Past Paper Pumpkin Alternates - May 2020 - A Kit in Color

I don't know about you, but sometimes I have stamps and such sitting on my desk for a long time, just waiting for some inspiration to hit. Currently, I have had the May 2020 Paper Pumpkin Kit (A Kit in Color) sitting there, just waiting for something to come to me and give me some inspiration. 

Well, my patience has paid off! I have 3 cards to show you that use the "A Kit in Color" May 2020 Paper Pumpkin Kit.

Let me show you:

Using a few supplies that were not included in the Paper Pumpkin kit itself, I made these three cards. The card bases were from my own personal supplies, plus the rhinestones, the flower punch and the small circle punch, the Misty Moonlight card stock, and the white embossing powder and Versamark Ink. Also the greeting on the Magenta Madness striped card is from the "Here's A Card" stamp set. I think everything else is from the original kit. I love how these three cards turned out!

I hope that you like these cards as much as I do. If you have this kit, maybe you can try CASE-ing one, two, or all three cards.

Thanks for stopping by,

Kathryn

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Your Presents Christmas Card

Just some Christmas card inspiration, in case you need an idea for a card. 

This stamp set, called "Your Presents" was designed to be used with the KISS-ing technique, which is where you ink up the patterned stamp, and then you take the large solid stamp and "KISS" them together, or rather, press them together carefully. This way the design from the one stamp is transferred to the large solid area of the other stamp. I used this technique on the striped ornament and the ornament with the little tree pattern on it. The red ornament is the large solid stamp and I just inked it up like you would regularly do with my Cherry Cobbler ink pad.

All Supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted:

Stamp set: Your Presents

Cardstock: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Sky

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, Pear Pizzazz, Hello Honey

Accessories: Season of Cheer Designer Series Paper, Rhinestones Basic Jewels, 1-1/4" Circle Punch, Paper Snips, Project Life Journaling Pens, Dimensionals, Stampin' Sponges

I know that this is a really busy time of year for a lot of us, so I appreciate you stopping by to take a look at my work! If you want to order any Stampin' Up! supplies to create this card (or anything else from Stampin' Up!) and you live in the United States, just leave me a comment and I will get right back to you!

Thanks,

Kathryn

"Another Thank You" Card

Back in July I attended Stampin' Up!'s North American convention. As always, it was amazing, and inspiring. One of the classes I attended was a panel of three successful demonstrators who showed us many wonderful projects and fun ideas. One of the demonstrators was Erica Cerwin, and I was so inspired by a project she shared. She had taken a piece of Stampin' Up! Window Sheet and had cut a "wave" from one side to the other. Kind of like a tilda "~", only bigger of course. Then you use your sponge dauber to rub your ink across the split window sheet opening. You move you window sheet up and align it so that you can make a new wave in a lighter color. I used some washi tape to hold it in place as I rubbed my dauber over my cardstock. Her cards were beautiful.

After convention was over and everyone was back home, I was sitting at my desk, cruising the internet for something to create. I came across a challenge that was from TGIFChallenges blog. It was a throw down challenge, but I had never done one before, so I did it wrong, and used supplies that were not part of the challenge. Since I had not done it correctly, I could not enter it into the challenge, but I still loved the card anyway. I was inspired by Erica to create these "waves" of color across the card front. It makes me think of ocean waves and a sunset. Erica did such a beautiful job, and I hope my card does her credit!

Here is my card:

All supplies are from Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted:

Stamp set: Another Thank You

Ink: Pool Party, Hello Honey, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White

Accessories: Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper, Pearls Basic Jewels, Very Vanilla Seam Binding Ribbon, Window Sheets, Sponge Daubers, Tomboy Mono Liquid Glue

I had some problems with my computer about a month ago and had to "erase and re-install" the operating system software. I lost some of my programs that I had used when I would create blog posts, so that is why I have not blogged recently, but I wanted to share this card with you anyway. I am still learning about the new software, but I will keep trying to understand and post for you.

Thanks for checking out my card!
Kathryn

#TGIFCTD03 - Flower Patch Card

I like to do stamping challenges, but I don't always have them done in time, or they aren't quite what the challenge was supposed to be about, or whatever. Anyway, today I actually got one of the challenges done...in time...and it meets all the qualifications posted by those who are issuing the challenge. And I like it! So here it is:

Supplies: All supplies are from Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted:

Stamp Sets: Flower Patch

Inks: Calypso Coral, Pear Pizzazz, Basic Black (Archival)

Cardstock: Whisper White, Pool Party

Accessories: White Tea Lace Paper Doily, Baker's Twine White, Stampin' Sponge, Paper Snips,  Dimensionals, Tombow Liquid Glue

Here is the challenge. You choose at least 4 of the following:

And these are the items you can use if you want, but no other supplies. You know, the basic stuff you keep in your pantry:

I really enjoyed doing this challenge. It made me stretch my imagination to make it look how I wanted. Here are a couple other views. 

 As you can see, I  used the baker's twine, knotted up several times, to create the center of the flower. I really like the dimension that it adds to the flower.

This is a different kind of fold on the card. The Pool Party base is just a single layer of 

5-1/2" x 4-1/4". Then there is another layer of Whisper White that I sponged with the Pear Pizzazz ink to create a mat for the final top Whisper White layer. This is the layer that is folded (on the side) that you open up to write your greeting. I know that there is a bit of fussy cutting, but we were not supposed to use the Big Shot dies to cut out the flowers and leaves.

So, there you have it. My card for the TGIF Challenge blog: #TGIFCTD03

Hope you like it!

Kathryn