I’d like to start by thanking the team at CAS Colours and Sketches for selecting my card as a weekly winner. I truly am grateful to be honoured this way.

As I mentioned yesterday, my Paper Pumpkin kit arrived. It’s a really great project but for some reason when I looked at the stamp set, rather than putting the kit together I started playing with the images in the set. I guess I just didn’t feel like following instructions tonight.

I put the two leaf stamps onto one clear block so that it removed the need to try to line them up similarly each time. I stamped them on very vanilla using the new(ish) Stampin’ Up! archival basic black ink and then got out my aquapainter. I coloured in the leaves using four colours – mossy meadow, pear pizzazz, old olive and always artichoke and purposely varying the amount of ink on the aquapainter. I added the sentiment – also from the Paper Pumpkin kit (Blissful Bouquet) – in Mossy Meadow. I love this colour and will be really sad to see it be retired next year. I matted the very vanilla piece with a skinny basic black mat before mounting it on a mossy meadow card base.

I’ve challenged myself to create at least three cards using this stamp set so let’s see how it goes. And I still need to create the cards as per the instructions. And I noticed that there are four pieces of each DSP in the kit although only three of each of the three card bases. So lots of extras to play with! These kits in a box really are tremendous fun – and value. I’d advise you to sign up – and keep your fingers crossed that this month’s kit is offered to subscribers. That’s a huge perk of being a subscriber. I’m going to keep my eye out for refill kits – these give you the supplies to make more of the month’s projects but don’t include the stamp set.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

I got home late last night, although not as late as I’d have been if Talbott hadn’t given me a ride home. The meeting that my brother was in ran really long. So after doing my small part of the dinner (my father having prepared most of it), I was ready to relax until I remembered that my Paper Pumpkin should have arrived. So I jumped up and presumably made my mail man happy by emptying the over stuffed mail box. Including this month’s special PINK box – Stampin’  Up! made a donation to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for each active subscriber this month and the box is pink for just this month. Here’s the video showing the contents of the kit. I can’t wait to play with it.

In case you’re new to Paper Pumpkin and aren’t entirely sure of the details, here’s a reminder:

• 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

Yesterday I was sharing a card using some of the DSP from the July Paper Pumpkin kit, today I’m getting back to the right month and showing you the video demonstrating the September kit, Wickedly Sweet Treat.

My friend Julia and I are making cookies for a bake sale next week, I think I see how sixteen packages are going to look! I’ve already used one of the stamps from this set on a card as well – I’ll share that one soon.

In case you’re new to Paper Pumpkin and aren’t entirely sure of the details, here’s a reminder:

• 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.
• We will ship your Paper Pumpkin on or 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.

And if you sign up by October 10th, not only do you get October’s kit shipped to you, Stampin’ Up! will donate $2 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. What are you waiting for?

See you tomorrow,

Liz