Paper Pumpkin August 2022 ALTERNATE Ideas for Sweet Sunflowers!

The August 2022 Paper Pumpkin Kit: Sweet Sunflowers is really stunning! This is one of the most beautiful kits I've seen from Paper Pumpkin!

Today's blog will show the alternate gift box and coordinating card with more alternates to come soon.

August 2022 Paper Pumpkin Kit Coordinating Colors
Sweet Sunflowers

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Okay, let's talk alternate projects. Alternate products used are listed below. 

THE SUNFLOWER GIFT BOX

MEASUREMENTS

• Side Panels DSP (envelope paper or card base from kit): 2 x 3
• Side Panels Blackberry Bliss Cardstock: 2-1/4 x 3-1/4"
• Top of Box DSP: 3 x 3
• Top of Box Blackberry Bliss Square: 3-1/4" x 3-1/4"
• Top of Box Honeycomb Piece: 3-1/4 x 3-1/4" (hand cut with paper snips, ok to be uneven edged)
• Embellishments: Die Cut Sunflower, Die Cut Floral Piece, Die Cut Bee, Die Cut for Sentiment
• Natural Finish Ribbon (About 12-14 inches to create a bow)

INSTRUCTIONS

Assemble your gift box (kraft brown scalloped box). Cut all of your pieces and glue the side panels together. If you have plain looking paper and would like to add some stamping like I added a few sunflowers to one panel then stamp before you glue that panel on.

I stuck very close to the kit for the top of the gift box. Trim a 3-1/4 (ish) square from the gold honeycomb sheet. I cut it uneven and a little zig-zag (ish) and layered that with the panel before adding the embellishments. I recommend a die cut or stamped sunflower for your topper with the floral die cut, bee. I stamped "For a one of a kind friend" in Blackberry Bliss ink onto the sentiment piece from the kit and then tied a bow and glued to the corner of the box. 

NOTE: I used Stampin' Seal+ on the ribbon to secure it but I would actually recommend hot glue if you have it. If not, it's ok. Because it is a dimensional element that's bigger than normal I usually default to hot glue. 

And that's it! I used Stampin' Dimensionals for the topper embellishment die cuts and multipurpose glue for the panels. 

CUTTING UP YOUR ENVELOPES:

When it comes to making alternate projects with Paper Pumpkin kits, I use the printed envelopes as DSP layers on projects. You can cut up your envelopes various ways. I recommend trimming the sides off first so you can open it up and then cut accordingly. You can get a good look at the artwork this way too. Have fun with it! The card bases can easily also be cut in half and used as layers as well.

ALTERNATE CARD

MEASUREMENTS: 

• Card Base: 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 and score at 4-1/4" *Blackberry Bliss Cardstock
• The Honeycomb piece (uncut) from the kit
• Card Base cut to 3-1/4 x 3-3/4" (I wanted the honeycomb to show on all sides)
• Die Cut and/ or Stamped Sunflowers
• Blackberry Bliss Rectangle Die Cut from kit
• Thank You Sentiment Die Cut (pink/ yellow tone) from kit
• Embellishments: Iridescent Rhinestones

INSTRUCTIONS:

First, I ran out of sunflower die cuts to I hand stamped and fussy cut two more so I had a total of 3. I used the same ink/ shading technique for all three which was stamping in Crushed Curry/ Soft Suede and then shading with same colors (softer look) with sponge daubers. You can get a pack of 5 sponge daubers in the Annual Catalog (link below).

Cut your pieces and assemble. I put four adhesive dots in the four corners of the uncut specialty honeycomb sheet. It really pops against Blackberry Bliss. 

Add your cardstock pattern layer. Add 3 sunflowers. I glued one sunflower down and popped the other two up on Stampin' Dimensionals. At the bottom of the cardstock layer glue the blackberry bliss die cut piece. Stamp "Thank You" in Blackberry Bliss ink onto the die cut for the sentiment and then pop that on dimensionals and place over the rectangle strip.

Finish with some iridescent rhinestones or whatever rhinestones you have in your collection.

I hope you enjoyed today's card projects.

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