Monthly Archives: March 2016

Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Alternate 4

Well I’m up to my Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Alternate number 4. This one is just using stamping rather than re-purposing any of the DSP. And after Rebecca’s enthusiastic comments about Cucumber Crush, I decided to use that colour again today.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin March 2016

I used post it tape to mask the area that I wanted to stamp and then it occurred to me that it would be a little irritating if I messed up the sentiment after stamping all the leaves and flowers. So I peeled up the post it tape and stamped the sentiment. Of course it was fine! Then I set about using cucumber crush and rich razzleberry and two of the little stamps from the Paper Pumpkin, Pocketful of Cheer stamp set. I really like having the images continue over the edges so that it looks as if this is just part of a large piece of paper. One word of warning however – the ink doesn’t dry as quickly on the post it tape so be careful about getting it on your fingers and then on the card.

This was a lot of fun to make, I think I’ll play with the post it tape more often. It’s a permanent fixture on my desk so that shouldn’t be difficult – I use it as a holder for my multipurpose glue. It’s especially handy to have the glue upside down as you get towards the end of the pot and the post it tape holder works perfectly.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that the sentiment came from last month’s Paper Pumpkin kit, Hello Sunshine. This design really called for a single line sentiment and nothing in this month’s kit worked.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Alternate 3

Firstly I’d like to thank Hannelie for choosing my card as an honourable mention at CASology. With 74 other cards to choose from, I’m very grateful that she chose mine.

Today I’m playing with the Paper Pumpkin March 2016 set again, Pocketful of Cheer. I’ve been using bermuda bay quite a bit over the last few days to make up for some neglect but I wanted to demonstrate that the kit also has a fair bit of cucumber crush in it. Here’s my card using leftovers from one of the cards that I didn’t make as per the kit.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Pocketful of Cheer

I cannibalized one of the envelopes for an earlier card and I still had the flaps left, so I used the hexagon punch to cut out a few shapes. I then used one of the gift card holders (which obviously now wasn’t going to be going on the envelope) and got two hexagons out of that too. I then stamped a sentiment from the set in cucumber crush onto some cucumber crush card and cut that out (it’s easier to stamp and then punch) and punched out another cucumber crush hexagon for good measure. Then came the slow part of the card as I played with the placement (whilst talking to my brother at the same time, so very efficient multi-tasking) until I got the effect I wanted. I glued the hexagons down using the multipurpose glue with some of the shapes intentionally going over the edge. It was very easy to trim these with the paper snips since I could use the piece of whisper white as the guide. I then mounted this piece onto a card base of cucumber crush and finally added the hexagon with the sentiment which I popped up. It’s easier to put your card together, including gluing everything onto the card base before popping anything up so that you can get good pressure to ensure everything is stuck well.

We’re down to the last 6 days of Sale-a-bration so if there are any of the SAB sets that you want, you need to act quickly. It’s also a good time to stock up on basics since you can get freebies for buying things that you’d buy anyway throughout the year. I have a good stash of whisper white and very vanilla card now as well as matching envelopes. This also means that the sale on Paper Pumpkin is ending next week – and you don’t want to miss April’s kit because there’s a bonus free stamp set in it.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Endless Birthday Wishes for CC&S

This week it’s a sketch challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and I’m finding that I’m starting to prefer sketches over colours. It will be interesting to see how next week goes since it’s a double – sketch and colours!

Stampin' Up! Endless Birthday Wishes and Elegant Butterfly punch

Here’s this week’s banner:

I just used a single colour – tangelo twist. This is a colour I can live without, we have other oranges. As you can tell, I’m trying to prepare myself for losing the 2014-2016 colours! This is one of the easier ones to lose. I sprayed a piece of watercolour paper with water and then used my aquapainter to spread tangelo twist onto it ensuring that I had an ombre effect going on – i.e. the colour went from saturated to less saturated. I then used my elegant butterfly punch to cut out a number of butterflies (I have enough to make at least one more card!).

This is actually my third attempt. The first one had a different sentiment and I wasn’t 100% convinced. After the next, I decided that I wanted to stamp off the sentiment once. So on the third go, I got what I wanted. The sentiment from Endless Birthday Wishes stamped off once before getting a less intense tangelo twist sentiment on the very vanilla. Then I attached the butterflies with glue dots in order of colour intensity and once they were attached, I bent the wings up a little to give the impression of movement.

Stampin' Up! Endless Birthday Wishes and Elegant Butterfly punch

The envelope is lined with some retired Confetti Celebration DSP using the envelope liners framelits to cut it out. Lining envelopes is definitely a great use of retired DSP.

I hope that you’ll hop over to the challenge blog and see what the rest of the Design Team have made to inspire you and that you’ll have a go and I’ll see your cards in the gallery.

If you want to get any of the tangelo twist items – card stock, ink pad, refill, ribbon etc. now is the time to strike. Not only will you be able to (potentially) get free Sale-a-bration items  but you’re pretty much guaranteed that they are in stock. As soon as the retiring list comes out, these in colours will disappear almost immediately. So if you need them, get them now!

Finally – a big welcome to my new blog subscriber, I’m so glad that you joined us.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Alternate 2

Here’s my Paper Pumpkin March 2016 alternate 2. Since yesterday I used one of the squares that is designed to go on one of the cards, I had a few banners left over. So I decided to use them on today’s card.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin Pocketful of Cheer

The pool party circle is a sticker from the kit but it’s actually the outside of the sticker left after removing the “intentional” sticker. I cut it out with my 1.25″ punch and cut the same size of whisper white. I then stamped on it with the grad hat from the Paper Pumpkin Pocketful of Cheer stamp set in Bermuda Bay and stuck the pool party ring around the edge. Next I punched out a bermuda bay circle using the 1.75″ punch and stuck the two leftover banners to that. At this point, I decided to stamp the sentiment before sticking anything to the whisper white layer. It’s stamped in bermuda bay again and after that was successful I glued on the circle and banners. I glued this whisper white piece to a bermuda bay card base. I find that it’s easiest to glue the card together before adding anything popped up with dimensionals – as my hat was.

After so much disuse, bermuda bay has leapt into the spotlight! I’ll have to try another neglected colour soon!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Alternate

So here’s my first Paper Pumpkin March 2016 alternate idea. I decided that I didn’t need to make all the special envelopes to hold the gift card holders (they could go inside the card) and I could repurpose the DSP that was the inside of the envelope. I cut the flaps off the envelope and cut down the DSP so that I could add a skinny mat of pool party and then add this to a card base of bermuda bay. I know that I said yesterday that I as planning on using more bermuda bay soon, but I didn’t expect to do it quite so quickly! I guess the Pocketful of Cheer kit this month has inspired me or at least playing with the Paper Pumpkin kit means that the bermuda bay ink and cardstock are out on my table.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Pocketful of  Cheer

I used one of the precut squares from the kit and stamped the sentiment and the balloon separately. This was so that I could get them close enough together. One tip though – I laid the balloon stamp onto the card and then held the sentiment over so that I could get the location of the sentiment right. I realised that if I didn’t do that, I’d stamp the sentiment in the middle which wouldn’t be right after adding the balloon. I popped the square up with dimensionals and put it towards the bottom so that more of the uninterrupted DSP was showing.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Pocketful of  Cheer

Since I’d used the envelope as my DSP, I used an ordinary whisper white envelope and jazzed it up with a bermuda bay envelope liner.

See you tomorrow,

Liz