Sweeter With You Second Eight and AHSC #640

It's been a busy time with two back- to-back garage sales held on the past weekend.  Our complex held a community garage sale on Saturday July 26th and I really worked hard getting ready for this event.  I was hoping for a good turnout, but although we had beautiful weather hardly any buyers showed up.  Thankfully I sold my sewing machine and a few odds and sods.  

The next day however was awesome!  I was a vendor at my favourite garage sale held in Cloverdale.  The RRR Craft parking lot sale is held every June and July and I was very fortunate to have a table at both events this year.  A big shout to Maggie owner of Country Lane Crafts for hosting and organizing this event.  To the hundreds of great folks who showed up thanks so much, you made my day!  

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge: 

Moving on to card making, here's this week's sketch from Atlantic Hearts which was very timely and inspiring as I was still using scraps from the July Paper Pumpkin kit.  This sketch checked all the boxes for me.   

Here is My Card:  

I really enjoyed making this card using paper strips from the retired Berry Delightful designer series.  The Dotted Circles embossing on the Pool Party matte really added some great texture to the card front.  

Supplies: 

Stamps and Dies: 

• Sweeter With You Stamps Paper Pumpkin July 2025
• Scalloped Circle Punch (R) Stampin' Up

Card Stock and DSP: 

• Whisper White 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"  scored at 4 1/4"
• Matte for inside 3 3/4" x 5"
• Pool Party 3 3/4" x 5" embossed with Dotted Circles 
• Granny Apple Green cardstock 4" x 5 1/4" 
• Garden Green cardstock strip  1/4" x 5 1/4" (insided)
• DSP from Berry Delightful (R) 1 1/4" x 5 1/4" strips x 3 
• Strawberry from Sweeter With You Paper Pumpkin kit

Ink: 

• Strawberry Slush
• Garden Green

Accessories: 

• Dotted Circles 3D Embossing Folder 
• Opaque Faceted Gems Pool Party 
• Dimensionals

"Sweeter With You" Additional Alternate  Paper Pumpkin kit cards"

I made an additional eight alternate cards with the "Sweeter With You" July 2025 Paper Pumpkin kit since my last post including my card for the Atlantic Hearts sketch challenge.  Enjoy!

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Card  Nine: 

There were only three strawberry baskets included in the PP kit, so I made extras by tracing the original image and then colouring them with a Pool Party Pencil crayon around the edges.  I think it turned out pretty good.  

Card Ten:

I added some real red grosgrain ribbon that's been kicking around in my ribbon bin for some time to this card front.  The mattes are Poppy Parade and Garden Green and I matted the saying from the Paper Pumpkin kit on to a scrap of Garden Green and then cut around the image.  I really like how that popped out the sentiment.  

For the inside of the card I once again used some leftover strips of Garden Green and a 1" x 5 1/4" piece of DSP from the Berry Delightful paper pack. 

Card Eleven:

I loved the way this card came together.  I layered two of the Contour Dies (R) nesting rectangles to make the focal point along with some strawberries and flower ephemera from the kit and a sweet little sentiment strip.  The background dsp from the Berry Delightful papers is simply stunning and really brings this card to life. 

Tip:  Before gluing your mattes to your card base, punch or die cut shapes from the cardstock centers. By cutting away card material from the matte before it's adhered to the card you reduce the density and the weight and you wind up with lots of shapes to use for future mattes or focals.

Card Twelve:

This card again features layered Contour Die rectangles that were cut from other mattes.  Having a selection of these on hand really cuts down on the guesswork when you're making cards. 

Card Thirteen:

 

I used scraps of the Berry Delightful DSP to make the layered patchwork for the center focal on this card.  I also added some Poppy Parade designer paper that was in my stash for a layer.  

Card Fourteen:

Card Fifteen:

Don't underestimate the power of a strip of designer paper.  By adding three paper strips to the garden green matte I was able to add some additional interest.  I've also used a strip of grosgrain ribbon across the center of the card.  

Don't forget the inside of our cards.  I love how these stamped strawberries pop off the white matte. 

 

Card Sixteen:  

And the final card is the one I made for the AHSC.  Thanks for dropping by and visiting my blog.  As always, I hope you enjoyed this post and if so will leave me some words of encouragement.  Until next time......

HAPPY STAMPING!

PENNY TOKENS STAMPIN' SPOT

Penny Hanuszak, CDN Stampin' Up! Demo since 2006

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Daisy Daydream Alternate Cards - Paper Pumpkin March 2025 Kit Part 2

I'm back today to share some more of my Daisy Daydream Alternative cards that I made last week (see original post here).  

Card No 9: 

This card design started out by cutting down one of the beautifully designed white envelopes, to 5 1/4" x 3 3/4".  I left the envelope flap on the panel and the crease line became nearly invisible after embossing it with the Hexagon embossing folder (R).  Before I embossed this panel, I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from Perennial Birthday (r) in Mossy Meadow ink.  This matte layer was mounted onto a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Crushed Curry which in turn was adhered to the card basic white card base. I adhered two daisies and the bee to the flap portion of the envelope piece and added a few gold gems to finish it off.

  Card No 10: 

Card No. 10

Personally this was one of my favourite cards that I made from this kit.  I used the three of the Everyday Arches (#164623) dies to cut arches from Whisper White, Always Artichoke (r), and Crushed Curry card stocks.  Before layering these onto the base I stamped some delicate leaves from the Textured Notes stamp set randomly across the card front.  The sentiment "Thank you for always being there for me" is also from the Textured Notes stamp set.  To decorate this card I added some gold self-adhesive backed sequins, two daisies, some honeycomb and a bee to the white panel.  

Card No. 11: 

This card is made from another one of the envelopes from this kit.  I liked the contrast between the soft grays, the vivid yellow flower centers and comb and the crisp white background of this card.  I started with a Smokey Slate card base and die cut the "thanks" sentiment in the same cardstock.  The Crushed Curry matte was cut out with a 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" decal rectangle die.  The sentiment is from a previous Paper Pumpkin die cut kit.  I cut and layered three of the word images before adhering it to the card front.  It's very bold but it works. One daisy image was popped up in the daisy cluster on the bottom half of the card and the second one was just adhered about the sentiment. 

Card No. 12:

This card began with a standard white card base and then I added a 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" matte of Lost Lagoon cardstock.  The next layer was a 5 1/4" x 4" layer of white followed by the final layer cut down from one of the blue envelopes.  It measured 5" x 3 7/8" and I was careful to cut it so the single daisy stem was placed properly.  I stamped the large honeycomb image in Lost Lagoon ink in three corners of this matte and added one large daisy image.  Once again I stamped the Perennial Birthday sentiment in Lost Lagoon in the center of the card.  The final touch was to add some brass bees both large and minis.  

For the inside I cut a 4" x 5 1/4" matte from the blue card stock in the kit.  I cut a Whisper White layer using the 3 1/2: x 4 1/4" decal rectangle die.  This piece was decorated with a large daisy a sentiment and more honeycomb.  

Card 13:

For card number 13 I used the flap portion of an envelope adhered to a piece of 4" x 5 1/4" Always Artichoke cardstock that I embossed with the Hexagon Embossing folder.  The cardbase is a standard 8 1/2" x 5 12" that's been topped with a Crushed Curry matte measuring 5 3/8" x 4 1/8".  The brass bee on the sentiment is from the original Brass Bee accessories that were available several years ago through Stampin' Up!  I must say I pre-fer this size to the newer mini ones.  At least you can tell it's a bee.  The Happy Birthday sentiment is from the Perennial Birthday stamp set (R) 

I kept the inside pretty simple for this card using an old sentiment stamp that I like and some strips of cardstock left over from some of the cuts.  

Card 14:

Well that's it for this Paper Pumpkin kit series on alternatives.  I've made twenty-two cards so far from the kit and can probably stretch that out to 30, however for the time being I'm moving on.  

I'd love to hear from you about these cards and which are your favourites.  If you have any questions regarding the Paper Pumpkin kits and subscription just send me a note and I'd be happy to go over it with you.  

HAPPY STAMPING!

PENNY TOKENS STAMPIN' SPOT!

Penny Hanuszak, CDN Stampin' Up Demo since 2006

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