Lots of Pun coming in December!

 

December's Lots of Pun Kit from Paper Pumpkin looks like it is going to be loads of fun! 

 

The kit contains enough elements to create 9 cards—3 each of 3 designs—and 9 coordinating envelopes. This all-inclusive kit includes printed card bases, die-cut paper pieces, embellishments, adhesive, and more!

 

The Lots of Pun Stamp Set is a builder stamp set! This means the included images can be mixed and matched to build a variety of unique characters with different looks and features.

• Card size: 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" (10.8 x 14 cm)
• Envelope size: 4-1/2" x 5-3/4" (11.4 x 14.6 cm)
• Coordinating colors: Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso, Granny Apple Green, Pool Party, Poppy Parade
• Includes a Classic Stampin’ Spot

 Order yours here before December 10th to play along!

If you order your Paper Pumpkin through my link you can either bring it with you and join us in person or via Facebook 'room' on my page for the Paper Pumpkin Club class where we create projects with it together! 

 

Happy Stampin'

 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

 

 

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Make your Dies go even further!

Love when I come across a good tip - thank you to Gail Ellis for this one “I have a great tip today for those that don't already know ....  are you looking for a die to trim one of the long greetings and you don't have one the size you want? 

Simply grab one of the larger Stitched Rectangles and die-cut the image...

 then line up the edge and die-cut again

 ... one perfectly die-cut long greeting.

Mind blown 🤯 🤯 🤯 such a simple solution and I love that it gives you that lovely stitched texture 💕

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Love Inspired Stamp a Stack

Card showcase from yesterday’s Love inspired Stamp A Stack!

First card we made featured the Love you to pieces stamp set for the sentiment, the Detailed Hearts Die and the Stitched Be Mine Hearts dies

 

 With this card we did a little stepped up fun with sponging the rainbow on the whisper white cardstock prior to die cutting in order to create the rainbow effect on the heart!

 

Our second card used the 'leftover pieces' from the first cards diie cut because well reduce, reuse recycle is our motto here ... paired with the Butterfly Wishes sentiment and the hearts punch pack from the current mini catty.

Our third card was a lovely clean and simple card design featuring the From My Heart DSP which pairs lovely with the Hearts Punch pack. Love the combo of the Flirty Flamingo with the Real Red and the pop of black! Did you know that you can create any coordinating color of rhinestone gems by coloring them with our Blends? So here we colored the rhinestones with the black blend to get the pop of black sparkle on the card!  

Our fourth card was also a quick and simple card that features the floral image from January's Paper Pumpkin kit exclusive stamp set paired with the heart doilies and the stamp set from the From My Heart Bundle and the smaller punch from the Heart Pack punch.

And our final card design was inspired by the Crackle Paint stamp set and used the Dandelion Wishes sentiment as well as made use of the 'little hearts' from the Detailed hearts die from another project - yes I am a paper hoarder and tend to save everything for some future use!

I did use a little splash of glitter on this one - you can color the Sparkle Glimmer paper like the rhinestones by sponging with a coordinating ink - so this mint macaroon glimmer paper that is now retired can easily be recreated with a little bit of ink and a sponge!

Stamp a Stacks are a lot of fun and a great way for you to create a stash of cards for loved ones for upcoming occasions - these cards were Love themed for use for Valentines, Anniversary or Wedding or those Just Because occasions! Participants get to make 10 cards total 2 of each design!

For more details in Stamp A Stack workshops please check out my website under the events tab!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Tie Dye Technique class samples

Good afternoon crafters - here are the cards participants made at our Thursday night Tie Die technique class.

Our first card and 'reference / practice' sample features  Coffee Cups framelits currently on the Clearance rack as well as the sentiment from the Gangs all Meer from Sale-abration in a color palette of Granny Apple Green and Night of Navy!

Second card features the Dressed to Impress stamp and die bundle paired with Granny Apple green and Lovely Lipstick color palette!

Our final card features the Under my Umbrella stamp and punch bundle and a color palette of Flirty Flamingo, Calypso Coral and Slate Grey - this was also the card use

The tie die technique is a lovely quick background technique that gives a nice layer of dimension and pop of colors for your projects! Fellow demonstrator Kelly Jolley did an amazing video tutorial for it so rather than recreate one I will just share hers here for you if you'd like to try at home on your own.

If you'd like to join us for a monthly techqnue class check out the events section on the website.  

Happy Stampin'

Margaret
Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
Be Totallyawake4-life

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Alternative Treat Bag

When you think “Outside the Box” with the Paper Pumpkin you can make use of features that you think you might not use into things you WILL - so this is an example of how you can turn the treat bag into a card if you’re more inclined to use a card than a treat bag!

I carefully cut the seams with my craft knife and than trimmed it up on edges and to the size desired. The photo light never catches the gorgeous foiling properly but it is a lovely shimmering delight!  

Current Paper Pumpkin subscribers are invited to bring their kits along come play with their box at January’s kit class ... those wanting to check out Paper Pumpkin without the subscription are invited to come play with one of my kits - check out the event page on my website for more class details!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Paper Pumpkin Outside the Box cards

Two cute cards created from 1 card base and a couple kit embellishments from January's 'Bee Ours' Paper Pumpkin kit.

I used the Heart pack punch duo to punch the two  hearts from the centre of the front and back of the 3x3 card base and than used my mini paper cutter to carefully cut the two parts of base apart along the crease and than shaved off a wee bit from the white side of base to create two different layered looks for the cards!

Than I used the mint macaroon and coordinating rose rococo inks to stamp images from stamp set. Plus the Blends are perfect for colouring rhinestones to create coordinating gems for any project 💕

I also reused my Hey, Friend sentiment stamp set from the Something for Everything December Kit - the Paper Pumpkin kits can be used over and over again and are a great way to build your stamp collection!

Current Paper Pumpkin subscribers are invited to bring their kits along come play with their box at January’s kit class ... those wanting to check out Paper Pumpkin without the subscription are invited to come play with one of my kits - check out the event page on my website for more class details!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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'Bee Ours' January Paper Pumpkin Kit

Playing with the January Paper Pumpkin Kit “Bee Ours” ... love the fun colour palette of Crushed Curry, Highland Heather, Mint Macaroon and Rococo Rose! 

The treat bags are perfect to house gift cards, hot chocolate packs, a couple of your favourite tea bags or for the paper crafter lovers some embellishments! Perfect for Valentines but also for treat bags for birthday, bridal or baby showers as well or just because random acts of kindness in someone’s lunch box or desk!

The stamp set is just adorable for many occasions and I have lots of outside the box design ideas dancing through my head to make next!!! The fact that this kit coordinates with the Heart Punch pack plus the little Bee stamps and sentiment beg for the  Golden Honey DSP from Saleabration lends to LOTS of possibilities for projects 💕💕💕

I will be using inspirations from this kit at this months Stamp a Stack to help show customers how much fun it is to play with the Paper Pumpkin subscription kits!

Check back on Instagram, Facebook or my blog for my “outside the box” Paper Pumpkin alternatives!

Happy Stampin' 

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

January Paper Pumpkin quick view

I haven’t had a chance to play with mine yet so sharing the corporate video teaser ... these are just so I cute!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret
Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
Be Totallyawake4-life 

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January's Paper Pumpkin box reveal

Whoot whoot this Paper Pumpkin kit is so stinking cute! Makes 10 3x3 cards with coordinating envelopes PLUS 20 mini treatbags for the upcoming Valentine season or they can be used for gift cards or other small offerings to loved ones! 

I love the exclusive stamp set that came with it! The imagines coordinates with so many of our other products which is awesome - I will be making some alternative projects with some of our DSP that I think will go amazing with this stamp set so check back!

If you’ve subscribed to January’s paper pumpkin your also welcome to bring your box and come play with me at the end of month - check my website for class dates!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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New Coordinating Product Release

Mark your calendars for these goodies coming to the website February 1st ... I know I personally love the option of coordinating dies because fussy cutting is hard on my ole eyes! 

Happy Stampin'

Margaret
Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
Be Totallyawake4-life

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What's better than a box full of puppies?

Seriously how adorable are these puppies? 

I apologize for coming across like one of those friends on a new diet and all I can talk about is how much I love my new diet ... but the Paper Pumpkin is SO much fun I just want everyone to have fun with me! 

Look at the additional rewards you can get by choosing to get a prepaid subscription to Paper Pumpkin .... that is a LOT of added value in FREE product alone! Plus remember with the subscription bundle you also get discounted rate 'per box' so that you earn your 12th box for free!

 With prepaid subscriptions you can still 'pause' your subscription if you are going to be too busy and want to skip a month and pick it up again next month! 

What are you waiting for? Sign up for yours today and activate before January 10th because you do not want to miss out on January's surprise box - it sounds fantastic and I am so excited to play with mine!

Happy Stampin' 

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Outside the Box - Paper Pumpkin Scrapbook Edition

OK - if you've been following along with Decembers Inside and Outside the box posts than this is the final way of how you can use your Paper Pumpkin to play outside the box ... I just LOVE how far I have been able to stretch my box so far. I have made the 3 card designs that came in the box, I created 3 more card designs with some add bases from my stash plus playing with my stash and than I made the right hand side of my coordinating layout below using the remaining card bases I dissected from the box and some add on products from my stash.  Plus I still have 6 cards based and coordinating envelops left in my paper Pumpkin box to play with at future date!

The right side page was inspired by a challenge by the Scrapbook Nerds and Friends group on Facebook designed by the lovely Milena! I used my Lily pad stamp, dies and coordinating designer series paper from the Sale-abration as well as some leftover strips of card base and embellishments from the December Paper Pumpkin.

The second pocket page was inspired as my desire to use up the remnants from my 3 'outside the box' Paper Pumpkin cards and than because I have crafting OCD and need my left and right page to coordinate I crossed over design features with some add on from the Lily Pad stamps, dies and coordinating designer series paper!

Together I think they are just stunning .... next I need to get off my butt and print my actual gardening photos and add them to complete my project but I was too excited to share them. Yes I tend to often scrapbook backwards to other people as I wait to print my photos until my design is finished so I know what size I want them to be! So these photos will be 2x3 in size to allow me to show off lots of gardening photos from our first attempt at a vegetable garden this past summer!

 If you ever wanting someone to crop with I offer a mini crop the last Sunday of each month - would love to have you come out and join the craft table!

Happy Scrappin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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December’s Paper Pumpkin - Inside the Box

I love waiting for the Paper Pumpkin to arrive ... it is like being a child again where you buy those 'surprise bags' of candy at the store and anxious await until you can get some place to open it up and dump it out and see what goodies you landed! Decembers did not disappoint - you can see here how the kits come in the mail, contents and this months quick stunning designs coming together!

 

 Card 1

 

Card 2

Card 3

Quick easy and stunning - perfectly relaxing way to spend tie in the craftroom!

 If you would like to check out the Paper Pumpkin starting January I will be offering Paper Pumpkin classes! A great way to 'try before you subscribe' as well as for subscribers to make their Paper Pumpkin more 'social' by creating kits together!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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