Are you ready to see lots more ideas with the August 2017 Paper Pumpkin kit?!
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Today is the day where several of us Stampin' Up! demonstrators are bringing to you our special Paper Pumpkin blog hop. See what I have to share, then check out all the other blogs in the hop to see even more creative alternate ideas that we came up with using the contents of this month's "Giftable Greetings" Paper Pumpkin kit. To follow the hop, simply scroll down to click the "next" button or to click on the names of other participants in the hop.
This month's kit is so pretty! Click here to see the August kit video put out by Stampin' Up! where you can view how to make these intended cards, tags and gift box from this kit.
I posted some alternate card ideas a few days ago (and I still have more ideas that I am working on but this recovering from surgery stuff has slowed me a bit – lol), but for today I want to share this goofy turkey on a stick and a coordinating scrapbook page layout. Isn't he cute?! hahaha
I used two flowers from the kit:
- The peach one cut in two – 5 petals & 3 petals
- The blue one cut in three – 5 petals, 2 petals and 1 petal that I omited
Then I used the 3/4" circle punch and punched the round body from the scrap paper around the peach flowers. The head is another petal from one more peach flower.
The beak is a portion of a star from a Pumpkin Pie Enamel Shape. And the wattle is half of a heart from a Real Red Enamel Shape. I just cut the enamel shapes with my Paper Snips – super easy.
I thought this guy would be fun to put into a dessert at Thanksgiving time.
And with an extra 1/8" hole punched at the bottom of the tag, the tag below him can fit perfectly onto a skewer! Did you recognize the words? That stamp image came from last year's September 2016 Paper Pumpkin kit.
This is what the back looks like. I attached the turkey to the top of the skewer with Dimensionals. The Dimensionals are sandwiched between the turkey and this flower on the back.
Here are the extra supplies that I used to make my turkey on a stick (besides the contents of the August 2017 Paper Pumpkin kit):
- Paper Snips
- 3/4" Circle Punch
- 1/8" Circle Punch
- Peek-a-Boo Peach Crinkled Seam Binding
- Brights Enamel Shapes
- Basic Black marker
- skewer
- bowl of treats
After Thanksgiving is over, that cute little turkey could go into a scrapbook layout to share photos of the fun family holiday!
I used the envelopes from the kit for photo mats.
And for the bottom border, I added Dimensionals from the kit under the tips of each leaf creating a little shadow and depth. I also brought in a few more red heart Enamel Shapes and some Crinkled Seam Binding.
I gave my turkey some feet this time using the smallest stamp image from the kit.
And I made the page title by covering the "s" in thanks with another enamel heart and the die-cut letters F, U and L.
Here are the extra supplies that I used to make these pages (besides the contents of the August 2017 Paper Pumpkin kit):
- Paper Snips
- Stampin' Trimmer
- 2016-18 In Color 12 x 12 Cardstock
- Peek-a-Boo Peach Crinkled Seam Binding
- Brights Enamel Shapes
- Basic Black marker
- Pool Party cardstock
- Large Letter Framelit dies
I hope you enjoyed my silly ideas!
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Thanks for visiting. And have fun on the hop!
Love your addition of the FUL to the THANK on your scrapbook page and the envelopes are PERFECT for picture matting!
Bwaaaaah, that little turkey! So adorable, I love it all…but especially how you pulled that Crinkled Seam Binding in there. I don’t have any of that, and now I think I NEED it :-O Thanks for sharing your ideas 🙂
I don’t know how you do it but you always win the prize for the most creative out of the box ideas! And I love that you always have a scrapbook layout for the Paper Pumpkin kit. You are the best!
Your turkey is adorable! But even more, I love that you changed up the colors for Thanksgiving for your scrapbook layout.
Such an adorable turkey, Rachel! You’re so clever!
Thanks Jennifer. 🙂
Glad I made you giggle. LOL Thanks Kimberley.
I’m blushing Monika. Thank you so much for your sweet words. This kit was so pretty, I just had to bring a little humor to it. LOL
Thanks Sara. The 12×12 paper was something I had a hard time deciding on. So I’m glad you like what I chose.
Thanks Michelle! 😀