Paper Pumpkin Alternates Memorable Meadow March 2024

I had a ton of fun playing with alternates with this month’s kit! I LOVED the daisy print and having the print on both the card front and back meant…cutting it into two and making double the number of cards! I decided to make these cards using the deckled circle dies:

The print was so pretty that I wanted to show it off and NOT cover it up. I loved picking a flower, die cutting it out and framing it with a slightly larger deckled circle in Fresh Freesia to highlight it:

Then I framed the entire print with a layer of Fresh Freesia. The sentiment is from the stamp set in the Paper Pumpkin kit and I tried stamping it with various ink colors and finally settled on heat embossing it in white:

Next, I decided to make some book binding cards and created these:

The following photo shows the card off better so that you can see why it’s called a book binding card design:

And I always embellish the inside of my cards with a stamped image or a scrap of DSP:

And another alternate design I created was a basic easel card and here’s the card closed:

And here’s the card open and propped up:

And a view of card from the side:

I loved this pairing of sentiments from the Lazy Days stamp set and thought it did justice to the beautiful daisies!

I also created a card using the gates from the New Horizon dies but need to take photos of them!

So I’ll end this here for now and hopefully will update it with additional alternates. 

Adorable Spring Baskets for Easter etc. Paper Pumpkin March 2024 Alternative

I always have a treat of some kind at each place setting when I teach a card class and I had been WAITING for spring to make these! I knew I wanted to fill them with a little filler grass on the bottom and add chocolate easter eggs! I used a 6x6” piece of Daffodil Delight card stock and I scored a “grid” using my paper trimmer by scoring at 2” and 4” then rotating the paper 90 degrees and repeating the scoring.  This created a “tic tac toe” design of score lines. Then I cut the top 2 and bottom 2 score lines from the edges to the middle and folded the cut edges over and glued them angled and overlapping partially to form a basket! The handle is a  8.5” x .5” strip of card stock. I then cut some of the checkered green and white,  and some checkered pink and white from the March 2024 Paper Pumpkin kit and adhered them to the sides that were folded over. These squares measure 1.75x 1.75”. I added 2-3 punched medium daisies as a focal to the basket…and how cute they turned out! Oh I also used a corner trimmer to round out the corners. Here’s  a close up:

I put a snack size package of gummies, Hershey chocolate eggs and a couple of kisses in each and set them at each seat! They were super cute and a ton of fun to make! I hope you try…if not for Easter, how about Mother’s Day…??

Thanks for stopping by…have a wonderful day!