I have been a Paper Pumpkin subscriber and fan for many years now!  This subscription service provides a creativity project completely boxed up and delivered to your doorstep once a month or every once in a while – your choice!  You can do the kit exactly as is and follow the full color brochure of instructions or watch the video above that is posted monthly or go off on your own and create away!

These first three images are the cards that are designed for the kit you can make 9 cards three of each design. What is a great deal for $22 and you get an acrylic block on your first order and a stamp set and Stampin’ Spot with every order to reuse again and again! great for beginners and every month I will post alternative projects  – today I will post a total of 17 ideas and will end up making 40 cards from this kit! An even more amazing deal and now I have plenty of sympathy cards which unfortunately I have been in need of more these days.

I accidently did this one on the Mossy Meadow base card instead of the Rococco Rose base, so I already started going my own way!  I actually like it better on the Mossy Meadow!

These next images are alternative projects I added Basic White Cardstock and a couple of different ribbons and more quadrupled my card total! I also cut apart my envelopes to use the DSP liners so I will need 40 basic white envelopes to complete the cards.

The cards that come in the kit are colored front and back so I cut the Mossy Meadow card base to 4′ x 5 1/4″ and layered onto a Basic white Card base and added the gold foil and sentiment – Easy! Save the 1/4″ strips I use those too!

I used the envelope dsp by cutting the sides off the envelopes and opening it up and cutting the DSP into strips and triangles. Here I used a 1″ strip of the Bumble Bee DSP and a small accent of the 1/4 ” strip from one of the cut card bases. I stamped the sentiment on a Basic White scrap and embellished behind the words with the black sticker word die cuts in French and german that i knew I would not use! I added a few black sequins from the kit and some Bumble Bee Ribbon and another card complete!

Staring with a Basic White card base – I cut the Rococco Rose card base into 2 – 4″ x 5 1/4″ pieces and adhered that to the card base.  I used one die cut flower an edge of the vellum and popped up my sentiment.  Added a few sequins and an easy card!

I cut all four sides off of the vellum piece and used the two long sides to border a 2″ strip of Basic White cardstock offset the sentiment and added a few stamped images from the set, some Fine Art Ribbon and sequins to finish it off!

Using the vellum that I trimmed, I added the sticker Thinking of you sentiment – stretched my flower by cutting it in half and adding it to the top and bottom of the sentiment image and the card is done!

After cutting the Merry Merlot card base into 2 pieces of 4″ x 5 1/4″ – I cut the one piece in half again to 2″ x 5 1/4″ and used it on the following two cards! I cut the gold foil embellishment in half and used one on each card and added a sentiment. This first card is on Basic White card stock with a Fine Art ribbon added.

Most of the same ingredients as the card before but by cust adding a coordinating layer underneath it totally changes the look of the card!

A Rococco Rose mat with the bouquet embellishment and a sentiment popped up on dimensionals with a few black sequins!

The next two cards I had fun playing with the smaller parts and pieces leftover!  It is a great creative exercise to expand you mind and creativity!

The next two cards are using pieces of the envelope DSP this first one uses the DSP from the envelope flap cut into a triangle and then in half for smaller triangles – I made several of this pattern!

This card I used the Banner Triple Punch to cut the ends of differnet widths of DSP – added a sentiment on a 2″ Circle punch and one black sequins and another easy card done!

I used a 3″ piece of envelope DSP and a bouquet embellishment popped up on dimensionals. I also popped up the sentiment and added several sequins!

I lined the 3″ piece of Rococco Rose DSP with the 1/4″ strips from the base card (see nothing goes to waste!) and popped a sentiment for a sweet soothing sympathy card.

Probably the easiest of the alternative projects and my favorite after chopping off the two sides of the vellum I added the black sticker die cut and a few sequins! If you like this set and these projects and do not already subscribe to Paper Pumpkin – this kit is available to order until the 10th of this month.  If there are left overs they will appear on the customer odering page after the 23rd of this month but if you need sympathy and thinking of you cards this is a great set and there are no guarantees they will be available after the 10th!  I have several links to my paper pumpkin page on the website – just click on the link below and start creating today!