Alternate Designs Paper Pumpkin December 2023 Kit All The Best

It took me a while to start with this kit but once I did, it created sooooo many cards! Here’s the 6 different designs I’ve made so far, with still some components left to use!

Paper Pumpkin Dec 2023 Alternative Designs

I’ll start with the bottom row since those are most like the kit’s original designs. The bottom left card is a Z-Fold. The original card base was cut into two, trimmed down slightly and mounted on Balmy Blue card stock. Then it was adhered to a Basic White card base that was folded into a Z-Fold base. I made 5 of these cards and gave them away with the original printed envelope. 

Alternate design: Z-Fold Dec 2023 Paper Pumpkin All the Best

In the center card design, I cut the card base in half again, trimmed 1/4” off each side and mounted it on a standard A2 card base. I made 2 or 3 of these pretty much as the kit intended, except for the sentiment and being mounted on a white card base!

I remembered seeing a Pinterest pin where someone had used the Deckled Circle die on the envelope to partially cut the flower from the envelope front. (At this point I had 4 envelopes to play with.) I thought that it looked neat and a bit different. I opted to add a stamped and adhered sentiment instead of stamping directly on the circle panel. The card base was again cut into two and trimmed down slightly to be glued to a Basic White card base.

Alternate Design Paper Pumpkin Dec 2023 Deckled Circle

By this time, I was a little “done” with the blue and white cards, having made 8 or so of them. So the cards on the top row purposely didn’t use any blue! If you’ve been counting, I had 3 envelopes left at this point. The flower was die cut from one envelope using the Deckled Rectangles dies. I put that on an Old Olive mat one rectangle size larger, added some twine, and adhered it on a Daffodil Delight panel that had been dry embossed with the Exposed Brick embossing folder. A few light green gems finished off this card design and I made 3 of these!

Paper Pumpkin Alternate Card design Dec 2023

I loved the gold panels that came with this kit and purposely left them for last. I decided to adapt them to an Asian theme and cut each of the three panels into two. Then I chose two different patterns of Japanese Washi paper to be the background for each card:

 

Paper Pumpkin Dec 2023 Alternate Designs Asian

I couldn’t quite decide if I was going to angle the Distressed Gold mats or align it straight with the gold flower panels so I did both on the black Washi panels, but decided to only angle it on the red Washi design. There were 3 red cards and 3 black ones in the end. Oh and I embossed the gold flower panels with the Textured Textile embossing folder. Here’s a closeup:

Paper Pumpkin Dec 2023 Alternate Design Asian

And believe it or not, I thought the embossing on the actual flower itself didn’t look great so I used my bone folder to gently flatten out some of the embossing!! I left it on the background though as that’s what I wanted…a little bit of texture!

And I have extra pieces still left that I can create more cards with! But I think I need to stop here and move on to the many projects I want to work on next.

I hope you are inspired… Thanks for stopping by…have a wonderful day