I'm Paper Pumpkin . . .
I come to your door each month (a fully decked-out creativity carriage). I'll help you to escape your life with some paper fun.
I come in a sweet box, but you'll really love what you find on the inside:
All the stamps, ink, paper, and accessories to create pinable projects. Create stuff like cards, journals, décor, and more!
Paper Pumpkin by Stampin' Up! is a new monthly kit program that anyone (even you) can enjoy!
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Are you getting my stamping newsletters? I send out a main email newsletter at the beginning of every month and another mid-month just as a reminder of whatever Stampin' Up! special offers are available or expiring. The main newsletter has plenty of papercrafting projects you can try or be inspired by to create something yourself.
Sign up to be on my Stamping With Karen Mailing List for my newsletters and notification of any extra news I feel is important during the month. And at Christmas we have the "12 Weeks of Christmas" with ideas to help you with your holiday crafting and gift-giving. You can fill out the form at the top of my blog or you can click here for the form.
After you sign up, within minutes, you should receive an email asking you to confirm your subscription. Please open this and click on the link inside immediately so you won't forget! Then you will get a Welcome email with a link to your Free Gift!
My mid-month email will be going out next week! Who knows what Stampin' Up! news there will be by then in this 25th anniversary year?! You don't want to miss a thing! Be sure you are on my Mailing List!
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When is Mother's Day? Yes, Mother's Day is this Sunday, May 12th!
Here are some quotes about mothers that perhaps you can use in your cards or projects for your mother.
A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love. – Anonymous
A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done. – Anonymous
A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go. – Anonymous
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.- By Tenneva Jordan
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. – By Emily Dickinson
A mother understands what a child does not say. – Jewish proverb
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. – By Abraham Lincoln
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. – By Jewish Proverb
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. – By Kate Douglas Wiggin
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. Anonymous
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – By Theodore Hesburgh
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I hope you enjoyed these sayings about mothers and that they help you with your Mother's Day card or Mother's Day gift or project.
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My Mother's Day card is stamped with Pleasant Poppies (a large background stamp) in Stazon Black Ink. The flowers and stems are colored in with Calypso Coral and Tangerine Tango Stampin' Write Markers using an Aqua Painter and just the markers themselves. As a final touch I spritzed the card with Gold Glow Smooch Spritz. I think you can see it in the photo.
Stampin' Up! Demonstrators receive a magazine from Stampin' Up! every other month packed with stamping and papercrafting ideas and Stampin' Up! news and offers. We all can't WAIT to receive our Stampin' Success Magazine when it comes out! In paging through some recent issues, I found this idea that jumped out at me…design your own designer paper! On the left you see a sheet of the Patio Party Designer Series Paper…and on the right you see the same paper with the polka dots stamped with a small heart from the stamp set Itty Bitty Bits. Just a fun and different kind of idea and easy to do!
You can purchase the Patio Party Designer Series Paper while supplies last at a discount in the Retirement Sale at my Stampin' Up! Online Store. As I've said before, it's a paper I didn't use very much but have grown to love!
Look through the designer paper you have and see what unusual ways you can use it! Then use it on a card or project!
If you’re looking for an easy but elegant card to make, perhaps a card for Mother’s Day, this is a good one. I used Regal Rose card stock, which is being discontinued with the Stampin’ Up! Color Refresh. It’s a pretty color, but I didn’t really use it a lot. I embossed just a strip of Whisper White with the Stripes Embossing Folder, wrapped a bit of 1/4″ Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon around it, and glued it down to the Whisper White layer. The butterflies were made with the Elegant Butterfly Punch, one butterfly punched out of Regal Rose card stock and one out of Vellum Card Stock which was them embossed with the Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder and decorated with the few Basic Pearls.
I love cards like this that you can use for many occasions.This could be for Mother’s Day, a birthday, a wedding, a “thinking of you”, even graduation.
Don’t forget about the stamps and accessories that are retiring the end of this month from Stampin’ Up! Check the retiring stamp list here and the retiring accessories list here.
Get them while they are still available!
What can be easier to make for a little gift for Mother's Day or for your favorite teacher for Teacher Appreciation than decorating a little votive? Just wrap some Delicate Details Lace Tape #130966 around a clean glass votive holder (it's even repositionable which helps to get the ends lined up where they meet!). It's self-adhesive so easy to apply! I made a quick and easy paper flower out of the Sunshine & Sprinkles Designer Series Paper #126922 using the 1 3/4" Scallop Circle Punch #119854 (what did we ever do without this punch??!). Just punch several scallops (I punched four) and either glue together after some crumpling, if you like that look, or use a small brad to insert through the center to hold all the layers together. I used the brad and then glued on a small Vintage Faceted Designer Button #127555. You could easily decorate this votive holder in lots of different ways! Just a simple little gift when you want a little something or an extra little something to go with a bigger gift! Try it!
For any of these supplies to make your last-minute gift-giving easier, just check out my Stampin' Up! Online Store here.
Don't forget….Mother's Day is Sunday, May 12!
Honestly, when I saw the greetings with this April Paper Pumpkin monthly subscription kit from Stampin' Up!, I wasn't too enthused. Not my style. BUT when I made the cards, I loved the cards themselves and had fun making them! I think the first one on the bottom row on the left is the example for the kit….the other three I just did other things with…and even had a few pieces from the kit leftover! The background layer is glued down but the other pieces are self-adhesive pieces (and you can move them around and restick!)
Paper Pumpkin isn't for everyone….if you like elaborate papercrafting with lots of layers and embellishments, this is not meant for you. If you have tons of supplies to use, you probably don't need to order a simple kit.
But if you're looking for a quick little treat for yourself each month, want to dip your toes in papercrafting and card making, if you don't have the right supplies to actually make a decent card or project, if you've never even made a card before….then the monthly subscription program from Stampin' Up! called Paper Pumpkin just might be for you! You can sign up with no obligation to continue for any certain length of time…you can pause for a month or two if you want and then continue on.
You can start with a kit for a few months to get the hang of it, then just launch into your own stamping and projects choosing your own supplies from Stampin' Up! It won't always be cards. Each month is a surprise!
And it doesn't have to be for YOU….maybe you have a daughter, niece, friend, granddaughter, sister who might enjoy a surprise kit in the mail every month! Especially when it is from Stampin' Up!…and you!
Check out Paper Pumpkin from Stampin' Up!
and see what you think!
Did you know Stampin' Up! has a special Spanish-language supplement to the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog? It's called Celebrando Creatividad! You can find many of the same stamp sets, but with the greetings in Spanish. There are even a few unique stamp sets in this catalog.
After looking through the samples and projects in this catalog, here are the list of supplies you need for the projects: Materiales para estampar Celebrando Creatividad
If you would like to order any products from Celebrando Creatividad, please visit my Stampin' Up! Online Store here!
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In continuing to celebrate their 25th anniversary, Stampin' Up! has released this new collection of stamps for May 2013! One stamp in the set is a new image and the rest are favorites from the last 25 years! Although a new set is being released each month, they will all be available until March 31, 2014.
This is the season for brides and babies, so if you need to be making cards for new babies or weddings, you might want to invest in this set!
Just shop at my Online Store and check out this stamp set!
Best of Brides & Babies #133482 Clear-mount
It's funny how I don't always end up making what I thought I was going to make! Since I had fun with the Spring Sampler stamp set in yesterday's post, I decided to make another card with it. I was going to select an image for a baby card and just stamp it in one color on the Whisper White layer, maybe put a ribbon or strip of designer paper down the side. Simple, simple.
I got out the Bashful Blue pack of paper and in there was a piece already cut but the front was narrower than the back. Either I cut it wrong the first time or I didn't end up using it. Since I had already pulled out the Sunshine & Sprinkles Designer Series Paper to possibly use, I decided to adhere a strip of it to the inside edge which would make it show on the front. I love the colors in the striped pattern of the paper!! That changed the theme of the card from baby to flowers, choosing colors that coordinated with the paper….Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight and Marina Mist. On the Color Coach , Marina Mist is the "Dynamic Duo" match with Bashful Blue, if you were doing a monochromatic color scheme.
And since I didn't stamp a couple of the flowers perfectly and since "there are no mistakes in stamping" I decided to stamp some extra flowers, cut them out, and pop them up with Stampin' Dimensionals over the "boo-boo" flowers. No one would know I didn't plan it this way!
Although it is pretty cool outside today, the sun is out and the weather is gorgeous! So I think this flowery, spring card is just perfect!
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