Hi Stampers. Welcome to another Crafty Collaborations blog hop, this time our theme is “Autumn”, so I pulled out the Love of Leaves stamp set and Stitched Leaves Dies. I love the Stitched Leaves dies because each leaf is two pieces, one for the overall shape and another to add the stitching to the inside of the leaf. You can use the stitched part or not – your choice. This give so many more possibilities to this set!
My card started with a Soft Succulent card base – 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″, scored at 4-1/4″. Next, I used a 4″ x 5-1/4″ layer of In The Wild DSP and added a 1-1/2″ x 5-1/4″ piece of the cork paper on the left side. When I first saw the cork in the catalog, I worried that it would be too thick to work with, but it’s actually really thin and on a thin paper base for easy use. I wrapped a piece of Evening Evergreen ribbon around this layer adhering on the back side, before adhering to the card front.
For the focal point, I combined several of the leaves, cut from Cinnamon Cider, Crushed Curry and Merry Merlot CS using the Stitched Leaves Dies. Using the Label Me Lovely punch, I punched a label out of Very Vanilla CS and another out of Soft Succulent CS. I used Evening Evergreen to stamp the sentiment onto the Very Vanilla label and cut the Soft Succulent one in half and adhered it to the Very Vanilla one with a little color poking out from each side. These were then adhered to the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals and tucked the leaves in behind.
Inside the card is a 4″ x 5-1/4″ layer of Very Vanilla with the sentiment stamped in the center in Soft Succulent ink. Using a few different leaves from the Love of Leaves stamp set, I stamped leaves in the corners using Soft Succulent, Merry Merlot and Cinnamon Cider inks.
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Hi Stampers. Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop! This month, the theme is “Sentiment as a focal point.” We really hope that you enjoy and will be inspired by them! As you hop from blog to blog, don’t forget to leave comments because we love hearing from you. You will find the lineup at the end of my post to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal.
When we were asked to make our card “all about the sentiment”, I looked over my collection and came out with the Playful Alphabet Dies. With these you can make any sentiment you want! I paired them with the Counting Sheet and Sheep Dies – both level 1 Sale-a-bration rewards (til the end of this month).
My card has a Bermuda Bay card base – 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″, scored at 4-1/4″. Next up is a 4″ x 5-1/4″ layer of Coastal Cabana DSP. Using the Playful Alphabet Dies, I die cut the letters for “LOVE EWE” out of Bermuda Bay CS that had Adhesive Sheet on the back.
The sheep is stamped onto Basic White CS in Basic Gray ink and colored with the Stampin’ Blends and blended with the Color Lifter. Next, I used the sheep dies to die cut the sheep I just stamped, the sun out of Daffodil Delight CS and the fence out of Early Espresso CS. The Playful Alphabet Dies & fence were all then adhered to the card front directly. The sheep and sun were added with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Inside the card is a 4″ x 5-1/4″ layer of Basic White CS. The sheep is stamped in Basic Gray, colored with the Stampin’ Blends and blended with the Color Lifter. Bermuda Bay ink was used for the sentiment and Granny Apple Green ink was used for the grass. I used the Blender Brushes to add some Granny Apple Green ink along the bottom and Balmy Blue ink along the top. This layer was then adhered inside with Stampin’ Seal. I’m just tickled with how it came out!
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Hi Stampers. Welcome to this months Paper Pumpkin Possibilities Blog Hop. This month we are featuring the Hope Box, designed by our co-founder, Shelly Gardner. This kit makes some beautiful cards, but our purpose is to show you alternative ideas to do with this kit. Follow along and be inspired.
Above is a photo of what we were given in our kit.
I used our Mercury Glass Accetate as my card base, 4″ x 8″, scored at 4″.
I then used two of the pieces, from the Hope Box Paper Pumpkin kit, with the gradient colors on it and cut them square. They were 3-1/8″ wide, so I made them 3-1/8″ tall, too.
Using the Blackberry Bliss ink and the largest stamp, I stamped the sentiment onto the front of my card. Next I added a few of the butterflies with glue dots and added the sequins on top of them.
Inside the card is the other gradient layer followed by a stitched square of Basic White CS. I created this square using the Stitched Rectangle dies by cutting the rectangle first. Then positioning the die where it would make it a square and running it though the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine a second time.
Case Insert:
Did you know that you can keep your Paper Pumpkin stamp sets in the same style stamp cases that our regular stamps come in? We sell those empty and provide you with the case insert, just for that reason! Keep yourself organized. 🙂
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Hi Stampers. Welcome back to a Crafty Collaborations Paper Pumpkin Blog Hop. This month we are inspired by the Hope Box Paper Pumpkin kit. Good news – if you missed out on this one – you can still get it! While supplies last of course…
I used my Hope Box Paper Pumpkin kit to make an alternative card and decorate a Mini Paper Pumpkin Box.
Above is a photo of what came in the kit. You may notice that it has multiple languages. Personally, I don’t have a need for the pieces with the other languages, BUT I was able to use those parts anyway!
Do you see my label in the middle of this card? It’s made up of two of the labels in a non-English language. I stamped the word hope on the back of one and cut a second one in half and adhered it to the first one to create a border.
Because the back label was cut in half there was a small gap on the sides of the label. To cover this up, I used the Label Me Fancy punch to punch a slot of each side.
For my card base, I used one of the pink bases from the Hope Box Paper Pumpkin kit. The layers are also front the kit and were already pre-cut and ready to go, making this super easy!
Next, I used the 3/8″ Blushing Bride frayed ribbon to feed though the slots, wrap around the small layer (from the Hope Box Paper Pumpkin kit) and attach on the back of this layer. This layer is then attached to the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals (so the ribbon attached on the back would not bulge). As an accent, I attached three of the small butterflies (from the Hope Box Paper Pumpkin kit) and three Opal Rounds to the card front.
Using the stamps from the Hope Box Paper Pumpkin kit, I stamped the sentiment in Bermuda Bay ink and the Butterflies in Polished Pink ink on the inside.
I also decorated one of our Mini Paper Pumpkin Boxes with more pieces from the kit. Covering the box is one of the pink card bases from the Hope Box Paper Pumpkin and some Pattern Party DSP. The kit included the large butterfly and tag along with some wide Blackberrry Bliss ribbon to put around the regular box the kit came ink. I substituted the smaller Blushing Bride ribbon to keep in scale with the smaller box.
Below is a line-up of the blogs on our hop today. Follow along and be inspired by all the talent in our group!
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Hi Stampers. Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop! This month, the theme is “My Happiest Season”. We really hope that you enjoy and will be inspired by them! As you hop from blog to blog, don’t forget to leave comments because we love hearing from you. You will find the lineup at the end of my post to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal. I hope you like my swinging pendulum card.
I think my favorite season is Fall. I’m not a fan of alot of heat (unless I can be in water), so the idea of things cooling off, but not yet freezing, sounds wonderful. As a way to showcase Fall for our hop, I made a swinging pendulum card. (Above is a 4 second video of it swinging. You can see a complete video of how the card was made on my Facebook Page HERE or an edited version will be on my YouTube channel soon.)
This pendulum card starts with a Merry Merlot card base, 4-1/4″ x 11″, scored at 5-1/2″. To hold my pendulum, I cut a small strip of Merry Merlot CS, 1/2″ x 2″, scored at 1/2″, 1″ and 1-1/2″. The two middle pieces were glued together and the two outside flaps were adhered to either side of the inside of the card, at the top, over the score line. A small hole was punched in the part that is glued together and at the top of a 1/4″ x 4″ strip of Window Sheet.
The front of the pendulum card is covered with a 4″ x 5-1/4″ layer of Beauty of the Earth DSP and a 4″ x 5-1/4″ layer of Basic White CS is adhered in the center of the card. In the center of the card front, I die cut a large circle, using the Layering Circles Dies and a ring was die cut using that circle and a slightly larger scalloped circle with Merry Merlot CS.
Using the Birds & Branches stamp set, I stamped the nest in Crumb Cake ink (with some thumping of Early Espresso and Soft Suede markers) and the bird is stamped in Misty Moonlight. These were then die cut using the Birds and More dies and attached to the strip of Window Sheet using mini glue dots. A brad was used to attached the top of the Window Sheet strip to the bracket at the top of the card.
The sentiment, from the Birds and Branches stamp set is stamped onto a 3/4″ x 4″ strip of Basic White CS using Merry Merlot ink. Linen Thread was wrapped around the right side and the Pick A Banner Punch was used to punch the left side. This strip was then adhered to the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Next, I cut a stabilizer piece to go in the bottom that is another Merry Merlot piece 2-1/2″ x 4-1/4″, scored at 1/2″, 1-1/4″ and 2″. This piece was folded as a “W”. After the pendulum is added this piece is adhered with the 1/2″ pieces adhered to either side of the inside bottom of the card. Because this encloses the inside, I added a 4″ x 5-1/4″ layer of Basic White CS to the back of the card, where the message could be written.
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More inspiration awaits, so use the lineup below to visit the rest of the Design Team. The Pals are excited to show you what they’ve created! Then, please mark your calendars for our next blog hop on September 8th. Our theme will be “Focus on the Sentiment” when our Design Team creates a project showcasing a sentiment as the focal point of their project. Until then, have fun in your craft space.
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Hi Stampers. I’m not much of a camper – absolutely NO TENTS! But, I would make an exception and camp in a trailer somewhere that I can see the Northern Lights! I’ve never seen them, but it’s on my bucket list!
When I first saw the July 2021 Paper Pumpkin kit (The Adventure Begins), my first thought was about this Northern Lights Technique. I have not perfected this technique yet, but I do love it.
My Northern Lights card started with a Misty Moonlight card base followed by a layer of Shimmery White CS. I used the blending brushes to apply the ink to create the Northern Lights and then splashed some watered down white ink to make the stars. Using the stamp set that came in the Adventure Beings Paper Pumpkin kit and the Stamparatus, I stamped a few trees in Memento Black ink onto the bottom of this layer.
Next, I added a strip of Soft Suede CS to act as the ground to set the trailer on. The trailer was cut out of the card base from the kit and added to this layer using Stampin’ Dimensionals. I stamped two additional trees onto Shimmery White CS in Memento Black ink using the Stamparatus and cut them out using my Brother Scan N Cut. (A little sponging of black ink on the edges helped hide any white that may have been on an edge.)
Stampin’ Tip: When I’m stamping silhouette images or anything I want super dark, I use the Stamparatus. The Stamparatus allows you to stamp over and over again in the exact same spot allowing you to build up the layers of ink making the image very dark.
Here is a close up of the Northern Lights technique and the stars.
Inside my Northern Lights card is a layer of Blackberry Bliss CS followed by a layer of Shimmery White CS. I used the blending brushes to swirl some ink along the top and sides and the tree stamp with Evening Evergreen ink to stamp the trees. The sentiment, also from the Adventure Begins Paper Pumpkin kit is stamped in Blackberry Bliss ink.
Did you know that you can order empty stamp cases and that Paper Pumpkin provides us with a case insert each month? I love being able to keep all my stamps organized.
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