Scrapbooking Kit!

So I *am a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, and I do have a few customers who order from me. As such, I will try out the new products if I feel they can be useful to me- ideally, so that I can point customers in that direction and answer their questions. When Close To My Heart closed their doors last year, Stampin' Up! purchase the remaining inventory and offered a deal to their Makers to join us. And Stampin' Up! decided to step back into carrying "official" scrapbooking products. 

You know I've been using Stampin' Up! products almost exclusively for my scrapbooking for the last 22 years. Why not use quality and coordinating paper, ink, and alphabet stamps if nothing else- but most of their "regular" stamps work perfectly too!!
But there have been a few of these new scrapbooking kits that I have been interested in. When this one hit the Last Chance Products list, I decided that was a perfect time to give these kits a try and see what I think. I also snagged some of the Two-Tone card stock packs, altho mostly because there was a discount on 12x12 card stock, which is how I prefer to scrapbook! As I write this, this exact kit, Two-Tone card stock, and more are currently on the Last Chance Products you can find (and order from!) right HERE.

So let me show you what I cranked out the other morning, in the space of about an hour. I had selected my photos and this kit and that's all I did ahead of time. I didn't follow any of the kit instructions (helloooo Paper Pumpkin kits!) but I had fun using a bunch of little coordinating things on these pages. And the only thing I "added" was inspired by the kit. Even "suggested", if you will. ha! 

These are all the same photo shoot, and they may have needed scrapped for several years... The supplies all came in the same package, but the pages still feel different! 

On these two single pages, I cut the base in half at the 6inch mark, and flipped the top to the other side of the Two-Tone card stock. It's subtle, but it adds a bit of interest! 

Supplies:
Autumn To Remember Scrapbooking Workshop Kit, Glue Dots

Old Olive ink, Blending Brush, Pattern Party Decorative Mask (retired)
(Crushed Curry, Petal Pink & Old Olive Two-Tone card stocks)

The only thing I added was that I pulled an old (retired) Decorative Mask and added a bit of Old Olive ink on the second page of the double, behind the photos. The idea came from the paper stripes in the kit, but it's just a thin paper, meant to be an accent, so I didn't know if it would hold up to the Blending Brush or not. The masked worked just fine. Everything else came from the kit! 

And in case it sells out before you get a chance to click on the kit, here's what comes with it, so you can decide if that's worth the cost to you. 

First the suggested layouts have a complete photo so you can see what you'd end up with. On the bottom of that front sheet, it tells you to select specific photos, which is cool actually. 

Then it shows you exactly how to cut each sheet to get all the pretty prints on your pages! 

Then it comes with all these pretty supplies: 
The pretty paper- the top corner are single sided, the lower set are double sided and I showed both sides.

The top two sheets are die cuts. The smaller wood sheet is die cuts. The bottom right corner are stickers. I like all of them.

And this is the card stock that is included in this kit. 

It even has photo place holder cards if you want to just make up the kit but don't have photos for it yet. Personally I don't do that, but maybe that's what works for you. 

Finally, this is the Two-Tone card stock pack that coordinates, which I got, and stashed in the same pack as the kit! 

It was worth it to me, even tho the last thing I need is more "pretty paper", hahaha! I have soo much in my craft room...!! 

New Kits!

Happy Monday to you! 

Have you seen the new Kits Collection that Stampin' Up! has released? I sent out a little information in my customer newsletter last week, and I posted about it on my facebook page. These are super cute kits that take the guesswork out of creating, which saves you time! Some kits are cards-only, some create other things, like little gift boxes. Some will use stamping, some will have pre-printed greetings for you to use, saving you even more time! Some kits miiight look familiar to Paper Pumpkin subscribers! The kits will be available until they sell out. They will periodically refresh which kits are available. You can view the available kits HERE. And today's kit, for your convenience, is right HERE. 

One of those kits is almost exactly a past Paper Pumpkin kit, that was released in April 2018. I had only ever used a little of it, (HERE and HERE) because I personally don't have much use for tiny cards, nor gift boxes. But, since I still needed Father's Day cards, I made six new full-sized cards out of the kit. And since you can currently order something very similar, I thought I'd share my ideas here! Also, I gotta say, I really love this stamp set!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Pumpkin kits

Ink: Calypso Coral, Cinnamon Cider, Versamark Island Indigo (retired)

Paper: Pool Party card stock, April 2018 Paper Pumpkin

Accessories: April 2018 Paper Pumpkin, White Baker's Twine (retired)

The greetings in this kit are quite small- the shown cards from the kit are only 3x3. But I need to mail my cards so standard size works better for me. I used a Pool Party card base for all of them this time. And, I used other Paper Pumpkin stamp sets to add to my cards.

What are you making this week? Send something out to someone and brighten their day!