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December Paper Pumpkin

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This is a record – I received this month’s Paper Pumpkin, One Great Year, on Friday when I got home from work. Although I had plenty of things that I could be doing on Saturday, I put together the kit. This month it’s a calendar ready for next year. I really love the colours that have been used for this kit and in fact, the whole project which I plan to place on my desk at work.

Stampin' Up! One Great Year - Paper Pumpkin

There are four styles of pages included – the other three are demonstrated by the next three months

Stampin' Up! One Great Year - Paper Pumpkin

and the different styles come in three different colours

Stampin' Up! One Great Year - Paper Pumpkin

Stampin' Up! One Great Year - Paper Pumpkin

and finally

Stampin' Up! One Great Year - Paper Pumpkin

I followed the instructions pretty much to the letter – I swapped the colour of the background on a couple of months (obviously a total irrelevance) but I left off the twine which was supposed to be glued to the back of some of the calendar pieces and and artistically spread around. I find that it tends to look a mess rather than artistic so I don’t do that!

I didn’t add any supplies to the kit, the adhesive dots and dimensionals were all included. So there’s not much to put in the supply list other than prepaid Paper Pumpkin kits. If you go for the 6 month option, you save a dollar per kit, double if you select the year. One of the big benefits of being a Paper Pumpkin subscriber (apart from the fun of getting a mystery kit delivered each month) is that you can buy any of the past kits and refills which are being offered.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

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

 

 

 

Embellished Ornaments Part 2

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At the weekend I was working on a card for this week’s challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches which was a colour challenge incorporating watermelon wonder, lost lagoon and metallic silver. I was playing with the embellished ornaments stamp set and a water spritzer and made a number of ornaments with this colour combination. Or so I thought!

Stampin' Up! Embellished Ornaments and Mistletoe and Holly

I used sponges and dabbed the watermelon wonder and lost lagoon randomly around the stamp and then spritzed once with my water spritzer before stamping onto a piece of very vanilla. Each ornament came out differently and, unless I spritzed too much water, beautifully. I added a sentiment to this card, using this month’s Paper Pumpkin set, Mistletoe and Holly in watermelon wonder and mounted my piece of very vanilla onto a base of watermelon wonder. I was just about to declare it ready for entry into the challenge when I realized that I was missing the metallic silver. Oops. For my challenge card, I added some silver but on this one I decided to add a few rhinestones. I wasn’t certain if rhinestones meet the metallic silver criteria and so this card was a nice side benefit of the challenge but wasn’t entered. I added a liner using the new designer series paper stack in watercolour wonder.

I made some more ornaments in the same way but dabbed on metallic silver also – totally different effect. I’ll share some of them soon.

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