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.  

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NESTS OF CHRISTMAS PAPER PUMPKIN ALTERNATIVES USING #fms#662

 Here's the latest sketch challenge from Freshly Made Sketches #662 and designed by Jen T.  Make sure you check out the Design Team cards as there are so many delightful samples for how to use this sketch.  And, while you're at it why not join in. This challenge is open until 3pm EST Monday November 18th, 2024.  I'd love to see your creations on the board too! 

Here's My Card:

I'm still working on Christmas cards, so for this challenge I just needed to make a decision as to what stamps and paper I wanted to use. Since I had opened but not used the October 2024 Paper Pumpkin kit called Nests of Christmas I felt this would be a good choice, and I'm glad I went with it.  

I began with an 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" base of Whisper White card stock that was  scored at 4 1/4".  I stamped the sentiment "merry CHRISTMAS" from the Nests of Christmas stamp set along the bottom in Shaded Spruce ink.

Next I cut a 3" x 5 1/2" piece of Whisper White cardstock  and embossed it with the Painted Posies (159175) 3D Embossing Folder, and added a 1/2" piece of Shaded Spruce cardstock to the bottom with only a 1/4" showing along the edge. 

To finish the design I chose some greenery and a beautiful cardinal image from the ephemera in the paper pumpkin kit and adhered it to the front panel. I added small red rhinestones to the berries on the greenery for a hint of sparkle and then mounted the front panel to the card front with dimensionals.

I kept the inside of the card fairly plain by adding a 4" x 5 1/4 piece of Whisper White card stock stamped with the "joyful thoughts to you this season" sentiment and the leaf image from the Nests of Christmas stamp set in Shaded Spruce ink.

One of the things I really like about the Paper Pumpkin kits are the envelopes.  They generally include up to 9 decorated envelopes with each kit.  These can be left as envelopes or they can be taken apart and used to further the number of cards that can be made from the kit.  I chose to leave these ones as they were.  

This card came together quickly once I had made the decision of what to make.  Having a sketch really makes cardmaking that much easier, and this card was super easy to assemble.  Hope you liked it and will leave a comment.   

Until next time.... 

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