Hello my friends I hope you and your families are healthy and that you had a wonderful Christmas. It’s time for our monthly A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop. A blog hop filled with alternate ideas using contents from the monthly kit. This month our kit is – Beary Comforting. I wish you a safe and happy new year – thanks for visiting me on this monthly blog hop!
This kit was sweet and full of supplies to send a big bear hug to someone special. It includes 12 cards – 3 different designs.
For my idea I wanted to take all the supplies for one set of cards and create double the number of cards. So each card base was cut into two 4″ x 5-1/4″ panels, each of the circle and rectangle elements were cut in half and I divided up the animals, the fun image pieces and the labels. I added Basic Gray card bases and used ink out of my stash for the stamping and Stampin’ Blends for some coloring.
Double Take Cards
I turned each card into to two cards. With a few supplies from your craft room you can double the amount of cards from this kit very easily. For the bear card I stamped a second bear on Whisper White card stock and colored him with Stampin’ Blends and cut him out. The background of the Soft Seafoam panel was stamped multiple times with Basic Gray ink. I kept the basic layout of the card exactly the same.
For the Koala cards cut the two of them apart so they can each be on one of the cards. Both the circle and the long label were cut in half also. On the plain Calypso Coral panel I stamped the leaf image in Calypso Coral ink. These make sweet birthday cards – one holding the gift and one the cupcake.
Finally the little racoon and the flowers were used on the third pair of cards. The flower stamp was used to cover the background on the Rich Razzleberry piece using the same color ink. For these cards I decided to add a little piece of gold twine to each element. Easy and sweet and ready to send to a friend. 
Supply List
The additional supplies that I added to complete this project were:
- Card stock – Basic Gray, Whisper White
- Ink – Basic Gray, Calypso Coral, Rich Razzleberry (ink spot in the kit)
- Stampin’ Blends – Cinnamon Cider, Petal Pink, Ivory
- Paper Trimmer
- Paper Snips
- Forever Greenery Trim Combo Pack (that’s where the gold twine comes from)
I hope you liked this alternate idea for the monthly Paper Pumpkin kit. Leave me a comment and let me know your thoughts.
The Blog Hop Continues
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For January we have a special kit for sending cards to those you love PLUS an add on that you can purchase separately if you want to create Valentine treat boxes from your kit. Sign up by the 10th to receive the January Sending Hearts Kit – go here
And you can begin ordering the Add-on kit January 1st as part of your regular Stampin’ Up! product order. The Little Love Boxes Add-on will be available beginning Jan. 1st while supplies last – Item number: 156842, Price: $8.
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I love these, Monika! They’re so sweet!