February 2021 Paper Pumpkin Alternates

Hello!  Today I'm sharing my first five alternates using the February Paper Pumpkin Kit "Bouquet of Hope". Another amazing kit and I loved using it. I did finish the kit and will have more cards and another video sharing my alternates in the coming weeks. Today I have a walkthrough of these cards on YouTube: 

This Paper Pumpkin kit came with the supplies to create nine cards, 3 each of three different designs. I ended up making fourteen cards!! I love how generous the supplies are in the Paper Pumpkin kits.

My first card is a pop up card, and I kept the front fairly similar to the sample sheet other than I turned the card from landscape to horizontal. As I said in the video, I chose to only use one of the floral elements to make it more of the focus. The sample card used two.

Inside I used the Rockin' Rectangle Pop Up, a die set by Karen Burniston. For the flowers, I fussy cut a group of blooms from the Field & Flowers paper package which is also from Stampin' Up. I wouldn't have thought to use this paper, but the Paper Pumpkin kit came with a notice saying how well the kit would coordinate with this paper. Since I have a package of the paper, I pulled it out to use with the kit for the majority of my alternate cards.

The Rockin' Rectangle is a very versatile die set, and you can use it to animate all kinds of things and for many different occasions.

Card #2 is a Sympathy Card for my stash and in addition to the patterned papers, I also brought in a pearlized doily and poppy elements (also SU) from my stash. Both items were purchased from the Stampin' Up Clearance Rack awhile ago.

For this card, I turned the rose patterned card 'inside out' and added the sentiment onto a scalloped stitched rectangle. 

Card #3 is another Sympathy Card. Since I didn't think the green print on the lined envelopes went with anything else in the kit, I sacrificed one of them to die cut the stitched panel. That gave me a coordinating card and envelope and I liked it much better than using other items in the kit that didn't really match in my eyes. Ha, I'm really picky about my colours!

The butterfly punch is an older one by Martha Stewart and I still get a lot of use out of it.

Inside, I added a stitched panel, more punched butterflies and a stamped sentiment.

Card #4 is a Shaker Card that I made to send to a seller on Etsy (Mommy Panda Supplies, linked below) who has fun clay slices/sprinkles to use inside shaker cards. She is Canadian seller so you don't need to pay the huge shipping costs to buy them from the USA. Glendy has great customer service as well, and if you end up purchasing from her please let her know you found out about her from me. It's always good for a small business to know where your customers are coming from! (No, I don't get anything for referring her ... but I am so happy with every item I've purchased from her and I love to support Canadian small businesses!).

To create my shaker itself, I used the Circle Window and Frame die and the Circle Shaker Pouch - all from MFT Stamps. NOTE - I kept the rose printed fallaway circle from inside the shaker and used it on one of the cards I'll be sharing in the next video! The 'hello' was cut from white card stock and the shadow from vellum.

I added a sprinkling of butterflies inside and wrote my note on the white panel.

Here is a close up of the butterfly clay slices which were my latest purchase from Glendy (Mommy Panda Supplies on Etsy) and I was tickled to see that I could butt two of the butterflies up to each other and form a full butterfly as well as having the side view ones.

My final Paper Pumpkin alternate is very similar to the first one I shared except that I added that decorated panel to a larger card. This one is 5 x 6-1/2"!

The included Paper Pumpkin stamp set has a lovely bouquet image and I used it around the outer edges of the inside panel. I didn't add a sentiment to this one, as that way I can add one (if needed) when I go to send the card. Otherwise, I can write a note in the white space inside.

I'll be back tomorrow with another three cards (# 6, 7 & 8) and a video with the remaining cards (#9 through 14) next week.

Supplies:   Everything included in the 'Bouquet Of Hope' Paper Pumpkin kit, unless specified below.

Card #1
Shimmer Spray
1089 Rockin Rectangle Pop Up - Karen Burniston
Patterned paper - Flowers & Field, Stampin' Up
Wink of Stella
In Bloom stamps (for envelope) - Stampin' Up
Card size -  standard A2; 4.25 x 5.5"

Card #2
Patterned paper - Flower & Field, Stampin' Up
Gold embossing powder
Blueprints #13 - MFT Stamps
Poppy elements - Stampin' Up
Doily - Stampin' Up
Stitched Mini Scalloped Rectangle - MFT Stamps
Gold gel pen
Water brush
Mini MISTI - My Sweet Petunia
Card size -  standard A2; 4.25 x 5.5"

Card #3
Card stock - stash
*****cut apart envelope
Blueprints #13 - MFT Stamps
gold gel pen
Butterfly punch - Martha Stewart
Larger butterfly punch - Stampin' Up
Sympathy words - Hero Arts (older set)
Gold gel pen
Shimmer Spray
Card size -  standard A2; 4.25 x 5.5"

Card #4
Blueprints #13 - MFT Stamps
Stitched Rectangle die - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Circle Window & Frame die set - MFT Stamps
Circle shaker pouch - MFT Stamps
Card stocks
Acetate
Various shaker filler - stash
Butterfly shaker filler - Mommy Panda Supplies (Etsy)
Vellum
Hello - Hello Friend, Pink & Main
Oh So Ombre patterned paper - Stampin' Up
Butterfly punch - Stampin' Up
Wink of Stella
Shimmer Spray
Card size -  standard A2; 4.25 x 5.5"

Card #5
Card & Envelope - Michaels
Gold gel pen
Crayola marker
Water brush
Card size - 5 x 6.5", fits in the included envelope