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Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate 3

So here’s my Paper Pumpkin September 2016 third alternative; I’m having a lot of fun with the kit whilst I figure out what treats I’m putting in the tubes. The sketch at Freshly Made Sketches inspired this one.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin September 2016 - Something Good To Eat

Here’s the banner:

I turned the sketch on its side and used the banner from the Paper Pumpkin for the main element – actually it took two of them and my metal ruler to ensure that they were lined up. There are more banners in the kit than you need for the 16 tubes, and you don’t want to waste any. I cut a little strip of black and used my triple banner punch to put the flag in it. Then I used rich razzleberry for the sentiment (also from the Paper Pumpkin set) and cut that out with the layering square framelits dies. Then I cut out a basic black scalloped mat which I popped up with dimensionals. This was all put on a rich razzleberry card base but it didn’t feel quite right. A few metallic enamel shapes in silver finished the card off perfectly.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate 2

Since it’s a Sunday, I checked a couple of challenge sites who post new challenges on Sundays, before sitting down to craft and found that The Paper Players want a taste of fall. Even better, Laurie wants a clean and simple card. This challenge fits perfectly with my goal to create another paper pumpkin alternate with the Something Good To Eat kit.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate - Something Good To Eat

Here’s the banner which inspired my card:

I used very vanilla card stock for my top layer and first stamped the pumpkin in, obviously, pumpkin pie. What else could I use?! The details on the pumpkins are in tangerine tango. The faces and stalk as well as the sentiment (all from the Something Good To Eat kit) are in old olive.

To pull out the old olive more, I trimmed 1/8 inch off two sides of my very vanilla (to 5 1/8 by 3 7/8) so that I could have an old olive mat. It’s 5 1/4 by 4 leaving a wider pumpkin pie border.

As I mentioned yesterday, the labels in the paper pumpkin kit are going to be useful for a bake sale. I’m tempted to go and create a bag to hold cookies for it now.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate

Firstly I’d like to thank Sam aka Pootles for selecting my card as her weekly winner – her blog is one of the few that I read each morning before I get out of bed and it was a great start to a Saturday.

When I got home from work yesterday, my Paper Pumpkin had arrived! So I got up this morning determined to make my first Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate! It’s going to be very useful because soon I’ll be getting together with a friend and her son to bake cookies for a charity stall and we like to add fun labels. This set is perfect!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate - Something Good To Eat

I quickly decided that I wanted to make a very CAS card using the “A Happy Hello to you” sentiment  along with the sunflowers. I started with black centres but eventually changed to early espresso which looked better with the delightful dijon than chocolate chip. My grid paper is now covered in an assortment of sunflowers! After all that testing on white, I changed the top layer to very vanilla because it’s warmer. I wanted to add a pop of colour and watermelon wonder fits the bill – I stamped the sentiment and then used my layering squares framelits dies to cut it out and create a little frame. The layering dies are really great for creating different sized borders. Next was the placement of the flowers – I held my sentiment in place and figured how much of the flower needed to be seen and then removed the sentiment and stamped.  I popped the sentiment up with dimensionals. Then it was a simple matter of an early espresso skinny mat (it’s 1/8 inch larger than the very vanilla piece) and a wider than usual band of the card base showing. It’s fun playing with different sized mats; admittedly because I don’t tend to have a lot of layers there’s less scope, but it’s amazing what a change of 1/8 or 1/4 inch can make.

So there’s the first Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate, I’m off to go and make the second one now.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Paper Pumpkin August 2016 Alternate 5

I was sitting at my desk wondering what to make next when I looked at the Paper Pumpkin box sitting next to me and decided to take another look in the box. So here’s my Paper Pumpkin August 2016 Alternate 5. The DSP is actually meant to be a card base but I can’t see “wasting” DSP as the back of a card so I cut it in half and used it on the front.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin August 2016 Alternate 5 - Bold Botanicals - Vertical Greetings

The sentiment is from Vertical Greetings and stamped in island indigo and then I wrapped a piece of mint macaron ribbon around the DSP. The ribbon is from the Holiday catalog – it’s part of the the ribbon 3/8″ trio pack which also includes rich razzleberry and delightful dijon. I then matted my DSP with a piece of whisper white before adding it to my island indigo card base. I made a bow and added that with a glue dot – it was waving around so I used my paper piercing tool to add another glue dot under the ribbon too. I debated adding enamel dots but with the ribbon, it was just too much!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin August 2016 Alternate 4

Today it’s time for my Paper Pumpkin August 2016 Alternate 4 using the Bold Botanicals kit.

Paper Pumpkin August 2016 Alternate 4

I took one of the crumb cake/kraft pieces of card stock and stamped the hello in early espresso. Next I used the embossing buddy and then heat embossed the flowers with gold embossing powder. I cut down the piece of card to allow more of the patterned paper (also from the kit) to show. I added a piece of early espresso to mat the calypso coral DSP. I then popped this entire piece up on dimensionals and attached it to a crumb cake base. Pretty quick and simple. I did wonder about using the new(ish) copper embossing powder but wasn’t sure how it would look with the crumb cake – I may have to make another in copper!

Tomorrow is Thursday which means it’s time for another challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and time for a new hostess, Karen. You still have time to get in under the wire on this week’s challenge, it closes at 6pm EST tonight. But get ready for September which has five Thursdays and thus the final challenge will be the double. This sketch challenge combined with colours intimidated me at first, but it’s a lot of fun. Do join in the 4 challenges before it to get yourself ready!

See you tomorrow,

Liz