This month's Paper Pumpkin offered beautiful cards to reach out to those around us who are struggling. And there are plenty of those, aren't there. In fact, you may well be one of those too. If you are, please comment and I'd love to pray for you and send you a card.
Paper Pumpkin is an an inclusive box of goodies that come to you every month - project ready! Most of them are cards but sometimes it will be a 3D project of some kind. These can always be turned into cute cards if you don't need that many 3D projects.
These are the 3 original Paper Pumpkin cards contained in this month's kit. All supplies to complete 9 cards, including cute matching envelopes, are included.
They're beautiful, aren't they. You may want to make 9 of these cards. But sometimes we want something a little different as well. So we can take the supplies and create alternative cards or projects.
This first alternative card is a very simple card using only the stamps and the ink included in the kit, and 3 of the sequins, also in the kit. Great card for casual stampers!
This card uses a Basic White card base, the flower stamp and the Mossy Meadow inkspot. You simply stamp all the way around the outer edge of the card base. Then using a 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 piece of white cardstock and the smaller flower image, the tiny leaf and a sentiment, you stamp the center part. Mount that on a 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 piece of colored cardstock, adhere that to the center of your stamped base with dimenionals and finish it off with 3 of the sequins. Now you have a really nice card to bless someone with.
I stepped up this next card just a little bit by adding a piece of designer series paper in one corner (mine is cut with a Stitched So Sweetly die) and stamping your flower bundle in the opposite corner. The card base I used is Flirty Flamingo. The greeting is stamped on white cardstock and bannered on one end. 3 sequins finish off this card.
The next two cards are similar in that I again added a piece of designer series paper, one cut again with a Stitched So Sweetly dies, the other cut with an Ornate Layer die. On the first one I stamped the image with a different stamp set - To A Wild Rose - because I wanted a larger image. I also used the die cut greeting that is included in the kit and added the sequins to finish if off.
On the second card, in addition to the designer series paper and the sentiment, I added one of the flower diecuts in the kit to the upper right corner and finished the card off with Old Olive ribbon.
The next two cards are for the more avid stamper. This one is stepped up just a bit more in that I added some greenery that I cut using the Wrapped Flowers dies in Mossy Meadow caredstock.
I used Bumblebee card base and a slightly smaller piece of designer series paper. The white sentiment piece is cut with the Stitched Rectangles and stamped with a sentiment from Tasteful Touches. The greeting is stamped in Just Jade. Again I used one of the larger diecut pieces from the kit and added the additional greenery tucked under the top. I added one Just Jade dot from the 2020-2022 In Color Enamel Dots.
I love the way the colors on the diecut piece coordinates with the paper from the Field of Flowers dsp (Sale-A-Bration)
Last is a card for the more artfully avid stamper, using the card base from the kit as well as the gold stamped vellum piece. I cut a piece of designer series paper with the Ornate Layeers die and popped that up with dimensionals. I cut greenery using the Wrapped Flowers dies and also used a couple of pieces from the Forever Gold Laser Cut Specialty paper offered in the Christmas catalog (no longer available 😞) The sentiment uses a diecut piece but you could also use one of the sentiment pieces included in the kit (I did that on another one just like this). The gem is an Irridescent Pearl and the ribbon is Glittered Organdy ribbon.. If you didn't have the Forever Gold pieces, you could always just add one or two more diecut greenery pieces or cut a couple from a different color of green to add some interest.
I hope that you can see that the Paper Pumpkin kit can be used in many different ways. Plus once you have used up all of your consumables from the kit, you still have the stamp set and the ink spot to continue using!
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