After I got my September Paper Pumpkin Kit, I made all the cute little pumpkin treat boxes, but today I made the wheelbarrow! Isn’t it cute?! Stampin’ Up! has continued to up their game with the Paper Pumpkin monthly subscription kits! Not only do the kits get cuter and cuter, but they often have found special ways to use the box…like cutting it up to make this wheelbarrow!! AND the pattern was already printed inside the box so I only had to cut out the pieces and follow the directions and a video on how to put it together!
This Haunts & Harvest Paper Pumpkin Kit was really a fun one. It was designed to make a dozen treat boxes like you see in my wheelbarrow. However, as I always say, you can do whatever you want with the contents of the kit, and every month other stampers come up with the most creative ideas for alternate projects. Someone made Sesame Street characters out of these pumpkin treat boxes! And some people cut up at least some of the pumpkin boxes, separated all the rounded panels that make one pumpkin, and then adhered a few together on a card to make a flat, large pumpkin. Alternative ideas on the Paper Pumpkin instructions even showed how to make a turkey and a Frankenstein! So in any month almost, if you have no need for treat boxes, you can likely change things up and make cards out of them. If you have a card kit but don’t like the design or don’t need more cards, just check out some alternative ideas or come up with something on your own. Maybe you can make treat boxes out of the card supplies! Or some other fun project! The only limit is your imagination!
If you subscribed and received this kit, remember that you can make the box into a wheelbarrow. Here is a video you can watch:
For a PDF of instructions, click HERE.
Some of the Paper Pumpkin Kit boxes have had the suggestion to reuse to hold your special treasures or to fill with some treats and goodies and give or send to someone who could use a surprise gift to let them know someone was thinking of them.
I have to say my favorite way to re-use a box was to make a haunted house two years ago! Now for this, you actually needed two kits and I think a customer made up the pattern that we all copied. It was definitely easier to make this wheelbarrow with the pieces already outlined and numbered inside the box!
So cute! Especially for a Halloween-lover like me! Oh, did you notice the Stampin’ Up! logo on the side of my wheelbarrow?! As I was cutting out pieces, I happened to see the Stampin’ Up! logo that was on the box somewhere that I was cutting up. Luckily I didn’t cut into the logo so I thought I should adhere it to the side of my wheelbarrow!
If you are a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can purchase a Haunts & Harvest Paper Pumpkin Refill Kit (159400) for $10.00.
Your refill includes:
• Printed treat boxes
• White die-cut labels
• Soft Succulent die cuts
• Wired curly stems
• Die-cut stickers
• Adhesive
Coordinating Stampin’ Up!® Colors: Basic Black, Pale Papaya, Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Succulent
The next Paper Pumpkin Kit for November will be this one! I can’t wait! Subscribe now so you won’t forget! But for sure subscribe by November 10th! Or purchase a Prepaid Subscription in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store to add to your order. Maybe you can earn Stampin’ Rewards by adding on a Prepaid Subscription!
