Paper Pumpkin Alternative

As I was trying to come up with some alternative ideas for the August Paper Pumpkin kit, my eyes came across the envelopes that are included in the kit and I thought, why don't I use one of those on my card...

I stamped some images onto it, added it to the side of the card and then made a piece of card stock to go inside that will be attached to a gift card or money.  I added another piece of the kit to make it easy to pull out.

More stamping and designs on the inside...

There are lots of layers, but it will easily fit inside the A2 size envelope :)

Supplies:

August Paper Pumpkin kit

BYOP, Balloon Celebration

Tip Top Taupe, Cajun Craze, Mint Macaron ink

Mint Macaron, Tip Top Taupe, Cajun Craze card stock

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August Paper Pumpkin and Alternative

This month's Paper Pumpkin kit is a card kit with three different options, all different sizes.  The first picture shows you what the intended projects should look like...

I did one set of those and am working on some fun alternative projects to share with you.  The first one is this layout I made for my son's SADD conference experience last spring. 

I used pieces from all the different cards and the little gift card holder is my spot for hidden journaling.  In the background I used the Playful Backgrounds and You've Got This stamp sets.

My lettering is die cut using the Large Letters and Large Numbers framelits and they are popped up with Stampin' dimensionals.

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Supplies:

August Paper Pumpkin

Playful Backgrounds, You've Got This

Mint Macaron, Early Espresso, Tip Top Taupe; Bermuda Bay card stock

designer buttons

Large Numbers and Letters framelits

burlap ribbon

You've Got This

 

When I started this card, I had the ribbon, scrap of Go Wild designer series paper and the tag from the August Paper Pumpkin kit in front of me thinking I would make a quick card with it.  As it turned out, there wasn't anything too quick about it.  I had several interruptions and then it just wasn't coming together quite like I had anticipated...

 

I added an image from the Bohemian Borders stamp set and then added the rest of the elements to finally come up with this layout.

 

Supplies:

August 2015 Paper Pumpkin, Bohemian Borders

Craft White and Tip Top Taupe ink

Whisper White, Tip Top Taupe card stock

antique brads

Smoky Slate chevron ribbon

Go Wild dsp

 

 

Pretty Petals Sympathy Card

 

I am again using the Pretty Petals designer series paper today, I really like the smaller sized paper stacks for making cards so I pick them up quite often.

 

The stamp set I used is from the August Paper Pumpkin kit and since they are photopolymer, it was very easy to line up the design on the bottom (the pattern was stamped three times).

 

Supplies:

Paper Pumpkin August 2015 stamp set

Pacific Point ink

Very Vanilla, Old Olive card stock

Pretty Petals dsp

 

 

August Paper Pumpkin Take 3

 

Finally, the last sample from the Paper Pumpkin kit that arrived in August...

 

I have part of the cut up box on the page as well as the piece of Chalkboard paper that I had cut out a circle from to use on a card...

 

There is a piece of English Garden designer series paper added as well as some Winter Wonderland vellum.

 

The sentiment is from Friendly Wishes and I found some other fun embellishments to add as well.

 

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August Paper Pumpkin Take 2

 

This segment of the Paper Pumpkin samples involves the cards.  I don't think I made any of them exactly like the samples and I added a few embellishments and different stamps.

 



The card bases made it hard to take pictures without a glare since they have metallic gold on them...

 

I used the Elegant Dots folder on the flower die cuts that I did not use on the boxes. 

 

Since I didn't use all the flowers on boxes, I also had extra parts for the inside of the flowers and chose to add that part to cards.  It is difficult to see, but it is a fringed piece that I rolled the edges of a little bit.

 

On these cards, I used the You've Got This stamp set.  You will also see part of the box that I cut up on the two cards below.

 

A close up of the flowers...

 

And the final card was made with a card base that did not come with the kit and a few other pieces that didn't as well...

 

Hope you like these ideas, I one more for tomorrow!

August Paper Pumpkin Take 1

I am going to break up sharing the August Paper Pumpkin ideas into three parts.  Given that I will soon be harvesting potatoes and not able to find time to stamp, I should probably stretch that into about 4 parts, but I figured that was too many! 

 



 

The last few months, the first thing that happens when the Paper Pumpkin kit arrives is my daughter asks me if she can have it!  She is 9 1/2 and loves all things about paper crafting which is great.  I gave her one of each item this time to play with...soon I will probably just have to get another box for her :)

 

There were three precut, prescored boxes in the kit so after giving her one, I had two more to play with.  The first one (above) I made mostly like the sample.  You can probably see on the close up that I stamped the "for you" more than once - I used the yellow chalk box ink and white craft so it is kind of shadowed and stands out a little bit.

 

For the second box, I went to the paper cutter before doing anything else and cut off the top and flaps of the box.  Some of those pieces end up on other projects you will see later.  Then, I made a piece out of Very Vanilla card stock that slides over the box to close it.

 

I added a piece of Winter Wonderland designer vellum and the banner piece and sentiment tag.  On these two boxes, I only used the stamps that came with the kit but you will find in the next two segments that I added a few others into the mix.