Today is the last day to make sure you have an active Paper Pumpkin subscription so you can get your hands on the July kit titled Fun In The Sun. PP subscribers don’t ever see the kits ahead of time. The mystery makes it that much more exciting! But here are hints about what we will get in our mailboxes come mid-month.

JULY’S PAPER PUMPKIN KIT…
“Say hello to summer and get crafting under the sun with this month’s kit! With beach designs, fun accordion-fold cards, and with sentiments to support, encourage, say hello, and more, wave at those you love through uplifting cards and send family and friends oceans of kind words all summer long! This kit includes all the supplies you need to create 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs. It also includes coordinating envelopes, an all-occasion stamp set, Iridescent Sequin Embellishments, and Tear & Tape Adhesive. Coordinating Stampin’ Up! colors: Azure Afternoon, Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight (the ink spot color), Flirty Flamingo, Granny Apple Green, Melon Mambo, Pool Party.” 

If you are not a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, I invite you to give it a try. CLICK HERE to learn more. CLICK HERE to sign up by today, July 10th for this next kit. (To renew your subscription, click here and login to reactivate.)

Shown below are the beautiful cards the June 2023 Welcome Inn kit made (as per the included kit instructions)…

I like to think outside the box with kits though. I don’t create the intended projects. Instead I change up the supplies and create new ideas. The ones I’ve created with this June kit can be found on my blog on June 23rd and on July 7th. I have one more project idea for you today though.

I usually create a page or page layout with every kit, but I didn’t finish this one in time to share on July 7th. Just like the card and hospitality thank you gift shared that day, this page has strips of patterned papers placed either side-by-side or at right angles from each other. You’ll want to look back on that post for details and progression photos for building the strips design.

Products I used… Besides the kit, I used a few other extra items. See below for a complete list of extra products I used linked to where you can find them in my online store.

Measurements…

• Night of Navy Cardstock
  • 12″ x 12″
• Navy card base from the kit (the white side for photo mats)
  • 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″
  • 4-1/4″ x 4-1/4″
• Boho Blue Cardstock
  • 8″ x 12″
• Basic White Cardstock
  • (2) 1/2″ x 12″
• Blue printed card base from the kit
  • 1/2″, 3/4″, and 1″ strips
• Coral printed card base from the kit
  • 3/4″ and 1″ strips
• Countryside Inn Designer Paper (dark with foxes)
  • 3/4″, 1″, and 1-1/4″ strips
• Parakeet Party Cardstock
  • Scraps for punching Bough Punch shapes
• White Glittered Organdy Ribbon
  • (2) 6″
  • 5″ (cut down the center for one narrow ribbon)

Refer to the tips on the July 7th post for tips on building the strips design on the Boho Blue Cardstock. Once that design is done and the extra ends from the strips are trimmed up, attach the Basic White 1/2″ x 12″ strips so they are peeking out the top and bottom edges. Then adhere this to the 12″ x 12″ Navy base about 1-1/2″ from the bottom edge.

Stamp the floral border 1/2″ in along the bottom and a couple times in from the left at the top.

Use Daubers to add Balmy Blue and Calypso Coral ink to add shading to the white sides of two vases from the kit. Punch leaf shapes. Attach a few so they appear to be coming out the top of these pots. Add Dimensionals to the back sides of the leaves, pots and photo frame pieces (one in each corner is plenty). Then add all of these to the page.

Tie a bow with the narrow ribbon. Use a Glue Dot to add the bow to the tallest pot. Embellish that area with Iridescent Pearls.

Tuck and adhere with Multipurpose Liquid Glue a couple more punched leaves under the left corner of the square photo mat.

Cut the two remaining lengths of ribbon at angles that match to coral kit banner. Then attach with a strip of Tear & Tape Adhesive from the kit going down the middle of the banner. Trim off the excess ribbon, attach to the page with Seal. Then add a few Iridescent Pearls.

That’s it. 🙂 I ran out of time. But if you want to make a full layout (a matching page), I recommend repeating the strip background and either doing a reverse of the other elements and have everything symmetrical OR have some of the same extra elements but positioned a bit differently (maybe a wider horizontal photo mat instead of square and one or three vases instead of two placed a little lower). I added no page title or journaling. But my thinking is that I’ll die-cut some words in white from the Alphabet a la Mode dies.

I hope I inspired your creativity with what I shared today! If you did not get this kit, I hope you can apply these ideas to products you already own.

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Product List – things you might need/want in addition to the contents of the June 2023 Welcome Inn Paper Pumpkin kit…

BONUS DAYS IS BACK
When you shop July 6 – 31 and spend $50 USD you will earn a $5 USD coupon to redeem in August! Make sure you save all your coupons (you can earn as many as you’d like) because you can redeem them (and we mean ALL of them) between August 1 – 31! Click here for more details.

MORE ONLINE EXCLUSIVES HAVE ARRIVED
New products arrived in the online store July 6, 2023! You won’t find these products in any catalog. Click here for more details.

CLEARANCE RACK REFRESH
Additional items appeared in the Clearance Rack section of the Online Store 7/6/23. Click here to shop great deals on these returning & discounted retired products.

KITS COLLECTION: BLOSSOM WISHES KIT ADDED
This kit is special for its trendy, slimline card design, and includes all the precut paper pieces for a fun card for a friend! This new kit is part of the Kits Collection and is now available. Click here and scroll down for more details.

A PEEK AT JULY’S PAPER PUMPKIN KIT
Say hello to summer and get crafting under the sun with this month’s kit! With beach designs, fun accordion-fold cards, and with sentiments to support, encourage, say hello, and more, wave at those you love through uplifting cards and send family and friends oceans of kind words all summer long! This kit includes all the supplies you need to create 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs. It also includes coordinating envelopes, an all-occasion stamp set, Iridescent Sequin Embellishments, and Tear & Tape Adhesive. Coordinating Stampin’ Up! colors: Azure Afternoon, Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight (the ink spot color), Flirty Flamingo, Granny Apple Green, Melon Mambo, Pool Party. 
If you are not a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, I invite you to give it a try. CLICK HERE to learn more. CLICK HERE to sign up by July 10th for this next kit.

ALL STAR VIDEO CLASSES
I’m a designer with the All Stars, a group of globally recognized Stampin’ Up! demonstrators. And we are excited to share exclusively with our customers, paper crafting friends & team members our July 2023 Earthen Elegance Suite Video Class Bundle which is now available. CLICK HERE for more information. Click here to get to my Tutorials/Classes for Sale page to see others that have been offered. The next one featuring the Bright & Beautiful Suite from the 2023-24 Annual Catalog will be available August 1st.