As part of my seemingly never-ending quest to actually FINISH my collection of Paper Pumpkin kits, I have some more ideas to share. Don't get me wrong, I love these kits, I just wish I were more self-disciplined about completing them before moving on! Too easily distracted by all the pretty things in my craft room, I guess :)
This week I worked on a kit from February 2020, "Lovely Day".
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One more kit completed - I'm making progress!! Thanks for stopping by today!
Hello!
Thank goodness spring is finally here...I think. Not so much today, but there's promise on the horizon. Spring is my time to renew & refresh, and when I got to the craft room, I had to face the facts...I've got work to do!
Yup, those are all unfinished Paper Pumpkin kits. Now in my defense, most of them are at least half done, but I moved on to something else before finishing. (I'm sure no one else does that LOL!) My goal is to wipe out this stack before it gets any taller.
It would be easy to just put together the rest of the cards as per the instructions, but I like to get creative. When I open a Paper Pumpkin box, I first assemble one of each card as the designer intended, but after that I usually go off and do my own thing with the rest. So that slows me down a bit.
I wasn't going to share this project on my blog, but then I thought I'm probably not the only one with unfinished kits sitting around and maybe you'd like to see what I'm doing, so here goes!
The first kit I picked up was July 2019. This photo from Stampin' Up! shows the cards as per the instructions. I had just 3 cards left in this kit, so here's what I did with them---
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I'm pretty happy with the way these turned out, and best of all, there's ONE LESS BOX IN THE STACK!!
Hopefully you're inspired to finish up your own Paper Pumpkin kits. I just hope I can knock out another kit this week...there's a box of new catalog Stampin' Up! goodies on its way...I'm pretty easily distracted by pretty new stamps & papers :)
I admit I'm a bit obsessed with this Christmas Barn stamp set! It's so much fun to create with.
I'm inspired by all the beautiful fall colors in my neighborhood this week. It's been a gorgeous Autumn in northern Ohio!
Colors I used are Soft Suede for the barn and card base; Mossy Meadow for the mat; Crumb Cake for the background.
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I found some birds in my High Tide stamp set (retired) and used Early Espresso to stamp them before embossing the background with my Evergreen Forest embossing folder (retired). The fence is stamped in Early Espresso on Crumb Cake cardstock, and the barn is also stamped in Early Espresso on Soft Suede cardstock.
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About the Trees...
The three trees are from the Beauty of Friendship stamp set. I stamped them on Crumb Cake cardstock, using my Stamparatus to achieve the multiple colors on one stamp. For two of them, I stamped them in Crushed Curry ink first, then used a sponge dauber to add Poppy Parade and stamp again. The third (red) tree was stamped in Poppy Parade first then added Cherry Cobbler. The tree trunks are stamped with Soft Suede.
This card is similar to one I've made before. On my previous card each tree was just one color - I like this new version much better! You can find details for that card here.
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