Jun 13, 2014 | Cards, Masculine, Paper Pumpkin |
Hey Man – did you get your May 2014 Paper Pumpkin kit? It’s called Hey Man! This kit was a card kit all ready to create cards for Father’s Day and masculine looking birthday. I put mine together late one night when I was in my craft room – I wanted to make something but didn’t want to come up with any ideas. So I pulled out my Paper Pumpkin kit and started by making the card following the instructions and then I went out on my own and started doing things a little different. I ended up with 7 cards total – the 6 that were in the kit plus I added some extra card stock to make one more with the extra pieces I had left. Since I did some altering I was left with a few odds and ends and those were what I used on my extra card.
That’s a group picture and now let me show you each one individually. Here is the one I started with – following the directions:
and then here is the 3×3 card that I also made following the directions. Well almost – on the little tag I used one of the candy dots instead of the little stamp.
Oh and by the way can you see that I stamped on the envelopes too. That arrow stamp isn’t from this Paper Pumpkin kit but it’s from an earlier one. With all the arrows in this kit I thought that one was appropriate to coordinate.
I decided I wanted to make a horizontal card so I came up with this
And then I used the extra piece of the blue/green plus the cut off banner piece from the first 3×3 card to make the other 3×3 card –
And then here are two other of the regular cards –
And then with the pieces I had left over I decided to make one more card. I pulled out some Marina Mist and Wild Wasabi card stock and created this:
So what do you think?
I’ve been enjoying these kits each month. I have a couple that I didn’t put together (well actually I think just 1). I have been using a lot of the cards recently for Graduation – remember the Wahoo kit – those were great and also the one with the wood words that said Congrats – I think that one was called Glittered Greetings. Greg even used one of the Thanks cards to give to someone at work. He thought the wood words were pretty cool.
Gotta go – talk to you later…..
Jun 4, 2014 | Big Shot, Paper Pumpkin, Stamp, Scrap, & Create Retreat |
Really you are! This was one of our Make & Take Projects at the Stamp, Scrap & Create Retreat. While it took some time to roll all the flowers and attach them to the bag the results were gorgeous!
This idea was from my friend Jeanna who is on the Artisan Design team. My bag is in coral colors – Calypso Coral, Crisp Cantaloupe, Blushing Bride and Pink Pirouette. The bag is from one of the past Paper Pumpkin kits – and if you are a current subscriber the refill packs were available – that is what I ordered for the retreat. We used the bag and ribbon handles for this project and then I used the other pieces on the little pillow gifts that I made. Here is a closer look at the little tag.
We gave the Big Shot and the Spiral Flower die a work out for this project. Cut and rolled 28 flowers for each bag! The craft tweezers and hot glue guns were also well loved for this project.
I hope you like this project!
May 28, 2014 | Paper Pumpkin, Stamp, Scrap, & Create Retreat |
This is was the last little surprise that I had for the girls at the Stamp, Scrap & Create Retreat.
I saw this idea on the internet somewhere – I think on Facebook from a page that I liked. These cute little decorated wine glasses. So I went on a search for some and found them at a local store. Then I had to decide what to put in them. I finally found little brownie bites – but these were individually wrapped! I thought that would be perfect if they would fit in the little glass. Two brownie bites were just the right fit.
Then I created little tags using leftover pieces from the Paper Pumpkin kit – In the Bag (that’s the one I’ve been using pieces from for a variety of things for this retreat). I used the Bermuda Bay circles to form the tag and also used one to punch out the small butterfly. I used the white circles to stamp and punch out the bigger butterfly. I added some ribbon to the back and clipped them to the glass with the little mini clothespins from the Paper Pumpkin kit.
Like it says enjoy!
May 23, 2014 | In Colors, Paper Pumpkin, Stamp, Scrap, & Create Retreat |
Hi all! I wanted to share with you all the fun we had at the Stamp, Scrap & Create Retreat! It was an awesome weekend of crafting, stamping, scrapbooking, eating, girl time and Friendship! This time I decided to start the retreat on Thursday evening to give everyone some extra crafting time on their personal projects if they wanted it. On the agenda for Thursday night was happy hour, setting up your craft station and a fire in the firepit with smores. Well it rained on Thursday and was too wet for us to have the fire so that got moved to Friday night.
Before everyone arrived it was a cleaning frenzy! Plus final set up of all the tables, chairs and goody bags along with a welcome gift for everyone.
Look at this cute little bag! And a sneak peek at some new products too! These are the brand new In-Colors for 2014-2015 shown in a brand new style of ribbon! The ribbon is hotglued around a muslin bag – I pulled out the cord. Cindy made a similar bag for one of her Artisan projects last month.
Here is a closer look at the tag –
The center of the flower is one of the pieces from the February 2014 Paper Pumpkin Kit – In the Bag. You’ll see this kit used in a variety of projects from the retreat. If you are a current Paper Pumpkin subscriber you can order refills of this kit or the full kit. And if you aren’t a subscriber yet – sign up today and enter the code SHELLIDEAL to start your June subscription at 50% off!!
The flower is punched from the new Blackberry Bliss card stock with the Pansy punch. Pin the flowers to the bag with a safety pin and add a little Linen Thread bow.
The new In-Colors and ribbons will be available in the new catalog that starts on June 2nd. I’m having a New Catalog Open House on June 1st – if you live near me come pick up a new catalog, make&takes using new products from the catalog, enjoy snacks and more plus have a chance to win a brand new stamp set too!
Do you want to know what I put inside the bags? There was a Post-It pad, a little pencil, a sheet of Stampin’ Dimensionals, a piece of a Stampin’ Sponge. And Sue brought everyone some chap stick which I stuck in there too.
And here are a couple of pictures that I took Thursday night – a few of us got started working on Thursday night.
Jennifer, Candy and Nicole
Diane, Cindy and Sue
Supplies for the bags plus the Paper Pumpkin kit (not shown here).
Apr 2, 2014 | Envelope Punch Board, Occasions Catalog 2014, Paper Pumpkin |
I’m back with another alternate idea for one of the Paper Pumpkin kits. For this project I used the stamps from the Real Life Mini Scrapbook that came out for our December 2013 kit. The little scrapbook itself was super cute but here is another idea for all those fun stamps.
It’s a note card set in a window tin. I was able to fit a set of 12 note cards in there – actually more would fit – but for my class we made 12. Here are some “notes” on how I created this project:
- I used Very Vanilla card stock for each note card cut to fit inside the tin.
- On one end I added a strip of the Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper – I used all 12 prints from the package.
- Then corner rounded all four corners on each card – I used the Envelope Punch Board to do this.
- I went back and added a strip of the Retro Fresh Washi tape to each card overlapping the designer paper.
- Stamp each of the four images 3 times – I hand cut the word bubble, banner and arrow and used a circle punch for the starburst. Attach these to the cards with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Decorate the tin with some of the Washi Tape and some Baked Brown Sugar Ruffled Stretched ribbon.
- To finish it off I added one of the wood accents and guess what – It’s a PERFECT match to the Take Note Starburst stamp! Who knew!
And as it turns out the note cards will fit in the note card envelopes that Stampin’ Up! sells – we have some Crumb Cake ones and then the set of white. They just don’t quite fit in the tin. You could also make envelopes with the Retro Fresh Designer Paper and the envelope Punch Board. Or just leave them like they are and tuck a note in a lunch box, brief case or anywhere else you want to leave a little note for someone!
The Retro Fresh Designer Paper and Washi Tape and the wood elements are all from the Occasions Catalog.
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Apr 1, 2014 | Birthday, Cards, Paper Pumpkin |
I have another alternate idea to share for one of the past Paper Pumpkin kits. This one is for the Pedal Praise Monthly Kit – this one was from August 2013. I used it to make a birthday card.
I love the little silver mini brad in the center of each wheel. And the lines are from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set make the perfect “road”. I saw a card similar to this on Pinterest. Colors are Smoky Slate, Real Red and Whisper White. A little touch of embossing using the Alphabet Press Folder – it not only has letters but some numbers as well so when I embossed my little piece I positioned it to pick up some of the numbers since this was a birthday card.
You can see other ideas with past kits by visiting my Paper Pumpkin Idea Pinterest Board.
It’s Tuesday and here are a few updates from Stampin’ Up! for today –
- New Weekly Deals 4/1 – 4/7 – This weeks deals….
- New My Digital Studio Downloads – New stuff this week….
I hope you found something fun in the things I listed above!
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That’s a group picture and now let me show you each one individually. Here is the one I started with – following the directions:
