My Paper Pumpkin May 2023 Kit, Exploring In Color, arrived this weekend in my mailbox, and look at the cover of the box!! If this isn’t a beautiful box for this month’s Paper Pumpkin Kit, I don’t know what it would be. Wouldn’t you like to find this Paper Pumpkin Kit in your mailbox? I consider it a gift I give myself!
Open the lid and see the beautiful presentation, just like a gift, as I say!
The contents of the kit are all assembled in the package and shrink-wrapped in plastic to keep everything together!
Open it up and look at all the contents of the kit! You get just about everything you need except for scissors! Even adhesives are included, usually tiny Mini Dots and dimensional. This kit has cards, even decorated matching envelopes, plus some twine for embellishing.
I love to take everything out and lay out all the parts and see what I got in my Paper Pumpkin Kit! This May kit came with free stickers (Lower right in photo) just to use anywhere you like. It also had a brand new In Color, Copper Clay for the ink spot.
Here are the three cards, as designed in the kit. I always make part of the kit exactly as designed and shown in the instructions, but usually I leave some in case I want to make an alternative idea. Paper Pumpkin, on the back of the instructions, always shows some ideas you can use if you have some of your own stamping supplies. Hundreds of others can be found online after people receive and make their kits.
As soon as I saw the Paper Pumpkin box and opened the kit, the cards reminded me of the national parks we have been to. Such beautiful colors and scenery are portrayed on these cards and envelopes! Right away I thought that if I was making scrapbook pages (which I always intend to do!), I could use the cards on a scrapbook page. I pulled out a 12″ x 12″ piece of Garden Green cardstock just to give you an alternative idea.
At the bottom is one of the full cards in the kit. Yes, they have scenery on the front and back! Then, for this example, I grabbed two vacation photos from quite a few years ago when we went to Yellowstone National Park and the Tetons. If I were making this a real scrapbook page, I would layer the photos on some coordinating cardstock and maybe the card also, plus add some journaling and a title. All of that would likely fill up the page, or maybe I could squeeze in one more photo. I know I bought a retired Stampin’ Up! stamp set years ago with which to make scrapbook pages for this exact trip, but as usual, “I haven’t gotten around to it yet!”
Weekends always seem like a good time to play with my newest Paper Pumpkin Kit. If you are interested in trying Paper Pumpkin, just sign up by June 10th to receive the next kit. Once you are a subscriber, you can go in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store, under Paper Pumpkin – Past Kits & Refills. If any past kits are available you can purchase them once you subscribe. Refills are kits without the ink spot and stamp set, the purpose being if you wanted to make more of the same cards, you can get the materials but you can reuse the stamp set and ink spot you already have.
The next Paper Pumpkin Kit for June 2023 is called “Welcome Inn”. Join by June 10!
