I’m rather late today due to staying up late last night baking cookies for charity which then needed to be bagged up. Julia and I did this last year too and were delighted to find that last year’s September Paper Pumpkin was all about packaging. The same is somewhat true this year, so without further ado, here’s my Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate number 4.

Bagging up cookies is a great way to use up retired ribbon! We decided that we needed to colour code the bags – anything with red ribbon contained peanuts. These are peanut butter cookies from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe although on most of the batch we decided to add some chocolate chunks. We of course had to test them and can report that it’s a great addition. We also made Mel’s Chocolate Chip Cookies and they got any colour ribbon that wasn’t red!

So we pooled our Paper Pumpkins and between James (Julia’s son) and me, we used up almost all the tags in the boxes (one was already used on another project). Next, after dinner kindly cooked by my brother whilst the cookies cooled, we packaged up the cookies and tied ribbon around them. The tags were punched with the smallest Stampin’ Up! hand held punch and I used the linen thread in the Paper Pumpkins to attach the tag. It was a fun night and it was for charity. And, we got to do what we love best – spend time together, baking and stamping and we’re therefore not on the roster for actually standing at the booth. Win-win.

Talking of win-win, today is World Card Making Day and Stampin’ Up! wants to help us celebrate! In fact the celebration lasts for 5 days. Click on the image to see the specific products which are discounted.

And there’s more! Stampin’ Up! is also running a Designer Series Paper promotion this month – buy three, get one free. Again click on the banner below to check out the eight packs that are part of this promotion.

There are a few details on this one:

Promotion period: October 1–31, 2016
• All order types qualify for this promotion.
• There is no limit to how many times participants can buy three packages of Designer Series Paper and get one free during this promotion.
• Specialty Designer Series Paper and Designer Series Paper Stacks do not qualify for this promotion and cannot be redeemed through this offer.
• Designer Series Paper purchased with Stampin’ Rewards or the Stampin’ Rewards 50%-off perk does not qualify for this promotion.
• Designer Series Paper purchased as part of a Starter Kit does not qualify for this promotion.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project, please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin and get BOGOF until October 10, click here and use the code BOGO.

See you tomorrow,

Liz