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Paper Pumpkin Blog Hop – Lovely Day

Feb 27, 2020 | Birthday, Cards, Paper Pumpkin | 3 comments

Hello Stampin’ friends. 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 – February 2020 Lovely Day.

This fun and elegant celebration kit is our first one ever to coordinate with a Sale-A-Bration item from the biggest Stampin’ Up! Promotion of the year. The February 2020 Lovely Day Paper Pumpkin kit was designed to coordinate with the Happy Birthday to You stamp set. You can redeem this set for Free with a qualify order during Sale-A-Bration. Place a $50+ order and pick up some coordinating card stock, dies or adhesive and get the Happy Birthday to You set for Free to create even more ideas with this kit.

Candle Celebration

I took a very different twist for my alternate idea. Using the stamp image of the cake layers I turned them on their side to make candles. Color each stripe with a different color by using Stampin’ Write Markers. The colors I used are – Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, and Gorgeous Grape. Its my ROYGBIV rainbow of colors – but you could choose whatever color suits your theme. To create the flame just tap down the brush tip on the Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Write Marker. Use the Basic Black Stampin’ Write Maker to outline all the candles and add doodle designs on each one.

The Celebrate image was stamped over and over again on a panel of Whisper White card stock to create a background. And Birthday Wishes was stamped on a strip of Daffodil Delight and just cut out. I finished the card by adding some of the Peaceful Poppies Sequins. Really I added these to cover up a spot that I accidentally made on the card!

Supply List

The additional supplies that I added to complete this project were:

Card stock – Thick Whisper White, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight scrap
Stampin’ Write Markers – Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apply Green, Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Gorgeous Grape, Basic Black
Black Memento Ink
Daffodil Delight ink (or use the marker)
Peaceful Poppies Sequins
Stitched So Sweetly dies
Paper Snips

I’ll be doing a a Facebook Live showing this card along with a couple of other alternate ideas next week. I hope you like this out of the box take on this kit – well the stamp set is really all I used. 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.

Don’t forget you have until the 10th of the month to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin and get that month’s kit.

In March we celebrate 7 YEARS of Paper Pumpkin! Every kit will have an extra FREE stamp set in it – that’s two stamp sets next month. Sign up by the 10th – go here.

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The 12 Cards of Christmas – Card 2

Feb 18, 2020 | 12 Cards of Christmas, 2020 Mini catalog, Cards, Christmas, Sale-a-Bration 2020 | 0 comments

Remember in January I had a plan to design and make a Christmas card each month for the whole year. It’s my plan to get ahead on Christmas cards for December. If you want to read more or see card 1 – go here. I’ve got two months done. So I wanted to share my February card with you.

This card idea is actually from a swap card that I created using the Thoughtful Blooms stamp set that is part of our Sale-A-Bration promotion. I created a thank you card that has been very well loved, so I thought I can turn that idea into a Christmas card by changing up the colors. And adding a different set for the sentiment. Everything I used on this card is current – so if you don’t have it you can order it and make this card too. I gathered up all my supplies, worked on all my pieces, and then sat and assembled everything – including stamping the inside of the card and a matching envelope.

How I made it

The card base is Early Espresso with a white layer that was cut with the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. I stamped the stem/leaf image in Mossy Meadow ink. And then added flowers and berries in Merry Merlot. I used the Small Bloom punch to punch out flowers from Merry Merlot card stock and stacked two together to make a flower. To give the flower some curvature I like to put it on a Stampin’ Pierce mat and burnish the center with a stylus from the Take Your Pick tool – just roll it around in the center of each flower until they start to curl.

Under the flower is a vellum circle – punched with the 1-1/4″ Circle Punch. And in the center of the flower is a Basic Rhinestone. To finish I tied a little bow with some Mossy Meadow twine from the Magnolia Lane Ribbon Combo Pack. Celebrate the Season is from the Itty Bitty Christmas stamp set that carried over from the Holiday catalog. You can order all the products that I used for this card in my online store – the supply list is below.