Painted Petals - Paper Pumpkin alternate designs August 2024

Here I go again…getting a kit and loving it but…wanting to do my own thing with the components. To me, it’s not about making the most cards out of the kit (it usually makes 8 -10 cards) but mostly about doing something different with them. But this time, I did both and made 18 cards from the kit.

The Paper Pumpkin kit from August 2024 originally made 9 cards. But  by using the elements slightly differently than originally designed, I created 18 cards, 3 each of the following 6 designs:

 

Three of the designs use the identical sketch, using a front panel that is overlaid on the card front.  I love this design and use it often.  Here I've used different color schemes based on the printed focals:  

 

And the inside of each looks similar to this: 

The last 3 designs are based on the original plan for the cards in this Paper Pumpkin kit, with a few customizations of course: 

Thanks for stopping by. If you have this kit and haven't used it yet, I hope my cards inspire you to get the kit off the shelf and onto the crafting table. Have an awesome day!

Spring cards Paper Pumpkin December 2023 & March 2023 alternates & mashup

As you can imagine, I’ve collected quite a few unfinished cards over the years, as well as unfinished card kits. These are affectionately known as “PhD’s”….Projects Half Done!! LOL Lately I’ve been trying to finish those projects up… add sentiments where needed and combine leftover pieces with items in my stash to finish a kit up. 

Recently, I pulled a very springtime kit out and looked at all the leftover pieces. The December 2023 “All The Best“ card kit was so cheery with its blue card fronts, yellow florals and light green foliage. I had made a bunch of cards with the kit way back when it came out, then put the rest of the kit away for a rainy day. Ahem. I guess today was that rainy day! So I pulled everything out, and made these from the card base fronts from the kit, plus leftover floral and label pieces:

I created the sentiments by combining words from different stamp sets since I didn’t really have any spring time greetings (other than Easter!) 

In the next set of photos,  I used the back side of the original card base (which was plain blue) as my background. I embossed panels for more background interest (from the cut up envelopes), added some die cuts to fill empty spaces (tiny  leaves from the Heart Shaped Bundle) and finished off with a few jewels.

And last but not least , I made an Easter card by stamping the pot and lilies from the March 2023 Paper Pumpkin kit. I used the last of the original plain blue card base back half and embossed another white panel from yet another envelope. I stamped the greeting from the retired Easter Bunny stamp set, but it was a single line stamp so I stamped the left half then the right half so that it fit better on the banner label from the kit. I’m amazed that I didn’t botch that!  Then I added a small piece of the original card front was tucked under the pot/greeting (because I could) and I added a die cut from Spring Bloom Dies to the lower left corner.

I did warn you that this was a mash up of various sets from the last several years, didn’t I? LOL And yes I had to pull back some older sets I had been thinking of downsizing away! Oh well…

Thanks for stopping by…Have a wonderful day!

3"x3" cards over the years

I often make 3"x3" or 2.5"x3.5" cards and include them as little "thank you's" with orders I get at my Etsy shop.  And over the years, I've made a lot of them! So I thought I'd share a few. 

These were made using the Daffodil Afternoon Designer Series Paper  on an embossed Distressed Brick panel. I LOVE the little dragonfly accent!! I often use a mini dragonfly or a tiny butterfly to jazz up the little cards: 

And these are made with the Fitting Florets DSP. Can you see the Decorative Circle punch of vellum behind the fussy cut flowers? I wanted a little something to separate the florals from the background, but not anything that solidly blocked the background either...

And these cuties are from the Penguin Playmates DSP pack:

I found these on my Instagram account (KikumiDesigns) and snagged a few screenshots of some older designs. These were made using prints from the Ornate Garden DSP pack. These little "book binding" cards are so perfect for using up scraps of printed paper:

The top card below is also from the Ornate Garden DSP pack (it's my fave of them all) and the one below was from Berry Delightful DSP pack:

And these were made with the Forever Fern DSP. That DSP sampler card kit was super popular and flew out the door of my shop!

I'll post others as I find the photos, or make new ones! Thanks for stopping by...