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Paper Pumpkin – sign up now!

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There’s a week left for you to sign up for Paper Pumpkin to get this month’s kit in a box. If you’ve been following my blog for a while (and thank you if you have, and welcome if you’re new!) you know that I enjoy playing with the stamp set that is shipped in each kit and coming up with alternate designs and uses for it. One of the fun things about Paper Pumpkin is that the kit is always a surprise. Some of us like surprises, others like to know what’s coming and this month we have a sneak peek. It was revealed at the Stampin’ Up! onstage event last month and so there’s also a peek for people who didn’t go. This means if you’d put your subscription on hold for some reason, you can see that you need to activate it for this month. The cards look great. I’ve put the image right at the bottom of my post in case you’d rather be surprised.

And in case you haven’t signed up for your Paper Pumpkin yet, 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 – everything but adhesive.
  • 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.
  • Just click on the Paper Pumpkin button on the left hand side to join up.
  • Once you’re a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can buy previous kits as supplies last.

If you sign up and name me as your demonstrator, I’ll send you a free gift from me. I’m going to the post office on Saturday to mail a thank you to my newest signee, why not add your name to my thank you list?

Here’s the sneak peek that I mentioned, scroll down…

 

 

 

 

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a bit further so that I can be sure you really want to see it…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doesn’t it look like a lot of fun? Those laser cut cards (there are eight of them) look amazing.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin April 2016 Alternate 5

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This is my Paper Pumpkin April 2016 Alternate 5 plus some odds and ends. I’ve been trying to use up DSP and other retiring consumables lately as well as play with my Paper Pumpkin kit. Today I started off looking at the retiring in colours (which I’m sorely going to miss) and this card developed from there.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin Lovely Little Wreath

I looked at the ribbon that I have in the retiring in colours (all of it is already retired actually) and found that I had about 6 inches left of the satin mossy meadow. I tried to tie a bow but there just wasn’t enough. I’m still seeing the flower/starburst image from this month’s Paper Pumpkin, Lovely Little Wreath, as a celebratory image. This led me to choosing the celebrate sentiment from the bonus stamp set, All About Everything,  and stamping it in mossy meadow placing it above my line of ribbon. Next the starbursts were added in mossy meadow and I constructed the card gluing my very vanilla layer to a mossy meadow card base. This was when I decided that my clean and simple card was just a bit too clean and simple.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin Lovely Little Wreath

I got out all my embellishments and played around with the botanical jewels, bow tie clips and buttons. Nothing quite worked. This was when I remembered that the Home For Christmas enamel dots are in mossy meadow (as well as very vanilla and cherry cobbler). Three of the smaller very vanilla dots on the ribbon worked perfectly. I realise that these are retired and if you love this card (and don’t happen to have the enamel dots left over) it’s hard to make. However, it would work just as well using whisper white and the white perfect accents. I think I may make this card up in the four other colours whilst I’m thinking how to use up the mossy meadow enamel dots! And whilst looking at my stash of retiring DSP. I’ve seen the new paper and I want it all! I’m definitely signing up for a share of my upcoming DSP and ribbon share!

Welcome to my new email subscriber, I’m so glad that you signed up to get my daily posts.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Alternate 4

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Well, here’s the fourth Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Alternate and this one also uses the All About Everything set that was free in the April kit. As I mentioned the other day, I gained a new team member recently and of course I wanted to make her a card. The April kit was perfect for this. It’s definitely time to celebrate and I used the two stamp sets to make a shooting star. Seems appropriate, yes?

Stampin' Up! Lovely Little Wreath and All About Everything

It’s really hard to photograph to get a good view of the shine. I rubbed the blackberry bliss card with the embossing buddy and then stamped the images from the Lovely Little Wreath and All about Everything in versamark and then sprinkled on the gold embossing powder. After my favourite part – heating with the heat gun – the images really popped. To finish off my one layer card, I stamped the greeting on the inside from Welcome Words in blackberry bliss with the second line being stamped off once. This is a really useful set (especially at the moment at work) and I’m not happy that it has been retired – grab it whilst it lasts if you need to welcome people in the near future.

I finished the envelope with a liner cut from the in colours designer series stack in blackberry bliss. I have a little more of that to use in the next month. I’m really going to miss blackberry bliss although I won’t miss what it tries to do to my Stampin’ Scrub. I tend to spray a blackberry bliss inked stamp with Stampin’ Mist on a paper towel and blot the colour off before I use it on the Scrub. Otherwise everything gets pink!

Every time that I go through the retiring list, I find more sets that I’m going to miss. I recommend that you take a look in case there’s anything that you can’t live without – some of them have a good discount on them.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin April 2016 Alternate 3

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I really like the flower/starburst stamp in the Paper Pumpkin April 2016 set, Lovely Little Wreath. I decided to use it to combine two challenges today – Pink from CASology and “use three stamps” from Less is More. They are both CAS challenges which is my favourite (and only) style of card. But I have been trying to use up DSP and embellishments lately because I know that they will be retired and new ones will be available! So I’m actually using rhinestones! I’m planning to offer a paper and embellishment share because I always have too much unused paper and I bet you do too. A smaller quantity will work much better. A share means that you’ll be getting a quarter or a fifth of each paper or embellishment (and paying that fraction) which means you get a greater variety for less money.

So here’s my pink and “Use 3 stamps” card.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin Lovely Little Wreath

The sentiment is from the freebie in the Paper Pumpkin April 2016 kit – All About Everything and is stamped in melon mambo (yes, again!) on whisper white. It’s an awesome freebie – if you’re not a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, I encourage you to become one so that you can order the April kit (whilst supplies last). The extra stamp set is full of awesome sentiments. Then I stamped the flower from the Lovely Little Wreath set in melon mambo three times to satisfy the Less is More rules. Unusually, I decided to add some bling – I took my middle colour melon mambo blendability pen and coloured in some rhinestones – sharpies will work if you don’t possess the retired blendabilities. I added those to the centre of the flowers and I love the CAS look. My piece of whisper white is glued to a whisper white card base. I lined the envelope with the retired backgrounds DSP in melon mambo to coordinate with the card.

I encourage you to have a go at entering challenges – it’s a lot of fun and sometimes quite useful to have your options narrowed down!

I’ll add a second post later on today with the retired list, but don’t forget – if there’s anything you can’t live without, it’s best to get it before the list is announced.

See you later,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin April 2016 Alternate 2

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I finally finished my taxes yesterday – last minute but it had been quite frustrating trying to get it done – and so was able to reward myself with some crafting time. I had made a card using leftovers from the Paper Pumpkin April 2016 set, Lovely Little Wreath for yesterday’s post and that left a smaller strip of the leaves. Well, not wanting to waste that, I designed another card. I have no idea if bees tend to frequent cactus flowers, but I’m okay with that!

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin April 2016 Lovely Little Wreath

This time I decided to use whisper white as my layer and first stamped the sentiment in mossy meadow. I coloured in the flowers and leaves with the Stampin’ Up! markers in mossy meadow and daffodil delight. Next I stamped the bee from Garden in Bloom using archival black ink. If you don’t have the bee (which is a shame, because I think he’s adorable and I am expecting him to appear on quite a few cards in the near future!) either click on Shop Now on the left and get him or a butterfly would work equally well. Although it wouldn’t be as adorable! I also used the daffodil delight marker to colour in the bee. Then I added the leaf strip from the Paper Pumpkin kit and the remaining spare flower. You get 15 in the kit and need 11 for the wreath. I’m still trying to design a card using the leftover from where the leaves are punched out! So don’t throw anything from the kit away!! I glued my whisper white layer to a mossy meadow card base.

I heard from my sister yesterday and she had had a fabulous time at the local onstage in the UK. And then I found out that one of the next locations for a local event in November is in Secaucus, NJ which is only about 45 minutes from me. She’s already talking about coming over to visit when it’s happening, and Julia’s keen too. So that’s three of us already within 12 hours of the announcement. If you want to come with us, just go to the “Become a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator” tab on the left and join the team.

Sometime this week I’m planning to share the gifts that I made for Julia who became a SU demonstrator a couple of weeks ago. But first, I have to play some more with my Paper Pumpkin kit!

See you tomorrow,

Liz