There’s a new project kit in the upcoming catalog and it’s the Watercolor Christmas Project Kit. It comes with the supplies to make 20 cards, five each of four designs for $20. All you need to add is the Watercolor Christmas stamp set, black ink and some adhesive. And of course once you’ve bought a kit and the stamp set, it’s extremely cost effective to get another kit! Assuming that you have glue and black ink, if you buy the clear mount stamp set it’s $38 in total for the kit and stamp set. Add another kit and that’s 40 cards for $58 plus shipping and tax. And they are so quick to put together.
Here are the four designs:
I’m planning to get with friends locally to put some of these kits together next month. Let me know if you’d be interested too.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project.
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Here’s the Paper Pumpkin August 2017 video. Amazingly I completely forgot to empty my mailbox for a few days and when I checked tracking, found that my kit had been sitting there for THREE days. Shocking! But it’s in the house now and I’m contemplating alternate cards now. I’ll get together with my team to do the kit itself – it’s a lot of fun that way.
And a reminder that there’s a 50% off offer for new subscribers who sign up by 10th September
Only new month-to-month subscribers qualify for the 50% discount.
To participate in this promotion, subscribers must join by Monday, September 10, 2017 at 11:50 PM (MT).
The 50% discount only applies to the new subscriber’s first kit. After that, the price for each month’s kit will return to the regular price of $19.95 USD/$26.95 CAD.
New subscribers must visit paperpumpkin.com to join – here’s the link.
Enter the promo code HALFOFF0917 at paperpumpkin.com to subscribe.
In case you don’t know what Paper Pumpkin is about, here are the details:
Each month you receive a unique, surprise kit with a project. It’s colour-coordinated and everything is pre-cut
Each kit includes stamps, ink, paper, accessories and instructions.
Each kit gives you about 30 minutes of fun
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 subscription is just $19.95 per month (and shipping is included!) There’s no commitment, you can cancel or put your subscription on hold at any time. You can also prepay 1, 3, 6 or 12 months at a time (great gift idea) and save money with the latter 2 options.
Once you’re a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can buy previous kits as supplies last. Sometimes complete kits are available at other times, it’s just the consumables so that you can make more.
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I’ve mentioned before that I always thought that I have the creativity of a brick and thus argued with my sister that I would not be able to make cards. I was wrong of course; Caro was right – anybody can make cards with the tools given to us by Stampin’ Up!. Even if you don’t feel able to design your own cards from scratch, there is so much inspiration to start you off. But I have a thing about flowers – if I’m given a bunch, I dump them in a vase and they arrange themselves. I feel that way with stamping. I love the two and three layer stamp sets with flowers and all the beautiful framelits but I feel challenged by them. So I decided to take the bull by the horns and play with the Beautiful Bouquet bundle. It’s a little bit of a cop out – there are no flowers stamped, but the card evolved this way.
I started by stamping these sweet flowers and also cutting them out from some sweet sugarplum card stock when it occurred to me that flowers are not identically coloured. So I grabbed a piece of watercolor paper and painted various strengths of sweet sugarplum on it and left it to dry. Actually I went to bed, but you don’t have to wait quite that long! Then I diecut half a dozen or so of the blossoms and I could see the card taking shape. The stems are cut from pear pizzazz and I stamped the sentiment (also from Beautiful Bouquet) in sweet sugarplum first. Just in case. Then it was a matter of construction. Since I was making it up as I went along, I hadn’t thought ahead and used the multipurpose adhesive sheets, so lightly dabbed some of the multipurpose glue onto the back of each die cut with a sponge dauber (on the silicone craft mat) making sure to vary the depth of colour. I also cut off single flowers and added a few where there were stem ends and also to add a little height to the bunch. I’m really thrilled with how it came out – although I know that I haven’t used the multi-step stamping on flowers yet. Baby steps, right?!
Since the blossoms were not full strength sweet sugarplum, the card looked better with a wide pear pizzazz border and just a touch of the sweet sugarplum card base showing. I really love this dusky rose – it was not my immediate favourite (that was dapper denim) but it gets used the most I think. It’s fascinating how your perception of the in colors changes as the year goes on. Except for flirty flamingo – I really don’t get on with that one! In fact, this year is the first time when I’ve really loved all five.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project.
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I won the stamp set that coordinates with the Eclectic Layers thinlits dies at Onstage in Amsterdam and I swapped it with my sister. It just didn’t seem to be me although I did like the look of the thinlits. Until Nicki sent me a card using it recently and then the Eclectic bundle leapt onto my next order. I’m not actually using the stamp set here, although I have plans, but just the thinlits make a beautiful card.
The diamond shaped cut out is really striking – and I’m already planning to use it as a mask for stenciling and embossing paste. I cut a piece of Naturally Eclectic DSP to put behind it and that drove the choice of emerald envy for my leaf card stock. The flowers are cut each using 2 pieces from the Eclectic Layers in berry burst. There is a detailed die which cuts out the inside of the flower and then a framelit which cuts around the edge. This means that there is a lot of scope for layering with this set of dies.
My sentiment comes from Bunch of Blossoms which probably doesn’t come as a surprise to you! It’s an awesome sentiment and I also like how it looks. Win – Win! I stamped it in more berry burst and cut it out with the stitched shapes framelits dies and popped it up with dimensionals.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project.
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Just a quick post to let you know that the clearance rack has been updated – actually yesterday and there’s a mass of product at a good discount, some 60% off. There are some amazing bargains to be had – several embossing folders which create such fun texture on cards and envelopes, masses of ribbon and twine – my favourite being the real red stitched satin ribbon which at only $3.60 is a steal for Christmas cards as well as gift wrapping. Actually the gold satin ribbon or the tip top taupe mini striped ribbon would also be great for the same purposes. There are a number of punches that would be a great buy – border punches and the blossom bunch punch. And as for the Party Pop-up dies – that is an easy way to make a fun card. Actually, I’d stop reading and click on the shop now button below and go straight to the clearance rack. The products there are available only as products last; once they are gone, they’re gone. Hurry! I’ll see you there!!
Click on the buttons below to join my team, shop or learn how to earn free stamp sets and bundles. This month’s host code is ZWHGFAYW. It’s also above the Shop Now tab in the menu on the left. Just copy and paste it or type it into the box at the bottom of your order where it says HOST CODE and then click apply.
