Oh, Happy Saturday!  

Now that the excitement from On Stage has died down, it's time to focus on the holidays and what better way to do that than to work on this month's Paper Pumpkin kit, Winter Gifts.

Paper Pumpkin is Stampin' Up's monthly subscription kit. Each month a new stamp set is featured along with coordinating pieces to make the items in the kit.  The November kit is a beauty.  It features 4 different tag designs and enough product to make 24 gift tags total.  

Everything we need to put together the gift tags - including the ink and the adhesive are included.  The instructions are also included in each kit.

The other nice thing about this month's kit is that it coordinates with the October 2019 kit, Winter Woods.  This kit was hugely popular.  Some month's we are fortunate enough to get refill kits to buy but the October kit was so popular that the refills are not available yet...crossing my fingers they will become available in January.

One of my favorite things to do with the Paper Pumpkin kit is to make alternative projects.  And, that is the nice thing about Paper Pumpkin...it's great for beginners or for those who just want to follow the instructions...maybe you don't have time to think outside the box.  Me...I love showing you and my customers what else you can do with Paper Pumpkin besides make the kit as is.    

Here are some of the gift tags I put together doing the instructions as described:

And, here are two alternatives I've done.  

The first card is made using the kit products along with a piece of Pool Party cardstock and a piece of Whisper White cardstock - everything else is from the November kit.  The card is perfect for someone who wants to be a little bit more adventurous but maybe doesn't have a whole supply of things in their stash.

This card...I went and combined the November kit with a couple pieces left over from the October 2019 kit - the birch trees  (which I stamped over with the Birch Tree stamp and the Silver Delicata ink from our Holiday catalog), the Cardinals and the wooden background (which is actually the inside of one of the envelopes from the October kit which I cut open and trimmed down).  I also used the October stamp set to create my own Designer Series Paper on the Pool Party cardstock.  The card itself is Poppy Parade cardstock.

This card is perfect for the avid stamper and would look wonderful in a frame as a gift for the holidays and it will certainly take center stage on the mantel.

Here is a video I made showing you how I did it.

If you would like to order any of the products you see here, you may go to my online store here

I would love for you to become a part of my Paper Pumpkin club.  I have a monthly club where I show my customers how to create alternatives.  And, if you are not local to me and would like to sign up for Paper Pumpkin, you may sign up here 

If you sign up as my customer, I will send you an invite to my private group on Facebook, Papercrafts with Meg, where I do upload videos and monthly unboxing videos.  I also do the kit for you...in case you have questions and I do include helpful tips.

Oh, yes, I am obsessed

I am so excited for this weekend.  It is OnStage time again.  It seems like just yesterday I was posting about it back in April.

I was so happy to see one of my fellow demo's had organized the Scrapbooking Swap again and yes because I love scrapbooking I joined in.  

I decided to do two double page layout swaps.  My first choice was to use the Come Sail Away Designer Series Paper and my second was the Come to Gather Designer Series Paper.

And, since it is fall in New England I had to have the moose punch.

Here are my layouts.

The first layout using the Come Sail Away Suite and the Handlettered Prose Dies is a style of scrapbooking called Interactive Scrapbooking.

I used a Memories and More 6x8 Photo Pocket Page to add a flip page to the 2nd layout.  It lies on top of the 2nd page and there is a slit in the 12x12 traditional pocket page for the 6x8 photo pocket page.

This layout is designed using the Come to Gather Designer Series Paper and there is my moose.  

This layout really speaks fall and New England to me.  I am fortunate that I have actually seen a live moose in the wild twice - both times on the Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire.  

 

I would love to teach you how to scrapbook.  Check out my calendar of events at Papercraftswithmeg.stampinup.net