Paper pumpkin August 2023 back fold card

a simple variation on the card- embossed the back panel with exposed brick. took a piece of paper from the envelope and lined it with garden green cardstock to create the left panel .  tied a ribbon around the base. took the left over green section of the envelope and diecut a larger circle to put behind the white circle. hello from layering leaves ad stamped the forget me not in crumbcake and tahitian blue and used water color technique to color it in subtlely so not to obscure the sentiment.

punched some gold butterflies for accent. 

card open below

 

Happy Halloween - Paper Pumpkin September 2022 Spooky Treats

I make treats for my staff every year for many holidays including Halloween- there are a lot of them and sometimes one kit is not enough so I have to make it stretch- so this is what I made- I used the base box to make an openable box - I tired one way with top panel open- see the left bottom trick or treat box in the above photo-but it was not as stable so  then I made some candy box type boxes with top opening boxes which worked better. 

the ghost box was more of a hit then I thought it would.  These were perfect for the amount of candy I could put into treat someone.

these 3 boxes to the left was the original intended kit with a matchbox type boxes.
 

September 2021 Paperpumpkin Haunts & Harvest

 September Paper Pumpkin was genious.  I normally have a whole mess of the boxes the kits come because they are too nice to throw away and normally I turn them inside out as gift boxes or mailing boxes and they are terrific - but they put this wood pattern on the package and had a design inside that you cut out to make a new project that goes with the content- very cool- the kit was adorable with theseadorable pumpkins with leaves and paper wrapped wires  for the vine. It was just so sweet and I was able to make halloween treats for my whole staff. I gave the cart to one of my favorite nurses - I did replace the glued on front wheel with a brad so it would actually turn- 

it came with 3 different color diecuts - do you think they will ever sell this die?  I certainly could have used more of these.  stickers for the jack-o-lantern faces and everything you need to put it and the wheel barrow together.

I needed a vew more so I had to supplement with tsome extra treats I made with Pretty pillow box dies decorated with images i stamped and cut out from the Crazy Cat stampset 

this is the finishes wheelbarrow - and we used the tissue paper that came with the packaging - nothing wasted!

Some times I make alternates to get some variation but this was just so cute and I used every bit as it was originally designed- thumbs way up!

Happy Valentine's Day- Card and Owl Treat bag

 This was a fun little Valentine that we made as a bonus during our February workshop.  The basecard is real red with a strip of Sending Love DSP on the side.  Diecut the right side with the Love Notes framelit.

You want to emboss with Falling Petals embossing folder but put the embossing plates from the Big Shot only to where you want the texture to go so you don't encroach on the hearts to the right.

Stamp little hearts with Sealed with Love set and diecut them out- I like the little white around the edge that offsets it from the background with this die.  Stamp Happy Valentine's day in red ink onto a Stitched Circle cut out of whisper white CS.  Layer on top of the lacy doily.   It looked a bit empty so I was playing with silver thread and cord and ftinally settled on the Sunshine Wishes thinlits dies - I used the flower looking thing because I liked the loop de-loop  of the thicker glittery shimmer paper over the thread that seemed be lost.

I was vising with Mercedes Weber on her workshop in San Jose and she gave me this adorable treat from the February Paperpumpkin kit. Details on her blog here:  http://mercedesweber.blogspot.ca/2017/02/valentine-owl.html

Now that my kids are older they are not doing Valentine swaps- where did the time go? - now I have to justify buying all the Valentine stuff -   Anyhoo,  I just loved it and I thought I should make it for my office staff who work so hard all the time.  With the kit it was super speedy although diecutting the wings with the heart die from the Love Notes framelit took the longest.

The Owl is done with Pink Pirouette CS- the body is made from the Best Badge punch with the heart that comes with the kit stamped with sentiment from same.  Love the little heart outline that fits inside the heart and the sentiment  and the heart nose is from the owl builder punch in Peekaboo Peach.  Take 3/8 inch strip and punched a bunch of hearts in a row to make assembly line style.

Googly eyes and tiny clothspins from local craft shop Beverly's. (Love my Mother in Law who gave me a gift card this year for my birthday to this store- all used up already!)  With this precut bag already with tape on it, it was really speedy once I finished all the owls-  So Sweet!  That's why Mercedes is Artisan again this year! A badge Owl.......so creative.
see my basket of owl valentine treats for my wonderful staff.....

2016 April Paper Pumpkin

 I got this red package this month from my Stampin' Up Paper Pumpkin subscriptoins and it was this little foam wreath with little yellow flowers dangling from it which was kinda cute.  I had been playing with my Botanical Gardens die at the time and had cut a punch of flowers and I got to playing and this is what came out and I am super happy with it.  So cute!
I actually put a nail on my wall to make it a permanent part of my little wall.

 I used the branch that came with the kit as a base for the flowers. Folded the four sided flowers from botanical gardens for the blue blossoms on the end. 

I still have tons of leaves and yellow flowers left over to make more projects.  I will have to play some more.  This was the anniversary kit and it came with an extra stampset which was super sweet.  

I used a left over piece of DSP to make the pink flower in the center and tucked in the small yellow flowers on each side.  Added little pearls for that extra sweetness.

Lynda

Sweet Stack birthday favors

 For the twins 'birthday I had plans to make this cake shaped favors filled with a piece of candy and a Lego minifigure in each one.  I mad 15 o fthem - extras using the Cutie Pie thinlits. were perfect.  I topped each of the cake pieces using a bermuda bay dsp and the fringe using the tissue paper from Paper Pumpkin using the fringer scissors.  That little bit made it look so festive.  I alos got some extra straws and cut them up to make candles to match the ones in the kit. Unfortunately I had to be away at a meeting and was not able to be at the party, I was told that it was a big hit and the kids loved it.

 

I put a little fringe on the ends of the ropes of the banner which really made it look festive.  My only complaint is that the kits come with candles for the matching opposite sides,  The dies only come with one die for one side and they do not match up if you put them back to back.  I'll save the smaller version of the boxes for another occasion.

Boy Scout Pinwheels from PaperPumpkin June 2014 kit

My husband told me he needed some name tags for the Boy scout dinner he was having.  The prievious year was a centerpiece  that all the kids participated making each of the medallions.  So, how to design a name "tag" that kids could participate in making....hmmmm.

Then the lightbulb moment!.  The pinwheel set from PaperPumpkin from this past year June kit was perfect for it.  I proposed it to my husband and he was all for it.  The pinwheels are summer sun and blue paper that I glued back to back to make it double sided.  I used the straw and the brad and clips from the kit- the mechanisms- and used toilet paper rolls for the base- I always save them for after school clubhouse program that are always in need of them for their craft projects anyway.

I printed out some boyscout logo from the internet and used MDS to print it out and punched it out with a circle punch to fit the center of the brad and it looked great!  The kids used gluedot to stick it on.

 I cut out some thick foam that had come from one of the packages I got from something and hot knife cut it into a circle to fit the bottom and sticky taped it in place before the kids got there.  The toilet paper rool wascovered in same blue paper and the names were diecut using the Little Letters thinlits so they could diecut out their own names.  We then diecut the fleur de Lis (from Michael Strong that I bought years ago just for this purpose) in Gold foil sheets and used multiliquid tombo glue to stick it on. 
then the roll was weighed in with 20 pennies each and then they inserted the straw into a circle chipboard- I used the ends from the some of the Dpaper packs- the real hardy ones - I think this one came from the glimmer sheets or the window sheet- and diecut little circles to fit inside the toilet rolls snugly with the circl in the center to hold steady the straw as shown.

I think it looks like a firecracker going off- perfect for a celebration dinner with each of their names on the side to mark their place.  It was a great fun for the kids to make them.and definitely do-able craft project for the 10 year olds.

Pop Up Flower card

I made this card for a Paper Pumpkin contest using a stamp set from a prior kit.  This was a April 2014 kit. I used the Pool Party base card with Mossy Meadow cardstock cut with fringe scissors to create a "grass".

Flower from Itty Bitty Accents punch using Hello Honey cardstock and the leaves using the Bird Builder.

The sentiments are stamped with Blackberry Bliss, the butterfly with the Tangelo twist.

I love how it pops up and sits high.  I thought I may add a picture of my kids and embellish it for a card that would be on the desk for my husband.

Details of the pop up.
enjoy!  Lynda

Sea Street Sea-riously Paper Pumpkin Challenge

A quick little card I made using the sentiment from a past Paper Pumpkin kit.  I wanted it to say Sea-riously you kick booty and have a little booty of treasure box but this was more straight forward.  Card base is using the striped card from the kit that had a sea color quality to it. I stamped the octopus on the card itself but it was not opaque enough with the stripes so I re- stamped it on the whisper white CS using the Midnight Muse and  diecut with banner framelits and mounted with dimensionals.   Used Tangerine twist pad for the fishes.  The rope and the starfish was stamped with Crumbcake and added the sequins like air bubbles.

Happy Fourth!

I  used the  Paper Pumpkin set from Winter 2013 with the stars sewn together  for Christmas Noel card kit and the red striped paper used from the same set.   I seemed so patriotic!  I Stamped Wahoo using versamark then embossed with the silver EP.  Cut a piece of red stripe from the same set and real red (stamped with Happy 4th from Memorable Moments set) embossed with silver EP.  Used the Star punch from Itty Bitty Accents in the corner and added a piece of Rhinestone basic jewel in the center.  Attach a small strip of the sewn stars using dimensionals- and Voila!  a Christmas card supplies disguised as the Fourth of July card! Who would have thunk it? ( as my son would say)

May Paper Pumpkin trip into the Redwoods

 My husband's friends from college days and their family get together once a year for a camping trip in Redwood State Park in Humbolt county which we look forward to every year.  The air is so clean and fresh and dewy, the trees so majestic, you can't help but relax- even for a type A like me.  We took hikes along trails although Dylan got a horrible tendonitis of his foot by the end of a 6 mile hike- poor little guy!

 The elk are aplenty - grazing all over the place.  We went to Fern Canyon where they filmed Jurassic Park, the place looks absolutely prehistoric with ferns growing up and down the canyon walls and wood pilings rich with green growth.

At the beach  it is miles and miles of beautiful sands.  Driftwood here and there but rarely with anyone else besides us.  We even saw some whales from the shore  spewing through the blow hole and surfacing and diving which was amazing.







 This was our campsite with the huge netting for the mosquito- challenged family like mine- although my legs today still looks like a map of the constellations with all the bites I still got...

Now what does all this have to do with stamping?  Well, as I was leaving for the trip, what arrived in the mail but my favorite little monthly box!  I took the box off and tucked away the package with my portable stamping bag (with all my essential stamping gear). just in case I had any time to kill.

 This was the corner of the picnic table where I laid out my kit to figure out what I wanted to do with it. The kids were still snoozing, I had my morning cuppa and I had my little Quiet Time- Yippee Skippee!  Time to get out the Paper Pumpkin!

This is a picture Kyle took of me literally "stamp camping" as he was goofing with my camera after he got up.  Now I am more in love with my Paper Pumpkin than ever. I love it that it is complete and portable.  I used my catalog as the stamping surface, even.

Below is one of my finished cards- a variation on the sample in the pack.  Love the stamps in this Hey, Man kit-  Love the baby tags and the words that go inside it- Dad, Son, and Bro.  And out of the whole kit I brought the only thing I really needed was my scissors and that was because 'I had to be different' and wanted to make a horizontal card instead.

I think Stampin' Up should have a "where can you take your Paper Pumpkin?"  challenge- Imagine it on a plane, on a train, in a box, with a fox....
by the pool, at a game....

MyPaperPumpkin March 2014

I love all the gold in this pack!

These are some of the cards I made using the March kit I received this month. 

Hard to see maybe but I used the the Gold Metallic Encore inkpad to directly apply some gold ink to the wooden pieces to make them extra gold. 

The envelope liners were so pretty and would be just wasted inside the envelope bottom, so I cut off about 3inches off the bottom to use on the cards themselves.  Now this is a trick I learned from my artisan friend Mercedes- to use the angles in the hexagon punch to make the banner bottom - it makes for a less harsh angle then the square punch-   See, Mercedes?  I really did think it was clever..... I was not being sarcastic!  

I would use a gently hand in applying the gold foil paper to your project though- liquid glue like tombo multipurpose shows through with lumps unless you smear it evenly on the back.  If you press too hard on the SNAIL it can show through as well so use gentle pressure to leave as little indentation as possible.  I scattered the gold shimmer dots- which are self adhesive around and tied the gold bakers twine which amazingly cost the same as the regular bakers twine to add extra sparkle....  I actually liked the card even without the stamping- oh so not me to say that but this time I think it is true- like the stamps that came with the set though for something more geometric I think.  I do need some occasion to send the congrats cards though....

My Paper Pumpkin Card Contest Winner

At Leadership they had a "craft war" where eveyone got 20 minutes to make a card from the supplies they had - from Paper Pumpkins from the past and this is what I whipped up.  They said you can pick up your cards on Saturday but when I got there I could not find it in the bins but soon found out that I was one of the winners- So I earned 2 Paper Pumpkin kits from the past- and there is one that has a stamp that says Seriously- you kick booty and two other saying that I wanted but missed by a month (I signed up too late to get it) and now I can earn it.    I had so much fun doing this with no big shot- I think this is the first card in months that has no big shot on it- I love limited supply challenges..... It makes you think outside the box.

June Paper Pumpkin - Hello to you.

 This little box you get every month is actually quite fun.  This time there was a zigzag background, hello to you, and small heart stamps and 3 diecut hexagons in polka dot yellow, red pattern (self adhesive) and blank white in addition to the base cards and envelopes and a soft suede stampin spot.  The base cards have little hexagons cut that you can punch trhough but I left some of them for a more minimalist look that I liked.  For the one on the left I punched out 2 of the windows, stamped the heart through one and attached the polka dot yellow one on the inside.  Then I stamped hello - stamping off each time to get the gradation and stamped the "to you" on the inside to the right of the heart- you can't see it though.

 I played with the supplies but I really LOVE the square zigzag background so I started to play with that- the card to the left is one I made using just one layer of whisper white and the new in-colors- I did use stampamajig to place the squares- kind of fun card- beach colors- Coastal Cabana on top left,  Crisp Cantelope on right top, Strawberry Slush bottom left and Pistachio Pudding bottom right- HELLO to you is in Baked brown sugar.  I thought about punching out a heart stamped with the red zigzag and putting it over the pistachio square but I stopped myself. I think this would be a great background for lots of punched shapes

This is a variation from above using the the square from this set in Pistachio pudding then stamped the flowers from Summer Silhouette in Strawberry Slush  and sentiment in Baked brown sugar again for a one layer card.  Added little tiny pearls in the center of the flowers - the large one had black stamens stamped first.

I am enjoying these kits much more so than I would have imagined.  I hope you are too.....