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