Paper Pumpkin Blog Hop - March 2021

Here is this month's Paper Pumpkin Kit. Each kit comes with all the card materials, die cuts, envelopes, stamps, ink spot, and instructions for making cards. This month's kit also came with two gifts - a set of stencils and a sponge for applying ink to the stencils.

I took the materials from the March 2021 Paper Pumpkin kit and used a few additional products to create two alternative card designs. 

The first alternative is a gate card: 

• Cut a 4.25" x 11.0" piece of Pretty Peacock cardstock scored at 2.75" on each end. Use a bone folder to make a good crease on the score lines. This is your basecard.
• Use the Everygreen Forest Embossing Folder and the Stampin' Cut and Emboss Machine to emboss trees onto a 4.0" x 5.25" piece of Pear Pizzazz cardstock. 
• Cut the Pear Pizzazz cardstock in half and attach each piece to the two flaps of the gate card using your favorite adhesive.
• Cut out the image on the Calypso Coral cardstock leaving a 0.25" border around the image.
• Stamp the "Here's to you" sentiment in Terracotta Tile ink onto the bottom of the image.
• Attach the Pretty Peacock tree dies to the front of the card using your favorite adhesive.
• Attach The image to the left-hand side of the card front using dimensionals.
• Tie a double bow with the twine from the kit and attach it to the front of the card using glue dots.
• Cut a 4.0" x 5.25" piece of Calypso Coral cardstock and attach it to the inside of the card using your favorite adhesive.
• Add a 1.0" x 5.25" strip of the designer series paper with the flowers to the bottom of the Calypso Coral cardstock using your favorite adhesive.

For the second alternative I made an easel card.

• Cut a 4.25" x 11.0" piece of Terracotta Tile cardstock and score at 3.0" and 5.50". Use the bone folder to make a crisp fold at both scorelines.
• Tie the twine around the bottom of the cloud and trees image about three times and secure it on the back of the designer series paper.
• Attach the Pretty Peacock Tree Dies to the front of the cloud and trees image using dimensionals.
• Attach the cloud and trees image to a 4.0" x 5.25" Pretty Peacock cardstock using your favorite adhesive.
• Attach the Pretty Peacock to the bottom section of the front of the card.
• Tie a double bow out of twine and attach it to the fron of the image with a glue dot.
• Stamp "Congratulations" onto the Basic White tab using Terracotta Tile ink.
• Attach the sentiment to the front of the image using dimensionals.
• Cut a 4.0" x 5.25" Pretty Peacock cardstock and attach it to the inside of the card using your favorite adhesive.
• Attach a 3.75" x 5.0" Basic White cardstock to the Pretty Peacock cardstock using your favorite adhesive.
• Attach a 1.0" x 3.75" strip of flower designer series paper using your favorite adhesive.
• Stamp the "May your journey through life take you to many new and exciting places" onto a piece of Basic White cardstock using Terracotta Tile ink.
• Attach it to the top of the flower designer series paper using dimensionals.

You are on Susan Schultz's Sea Ranch Creations blog. You may be starting here or have come from someone else's blog - see the list below to visit all the different demonstrators' blogs and get many amazing ideas. 

Thank you so much for checking out our March 2021 Paper Pumpkin Blog Hop!

Susan