SHARON'S INKIE FINGERS

I love creating alternative cards with Paper Pumpkin Kits  I would love to see your finished creations that are inspired by this tutorial! 

Today is my alternative card ideas using the August 2021 Paper Pumpkin Kit – Hope Box. 

This card was super simple to make.  I stamped the sentiment onto watercolor paper with Versa Mark.  I used white embossing powder and embossed the sentiment.  Next I used my Aqua Brush to put stripes of colors on top of the lines of the sentiment.  I used Bermuda Bay, Polished Pink, Pear Pizzazz, Bumblebee, and Highland Heather.  I used one of the butterflies and a few purple rhinestones scattered around.  The watercolor piece is mounted on Highland Heather and the card is Soft Sea Foam.

These next two cards are what I call a two for one. You use one cardbase from the Paper Pumpkin kit and create two cards. I love how the gradient really adds a nice pop of colors and goes so well with the fun patterns from the banners.

1- Cut the Melon Mambo Cardbase in half at 4 ¼”. Trim down the Melon Mambo side to 4” x 5 ¼”. Remove the top section at 1 ¾”.

2- On the White card (that you cut off from the back of the Melon Mambo piece) create a blend of colors using Blending Brushes and Bumblebee, Bermuda Bay, Melon Mambo, & Blackberry Bliss. Trim down to 4” x 5 ¼” and remove the top section at 1 ¾”.

3- On the larger pieces. Stamp the greeting. ( I used the retired stamp set, Ridiculously Awesome.) You can choose to stamp in Blackberry Bliss or VersaMark and heat emboss with White Embossing Powder. If you choose to heat emboss, make sure to apply a generous amount of powder (embossing buddy) to the top of the Blended Background so the powder doesn’t stick to any wet ink.  I used my stamparatus & inked the sentiment a couple of times with Blackberry Bliss ink.

Place the greeting on the top  of the Blended Background and the bottom right corner of the Melon Mambo piece.

4- Swap pieces so you have a blended piece with a Melon Mambo piece then add to your cardbases. I placed the Blended Background pieces on top for each of my cards – see images above.

5- Randomly stamp the flower image from the stamp set that came in the kit with Pool Party ink on the Pool Party 1” strip. Then cut down the middle to create two ½” x 4” pieces.

6- Attach the strip over the seam between the two papers on the cardbase.

7- Cut each banner in around the half mark making one side small and the other a little bigger. I cut some at 2” and others at 1 ¾”. Mix and match patterns and sizes, then attach them to the card with dimensionals. Make sure not to cover any of the greeting. Add sequins.

All Done!