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Paper Pumpkin Alternative – Mailbox Treats!

Posted on February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 by debjoysmeak

Mailboxes are especially cute because we send cards. And when we get to make tiny ones and fill them with candy and deliver a mailbox…gah, adorable. We had fun on the Live today making these little treats, even though my camera wouldn’t orient the correct way! We powered through and made it work anyway. You can view the video here on YouTube:

Here are the mailbox measurements:

Patterned paper: 5-1/2″ x 3-1/4″, scored at 1/2″ on each shorter side

Plain coordinating Cardstock: 6″ x 5-1/2″

1. Place the plain cardstock in the trimmer with the 5-1/2″ side up and cut at 3/4″, set aside strip.

2. Rotate to 6″ side up and cut at 3″. You’ll have 2 equal pieces, set one aside.

3. Place one piece on the 4-3/4″ side up and cut at 3-1/4″. Discard cut off.

4. Turn same back to 3″ side up and cut at 1-1/2″ to get two equal pieces at 1-1/2 x 3-1/4″

5. Bring back other 4-3/4″ x 3″ and score on all sides at 3/4″

6. Cut flaps and notch them. Cut them on the long side so they tuck into the sides and not the front of the box.

7. Add adhesive to flaps and assemble box.

8. Bring back 3/4″ strip with 6″ side up. Score at 1/2″, and then move over to almost 1-1/4″ and cut. This is the front pull tab.

9. Cut two more pieces at 1/2″ to create two sides of the flag.

10. Rotate short side up and cut a strip at 1/4″

11. Trim this 1/4″ piece to 2″, this is the flag pole.

12. Assemble according to video. 🙂

I used Poppy Parade as my cardstock color along with the January 2021 Paper Pumpkin Kit – Sending Hearts and the optional add on. Email me at debjoysmeak@delightofmyart.com with any questions, to request a catalog or to be added to the email list. Join me on Facebook or YouTube at Delight of my Art.

Happy stamping!

Paper Pumpkin – February 2018 alternatives

Posted on February 24, 2018February 24, 2018 by debjoysmeak

I recently did my first Facebook live video to unwrap my February 2018 Paper Pumpkin. I was thrilled with the beautiful flowers in the kit. They were photographic flower stickers! So beautiful. So I made sure to sit down and do some alternatives with the stamps and embellishments in the kit. As I was looking at the kit it dawned on me that there are SO MANY letter stickers. What can we spell with these?! I looked it up online and there were over 1000 words with just one of each of the words! Whoa. I glanced through the list and wrote down the ones that I feel were the most usable for cards. I’ll attach this list below. Then I picked a few of those words to play around on a few alternative cards. I tried to pick words that would also pair with the other stamps from this kit. This is what I came up with!

For the blue card I used the Pool Party and Night of Navy Blends on the ‘rock’ letters and colored the guitars from Epic Celebrations from Sale-a-bration with Night of Navy, Bermuda Bay, Pool Party, Ivory and Crumb Cake Blends. All images are stamped in Night of Navy and I used a few of the berry vellum twigs and the natural twine from the kit as accents.

For the yellow card I used the Daffodil Delight Blends on the ‘honey’ letters, stamped in Daffodil Delight on a Sahara Sand banner cut from cardstock, although you could use a bit off one of the card bases from the kit. I so wish I had a bee stamp to go on the bottom of the flower panel going toward the flower on the bottom right! There are two great bee stamps in the catalog that would go wonderfully with this: Touches of Texture (page 152 annual) and Dragonfly Dreams (page 138 annual). I think the Touches of Texture one would work best, since it is a smaller bee. I really want that set…it’s going on my list! I also used the Hexagons embossing folder on Daffodil Delight cardstock and added embellishments from the kit. I love how it turned out!

For the green card I used Crumb Cake Blends on the ‘beautiful’ letters and stamped ‘friend’ in Crumb Cake on Sahara Sand cardstock. The Old Olive DSP is from the Petal Garden DSP Paper Stack. I also used light Old Olive Blends on the leaf sticker’s background so it would blend into the background more. I like how the flower stickers look like they’re in a bunch behind the panel, overflowing onto the card.

I think my favorite is the pink one. We can always use great teacher cards! I was ecstatic to see that the letters could spell ‘teacher.’ I wanted to play with pink so I chose the back of the mini hearts from the Painted With Love Specialty DSP Paper. To get the shape I traced the hole from the flower sheet on the green card onto the back of the pink piece I wanted to use. Then I fussy cut it out. This would work for the other thicker shape too if you don’t already have the Lots of Labels Framelits (another thing that is on my list…my long list). I outlined the letters using the Melon Mambo Stampin’ Write Marker. You can either get it from the Brights collection or the whole marker set Many Marvelous Markers. I used Melon Mambo for all the stamping and put the ‘teacher’ banner up on dimensionals, like the other cards. This one uses a Melon Mambo base with one of the provided card front pieces. We do want to celebrate the awesomeness of our teachers!

So I hope you like these alternative options to this kit. Here is the word list that I thought was helpful. Notice ‘unicorn’ is on there!! Somebody better do something cool with that one and send it to me! 😀 If you would like to order any of the extra materials I used you may click on the picture at the bottom of this post. Have a great day guys!

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Gold Embossed Leaves – Sept. 2017 Paper Pumpkin Alternative

Posted on September 26, 2017 by debjoysmeak

It’s time to be thankful! I love the gorgeous colors on the trees this time of year. And while it is almost 90 for one more day, tomorrow promises to be much cooler. I am getting a little excited to wear my hoodies again.

This card is made using the September Paper Pumpkin kit stamps. The leaf stamps are so pretty! And I realized the shape of the beautiful gold foil stickers matches the leaf from the Colorful Seasons stamp set from the catalog. I have been eyeing that one for a while, because it covers all four seasons quite wonderfully. And I am thrilled to have received these leaf stamps in this kit, along with the nice fall ink color Cajun Craze.

For these cards I took a Crumb Cake base card and stamped the smaller leaf all over the front in Crumb Cake ink for a tone on tone look. The card on the left is using cutout shapes from the kit and the one on the right was created just by using the stamps and cardstock from the catalog. For the small leaf I just embossed gold on Early Espresso cardstock and fussy cut it out. The tag was copied from the kit using Whisper White cardstock at 3/4″ x 1 5/8″, cut at the corners and hold punched. Then I laid the bottom onto my Versamark ink pad and embossed that part with gold embossing powder, then repeated that for a nice thick solid band.

To create the rainbow leaf I used Shimmery White cardstock (excellent for watercoloring). I embossed the large leaf stamp in gold embossing powder and heat set it. Then I stamped 4 colors along my F acrylic block, like a paint palette. I used Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Cajun Craze and Real Red. Using the aquapainter I wet the image and then added color to it. Since the paper was wet, each color blended nicely with the next. I did wipe off the brush tip between colors so the colors on the palette didn’t blend. I painted well outside the outline so that when I fussy cut the large leaf there would be no white border.

For the inside of the card I used an image from the Bunch of Blossoms stamp set that says, “Thank you very much.” It showed up well in Cajun Craze on the Crumb Cake cardstock, without having to add a white insert like you would with darker card bases.

Here is a YouTube tutorial on making this card.

tams# 16338

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3-Month Prepaid Paper Pumpkin Subscription

$59.00

Bunch Of Blossoms Photopolymer Stamp Set

$21.00

Crumb Cake 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock

$8.00

Early Espresso 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock

$8.00

Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock

$9.00

Shimmery White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock

$8.00

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin’ Pad

$6.50

Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad

$6.50

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin’ Pad

$6.50

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin’ Pad

$6.50

Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad

$6.50

Aqua Painters

$17.00

Versamark Pad

$8.50

Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder

$5.00

Embossing Buddy

$6.00

Heat Tool

$30.00

SNAIL Permanent Adhesive

$7.00

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May 2017 Paper Pumpkin Alternate Thankful card

Posted on June 6, 2017 by debjoysmeak

I get so excited when I get the email that my Paper Pumpkin box is in the mail on its way to me. I get even more excited when I see that orange box in my mailbox. For those of you that don’t know, Paper Pumpkin is a monthly subscription crafting kit. You can purchase single months, prepay for 3, 6 or 12 months or even just pay by the month. You can even gift a subscription (or a single box) to someone! They make great gifts. They are all inclusive, which means there are instructions, all the pre-cut and pre-scored cardstock, ink spot(s), stamps, all the embellishments and adhesives and your first kit comes with a free acrylic block! They are super portable so you could bring one on vacation or gift one to someone at the hospital. Bring one along while you wait for your child at dance class or bring one to a family gathering for the kids to try out. The possibilities are endless!

As I said, each box comes with instructions…but you don’t have to follow the instructions!! Get creative and think outside the orange box! Here I have made an alternate project using a few additional products found at the bottom of this post.

Paper Pumpkin kits are always a surprise and you usually are not able to order them after they ship to the subscribers. So in order to not miss out on anything, subscribe right away. Link to a 3-month prepaid is below OR you could save 25% if you are a new subscriber to the monthly subscription (pay by the month). This promo only lasts for a few more short days!! Sign up by June 10, 2017 to save on your first 3 months by using the promo code STARTHERE. To sign up for a monthly subscription just go to paperpumpkin.com and click on subscribe up at the top left. Just make sure to choose your demonstrator on the next page. I would love to be your demonstrator, if you’ll have me, or if you already have a demonstrator please be loyal to them. (Note – The list of products below shows the kit used here, but you are not going to be able to order it if you didn’t already by the 10th of the month before. Sign up by June 10th to get June’s mystery kit! What will it be?!)

Here is the link to the YouTube tutorial: Typed instructions are below.

Cut a piece of 8.5″ x 11″ Powder Pink cardstock in half and fold to create a landscape card. Cut a 2″ x just under 4″ strip of the included striped brown bag, including the decorative edge. Cut a 4″ piece of burlap ribbon.

Stamp the included tiny flower stamp in Powder Pink ink diagonally across the card front. Take out the dots from It’s a Sara Thing Paper Pumpkin kit. Stamp them in the included Soft Suede ink, stamp off on scrap paper and then stamp diagonally across card front. Stamp Thankful For You sentiment on included white tag in Soft Suede ink.

Adhere a Delicate White Doily to the left of the card using snail adhesive or the included adhesive dots. Adhere the bag strip on top of that so that just a bit of the doily peeks out the left side. Adhere the Burlap Ribbon using Fast Fuse or Tear and Tape. Place included dimensionals on the back of the tag. Place on top of the ribbon.

Tie a bow with the included gold twine. Adhere to card using a Mini Glue Dot. Place a few of the included pearls, sprinkled along the diagonal movement of the background. All done!

tams# 13812

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3-Month Prepaid Paper Pumpkin Subscription

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$59.00