card so I popped the layer up on stampin’ dimensionals and added it to a blackberry bliss cardbase. Lots of dimensionals so that the card doesn’t sag. For this use, I tend to cut up the dimensionals at the edge of the pack – there’s no rule that all dimensionals have to be hexagons. Use it all up!
I used a retired paper to line the envelope – I’m not sure which DSP it is, it was in my stash of precut liners and I loved the gold foil with this card.
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Here’s another alternative use of this month’s Paper Pumpkin kit and, as mentioned yesterday, more of the older in colours. I’m hoping that I’m going to need a congratulations card soon for someone on my team at work – it’s always good to be prepared, right? This card has a similar feel to yesterday’s layout, but side by side, they are quite different. They would be good together as part of a set to give as a gift.
All three of the stamps are from the Paper Pumpkin set, Hello Sunshine. I stamped the congratulations in full strength blackberry bliss on very vanilla. The To You! is also in blackberry bliss, but stamped off once. I find that with such skinny letters they look black rather than the deep lush purple. The other sentiment is of course in lost lagoon which I adore with blackberry bliss. The mat is just 1/8 inch larger than the stamped piece giving a very skinny border. This is then mounted on a blackberry bliss card base.
It’s hard to see in the picture, but I again dry embossed the envelope flap – this time with lucky stars which I think fits the congratulatory nature of the card.
And that’s it for today! A very simple card and post. I hope you’re enjoying seeing the possibilities afforded us with a Paper Pumpkin kit. I have another card made (just waiting for some embellishments which are arriving this week) and another one halfway there. I’m enjoying the challenge that I like to set myself with these kits and think that it might be fun to do a similar idea with other sets – take one stamp set and make four different cards with it. I think we’re all guilty (I hope we all are – I know I am) of excitedly getting a new set, making one card and moving onto another set.
Are you ready for my Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate 3? It doesn’t even have melon mambo on it, I think that’s five days in a row without pink now! Oddly, I wouldn’t say that I’m a pink fanatic, it just seems to work so well with balloons. Maybe that’s my next challenge – a balloon card without pink. I’ll have to think about that!
I realised the other day that the 2014-2016 in colours are only going to be around for another three months unless they are saved by a colour refresh. And I really love mossy meadow, lost lagoon and blackberry bliss so there may be a bit more use of them for a while.
I started by stamping the sentiment from the Paper Pumpkin Hello Sunshine set in mossy meadow and then added the flowers in blackberry bliss but I stamped off once first. One tip is to look at the image when you’re stamping off to ensure it’s a good clean image otherwise you’re not going to get a good image when you stamp on your card. This feels almost Japanese – I assume it’s because the flowers are reminding me of cherry blossoms. I also added a flower to the inside – you can just see a hint of it. I matted this piece of very vanilla with a piece of mossy meadow just 1/8 inch bigger and then put that on the blackberry bliss card base. I didn’t have any mossy meadow or blackberry bliss envelope liners precut and with my ankle still quite a problem (as any of my Fitbit friends can see – I’m getting about 1000 steps per day at the moment) I didn’t want to trek to the other end of the house for the DSP box. Instead I used the embossing folder spring flowers (which I’ve just noticed is retired) and embossed the envelope flap.
I’m going to go and put my feet up for a while, call my sister and then play some more with my carding supplies. A nice peaceful day.
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I’ve been playing with the red box again and here’s my Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate 2 idea. It’s similar to yesterday in that I took one of the large embellishments and used the leftovers but this time I cut a frame around the edge in the same paper.
I started by putting the frame on a piece of pear pizzazz so that I could get my placing and then started at the outside edge and worked my way inwards. It’s extremely satisfying to use scraps that are expected to be thrown away. Since I had my red Paper Pumpkin box out, I used a sentiment from the same Hello Sunshine kit and went with the reason for the kit’s name. Black seemed a little too harsh so this is early espresso. I used the same colour as a mat and then put this onto a base of pear pizzazz.
A quick post from me today. My sprained ankle (16 days old now) is improving a lot but I suspect that’s from a large amount of ice and elevation. So it’s time to get back to my couch and some elevation and then I think I’ll be ready to play with my carding supplies some more.
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