Beyond the Horizon Paper Pumpkin, March 2022

 

Ashley and I had such fun making cards these past weeks.  Here are a few that Ashley has made using elements from the Beyond the Horizon Paper Pumpkin kit.  This was one of the best kits we have gotten.

Wild About Wildlife Challenge

 What good timing!  I got my Paper Pumpkin for this month on time for a change and it is a Safari Celebration theme so several cute animals in the kit.  Then today I  stumbled across a blog posting about a Clean & Simple Challenge using animals.  My monkey fit the bill!  What do you think?

The bananas are stamped from last month's Paper Pumpkin and colored with my Stampin' Blends.  The sentiment is fussy cut and popped up on dimensionals (as is the monkey himself.)

Thanks for stopping into my Inkie Fingers blog.  I really love the Wild about Wildlife challenge.  It goes perfectly with the Safari Celebration Paper Pumpkin kit for February.  You can see other entries at The Paper Players 579 theme challenge.

Lots of Puns

 I have fun making these Paper Pumpkin cards from the February Lots of Pun kit.  Most of these below are alternative ideas for the kit.  I added Early Espresso for several of the cards but all other elements came in the kit.

This egg makes a cute flower too - see below!

This is a fun fold.  The top is scored in half and when it opens, the top folded part rests on the Celebrate flag piece.  Instead of an egg, it's a flower!

Who's ever seen a banana with glasses!!

The sentiment is stamped on a small piece cut from one of the envelopes.

 I'm back today to share a few more Valentines cards using last year's January Paper Pumpkin kit.  Yes, it's last year's kit but I don't always finish all the cards in the kit.  I keep the pieces and parts in a plastic zipper pocket and then filed away so I can just find what I want in each packet.  This kit is called Sending Hearts.

Isn't that little snail cute!

I used a retired die to die cut the letters on this card.

I guess no one sends love letters anymore.  

Kisses and Hugs Paper Pumpkin

 Some of you may still be waiting for your January 2022 Kisses & Hugs Paper Pumpkin kits to arrive. The pandemic has not been kind to us in more ways than one. Delays in products and supplies is a world-wide issue right now. The January kits were one of these delayed products. And Stampin’ Up!® thanks you for your patience if you were in that group that needed to wait a bit longer. In fact my own kits were late in coming but I think it was post office and not SU's problem.  But it finally reached me last week and I have been having fun making a few Valentines.  I don't send out many Valentines so having them in my Paper Pumpkin really works for me.

I have made several alternate cards for this month's Kisses & Hugs.  Below I used the fun fold card with just a few changes.  The two hearts on the side are creased in middle and folded back.  I also sponged a little bit of ink to make the white hearts pop.

 

This picture shows the Valentine card closed with the left side on the front.  The "friend" heart is adhered on one side and lined up with the bottom heart.

This is another look at the card closed but with the "sending love ..." sentiment on the top.

Another card using this fun fold of hearts above and below.

WHAT IS PAPER PUMPKIN?

It’s fabulous, fun paper crafting product in “kit form” (pre-cut, pre-scored, ready to assemble) wrapped up in pretty, soft blue tissue paper in a bright, reddish-orange box that gets delivered right to your mailbox each month. And each kit includes a stamp set and ink that you can use again and again even after you’ve created everything within the kit!

 HOW DO I ORDER THESE KITS?

You have two choices…

You can choose the monthly subscription option where you pay as you go (“auto pay” from your credit card month to month). With this option you get billed within the first business day or two after the 10th of the month.

• $22 per month (includes shipping) + tax
• OR you can choose the prepaid subscriptions option which allow you to pay ahead of time. Prepaids can be ordered like any other other Stampin’ Up! product. So these are great when you want to pay for your kits up front, want to get a slight discount (6 or 12 month prepaids), have other product to order, are ordering for someone’s party or club, want to earn other perks (Stampin’ Rewards, Loyalty Rewards, freebies, etc.), or want to give a fun gift to another.
• • 1 month – $21 + shipping/tax
  • 3 months – $63 + shipping/tax
  • 6 months – $114 + shipping/tax
  • 12 months – $220 + shipping/tax
  And now, SALE-A-BRATION is the perfect time to purchase your own prepaid Paper Pumpkin subscription.  During Sale-a-Bration you can get free Stampin' Up! products with the purchase of a prepaid Paper Pumpkin subscription.  Even canceled or suspended subscribers can reap the benefits of this offer.

Lots of Pun

 I finally received my Paper Pumpkin for December!  It's a really cute kit called Lots of Pun.  I'm having fun coming up with alternate cards from the kit.

Here are a couple I have made.

We had a good weekend during MLK ... just not what we had planned!  Ashley came down to visit on Friday.  We took Mom out for lunch on Saturday which she loved.  We were planning on having our family Christmas on Sunday but Mother Nature had other ideas.  We woke up Sunday morning to a white yard and snowed all day on Sunday.  So, no family Christmas this year!  Ashley planned to go back home early on Monday but she couldn't get her car out of our cul-de-sac because of the snow/ice until about 5 pm.  And here it is several days later & we still have a yard full of snow and the weatherman is calling for more snow and freezing rain tonight.  We'll see!

Alternates from October Paper Pumpkin 2021

 Here are a few more alternative Paper Pumpkin cards from the October kit.

For this card, I used the negative after punching out the trees.  I used the Blending Brushes (Mint Macaron & Shaded Spruce) to color the trees.  I used washi tape to hold the piece down while I was brushing the ink on.

The envelopes in this kit are beautiful as well.  I cut a strip of silver trees from the envelope.  The green trees in the back were colored using the Blending Brushes like the trees in the first card above.  I layered the sentiment on a circle of Shaded Spruce and a scalloped circle of silver.

This card was made using the kit (trees in the background) and the bird houses from Garden Birdhouse stamp set.  I love how the Cherry Cobbler houses stand out with the dark tree background.  

More Hope Kit Cards!!

 ALERT!!  The CLEARANCE rack has just added new goodies.  Check it out!!  There are a couple of kits there along with the Memories & More kits.

I have made 19 cards (so far) using bits and pieces from the August Paper Pumpkin.  Stampin' Up hit it out of the park on this kit!!

I made a triangle card.  Take a 8 1/2" x 11" piece of cardstock and score it at 5 1/2" and 4 1/4" first.  Then cut up from one corner to the next.  I had to cut one side first and take it out of the trimmer, turn it around and do the second cut.

This is the card closed.  Again, I used one of the envelopes.

Don't we all need just a little hope in our lives??!!

The die cut that is in the kit looks great on this Blackberry Bliss piece.

Another great use of the Tailored Tags dies!!  The flowers and leaves are from another favorite of mine - Pierced Blooms Dies.

Hope kit

 

Would you believe ----- more cards using the Hope Kit, Paper Pumpkin from August.

The Bermuda Bay tags had writing in another language so I made the little white tags to cover up those words.

I really don't like this one!  I just added some blink, butterflies and a vellum sentiment to the card based that has background stamping already on it.

Another card using the tag from Tailor Made Tags.  I love those dies!!

I cut apart one of the envelopes to made the background piece.  The envelopes are really pretty!

Another easy one.  I cut apart a few of the tags that came in the kit.  Plus I made the tags in the middle using parts of one of the envelope!  I love the birthday sentiment using Biggest Wish.  

Hope Kit - Paper Pumpkin

A couple more of the Hope Kit using August Paper Pumpkin.

Love that die cut - straight from the Hope Box - Paper Pumpkin Kit.

After die cutting the tag, I used a Coastal Cabana marker to go around the edges of the tag.

 

Paper Pumpkin - Love Box

 Enjoy these cards I made using elements of the August Paper Pumpkin Kit.

This is one of my favorites!  Simple embossing with white embossing powder.

This piece has been sitting on my desk for over a month.  Decided to finally make it into a card!

Love the saying!!

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!

Paper Pumpkin The Adventure Begins

 I've been having fun with the June Paper Pumpkin.  I love the little camper that is in the kit and wish that it was also a stamp and not just part of the card.  The kit is called The Adventure Begins and contains the materials to create 12 full size cards with coordinating preprinted envelopes.  The kit made three different tri-fold cards with a peek through to one of the inside panels.  The colors and designs are great!  Of course, as you know, I usually made one each of the cards as shown in the directions and use all the other bits and pieces to make several more different cards.

 

Expressions In Color

I am ready for this year to be over!!   We all thought 2020 was a bad year but truthfully, I didn't mind the quarantine so much.  It gave me lots of time to make cards, read, etc.  This year it seems like I have something happen to me every week!  First it was the fall I had in late December when I injured my shoulder and back and started the year doing Physical Therapy for a couple of months.  Next I went to the doctor and was diagnosed with kidney stones in both kidneys.  Then there was the fall I took on Memorial Day which hurt my hip.  I saw the ortho doc today and he said I probably still have a few weeks before I am not limping or hurting but he dismissed me.  My daily Aleve helps with my hip pain. Hopefully, I won't see him again!  Last week was my annual trip to see the eye doctor.  Well, he diagnosed me with the beginnings of glaucoma!!  I am now taking drops for that.  Oh .... I'm not done!  This weekend I suspected I had a UTI (urinary tract infection.)  I went to the urologist yesterday.  He gave me antibiotics and pain pills to take for 3 days.  He will send my urine sample to be tested.  So, hopefully I will hear something today to confirm or deny the UTI.  If it is not a UTI, then I will go back to the urologist to determine what is going on!

In the meantime, here are a few of the cards I have made with the June Paper Pumpkin kit Expressions In Color.  It was a fun one!

Everything on this card came right out of the kit except the Thick White Card Base, a piece of white cardstock to stamp on and the Evening Evergreen that is used for a mat.  I love the simple-ness (is that a word?) of this card!

This is a Z Fold card.  I used an embossing folder on the white background.

I love that the dies and stamps from the Artistically Inked bundle.  The leaves were die cut onto copper foil paper.

I cut small square from a scrap and tried to line them up straight!

Such a simple card but packs a punch!