It’s September and time to sign up for the September Paper Pumpkin Kit and get a Halloween papercrafting kit! If you love Halloween, don’t miss this kit! Usually we don’t know what will be in the monthly kit, but this time…..based on the time of year, the ad you see above, and a little hint from Stampin’ Up! about the quantity being 24 treat holders…..I think we have a good idea it’s Halloween!
You must sign up by September 10th, 6 days from now! But do it today because in a couple of days you will be distracted with the new Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog! I can’t wait to get my kit! They will ship out soon after the 10th of the month so you will receive your kit around the 15th. You can skip a month or cancel any time, just go into your account by the 10th of any month and update it. But if you like Halloween, go ahead and try Paper Pumpkin right away!
I have used past Halloween Paper Pumpkin kits for trick-or-treaters or to give to friends or maybe the office staff at a doctor’s office. Almost any treat holder you know is going to be fun to make and give away!
Kits are $19.95 + tax, but that includes shipping. You get an acrylic block with your first kit, an exclusive stamp set you can use again later, a Stampin’ Ink Spot (it’s great to use with your Stamparatus!), and all the materials you need for the project, even adhesives. Most pieces are die cut so you just punch them out. There is a video online if you like to watch the whole process and also printed directions, of course, in the kit. Make any kit exactly like the directions, or do something different on your own. You will find alternate ideas online a little while after the kits have been received and people have started creating! So you do get a lot for your money and the value of the crafting fun you will have is immeasurable!
Sign up today for the Paper Pumpkin Halloween papercrafting kit that anyone can make!
If you had fun ordering from Stampin’ Up! in August, it is now September so you can redeem any Bonus Codes you earned with every $50 purchase! Be sure to redeem them during the month of September. You can use all of them at once or space them out. Hopefully, you still have your email from Stampin’ Up! with your codes!
It’s easy! Just put in your order in the Online Store as usual, then click the “Manage Coupon Codes” button and add your codes! You will see your discount applied on the Order Review Screen. Be sure to check!
Here is a little tutorial from Stampin’ Up! (Click to view better!) Or click HERE to view the PDF!
You might want to wait until the Holiday Catalog goes live in just two more days, September 5th!!
Remember, if you are trying to reach an amount for a Hostess order, like $150, your total order must be $150 after the coupon codes are applied.
Want to make a quick and easy Halloween card with ghosts? I can show you how! In fact, a card like this one is partially responsible for me becoming a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator! I was visiting my friend who was a Demonstrator and she took me along to a team meeting. There was a card on a display board with a ghost or two. When I found out the ghost was made by cutting a heart in half I was just thrilled with how creative people could be with this thing called stamping! I was so inspired by all the creativity I saw at the meeting plus everything my friend had at her house! I think I signed up while I was visiting her that weekend!
When I made another Halloween card in THIS POST with this new paper coming in the Holiday Catalog September 5th, Toil & Trouble, I remembered the idea of making ghosts out of hearts! Just punch out, die cut, or hand cut out a heart of whatever size you want. Then cut the heart in half! That’s all there is to it! Draw on some eyes with a marker. Adhere it to the side of the card layout! Sometimes it doesn’t take much to thrill me to pieces!
This card starts with a Basic Black card base with a layer of Granny Apple Green Cardstock. I let that have a wider margin than usual and cut a smaller piece of Highland Heather Cardstock for another layer. Then I added the ghost patterned paper in the Toil & Trouble Designer Series Paper for the background layer. The half-hearts/ghosts were adhered to the card on the sides. The greeting is from the Trick or Tweet Stamp Set in the Holiday Catalog.
This Toil & Trouble paper makes Halloween cardmaking so much fun! Especially when you can cut a heart in half and make a ghost poking out from a spooky place! You, too, can make a quick and easy Halloween card with ghosts!
This little Santa’s Workshop 2-4-6-8 Treat Box with a little elf on the front is easy and basic to make. We will need lots of basic and easy holiday cards and items to make in the coming months because you know how fast the holidays sneak up on us! Happy September!
I think the 2-4-6-8 box is one of the first things a stamper learns to make. You can vary the height of the bag or make a lid and make it a box. Or make tabs on both ends and make it a small box. This little box is made with just a half sheet of cardstock, 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″. Just score it at 2″, 4″, 6″ and 8″ going across. Turn the paper lengthwise and score at 2″. That short area will be the bottom of the box. Cut on the score lines just up to the 2″ score line going across. Cut off the narrow little tab area. Apply a strong adhesive, like the Multipurpose Liquid Glue or the Tear & Tape, to the narrow tab on the end, then fold the other side of the box over to adhere. It’s easier to do this flat than to try to hold the box. Fold in the flaps for the bottom and add a little glue to hold them in place. Leave the top open or pinch to close, whatever you like.
For my little box, I just pinched the top closed by pushing in on the sides a little bit and punching holes in the top for a bow made with the Garden Green Baker’s Twine, coming in the Holiday Catalog. Be sure you put your treat inside first! You could also use a clip of one kind or another to hold it closed.
To decorate my box, before tying it closed, I added a small banner of the Santa’s Workshop Specialty Designer Series Paper. Maybe I had read it and forgot, but several sheets in this package of paper have white flocking on some of the areas! Very nice! Mind you, it was very difficult to cut into any part of this lovely new paper to make this banner and punch out the little elf! But it had to be done! The little greeting is from Itty Bitty Greetings, a suitable replacement for the retired Teeny Tiny Wishes, one of my favorites.
Here is another 2-4-6-8 box I made that is taller. It’s a fun project to know how to make!
Beginning today, September 1st, Stampin’ Up! has a new promotion, and it goes along nicely with the advent of the Holiday Catalog on September 5th. If you gather some orders together with some friends or go crazy with the Holiday Catalog (it doesn’t take much effort, I assure you!) and have your own large order of $250 or more before shipping and tax, of course, you will get FREE this Dashing Along Designer Series Paper!
Stampin’ Up! decided to use a mix of old favorites and new patterns to bring you beautiful, traditional Christmas paper. This collection of patterns has an eclectic feel and is perfect for layering, and while the newsprint design isn’t Christmas-themed, was selected for its versatility and popularity with customers. This promotion ends on September 30. This paper is in addition to your Stampin’ Rewards. Do remember that if you use any Bonus Coupons you earned in August, that reduces your order total (so you get to order a couple more things to reach $250!).
September 5th is the date the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog goes live! After you receive your order (or should I say your FIRST order because you won’t be able to resist more than one!), you can start on your holiday cards and projects. I urge you to try something like this Santa’s Workshop 2-4-6-8 Treat Box for one of your holiday projects as it may come in handy!
You’ve got to try this Quick and Easy Frankenstein Halloween Card if you like Halloween! It will only take you two seconds to make. You can even vary the design to put on tags or treat bag toppers or a Halloween piece of home decor – whatever you like.
The card base is Old Olive Cardstock. The hair is Basic Black just cut in a jagged way. Just figure out how long you want his hair to hang down and cut off the top portion.
Otherwise, you just need a 3/4″ Circle Punch and a 1 1/4″ Circle Punch to make his eyes and nose. Punch two 1 1/4″ circles of Old Olive and cut in half with Paper Snips. Sponge some Old Olive Ink on three of the pieces for the two eyelids and nose. You could also make a circle nose if you like or an oval. The Whisper White eyes are punched with the 1 1/4″ Circle Punch and Basic Black with the 3/4″ Circle Punch. I used the White Stampin’ Chalk Marker to just draw in those little whites of his eyes. You can put them at crazy angles or whatever you want if you want to have some fun with it!
Draw in a few scars and Frankenstein’s mouth with a Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker or Journaling Pens . Once you get your supplies out, making the card goes very quickly! Halloween is so much fun!
Here is a closeup of Frankenstein’s face. Have fun making your Frankenstein!
In the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog you will find the prettiest designer paper called Frosted Floral. It has a beautiful shimmery look to it, so even a quick and easy card like this Frosted Floral Hello Card For Someone will look elegant and special to anyone you give it to.
The card base is Mint Macaron, one of the coordinating colors of the designer paper. Then I just layered on this paper with the vine design on top. I actually had another idea of adhering several stamped flowers from the First Frost Stamp Set onto the paper, but when I played with placing the flowers, I just didn’t care for it.
I considered several different greetings for this card but in the end, the “Hello” greeting from the Accented Blooms Stamp Set seemed just right. I stamped it in Mint Macaron and punched with the Tailored Tag Punch. I also applied Mint Macaron twine from the Nature’s Twine multi-pack. I like the way it looks on this card!
The new Holiday Catalog is getting close! It goes live Wednesday, September 5th – that’s a week from today! To help you out with costs you will WANT to incur in September with the Holiday Catalog, don’t forget about Bonus Days in August! Before Friday, order some basics to stock up in $50 increments and maybe some items from the new annual Stampi’ Up! Catalog and get your $5 Bonus coupons to use in September! Bonus Days end Friday, August 31!
Here’s a similar card made with the Frosted Floral Designer Series Paper I made about ten days ago. It’s really about the same style. All you have to do is change the greeting on either card and they can serve for many occasions. Try the Frosted Floral Hello Card For Someone and mail it to someone special!
This Color Your Season Flower Card is just one beautiful card you can make with the Color Your Season Suite of products, a limited-time offer! And you know what, Friday, August 31 will be the last day to purchase the stamp set, framelit dies, or the Bundle. There is also a new selection of Watercolor Pencils that may (or may not) be available in a future publication. These are separate from the Bundle, but you will want them in your collection because they are the real Stampin’ Up! colors!
I’ve seen so many beautiful samples created with this set. And it covers all four seasons! You could be making Christmas cards right now with this Suite!
Just be sure to purchase by August 31 or it will be gone!
Remember, it’s Bonus Days still going on this week at Stampin’ Up! With every $50 you spend during August, you will receive a $5 Bonus Coupon to use in September! And in September, you will be shopping the Holiday Catalog after Sept. 5th so those coupons will come in handy!
Be sure to add these limited-time products to your order through Friday, August 31 so you can have fun and color your season with many pretty cards and projects.
Wouldn’t you love to receive this cute red box in the mail once a month? This is the August 2018 Kit from Paper Pumpkin, the papercrafting kit that comes in the mail from Stampin’ Up! Each month is a different project and almost always a surprise. The majority of kits are for making cards, but sometimes a different kind of project is in store, like party favors or a piece of home decor.
Open the box and it’s like a gift just for you! Each kit comes with an exclusive stamp set, an ink spot, and all the materials you need for the project, even little glue dots and dimensionals if you need them. Your first kit comes with an acrylic block on which to mount the stamps.
Unwrap the tissue paper and find the package containing your new project!
It’s fun to open up the box and take out all the materials and see how many things you get in a kit. Sometimes there are extras leftover for more projects on your own. There are directions and even a video you can watch.
Make the project exactly as designed or if you don’t care for it, make something else! Within a few days of people receiving their kits, there are alternative ideas online you can find if you need suggestions. I very often make part of the kit as designed and then make a few things differently. That’s what I did with this kit. But if you are someone with no other craft supplies, just make the kit as designed and you will have everything you need!
All kits are easy enough for non-crafters, never-crafters, friends, grandchildren, college students, sons, daughters, little ones, big ones, professional crafters who like a break from designing and gathering materials. Just open the box and skip to the fun, as Paper Pumpkin says!
Here is the August 2018 Paper Pumpkin Kit video:
Usually Paper Pumpkin is a complete surprise, but the upcoming kit for September 2018 is obviously going to have a Halloween theme! And I love Halloween!
I thought this Cookie Cutter Christmas Gingerbread Man Card would be appropriate today since it is just four months until Christmas! We better get busy making our cards and projects! Hard to believe, isn’t it, especially while it is still nearly 100 degrees outside here in Houston.
I thought I would just use a set from last year, which is in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. It’s the Cookie Cutter Christmas Stamp Set and has the coordinating Cookie Cutter Builder Punch. The green print paper is new in the Holiday Catalog, though, the All Is Bright Designer Series Paper. One side of the paper has those photographic images, really pretty! The card base is Crumb Cake. The red designer paper is just the background for the card for the photo, not part of the card although I originally planned to use half green and half red. The red ribbon on this card is retired, but I have the new stuff on the way (I think!).
Of course, I also used the Big Shot and the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies for the background of the gingerbread man. And then the scalloped dies in the Layering Circle Framelits Dies are always nice to finish off the Stitched Shapes Dies as a layer.
I had planned to put the Gingerbread Man and circle over to the right side of the card, but somehow I put him in the center and thought that was just right!
The Cookie Cutter Christmas Stamp Set was a fun one last year and can be used even for baby cards with the bear! Here are some bear Christmas cards I made last year.
Don’t forget that Bonus Days are going on during August at Stampin’ Up! For every $50 you spend in August, you will get a $5 coupon code to use on your order(s) in September! As soon as you place your order, you will receive an email from Stampin’ Up! with your code(s). I printed mine out right away in case something happens to my email. Stampin’ Up! cannot replace lost coupon codes. And you know how technology is!
And Merry Christmas from the Cookie Cutter Christmas Gingerbread Man in four months!
This Halloween Favor Clear Tiny Treat Box is so fun and easy to make if you need a little party favor or treat! It’s a good idea to always keep a package of these Clear Tiny Treat Boxes on hand for little gifts or treats. You never know when one might come in handy at the last minute! They are so easy and fun to decorate for whatever occasion, not just Halloween, of course!
These little clear plastic boxes come flat so you just assemble them by opening up and creasing the score lines to form the box. Be sure to take off the extra plastic that protects them. Then decorate away, inside or outside!
For this box, I just cut a strip of the Toil & Trouble Designer Series Paper, coming in the Holiday Catalog in September. I wrapped it around the box, barely creasing it on the corners, just to see how it would fit. You can start with the 12″ strip, however wide you would like it, and then see how much excess length you can cut off. Decide if you want that overlapping in the back of the box or in the front, hidden by whatever you decorate the front with. Then you can take it off and crease the folds with a Bone Folder to get a good, crisp crease.
For the front of my little Halloween favor box, I stamped the little bird ghost from the Trick or Tweet Stamp Set in the Holiday Catalog and colored it in with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. There are new colors coming in the Holiday Catalog, too! Love these!!! Then I punched him out and layered him on various circle punches and the small 1 1/8″ Scallop Circle Punch. I could have done even more, maybe tied ribbon around the box or added a greeting, but I just stopped here and put some candy inside!
Another idea to consider for Halloween treats is to join Paper Pumpkin before September 10th to receive the September papercrafting kit that is definitely going to be Halloween but not too spooky! I cannot wait!
Click to sign up!
If you would like to make a little Halloween favor box like mine, these Clear Tiny Treat Boxes are fun to have available, whether or not you join Paper Pumpkin! Be sure to put them on your order and be ready for the holidays!
This cute little Party Animal Dog is front and center on a Halloween card and all dressed up in his spooky Halloween costume! I just love the colors and the fun images for Halloween!
My main purpose for this card was to use the Stampin’ Up! Watercolor Pencils and Blender Pen. I selected this image that needed to be colored in from the Trick or Tweet Stamp Set in the upcoming Holiday Catalog. As far as the Watercolor Pencils, the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog has a set just called Watercolor Pencils. We’ve had those for a while. But if you would like some additional colors, during August you can order the Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2. It’s part of the Color Your Season Suite going on during August only! The pencils are not included in the Blended Season Bundle that includes the stamp set and framelits dies. But all of these products go away August 31 so don’t miss out! Stampin’ Up! “may” bring back the pencils in another publication, but we don’t know so if you want them and don’t want to have to wait until another catalog, go ahead and order them now!
Watercolor pencils are easy to use, especially with a Blender Pen. Just lay down some color (you don’t even have to color in every space) and the Blender Pen will sort of “melt” the color and you can smooth it out beautifully. You can also pick up the color from the pencil itself with the Blender Pen just by touching the tip of the Blender Pen to the pencil. That probably gives a little darker shade of color. You can also use an Aqua Painter or a small paintbrush. I’ve always like Watercolor Pencils for coloring!
The card is made with a base of Gorgeous Grape Cardstock. The designer paper is from Toil & Trouble. When I saw the ghost paper, I thought that would be a cute background. I wondered if it would be too much, so I checked and the back of the paper was purple-striped so I just used that different pattern at the bottom of the card layer. To cover the seam of the two papers, I adhered a piece of Basic Black 3/8″ Shimmer Ribbon.
The little dog is stamped on Thick Whisper White Cardstock with Stazon Ink since it is waterproof. That means it will stand up to the moisture of the Blender Pen. I also used some Sponge Daubers to sponge on some color on the tag so it wouldn’t be so stark white. The tag is made with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch and popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also tied on a piece of the black ribbon. You might be able to see the shimmer a bit in the photo.
Hints: There will be a quantity of 24 treats to make inside! If you need more for those cute trick-or-treaters, just order extra kits. You can change the number of kits each month. Get an extra kit or two and make them with a friend or neighbor. I know my trick-or-treaters loved the “test tube” treats I passed out from a previous Paper Pumpkin Kit so I even ordered a refill and had more for the next year!
If you have canceled your previous subscription, just sign up again! If you have skipped a month, make sure your subscription is activated so that you don’t miss this Halloween Kit. Even if you are not into Halloween, you will find alternate ideas online for using your kit, but it is mostly Halloween so if you prefer, just skip this month and resume the next month.
This Frosted Floral Wishing You the Best Card is a little difficult to photograph but is really beautiful in person. If you look closely at the top part of the designer paper on this card, you might be able to see the shimmer of the paper, kind of a pearlized look. I think the paper feels a little bit lighter weight than others which gives it that elegant, rich look and feel. It’s the Frosted Floral Designer Series Paper, available soon in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog.
The card base is Mint Macaron, although there are many different colors you could choose to go with this paper. I cut the cardstock lengthwise, 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″, so the fold would be at the top of the card. The designer paper is adhered to the Mint Macaron and then I embellished it with a greeting from the coordinating First Frost Stamp Set in the Suite. Just think how many ways you could use this greeting and this paper! The striped paper underneath the greeting is just a narrow strip of another designer paper in the Frosted Floral collection and tied with a little bow made with the Crumb Cake twine in the Nature’s Twine pack. There is also a new Linen Thread coming in the Holiday Catalog that would be pretty.
The greeting is punched with the 1 3/4″ Circle Punch and the 2″ Circle Punch. I adorned it with a few of the Share What You Love Artisan Pearls. These pearls are teeny tiny and in several pretty colors, but when you mail the card, be sure to add a piece of paper inside the envelope, preferably crimped with a Paper Crimper if you have one, to protect those pearls as they go through the mail. I recently heard that some Demonstrators testing various ways of mailing cards with these kinds of embellishments felt that putting a small piece of paper towel inside the envelope protected everything the best! Make it almost the size of the envelope so it doesn’t slip away from the area you want it covering.
You will love this beautiful Frosted Floral Designer Paper when it comes out in September and can use it for many occasions. Here is another card I made with another pattern. This Frosted Floral Wishing You the Best Card will serve you well for wedding cards, graduation, and all kinds of occasions.
Almost a month ago now, I had the pleasure of having five girls and four moms over to do some stamping! The girls are all friends in Girl Scouts and/or school and they were so wonderful to work with. I initially thought that being 11-year-olds and in our rather short time frame, we wouldn’t get that many projects done. The former teacher in me always overplans, regardless, even with adults, because you never really know how fast or slow people will work. And I like nothing better than thinking up projects on my own or browsing the internet (of course!) for ideas so I had PLENTY from which to choose.
My first thought was to decorate a gift bag for them to carry home their projects and teach them how they can recycle the bags they might get at a store by decorating with paper and maybe some stamping and embellishing. The one in the photo I made a while back in this post, but it was a good sample and I used this same retired paper for the girls because I had enough of it, in different colors. They stamped different flowers in matching colors. I also had die cut their first name initial with the Large Letters Dies to glue on the tag. I love decorating bags like this.
To teach them how to make a card, I thought a birthday card is always handy to have on hand. One girl made hers for her dad who had a birthday coming up. I found this design somewhere online. It was easy to make with the Balloon Bouquet Punch and the In Color 2018-2020 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. My sample used all the same colors but some of the girls and moms traded balloons so they could have each balloon a different color. I love when people put their own twist on a project.
When I first became a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, at my first workshop we made a sticky note holder (whatever brand you like to use!). This one just takes a piece of cardstock folded to fit a pad of notes inside and then decorated on the front. For this one, we used a piece of the Garden Impressions 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper on the front and then stamped a daisy with the Daisy Delight Photopolymer Stamp Set and punched with the Daisy Punch. These stamps and punch were very popular last year when they came out in the catalog and still are this year. Some people punched two daisies to layer, which was cute also! For the daisy center we used a Clear Faceted Gem.
The thank you card used the Stampin’ Up! Note Cards & Envelopes and I die cut the butterfly ahead of time with the Springtime Impressions Thinlits Dies. I got this idea online from Mary Fish. We placed a colored piece of cardstock behind the die cut and popped the butterfly up on Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals. Some call this the Eclipse Technique. For a little bling, we added the Glitter Enamel Dots.
And what’s a stamping event without candy and chocolate?! We assembled the Clear Tiny Treat Boxes and decorated with some retired designer paper and ribbon. Of course one of my favorite things to do is to cover chocolate candies with a small strip of designer paper, so I showed them how to do that for some chocolates to put in their Tiny Treat Box.
Who would have thought we would get through this many projects with 9 people in about two hours or less?! But we did, and still had extra time, I hurriedly cut some more paper and grabbed some small chocolate candy bars and we made the small Halloween slider treat with the Cat Punch. This is a fun little project that is surprising that when you pull on the ribbon at the top, it pulls the candy bar up and out of the cardstock wrapper.
I always like to make a lot of projects, I wonder if these broke a record in how many we got done in two and a half hours with nine people! The girls said they should come back for “every occasion” and were amazed at all my stamp sets on the shelf. I’m just glad they enjoyed the stamping experience. I told them all to come back to me when they are 18 and I’ll sign them up to be Demonstrators!