June 2021 Paper Pumpkin: Expressions of Color

The June 2021 Paper Pumpkin kit, Expressions of Color, featured cards with a quietly joyful and serene feel to them. The flowers are not too frilly and the color palette is soft without being sickly. The kit included all the supplies to create the cards pictured above (three each of three designs). The kit includes the 11-piece photopolymer stamp set pictured below and two mini ink pads, one in Bumblebee and the other in Evening Evergreen. Stampin’ Up’s Paper Pumpkin kits usually only come with one mini ink pad, so the additional one was a special treat.

I love creating alternative designs with my Paper Pumpkin supplies and I offer a monthly workshop featuring that month’s kit. The class favorite alternative design for the month of June was the one in the following picture. I made this card with minimal additional supplies, a white card base and a Blackberry Bliss sponged onto the back of the vellum with the word Thanks on it. The center tag is cut using Stampin’ Up’s Stitched So Sweetly die set, but the card would also look great with a rectangle cut from the designer paper as well.

Here’s a slideshow of a few other cards I made, some of them inspired by other cardmakers’ creations.

The last project at my Paper Pumpkin workshops always features a card that doesn’t use any of the other design elements in the kit. It’s something to make after you’ve used up everything in the kit and are just left with stamps and ink. I like this card because it has a whimsical feel to it.

Additional Products

Check out my blog post on what simple supplies you can keep on hand to easily make the most out of your Paper Pumpkin kit.

Subscribe with me so you can enjoy your own Paper Pumpkin, a monthly subscription paper-crafting kit by Stampin’ Up.

Attend one of my workshops, which found on MeetUp.com in the Bellevue/Redmond Cardmakers group.

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