My October 2018 Paper Pumpkin kit arrived a few days ago, and I started creating with it right away! (Don’t expect that from me every month. I just happened to have time to play with it right away this time. LOL) I already shared one of these projects, my Get Well Monster Gift Pouch on Thursday with the promise to share more details today on how to make it. So today I present to you that fun project idea and a few more that I created so far with my Friends of a Feather October 2018 Paper Pumpkin kit:
two alternate cards
one with a coordinating gift box
a get well monster treat/gift pouch
and a tea light luminary
Here is what came in this kit.
And then I just added the supplies/products listed below to create the projects that I made that I’m sharing with you today. Watch my video first to get to get measurements, directions, and tips. Then scroll down to see close-up photos, links that I mention at the beginning of my video, and a list of extra supplies (linked to my online store) mentioned or used to make my creations.
Here are the cards that the October 2018 kit instructs how to make.
Here are close-up photos of the projects I created and shared in my video above.
MY FIRST ALTERNATE CARD (and three sentiment versions)
A COORDINATING GIFT BOX
MY GET WELL MONSTER TREAT/GIFT POUCH
A TEA LIGHT LUMINARY
AND ANOTHER ALTERNATE CARD
By the way, I have MORE ideas swimming around in my head ready to put together! So I plan to make and share even more projects soon…the exclusives that I’ll be sharing privately with my personal subscribers and many that I’ll share publicly on my blog in the coming weeks. So subscribe to my blog and stay tuned.
I hope you enjoyed what I shared today! If you are not a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, I invite you to give it a try. CLICK HERE to learn more. Then get your Paper Pumpkin subscription started with ME as your demonstrator so you can see even more EXCLUSIVE ideas, get gifts & prizes, earn Loyalty Rewards, and more! CLICK HERE to sign up by November 10th so you can get this next one that is shipping. We are told that it will contain products for making Christmas cards! Here are some details…
The holidays are the best time to share our appreciation for others, and nothing does that like a handmade holiday card. November’s kit gives a subscriber everything they need to make plenty of those! (10 cards; 5 of 2 unique holiday designs.)
The box is a great sneak of what’s inside!
Coordinating colors:
Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Garden Green, Gold, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Whisper White
Halloween is just two weeks away and Christmas is right around the corner, and that means NOW is the perfect time to offer Paper Pumpkin subscribers a sweet deal on seasonal kits! Right now the Frights & Delights Past Kit and Refill AND November’s Back in Plaid Past Kit are 15% off to help subscribers get a jump on their holiday crafting. Remember, you must be a Paper Pumpkin subscriber in order to purchase past kits. This sale is while supplies last, so don’t miss out!
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“BETTER THAN FLAT” TUTORIALS
Five super talented Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators and I have joined together as the “Stampin’ Anonymous team” to create Fun Fold cards & 3-D (“better than flat”) projects to share exclusively with our customers, paper crafting friends & team members each month! CLICK HERE to find out how you can get your hands on these great tutorials. A new one will be offered each month. October’s tutorials (peeks shown below) are ready!
Now that these accessories are here, they are staying! They will be rolling into next year’s 2019-20 Annual Catalog. And there’s more coming…Watch for the release of the Craft & Carry Stamparatus bag soon!
We have an fabulous set of dies in our new 2018 Holiday Catalog called Takeout Thinlits. One die in the set (cut two times) creates an adorable little treat box that is sized to 2-1/8″ x 1-3/4″ x 2″ tall (5.4 x 4.4 x 5.1 cm), and it looks like a mini Chinese takeout box.
…I decided to try making another Halloween character. And with the help of the Spooky Bats Punch, I came up with this fun little Jack-o-lantern!
Here are the details if you wish to make one (or more!) yourself.
Measurements:
Pumpkin Pie Cardstock: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″
Basic Black Cardstock: small scrap for punching out bats
Garden Green Cardstock: small scrap for punching out bats
Basic Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon: ~5″
Products: See below for a full list of supplies linked to where you can find them in my online store.
Directions:
Die-cut the box die two times and assemble the box by first overlapping then connecting the bases with Tear & Tape Adhesive. Put a small strip of Tear & Tape on each of the four tabs. Pull up the sides and connect them together with the tabs. Shut the top side flaps, then shut the top main flaps by sliding them together.
Sponge the edges of the box with Pumpkin Pie ink.
Punch out the leaves, curl them a bit with the Bone Folder, and add to the top of the box (on the flap closest to the side that will become the front) with a Glue Dot.
Tie the ribbon in a knot. Then add this with a Glue Dot on top of the Glue Dot of the leaves. Trim the ends.
Punch out the bats. Then insert the punch again onto the side to punch just the scallop edge of the medium bat. Shift it up, and punch this scallop edge again about an 1/8″ from where you first punched. This will be the Jack-o-lantern’s mouth! 🙂
Now use your Paper Snips to trim the largest bat into five sections as shown below. The two outer pieces will be the eyes, and the middle one will be the nose! (Cute, huh?! I’m pretty proud of myself. LOL)
Attach these to the front of the box using Glue Dots and/or Fine Tip Glue.
Fill with a Halloween or harvest treat and gift to someone special.
Here are just a few of the pumpkins I made. Amazing how just moving the pieces makes the face look so different.
I also used this punch art for the faces on a couple other treats that I shared on September 6th.
These takeout treat boxes were one of the four make-n-takes featuring new 2018 Holiday Catalog products that my Stampers With ART Stars made during the last Online Team Event on August 22nd. We sure have fun in our group! I demonstrate these projects for them during that event by broadcasting live in our Facebook group. That way those that get the supplies from me and want to make them along with me can.
Did you see the other make-n-take that I shared on September 9th? The other two of the four I’ll share soon.
I also shared about our new house guest on September 9th…On a “spur of the moment” decision to help our neighbors, we took in their cat on Saturday evening to “foster it” until they could find someone who would want him. Well, the boys and I were thrilled that 24 hours later my husband announced that he was on board with the idea of keeping Riff Raff for good, too!
So right away I went out and got a few things to make our new family member feel more at home.
Our new, almost-three-year-old cat is a sweetheart and has taken to our house with no problem. We plan to give him a new name (our neighbors said that would be fine, and they are thrilled that we have him for good), but we haven’t decided on one yet. Let me know if you have any ideas.
Do you find that you order at least $25 worth of Stampin’ Up! product each month? Do you want to get perks for those monthly orders? I’m forming a new Paper Crafters club, and we are looking for new members. Click here to learn more. Then contact me with your questions &/or to sign up.
BONUS DAYS
Time to redeem those coupon codes! Every $50 you spent in the month of August earned you a $5 coupon code to redeem this month in September! Click here for more information including directions for redeeming your codes with your September order in my online store.
DASHING ALONG FOR FREE
SEPTEMBER 1–30, get FREE Dashing Along Designer Series Paper (in addition to the fabulous Stampin’ Rewards) when you host a party with $250+ in sales or place an order of $250+. Limit of 1 pack per qualifying order.
*In order to qualify, the order merchandise total must reach $250 USD (before shipping and handling).
“BETTER THAN FLAT” TUTORIALS AVAILABLE
Five super talented Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators and I have joined together as the “Stampin’ Anonymous team” to create Fun Fold cards & 3-D (“better than flat”) projects to share exclusively with our customers, paper crafting friends & team members each month! CLICK HERE to find out how you can get your hands on these great tutorials. A new one will be offered each month.
I am feeling VERY thankful these days. We finished off the summer with a wonderful vacation at the lake (my parents’ place). School began this last week. The boys are so far enjoying their new school year coming home happy each day (Luke is in 6th grade and Nick is in 7th). And… as of last evening we now have this sweet kitty staying with us. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision made literally yesterday afternoon to help out our friends. We aren’t sure if he is staying yet. The goal was to get a dog. But at least Riff Raff has a place to call home for awhile.
So I decided today would be a great day to share this card – one of four make-n-takes featuring new 2018 Holiday Catalog products that my Stampers With ART Stars made during the last Online Team Event on August 22nd. I was actually inspired by the card on p. 42 in the catalog. My design is very similar.
Here are the details if you wish to recreate it.
Measurements:
Early Espresso Cardstock: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″
Blackberry Bliss Cardstock: 4″ x 9″ scored at 5-1/4″
Mint Macaron Cardstock: 4-3/4″ x 3-1/2″ (for the inside) and 1-5/8″ x 4″ (or less)
Whisper White Thick Cardstock: scrap that is 2-1/2″ x 5
Country Lane Designer Paper: 2″ x 4″ (be sure that the Mint Macaron floral design on the back of the Blackberry Bliss design is cut so that the flowers are vertical)
Products: See below for a full list of supplies linked to where you can find them in my online store.
Directions:
Punch 2-1/4″ circle from one half of Whisper White cardstock.
Stamp sentiment on the right side of the Mint Macaron strip, stamp the watering can on the circle, and stamp the flower image on the remaining scrap of Whisper White. Color watering can and flower images with Blends markers.
Fussy cut the flowers image, then attach with SNAIL adhesive to the top of the watering can as shown.
Add a small strip of Chicken Wire Elements coming out the back bottom of the sentiment strip.
Fold the Blackberry Bliss piece, run a strip of SNAIL down the right edge of the front short layer, then add the designer paper on top to extend the card base to meet up with the edges of the bottom layer. Put SNAIL under this bottom layer and add to the Early Espresso piece.
Open up the Blackberry Bliss card base piece, and add the 4-3/4″ x 3-1/2″ Mint Macaron layer. Notice that the flip side of the designer paper now shows the floral Mint Macaron design.
Add the sentiment strip to the front of the card using SNAIL. Then attach the Whisper White piece to the left of that using Dimensionals.
When I shared how to make this card during our Online Team Event, I showed both of these layout ideas below. The pieces are all the same, but the way it was assembled was just slightly different.
I hope you are enjoying the end of summer/beginning of autumn in your “neck of the woods,” too.
By the way, I thought it would be fun to share how much my boys have grown since I started blogging. Click here to see Luke (above) when he was celebrating his 6th birthday. Click here to see Nick (below) posing in front of his cake when he turned 7 years old. They are now 11 and almost 13!
Do you find that you order at least $25 worth of Stampin’ Up! product each month? Do you want to get perks for those monthly orders? I’m forming a new Paper Crafters club, and we are looking for new members. Click here to learn more. Then contact me with your questions &/or to sign up.
NO TRICKS, JUST TREATS!
October will be here soon. And when those kiddos show up at your doorstep on the 31st, you can be ready for them with spooky cute goodies handmade by you with the help of September’s Paper Pumpkin kit! Just have an active account by September 10th. New to Paper Pumpkin? Click here between now and September 10th to sign up for this fun paper crafting kit: https://www.paperpumpkin.com/en-us/sign-up/?demoid=25553
BONUS DAYS!
Time to redeem those coupon codes! Every $50 you spent in the month of August earned you a $5 coupon code to redeem this month in September! Click here for more information including directions for redeeming your codes with your September order in my online store.
DASHING ALONG FOR FREE! SEPTEMBER 1–30, get FREE Dashing Along Designer Series Paper (in addition to the fabulous Stampin’ Rewards) when you host a party with $250+ in sales or place an order of $250+. Limit of 1 pack per qualifying order.
*In order to qualify, the order merchandise total must reach $250 USD (before shipping and handling).
“BETTER THAN FLAT” TUTORIALS AVAILABLE
Five super talented Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators and I have joined together as the “Stampin’ Anonymous team” to create Fun Fold cards & 3-D (“better than flat”) projects to share exclusively with our customers, paper crafting friends & team members each month! CLICK HERE to find out how you can get your hands on these great tutorials. A new one will be offered each month.
There is only a week left to get your hands on the exclusive Blended Seasons stamp set & coordinating Stitched Seasons framelits. A second set of Watercolor Pencils in 10 new colors is also available now and MAY not be made available after August 31st. (Stampin’ Up! hasn’t announced either way yet on the pencils.) So you may want to grab those up as well! Click here to access the promotional flyer.
I used that beautiful stamp set on my three cards that I shared on August 4th. If you subscribe to my blog posts, you may have seen them already. Here is a slight variation of those cards. On this one shown below I colored the leaves with the new Crushed Curry and Granny Apple Green Watercolor Pencils. I love those colors together! And I changed out the accessories and layout.
Here are the details for making this card.
Measurements:
Crushed Curry Cardstock: 11″ x 4-1/4″ scored at 5-1/2″ and folded in half for card base
Basic Black Cardstock: 2-1/2″ x 2-1/2″
Whisper White Cardstock: 2-3/8″ x 2-3/8″ & 2-3/4″ x 4″ for the inside layer
Linen Thread: 30″
Whisper White Polka-Dot Tulle Ribbon: 4″
Products: See below for a full list of supplies linked to where you can find them in my online store.
Directions:
Use coordinating ink on the closed card base to stamp the leaves from the upper left to the lower right. Open the card and stamp the leaves in the lower left corner.
While the card is open, add the inside white layer.
Now work on the front layer of the card…wrap the Linen Thread three times around and tie in a knot. Then lay the Polka-Dot ribbon across the knot and tie the twine into a knot again to secure the ribbon.
Using the StazOn Jet Black ink stamp leaves and sentiment on the smaller Whisper White piece. Color the leaves with Granny Apple Green and Crushed Curry Watercolor Pencils. Use the Blender Pen to blend and soften the color on the leaves. Practice on scrap paper if you’d like.
Attach this white layer to the black layer.
Put Dimensionals on the back side. And stick this layer down on the card so that the tulle ribbon peeks out the left side of the layer.
Here is another card showing off the beauty of this wonderful stamp set and die bundle. Lynn Feldkamp put this beautiful card together for the Alaskan incentive trip swap, and I was lucky enough to receive it.
I’m excited to share papers, ribbons, & embellishments with you from the 2018 Holiday Catalog debuting September 5th! CLICK HERE to find out more information about my popular product shares! I’m taking sign ups through September 4th (if shares are still available). Billing begins August 29th for those who sign up quickly.
NO TRICKS, JUST TREATS!
October will be here soon. And when those kiddos show up at your doorstep on the 31st, you can be ready for them with spooky cute goodies handmade by you with the help of September’s Paper Pumpkin kit! Just have an active account by September 10th. New to Paper Pumpkin? Click here between now and September 10th to sign up for this fun paper crafting kit: https://www.paperpumpkin.com/en-us/sign-up/?demoid=25553
Every $50 you spend in the month of August earns you a $5 coupon to redeem in September! It’s pretty awesome, but be sure to download and read through the FAQ/details sheet below so you don’t loose the coupons you earn. Click here for more information.
I got to play with my Blended Seasons stamp set yesterday. And this time I decided to show how awesome having a Blender Pen can be with our Classic Ink Pads. You can squeeze a closed Classic Ink Pad together to get ink on the inside of the lid. And then just dip a Blender Pen into the ink puddle to pick up the ink and color with it. That’s how I colored these leaves on the white layers of the cards below.
I just needed one Classic ink pad, its coordinating cardstock (along with Whisper White & Basic Black cardstock), the StazOn Jet Black ink, and the Blender Pen to build the color on each card.
Here are the details for making the cards.
Measurements:
Balmy Blue (Granny Apple Green or Merry Merlot) Cardstock: 11″ x 4-1/4″ scored at 5-1/2″ and folded in half for card base
Basic Black Cardstock: 2-3/4″ x 2-3/4″
Whisper White Cardstock: 2-5/8″ x 2-5/8″ & 2-3/4″ x 4″ for the inside layer
Basic Black Twine: 36″
Products: See below for a full list of supplies linked to where you can find them in my online store.
Directions:
Use coordinating ink on the closed card base to stamp the leaves along the left side. Open the card and stamp the leaves in the lower right corner.
While the card is open, add the inside white layer.
Now work on the front layer of the card…wrap the twine three times around and tie in a bow.
Using the StazOn Jet Black ink stamp leaves and sentiment on the smaller Whisper White piece. Squeeze the closed colored Classic ink pad to get color on the inside of the lid. Open up the pad, and dip the Blender Pen into the puddle to pick up color. Use the Blender Pen to color the leaves. Practice on scrap paper if you’d like to get the feel of how to add the color. And know that the richest/darkest color will release from the pen right away and slowly blend out to clear as you color.
Attach this white layer to the black layer.
Put Dimensionals on the back side. Then add a 1/2 doily behind so that it peeks out on a couple sides.
Stick this layer down on the card.
Add a few self-adhesive sequins.
Here are the finished cards close-up.
This wonderful year-round stamp set is a treasure, but it’s only available from Stampin’ Up! through the month of August. I shared another card that I made with it on July 29th. Be sure to click here to see that card and a few other samples made with the set by the artists at Stampin’ Up!
And how fun that all you need is a Blender Pen to create a coordinating coloring tool with any Classic Ink Pad! So go ahead and pick your new favorite color ink pad, squeeze the lid, and color away. 🙂
Every $50 you spend in the month of August earns you a $5 coupon to redeem in September! It’s pretty awesome, but be sure to download and read through the FAQ/details sheet below so you don’t loose the coupons you earn. Click here for more information.
Through August 10th, new subscribers get 50% off their first month of Paper Pumpkin! What a great time to sign up! And the graphic has such pretty colors!!! We’ve been told that it’s a hint at what’s in the kit! Sign up using this link so you can become my personal subscriber and I can spoil you! https://www.paperpumpkin.com/en-us/sign-up/?demoid=25553
CASEd is a term many of us use in the paper crafting world. It stands for Copy And Share Everything. So when we like a project design by another and we either completely copy it or change it only slightly and make a version of it, we let others know that we did that by saying that we “CASEd it from so-and-so.”
I saw a card shared in a Facebook group I am a part of called Demonstrator Planning Group. It’s a group for Stampin’ Up! demonstrators, and it’s an amazing place to get inspiration. I could be on it all day everyday and still not see everything, because people are posting ideas there non-stop.
A couple months back I found a card, took a screen shot of it on my phone, changed it up only slightly (because I didn’t have enough of the lace ribbon), and reproduced it as a welcome card to new members in our Stampers With ART group. Thank you Chris Smith for creating and sharing your beautiful card that I just HAD to CASE! Click here to see Chris’ gorgeous card. (Too bad I didn’t have enough ribbon at the time. I would have CASEd it completely!)
Here is my version.
Measurements:
Very Vanilla Thick Cardstock: 11″ x 4-1/4″ folded at 5-1/2″ for the card base
Very Vanilla Cardstock: 5-1/4″ x 4″ and scrap for stamping and punching the sentiment and the leaves
Basic Gray Cardstock: 8″ long scrap for punching a border
Silver Foil Paper: scrap for die-cutting a 2-1/8″ circle
Painted Autumn Designer Paper (tiny green leaf pattern): 2″ x 4″
Tips/Directions:
Stamp the sentiment in Basic Gray ink and the leaves in Old Olive ink onto the Very Vanilla scrap/s.
Punch out the sentiment using the 2″ Circle Punch and the leaves with the Leaf Punch.
Die-cut the Silver Foil Paper using the 2-1/8″ diameter die from the Layering Circle Framelits.
Punch the 8″ length of Basic Gray Cardstock with the Decorative Ribbon Border Punch. Trim this into two 4″ pieces. Then put adhesive on the back side top and bottom edges of the designer paper, and attach these two gray strips so they are peeking out the top and bottom of the designer paper as shown.
Now adhere this to the 5-1/4″ x 4″ Very Vanilla piece.
Add a single strip of silver washi tape from the Year of Cheer Washi Tape collection to the top edge of the designer paper. Trim the excess off the ends or better yet…wrap the excess on the ends around to the back side of the 5-1/4″ x 4″ Very Vanilla piece.
Attach the sentiment circle to the Very Vanilla circle, then add this to the card with Dimensionals while at the same time tucking in and attaching the punched out leaves.
Stamp the inside of the Very Vanilla card base piece, then adhere the 5-1/4″ x 4″ Very Vanilla piece to the front of the card.
This is another version…same card, but with a different sentiment (from a stamp set that us demonstrators were able to get years back). This is the welcome card I sent out to a few new stampers to our Stampers With ART group. So if you plan to sign up this month and want this as your welcome card, be sure to let me know since these papers will be retiring soon. 😉 OH! Yes…did you see the sale? (CLICK HERE for that information.)
Stampin’ Up! is ending 2017 with a bang! This is your opportunity to take advantage of special year-end deals on retiring and surplus items. The items in the sale are last-chance and limited-inventory, so take note that these items are available only while supplies last! Click Here to learn more.
I am putting together another Online Paper Crafters Club…
And am looking for a few more members to join in. The commitment is to place a minimum $25 order each month for 6 months in row. In one of those months you would get the Stampin’ Rewards (the free goodies) based on the collective orders from those in the club. The other perks would be free catalogs shipped to you, a set of 6 free hand-stamped cards at the end of the 6-month commitment, and exclusive project ideas emailed to you each month. I’m hoping to start this club at the beginning of January.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I am an affiliate with Stamp-n-Storage which means I may get commissions if you click on links I provide and decide to purchase anything from this company. I love their products and recommend them because I own several myself and believe my readers will benefit from them.
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