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December Paper Pumpkin

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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

Paper Pumpkin November 2015 Alternate 2

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Firstly I’d like to thank Lisa for selecting my card as A Cut Above at the Paper Players for last week’s challenge. My sister called me yesterday morning to tell me; since she’s in the UK she’s five hours ahead and could see this before me.

I bought the Expressions Natural Elements on a whim, not sure if they would fit my style of clean and simple cards – but they do. I was trying to create a Christmas card with blue and white and texture for the Merry Monday Challenge and somehow decided to make a Paper Pumpkin November 2015 Alternate idea. I played around for a while before realizing that the square joy stamp would make a great bauble. This is definitely an example of a card which evolved rather than being planned.

Stampin' Up! Expressions Natural Elements and Mistletoe and Holly

I stamped the joy in night of navy on whisper white and after cutting out the three baubles using a retired holiday ornaments framelits set (the circles collection could work although you’d need to add the topper from this year’s delicate ornaments dies) I realized that they weren’t going to work too well on a night of navy base. I really wanted the richness of the night of navy for the card base so I cut some whisper white circles with the bigshot and built my baubles. Then I played with ribbon and twine but nothing looked right. My box of “stuff” was in front of me and the expressions natural elements were right there. Finally a way to have the baubles be attached to something without it being too fussy. The natural look didn’t fit the card so I pressed the wooden piece into the versamark and then sprinkled the embossing powder over it. This is another time where it’s crucial to use Brian King’s tip about a metal tin lid when embossing that I referenced a couple of days ago – and I should have used my brother’s tip to put sandpaper underneath the very light and easily blown around wooden element! I glued the celebrate onto the card using the multipurpose glue. The envelope is finished off using the envelope liners framelits with the regals designer series paper stack.

 

 

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

 

Paper Pumpkin November 2015 Alternate

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Firstly I’d like to thank the ladies at CAS Colours and Sketches for selecting my card as a weekly winner. It’s a lovely surprise to go to the site to check on the next challenge and find that my card was one of the winners.

For anyone who knows my style of carding, today’s card may come as a bit of a surprise. Not only does it have ribbon, there’s also an embellishment!

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin November 2015 Mistletoe and Holly

This card started with the stamp set from this month’s Paper Pumpkin and some spare time that I grabbed by leaving my brother to do the cooking! I had the card almost complete by the time our friend arrived for dinner. I gold embossed the JOY onto a scrap of cherry cobbler card stock and then cut it out with one of the square framelits. I then cut a piece of gold foil with the next largest framelit and glued the two together. Then there was a fair amount of thought as to what was going to happen next. The container of reindeer clips was close and that looked possible but there was still something missing. I’m still surprised that I grabbed ribbon – although it’s much easier to do so these days with my custom built ribbon holder right in front of me. Once I’d determined that I was adding ribbon, I decided that I needed another piece of cherry cobbler as the card front so that the ribbon could be attached between the front and the card base. I don’t like seeing the ends of ribbon inside the card. First I embossed the sentiment in gold (also from the Paper Pumpkin Mistletoe and Holly set) before wrapping the ribbon around the piece of cherry cobbler and attaching it securely with fast fuse. I then glued this to the card base. The JOY square is popped up on dimensionals giving room for the reindeer clip to be attached.

The card fits in with the theme at the Global Design Project this week, so I’m entering it there.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin November 2015

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I was really excited to get home and play with this month’s Paper Pumpkin; I left my brother to do the cooking and broke out the box! I pretty much had a card designed by the time our friend came over for dinner. I’ll share it with you tomorrow. But for today, here’s the video showing this month’s kit, Mistletoe and Holly. I think I’ll be making these cards up later today – unless I save them to make with some friends.

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 but adhesive.
  • 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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

October 2015 Paper Pumpkin Alternative 2

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Yesterday I said that I was challenging myself to make three alternative cards with the October 2015 Paper Pumpkin Blissful Bouquet stamp set. Here’s the second – if you’ve been following my blog (and I hope you have!), you’ll have seen a similar card made a few days ago for the CAS Colours & Sketches current challenge. I decided to do another sponged panel and looked through the colour coach for inspiration but I kept coming back to the colours that Stef selected for this week’s challenge.

October 2015 Paper Pumpkin Alternative 2

This is a smaller sponged panel than the earlier card, but it is again in pumpkin pie, tangerine tango and real red on very vanilla. I then stamped the flowers from the October 2015 Paper Pumpkin Blissful Bouquet set in the archival basic black. I wanted three flowers and I decided to have them falling off the sponged colour. Probably mostly because the card from earlier in the week had the image entirely contained within the colour. I liked Martin’s comment which was that the card has a Japanese vibe – a good thing since he loves Japanese cards. The sentiment is also from the Paper Pumpkin set – rather a fun typeface and a stamp which will be rather useful. I tried using all three of the sponged colours as mats, I also tried them as card bases but in the end, it was basic black which really worked.

Stop back to see the third alternative card sometime in the next couple of days.

See you tomorrow,

Liz