Paper Pumpkin Goes Pink to Fight Breast Cancer

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To show our support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Stampin’ Up! is going PINK . . . or at least our October boxes are!  And because we know our subscribers want to share the love too, we will be making a donation on their behalf to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF).

Stampin’ Up! will donate:

  • $1 for every active Paper Pumpkin subscriber.
  • Plus, an additional $1 for every new subscriber.

Together, we will make a difference!

Here’s how you can help: 

  1. Subscribe!  If you’re new to Paper Pumpkin, click here to get started.  Your first kit will arrive in a limited-edition pink box that you’ll want to hold onto forever-and we’ll donate $2 because you’re new!
  2. Stay active!  If you’re a subscriber we will donate $1 for you.  Only those who receive the October shipment will be counted for the donation.
  3. Spread the word!  Help us get as many new subscribers as possible.  Every current subscriber adds $1 and for new subscribers it’s doubled, so let’s get the word out and raise as much as possible.

Remember, those who get the October kit will not only be donating to a good cause, but they will also get a one-time only, pretty pink Paper Pumpkin box!  No one will want to miss it.  Promise.

Each month a fully designed project kit arrives in a delightful box filled with stamps, ink, and paper—everything cut and ready to go so you can skip to the fun.  Just think of it as creativity in a box.  Click here to see some of our past kits.

A monthly subscription to Paper Pumpkin is $19.95 and includes shipping (yay!).  There is no obligation and you can cancel your subscription at any time.  You can also send Paper Pumpkin as a gift as a 1, 3, 6 or 12 month pre-paid subscription.  Here are thumbnail links to my online store to make it really quick and easy:

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More About BCRF

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) advances the world’s most promising research to eradicate breast cancer. Founded by Evelyn H. Lauder in 1993, BCRF has raised more than $550 million to fuel discoveries in tumor biology, genetics, prevention, treatment, survivorship and metastasis, making it one of the largest non-governmental funders of breast cancer research in the world. This year BCRF has invested $58.6 million in research, to support over 235 researchers at leading medical institutions across six continents, including $11.6 million to the international Evelyn H. Lauder Founder’s Fund focused on metastasis. By spending 91 cents of every dollar on research and public awareness programs, BCRF remains one of the nation’s most fiscally responsible nonprofits. BCRF is the only breast cancer organization with an “A+” from CharityWatch, and has been awarded Charity Navigator’s highest rating of four stars 13 times since 2002. For more information, please visit: www.bcrfcure.org.

Additional Details: 

  • New subscribers are those who signed up between September 11 and October 10, 2015 and have not been a Paper Pumpkin subscriber at any time in the past.
  • All funds will be donated in US dollars.
  • Mini spoiler alert!  The October project inside the pink box is just as awesome as always, but we should probably let you know that it is not a pink project.  That’s all we’re saying. 😉
  • Funds will be donated based on number of subscribers instead of boxes shipped.  But, if you want more than one pink box, you can always increase your subscription quantity by logging into your account at PaperPumpkin.com before October 10.

Let’s all help STAMP OUT CANCER!

Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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A Flurry of Wishes in Early Espresso

If I have scheduled my postings appropriately, you should be seeing this on Wednesday (yes you read that correctly – I said “scheduled” as in planned ahead).  This is the second project we made at our Stamped with Joy September meeting using the Flurry of Wishes bundle from the 2015 Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog.

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I am not sure I would have ever considered using Very Vanilla card stock and Early Espresso ink to make a snowflake card, but oh my how beautiful this turned out!  I need to improve a bit on my photography skills, but that is an embossed mat of Very Vanilla on top of the card stock base.  It is much nicer looking in real life.

Did you know?  The largest snowflake image in this stamp set can be punched out with the Flower Medallion Punch (p. 167 of the Annual Catalog, #137417, $18.00).

Here are the Stampin’ Up! products that were used in the design of this project, all of which contain a hyperlink to my demonstrator website online store to make it simple for you to order these products any day of the week, 24/7:

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Thank you for stopping by my blog again today.   I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.  Come back tomorrow to see another project using the Flurry of Wishes bundle!

Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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Weekly Deals

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It’s time to reveal this week’s deals from Stampin’ Up!:

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Oh my – the Butterflies Thinlits are on my all time list of favorite Stampin’ Up! products EVER!  Get your own set now but hurry because quantities are limited at this amazing price.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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A Silvery Flurry of Christmas Wishes

Have you ever looked through a catalog dozens (ok hundreds of times), looked at a stamp set and said “eh, I would never buy that stamp set”?  Well, that was me until I attended our group meeting on September 12.  The stamp set I could have lived without – Flurry of Wishes.  The stamp set I can NOT live without – Flurry of Wishes.  You know you’ve been there, done that!

This project is just one of four that I will be showing you over the next few days which are the reasons why I NOW MUST HAVE THIS STAMP SET!  Fortunately, it is offered as one of the 17 product bundles in the Holiday Catalog!

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This card was so simple but is absolutely elegant and gorgeous in real life!  Here are the Stampin’ Up! products that were used in the design of this awesome card:

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Thank you for stopping by my blog again today.  I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda

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Hearth & Home with Happy Scenes

Happy Monday!  Ok, so some of you are not Monday people, I completely understand.  Maybe today’s post and project from  our September 12 Stamped with Joy group meeting will help make your Monday just a wee bit more happy.

Did you know that Stampin’ Up! has 17 product bundles in this year’s Holiday Catalog?  What’s a product bundle?  Well, that’s when a stamp set and a coordinating punch or framelits/thinlits die set are offered together at a 15% discount off the amount you would pay if the two products were purchased separately.  How cool is that!?!  I mean, who likes to fussy cut out tiny little objects when a punch or a die will take care of it for you in a snap – not me!

We used one of my favorite bundles offered in this year’s Holiday Catalog in the project I am sharing with you today (Facebook kind of gave you all a sneak peek when it posted a link to Saturday’s Owl card post so act surprised).

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And here are the Stampin’ Up! products that were used in the design of this beautiful card:

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Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda

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Trick or Treat in a Candy Corn Bag

Are you ready to have your socks knocked off?  This project that I am about to share with you was also demonstrated on stage at Convention in July and I was so excited to see that Amy included it as one of the make & take projects for our meeting this month.

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OMG!  RIGHT!  I mean, whoever looked at that little bag and thought “Candy Corn” is a freaking’ genius!  How’d she do that?  Well, it is really pretty simple.

  1. Cut a piece of card stock to use as a mask and cover approximately the top 1/3 of the cellophane bag.
  2. Using the mask to protect the white top part of the bag, open the Crushed Curry ink pad and drag it across the bag until it is covered in ink, then take a paper towel and wipe off the excess ink.  (Don’t worry about going too far down with the Crushed Curry ink since the next color to be used is darker.)
  3. Move the mask down to cover the Crushed Curry portion of the bag and repeat step 2 with the Tangerine Tango pad.
  4. I turned the bag over and did the same thing on the back side as well.  Once you wipe off the excess ink with the paper towel, the bag should be dry.

Once decorated, these little bags can hold a bag of mini Oreos and pretzels — or a whole bunch of Candy Corn!

If you would like to make some of these goodie bags for your Trick or Treaters, here are the Stampin’ Up! products that were used in the design of this 3-D project (simply click on any of the product pictures and you will be magically teleported to my demonstrator website where you can place your order — it’s easy peasy):

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Thank you for stopping by my blog today.  I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda

Dang it!  Now I want some Candy Corn!

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A Woodland Howl-o-ween Owl

Now I have to confess, I am not one of those people who goes hog wild and decorates their whole house for Halloween.  My husband may put out a few pumpkins that he carves with our grandson, but that’s about it.  I also do not make or send out cards for this occasion.

Today (Saturday) we had our quarterly demonstrators meeting at Amy Storrie’s home and she came up with some fabulous make & take projects for us which included a couple of Halloween themed projects that are just too darn cute not to share.  I will share with you today the card that we made.

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And here are the Stampin’ Up! products that were used in the design of this card:

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Thank you for stopping by my blog today.  I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda

P.S.  Next post will share with you a cute treat bag that looks like Candy Corn!

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Weekly Deals & Clearance Rack – Oh My!

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Here are this week’s Weekly Deals – products are limited at these reduced prices so don’t dilly dally too long or  you will miss the deal!

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  SUClearanceRack Stampin’ Up! has also added new items to the Clearance Rack.  These items are officially retired and will be available only while supplies last.

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If you have any questions regarding either of these fantastic offers – or anything else Stampin’ Up! related – just ask and I will help you as best I can.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

Until next time, stamp on  my friends,
Linda

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It’s Time to (en)Joy Your Presents

I am sharing with you today two more cards that were “make & take” projects from Inspire.Create.Share. 2015.

Ok, by a virtual showing of hands, how many of you actually use the Stamp-a-ma-jig?  I own one; haven’t used it much – I actually dislike using it.  But it never fails that every year at Convention (I’ve been to the last six) at least one of the make & take projects requires we use that little bugger and I always try to wing it without it.  As always it ends up a big ol’ mess.

So, here is the first card (yes, this is the one that required the Stamp-a-ma-jig):

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I am always nervous for some reason when stamping in front of my fellow demonstrators so it is not always my best work, so I wanted to try to recreate it here at home.  Well, I didn’t have the circle punch (shockingly) and I didn’t have the Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper (oh man, seriously) so I had to improvise a little bit.  Here is what I came up with:

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During the same make & take session we had a card project that used the same stamp set (Your Presents) that is available in the Holiday catalog that was used to make the two cards above, but we changed up the colors, used a greeting from a different stamp set and this was the result:

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The purpose of this experiment — to demonstrate how a stamp set from the Holiday catalog can be used throughout the year, not just during the holiday season.  Awesome sauce!

Well, since I have been having issues with the supply list builder and it is 1:30 AM as I write this post, I am going to skip that step this evening.  If you have any questions about any of the Stampin’ Up! products that were used in the design of these three cards, just ask me!

Thank you for stopping by my blog again today.  As always, I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda

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A Punched Bag of Joy for Your Presents

I am sharing another project with you that was partially started in July at Inspire.Create.Share. 2015.  In the Demonstrator Showcase we got to play with the Gift Bag Punch Board.  I scored and punched where appropriate but waited until today to actually assemble the box (it would have gotten smushed in my luggage and I just couldn’t have that).

I decided to finish it up with products from the 2015 Holiday Catalog (of course!) and this is what I came up with.

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I think it needs something else to make it complete but this is all my tired brain could manage tonight.  But I did sneak a technique in there.  Can you spot it?

These little gift bags would make awesome gift packaging for those smaller holiday gifts such as neighbor or teachers gifts.

Here are the Stampin’ Up! products that were used in the design of this gift bag (my apologies, but the supply list builder is not working properly tonight so not all supplies are showing; contact me with any questions):

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Thank you for stopping by my blog again today.  I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda

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