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Paper Pumpkin December 2022: Good Things Come in Small Packages

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The December 2022 Paper Pumpkin Kit, a monthly subscription paper-crafting box from Stampin’ Up!, contains all the supplies needed to create 16 of the boxes pictured above, which are perfectly sized to hold most gift cards. In addition to the kit, Stampin’ Up! offered an add-on set of coordinating card bases and envelopes, which are unfortunately now sold out. The kit also comes with a Garden Green Stampin’ Spot mini-inkpad and the 12-piece photopolymer stamp set pictured below.

I really appreciate the versatility of this kit. All the boxes and bellybands are reversible, so if you don’t like one color, you can flip it over and find another color. The coordinating colors are Balmy Blue, Basic Gray, Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral, Crushed Curry, Garden Green, and Tahitian Tide. The kit contained many extra tags and a few decorative elements not pictured above. In addition to the double-sided supplies, the stamp sent has a sentiment for most types of celebrations.

Here are the cards I made with the add-on card bases and butchered boxes and bellybands.

For this first one, I accidentally made a card that pays homage to Microsoft Windows. My daughters were quick to point that out when I showed them the card. I still like it though. Maybe it could be given to a Computer Science graduate starting their first job at Microsoft?

I like the design of this next card because it uses scraps of paper you might otherwise throw away. The inside says Happy Birthday made from the stamps in the set.

My final card uses the clock face from the Timeless Greetings Kit. It’s a little bit of an ominous wedding card, I think.

My stamps only cards are a series of baby cards with little monkeys popping out of brown packages. The insides of the cards are stamped with the Good Things Come in Small Packages sentiment stamp. The monkeys are from retired Stampin’ Up? sent called, Fox & Friends.

April 2021 Paper Pumpkin: So Cool

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It’s July and I’m catching up on my Paper Pumpkin Workshop recaps. This kit is from April but the hot summer months are a perfect time to post about Stampin’ Up’s monthly subscription paper-crafting kit, So Cool. The kit includes all the supplies to make three each of the four card designs pictured above. It also came with additional stickers, coordinating envelopes, a Bermuda Bay mini ink pad, and the seven-piece photopolymer stamp set featuring the images pictured below.

The first thing that came to mind when I saw the sentiments on this stamp set was that if my daughter’s handwriting were made into a font, this would be the font! The youthful feel of this kit provided a perfect avenue for crafting with kids, tweens, and teens.

Since the cards themselves are shaped, I decided that I wanted to put them on backers. I used patterned paper from both the Ice Cream Corner suite featured in the January-June Occasions Catalog, and the Oh So Hombre that was available free with a $50 purchase during Sale-a-Bration. (Although the Sale-a-Bration promotion from earlier in the year is over, there’s another one starting up at the beginning of August.)

For this card, I added a black card base and reworked the supplies already in the kit.

I made two “stamps only” cards. This first one is a fresh and simple one-layer card. My card is colored with alcohol ink markers by Stampin’ Up called Blends, but a person without a plethora of craft supplies, can use any other kind of marker of colored pencil.

My second card features the popsicle stamp.

If you think you might love receiving the monthly subscription-base paper-crafting kit, the Paper Pumpkin, subscribe here. If you’re interested in attending in one of my Paper Pumpkin Workshops, you can find them listed on MeetUp.com under the Bellevue/Redmond Cardmakers group.