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Paper Pumpkin June 2016 Alternate 2

Well good morning. Here’s my Paper Pumpkin June 2016 alternate 2. I noticed, when I opened my kit that this was an unusual situation. Well, actually it wasn’t the first time I opened it, since it arrived about 10 minutes before I was due to go to a party (oops) but later on I saw that there weren’t actually enough supplies to make the cards as shown. The video shows 6 cards and implies that you can make 6 banners saying HAPPY. Well, with only two sheets of gold letters, you can only make 2 HAPPY banners. So, what else to do?

I looked for some twine to use instead of the white supplied but I didn’t have a colour that I really liked. So I stuck with the kits colours and pulled out the mint macaron sheer linen ribbon – it’s an awesome ribbon to play with. I simply pushed it through the hole in the spine of the card and made a bow. It came out a little lopsided and that’s when I realised how perfect it was to balance my sentiment. Sometimes you just get lucky!

I used one of the circles from the kit – or you could stamp and punch one out using a 1 3/4 inch circle punch – and stamped in mint macaron. I put the HAPPY and DAY together on one block figuring that they would line up perfectly if I pushed them together and they do. Easy. I punched out a 2 inch circle of tip top taupe and popped that up with dimensionals.

Here’s the official video on this kit

So what alternatives are there for HAPPY on the banner? ENJOY would work – so two HAPPYs and two ENJOYs would work.

If you don’t have the mint macaron sheer linen ribbon, why don’t you?! I’ll be offering another product share in a week or so, but you can email me now to secure a place at lizbaileycards@gmail.com. The details will be the same as the first one – you can read about it here. If you’re not familiar, the advantage of a product share is that you can get a taste of a lot of product at a fraction of the price.

I hope you have a great Monday, see you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin May 2016 alternate 5

Paper Pumpkin May 2016 Alternate 3

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Here’s my third Paper Pumpkin May 2016 alternate – I’m still playing with the awesome die cut card fronts. This one is a lot of fun to make and can be done in any variety of colours. As you may have noticed (!), I’m enjoying using Dapper Denim, one of the upcoming in colours, and this time I paired it with emerald envy (sure to be another favourite) and elegant eggplant. A really rich combination.

I started by grabbing a piece of whisper white, just 1/8 inch smaller than the base and then cut strips of card in dapper denim, emerald envy and elegant eggplant which are 9/16 of inch wide. I positioned a long strip of elegant eggplant (the piercing tool is great for help here, reaching through the die cut front) and one of the strips at 90 degrees to it. Once I had those positioned, I didn’t need to worry and just had fun adding strips to the whisper white. I did check every now and then, that this really was going to work and the 9/16″ was the perfect width and it still looked good. But here’s what my whisper white looked like when I finished:

As you can see, I just added strips snugged up to their neighbours and it was so easy. Obviously I checked the overall look to help determine whether the gaps needed to be filled in or not before finishing. I then added glue dots to the four corners and to the solid band across the front of the card and glued down the coloured piece. Next was the sentiment which is made up of two stamps from the Many Manly Occasions Paper Pumpkin set, stamped in emerald envy.

I lined the envelope using the envelope liners framelits (retiring) and the retired backgrounds DSP in elegant eggplant. I do have the newer non-retired regals DSP stack but I still have some of the old ones to use up.

I hope that you’re having as much fun as I am playing with this kit!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin May 2016 Alternate 2

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I’m a little late posting today – it’s my father’s 83rd birthday and the first one since we lost my mother last year. He and I went for a fairly emotional walk to the nearby Arboretum which the two of them visited fairly frequently. He approved today’s card and said he preferred it to the one in the Paper Pumpkin May 2016 kit, so I’m calling that a win. I’m really enjoying playing with the die cut cards provided in the kit – I’m going to have a lot of the corrugated orange left because this is my third card that hasn’t used it (I have another all ready to share).

The colour inspiration came from CAS on Sunday – the directive is to use white cardstock and three of the following colours:

I’m surprised – and pleased – to find how well blushing bride and mint macaron go together – I’ll have to try them again some time. But, how did I make the sort of Mondrian inspired card? I say sort of Mondrian inspired because he was known for black lines with primary colour blocks – I tried primary colours first, but the white just wasn’t working. This was when I decided to try pastels and realised that the colour palette at CAS on Sunday was perfect.

So first I cut strips of mint macaron, blushing bride and bermuda bay at 9/16 inch wide (just one notch over the half inch on the Stampin’ trimmer) and made some of them 9/16″ long, other 1 1/8″ inch long and one 3 7/16″. I then took a piece of whisper white 4″ by 5.25″ and placed it inside the card and guessed where I wanted my squares and rectangles. I found that the paper piercing tool was awesome for nudging them around. When I had the colours where I wanted them, I opened the card and made light pencil marks at the corners of one of the blocks of colour. I then put a bit of glue on the back and stuck it down. After the third block, I noticed that things weren’t quite lined up and had to pull off a square to redo it. At this point, I had a “duh” moment and realised that I should stick my piece of whisper white to the card temporarily. So I used post-it tape for this – it worked perfectly.

Once I had all my colour blocks glued down, I added a few circles of post-it tape underneath the piece of whisper white to temporarily hold it to the card base. Then I added glue dots across the central piece and at the corners and the whisper white was perfectly placed. It was easy to open the card and remove the post-it tape.

I decided that the card needed a big Happy in mint macaron, using the Hello You thinlits dies as yesterday and the birthday from the Paper Pumpkin May 2016 kit stamped in Bermuda Bay. I finished off the envelope with last year’s in colors DSP stack and the envelope liners.

See you tomorrow,

Liz