Hi Stampin' Friend!
It's a steamy afternoon here in Central Wisconsin - perfect weather for staying indoors and stamping!
I've seen some cute and creative alternative cards for the July 2023 Paper Pumpkin kit, so I decided to get out the kit and start creating.
The kit is called "Fun in the Sun" and is filled with bright colors and happy beach images. All 3 of the card designs in this month's kit are step cards. I stamped and assembled one of each of them according to the kit instructions - here is what they look like.
With a step card like this, there isn't much room inside the card for writing a note, and I do like to write notes when I mail cards, so all of my alternative designs are standard A2-size cards.
Since the new Azure Afternoon color is one of the main colors used on the cards, I made several of the cards on Azure Afternoon card bases. (Tip: I don't have the Azure Afternoon ink pad, but I discovered that Pacific Point, which retired several years ago, is pretty close, so that is what I used.)
The cloudy sky background for the sailboat card is from the Fresh as a Daisy set of Designer Series Papers.
Daffodil Delight is also used in a lot of the kit pieces, so I chose that color as a card base for this set of cards:
Here are the other cards. I used some retired glitter glue to add sparkly little highlights on most of the cards.
I do still have some pieces left over, but they are more suitable for background mats on other cards. Here are the leftovers -
Please let me know if you like to see kit alternative ideas.
If you haven't tried a Paper Pumpkin kit or one of Stampin' Up's Kits Collection, contact me. I would be happy to show you some of the kits I have so you can see them for yourself.
Stay cool and Happy Stampin!
Here is the whole enchilada after I was done making the cards today:
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