Paper Pumpkin World's Greatest~Alternatives #paperpumpkinworldsgreatest

 Hello Stampers!

I finally got to my Paper Pumpkin, World's Greatest!  

                         

I liked their layouts but I also came up with some alternatives I wanted to share.  

I am always in the need for birthday cards so three of them I decided to do birthday cards with, the 'award' I made that a teacher card, and the 'ribbon metal' I just made a basic congratulations. 

On this one I added strips of Pacific blue to the card base from the kit.  

The second of this style  I used Whisper White Thick card base, next layered a 1/4 inch smaller than an A-2 Card base Pacific blue and then cut strips from the card base from the kit and attached as shown.  The Pacific Point really popped when it was layered right on the card base from the kit, what do you think?

Next two projects I made pretty much like the sample showed.  I like having plenty of 'teacher' cards.  Not just for school, but for Sunday school, hunting safety instructor, anyone who has taught you something new and fun!

Finally, the shaker card just had to be a birthday card!  I used past Paper Pumpkin and Stampin' Up stamps to create this card!  
 

Remember, Keep Calm and Stamp on!

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Time for School to start!

 Hello Stampers!

Happy day to you!  I have a Harvest Hellos stamp set project to share with you today!

Although it's a different year, it's time in many places to go back to school!  Either online or onsite a teacher is someone very special! 
                  
-Card stock used: Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Real Red, Old Olive, Cinnamon Cider.

-Plaid Tidings Designer Series Paper  

As you look closely at the apples and leaves, yep I did know when I used the Apple Builder Punch , I punched out a leaf without stampin a leaf image first.  I thought being they are two different apples they would have different leaves!  LOL

Sentiment was stamped on a label from a Paper Pumpkin Kit.

I hope this year brings many smiles to all the children and teachers in school this year!  God Bless them all!

Keep calm and stamp on!

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To an A+ Teacher~Wiggle Worm card

Hello Stampers!
I have a special Teacher appreciation card to share with you today.
I always start early on these because no matter how many I create I seem to always use all of them up!

I am really glad they kept the Harvest Hellos for another catalog.  I just hope it stays for the new Annual Catalog!  I love the apple punch it is so much fun!

Plus, I teamed it up with the cute little worm in the Wiggle Worm Photopolymer Stamp set from the Annual Catalog.

DSP used is Brights Paper Stack.
Card Stock: Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Old Olive, Whisper White.

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Happy Stampin'!

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Holiday Catalog Sneak Peek-Harvest Hellos~

Hello Stampers!
I have another fun Holiday Catalog Sneak Peek to share with you!  Harvest Hellos!  This is a nice versatile stamp set that allows you to use it for more than one topic!  I love those kind of stamp sets!

Plus it comes as a Bundle!  You can get both, the stamp set and Apple Builder Punch bundle and recieve a 10% discount!

Card Stock used: In color Pineapple Punch, Granny Apple Green and Real Red.  These are such bright fun colors together!

The bottom is a 2" x 4" piece  of The 6x6 In-color 2019-2021 and 2018-2020 DSP.

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Happy Stampin'!

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For a special TEACHER, Paper Pumpkin Alternative

Hello Stampers!

Digging through my stash I found the adorable Paper Pumpkin kit, Picnic Paradise from July 2018.

I used the apple, printed Vellum, and a card front from the kit to make this teacher's appreciation card. 

The photopolymer stamp set is where I got the sentiment came from. 

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Music Note, Best Teacher card~

Hello Stampers!
Happy Friday to you!  Another wonderful weekend is coming up!  I have a huge weekend planned.  I am getting together with some friends to get ready for the last month of school!  I have so much to plan and get ready for my preschoolers let alone my own children. 
My son is graduating from 8th grade, my sweet little guy who just about didn't make it in this world.  For 5 days doctors were not sure if he was going to make it or not, by the 6th day, I didn't believe anything other than the fact that he was coming home with me! 
One of his absolute favorite classes is music, he and my other children love their music teacher, Mr. Andy Alley!  He has seen and done it all, and we are thankful he is here in Plentywood!  With him in mind I created this card.

The card size is 4 1/4" x 8". 
Basic Black and Christmas DSP.
I fussy cut a music note from Silver Glimmer paper then layered it on Basic Black. 
Using photopolymer stamps from Paper Pumpkin I stamped the sentiment.

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Paper Pumpkin Alternatives!

Hello Stampers!

So glad you could stop on over to my blog today!  I have some fun Paper Pumpkin Alternatives to share with you today! 

I finally had a chance to play with my Paper Pumpkin from February.

This one was a quick and simple card!  Use the 1 3/8" circle punch to pop out three circles to add some self stick flowers and pop up on a few on Dimensionals!

With the letters from the kit I was able to create a beautiful Teacher's appreciation card for my daughter's favorite teacher!

The extra paper I used not from the kit is from the Occasions Catalog Painted with Love Speciality DSP.

I punched the paper out with the Scalloped Tag Topper punch and then glued the ribbon cut out back on.

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Happy Stampin'!

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Gift Card Candy box Tutorial~by Cheryl

Hello Stamping friends!
Hope your day is going well for you.  We are finally getting some much needed rain here in NE MT! With the fires to the North of us in Canada, I know we all could use a good soaking!  I pray our summer is not all hot, and full of fires.  I hope it's balanced with rain and sun!

Anyway, I wanted to share with you how I create these fun Gift Card candy boxes!

First you will want to cut your card stock down to 9 3/4"x 7"

Score the longest side at 1/2", 1 1/2", 2 1/2", 3 1/2" 4 1/2" and 7"
Turn and score at 1" on both sides

Cut down both sides of the 1" score sides, cut off the smallest bit and the two larger bits so it looks like this.

Fold it up on the score marks then take the Window Punch (retiring!!!) and make a window on the first section after the smallest scored piece.

Cut the DSP of your choice to these sizes.
1-4 1/2" x 2 1/4"
1-1 1/4" x  3 1/2" -(white piece for stamped image)
4- 7/8" x 4 3/4"
Attach with Snail then cut out the window, (I don't like cutting through card stock and DSP but if you want to save a step go for it!

Before adhering the box together you will want to use the 1" circle punch to cut out a notch to pull out the card, on the right side of your box. I used Hersey's Kisses for the 'treat' to go along with the gift card.

Decorate your front as desired, I made this one for Teacher's appreciation week!

There you have it!  If you have any questions please let me know.

Thank you for joining me today!

See what I've been up to!

Hello Stampers!
Gosh last week just flew by!  I started off with making some fun Teacher Appreciation projects but I never got all them posted.  I am also working on some fun graduation hand outs for my nephew's graduation.
I will share them this week!!
Today I will do a catch up of my teacher's appreciation projects!

I made simple pockets to hold gift cards for our local coffee place.

If you get a paper gift certificate and it does not have a cover for it you can simply use some DSP, measure the GC and add 1/2" for adhesive.  That's it!  How simple is that?  Then add some fun embellishments and you have a fun gift card/certificate holder!

Have you checked out the clearance rack or the items that will be leaving Stampin' Up! for good?  You can see them both on my online store!!CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE STORE!

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Have a great week!

Happy Teacher's Appreciation Day!

Hello Stampers!
I want to wish a great big...HAPPY DAY for Happy Teacher's Appreciation day to all the teachers out there!

Here is my project share for today, I liked the pattern from the Mother's Day card so much I thought I would use it for a teacher's card as well and just change up the colors.  

The sentiment is from CTMH and the materials are from Stampin' Up!

Thank you for joining me today!
Don't forget to check out all the clearance items AND retiring products!

Have a great day!!

 

Friendship Tea Bag Holder~ Valentine count down

Hello Stampers!
Here is my project share for today.  It's another fun project using the Envelope Punch Board.

My mom loves tea, so I wanted to create some fun little tea bag holders for her just to say, I love you.

It's a simple 5 x 5 piece of paper with the first score and punch mark at  2 3/8".

I stamped on a heart punched out in Whisper White and sponged with Rose Red.

Then I punched out a heart in Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer paper and sponged it with Rose Red also then placed it on the large heart.  I made a belly band from ribbon and tied it with baker's twine.  Then attached the heart to the ribbon.

I love this idea for a Lady's Retreat also!  Make up several of these to give out to all those who attend. What a lovely give away.

Thank you for joining me today!  Have a great day.

Hooot for Teachers~ book marker

Hi my crafty friends!
Happy Monday and last day of August!!

Here is my project for today! 

My daughter came home from school and announced she wanted to get a Journal for her teacher for her birthday.  So after she picked out the journal, I made a quick book marker.  
The stamp set I used is from CTMH, card stock is from SU Real Red and Whisper White, along with the markers I used, which are the retired Blendabilities.

Thanks for stopping by!
Hope you have a great week!
Cheryl~

Back to School gift holder~

Hi Stampers!
I can not believe school starts in just a week and a half!  WOW! Our summer has just flown by.  We have gotten to do a lot of fun family events, but I still wish it was longer.  It's super hot here into the 100's for the past few days so it's a good time to say in doors to get some fun little projects done.

Here is the project I would like to share with you today.  I was not sure what to call it for sure, but it can hold candy, and it holds two hand sanitizers plus room for a little shredded paper to add fun!

I had not done a tutorial for awhile so I thought I would go ahead and do one for this project.

The items I used are a Varity,
Pacific Point Card Stock from Stampin' Up!
Overlay piece of card stock from The Paper Studio
Ribbon and punches are from Stampin' Up!
Twine is from Michaels

What you'll need:
-Two pieces of heavy card stock one cut at 11"x4 1/4" and 5"x3 3/8"
-Score the 11" x 3 1/4" paper at 4 3/4" and 6 1/4 set it aside and score the smaller piece of paper at 1" all the way around.

On the largest paper fold your score marks and fold in half to ends meet, next take a large oval punch to punch out both sides and adhere the over lay pieces.

-Next trim the edges of the smaller one to look like mine, that is going to be the box to hold the goodies in.  After trimming the corners use your choice of adhesive to stick it together, I used Fast Fuse by Stampin' Up!

-Place the box using Fast Fuse inside of the larger piece of paper in the middle between the score marks. 

-Then use pretty ribbon to tie it closed.  I used ribbon and twine to close mine.

There you have it!  How cute!!  The stamped Sentiment is from a now retired Stampin' Up set called  Label Love.

Thanks for stopping by!
Let me know what you think of the project either on here or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/starduststamper  I would love to hear from you!!

Cheryl~