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!
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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!
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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!
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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
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