PENNY TOKENS STAMPIN SPOT: Paper Pumpkin Alternatives Nests of Christmas October 2024

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Paper Pumpkin Alternatives Nests of Christmas October 2024

The October 2024 Paper Pumpkin Kit called "Nests of Christmas" was absolutely beautiful to work with. The Nests of Christmas Paper Pumpkin kit included:

Bases for 10 cards: 5 each of 2 designs and 10 coordinating envelopes
Tri-fold card bases
Precut Real Red grosgrain ribbon
Precut labels with specialty green foil trim
Precut ephemera including cardinals, branches and berries.
This kit coordinates with these Stampin' Up Colors: Basic Black, Coastal Cabana, Granny Apple Green, Night of Navy, Real Red, Shaded Spruce (Classic Stampin’ Spot)
Photopolymer Stamp Set called
Ink Spot:

This beautiful kit also coordinates with the Nests of Winter Suite in the Holiday Mini. When kits coordinate with suites you're able to create so many more additional cards by mixing and matching designs. I absolutely love when this happens.

Exclusive Add-On Die:

Frequently Paper Pumpkin will have a die that goes with the kit of the month, and most often it will carry on with additional monthly kits. Here is a look at the Merry Tags & More Dies which will also coordinate with the October to December kits too!

Here's a video clip of the unboxing of this Paper Pumpkin:

If I fall in love with one of these Paper Pumpkin kits, I usually can't wait to get creative. I seldom follow the original designs included with the kit and instead launch off in my own direction. Well that's what happened when I saw the Nests of Christmas kit. I was able to make a total of 22 cards by subbing out the card bases for 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 Whisper White, Misting Moonlight and Coastal Cabana cardstock.

Here are my cards:

I absolutely love how these cards turned out. The photopolymer stamp set provided beautiful sentiments and clear images. In particular I didn't think I would be too impressed with the Cardinal stamp, however quickly changed my mind when I saw the clean crisp lines of the image stamp out. Although the stamp is smaller than the Cardinal that's included in the kits Ephemera, its just the perfect size for layering on the greenery. So that's a keeper!

I basically cut all the card bases included in the kit into three pieces and then mixed and matched these for the various card designs I came up with . I only cut apart one of the envelopes as they were so beautiful it was hard to taken them apart.

When I was putting this card together I didn't like the look of all the white space between the birds and branches, so I coloured the white background with my Misty Moonlight Stampin' Blends. I also used some Shaded Spruce to colour up the branches a bit more and blended that in with the Misty Moonlight. The image was mounted with dimensionals over top of the background which is also in Misty Moonlight.

Well I hope you enjoyed seeing all the cards I made with this super Paper Pumpkin kit. They will be selling replacement kits as well. I'm planning to purchase the coordinating dies as I could have easily incorporated tags instead of the circles used to platform the images in my cards. If you want to know more about getting a Paper Pumpkin subscription you can click here for details.

In the meantime let me know which of these cards are your favourite(s). I'd love to hear.

HAPPY STAMPING1!

PENNY TOKENS STAMPIN' SPOT

Penny Hanuszak, CDN Stampin' Up! Demo since 2006