Are you ready for some alternate ideas with the August Paper Pumpkin Kit? 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 – World’s Greatest. A kit with some fun cards to celebrate some everyday hero’s in our lives like teachers, coaches, kids and our friends.
This kit makes 3 different cards with fun matching envelopes – that’s always one of my favorites! One card style is a shaker card.
I decided to mix up the pieces and cut up the card bases for the two cards that were not the shaker card. By cutting each of those card bases into 4 pieces I can create 8 cards instead of just 2. Here are two new cards that I made.
Blue card
For this card I wanted a little bit more of a feminine feel to it. Cutting up the blue card base into four pieces allows me to make 4 new cards. Each piece is 2-3/4 x 4″. I added Thick White Whisper White card stock for a new card base. You’ll also want some more medium sized envelopes. The yellow water-colored rectangle was also cut in half and used on this card. I trimmed down one of the white rectangles to fit the words. For the little touch of ribbon use paper snips to cut a 3-1/2″ piece into small strips and then tie in a knot.
Supply List
The additional supplies that I added to complete this project were:
- Card stock – Thick Whisper White
- Whisper White envelopes
- Paper Snips
Green card
For this second card I used the green card base and also cut it into 4 pieces. Trim one of the white rectangles to be 3/4″ wide and then I stamped the medal ribbon image twice so the end of it met in the middle – that part will be covered up. Use one of the vellum leaf pieces and cut it into two so one part can go on each side. To add a bit of contrast I did pull out a piece of Bumblebee card stock to layer behind that argyle piece.
Supply List
The additional supplies that I added to complete this project were:
- Card stock – Thick Whisper White, Bumble Bee
- Whisper White envelopes
- Paper Snips
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
To continue through go and click on the next blog in the list below. If you are viewing this in an email click on the title to go to my blog and see the rest of the list to finish the hop. There are lots of creative ideas to see!
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