So today I finally got to play with my May 2017 Paper Pumpkin kit. It has been sitting on my craft table for quite a few weeks begging for me to play with it. Between work, family, and training for a half marathon, I haven't had a whole lot of time for crafting. But I finally took a Saturday to sit down and craft.
May's Paper Pumpkin kit was called "Sprinkled with Love" and it is a doughnut themed. I absolutely love doughnuts (my favorite are the chocolate Long Johns from Dunkin' Doughnuts), so I was super excited to see the theme. In the kit, you received the following materials:
- 6 doughnut card bases
-3 circle card bases
- 9 printed kraft envelopes
- 12 frosting sheets (6 pink and 6 vanilla)
- 6 die-cut frosting stickers (the chocolate drizzle)
- 2 sheets of heart and circle stickers
- 2 sheets of die-cut banners (1 white and 1 blue)
- 1 sheet of die cut flowers
- 50 adhesive-backed sequins
- 50 adhesive-backed pearls
- gold/vanilla twine
- dimensionals and adhesive dots
- Stampin' Up's Soft Suade ink spot
- Sprinkled with Love stamp set
Usually, with my paper pumpkin kits, I try to make at least one card exactly how the directions say it is supposed to be put together. While I think it is cute as is, I felt like it was incomplete and missing something. What do you think?
I'll be honest, I really struggled with trying to figure out what was missing and creating alternative projects with this kit. Eventually, I did come up with some alternatives.
For this next card, I wanted to do something with the bag. After playing around for a bit, I decided it would be fun if the doughnut looked like it was falling out of the bag. I thought the pearls added a nice touch to this card.
For this one, I wanted to keep things simple. I took a peace of brown card stock and traced one of the doughnut bases on it. Using the sprinkle stamp I added more sprinkles onto the strawberry frosting and then adhered it to the chocolate doughnut base. I then cut the doughnut in half and added each half to a vanilla card base. For a final touch after the sentiment, I wrapped the twine around the top of the card and tied a knot.
For this card, I originally just had the doughnut on the pink card base but I thought it was too plain. I then remembered that I had a really cute pack of patterned paper from Doodlebug called Cream and Sugar. While looking through the pack, I found strips with smiling, sprinkled doughnuts and I thought it would make a great border for this doughnut card. I added the sequins for just a bit of shimmer. 
While I was going through the Cream and Sugar paper pack, I came across a full sheet of smiling sprinkled doughnuts and thought that would be super cute to use. I also thought that it would be cute to have a smaller version of the vanilla doughnut in the center. However, once I had the designer paper glued on the black card base, I thought it looked too busy and that the vanilla doughnut got lost. So I added a piece of light pink card stock. I'll be honest, I do not remember the measurements but I wanted to make sure that the smiling doughnuts created a border around the light pink card stock. I then popped the vanilla doughnut up on dimensionals before sticking it on the center of my card front.
To make the doughnut in the center, I just took my largest circle die and the circle die that is two sizes smaller and cut out the doughnut from nude colored card stock. I then took a piece of scrap in the vanilla and stamped a bunch of chocolate sprinkles all over. Once I had a very sprinkled piece of vanilla card stock, I took the same two circle dies that I used to cut out the doughnut base and cut out the frosting. I then fussy cut around the edge of the frosting so the base of the doughnut would show through.
This final card is probably my favorite. In the same pack that I found the smiling doughnuts, I saw this adorable plaid designer paper. My next thought was "how complete would a delicious doughnut breakfast be without a cup of coffee?". In my mind, not very complete. It just so happens, that I have a mug die set in my stash. I also had some of Stampin' Up's Lost Lagoon card stock in my stash that matched the blue strip in the patterned paper perfectly so I cut the mugs out of that and since the die set comes with a small oval so that you can have something that looks like liquid inside, I used that on some light brown card stock. I then made my own doughnut base out of a dark brown card stock so that I can have a chocolate doughnut with vanilla frosting with the chocolate drizzle. I then cut the doughnut in half and lined it up on the side of the card so that it was going off the edge. I then attached the mugs and popped one up on dimensionals. I wanted to add a sentiment to the front but did not want to use the banners that came in the kit, so I created my own banner using vanilla card stock. Once that was assembled, I felt that the sentiment did not make much sense. Luckily the die set also had a stitched heart die so I used that on the light pink card stock and added to to the mugs.
Even though I struggled with coming up with alternative cards using May's paper pumpkin, I was quite happy that I was able to crank out as many as I did. I usually try to challenge myself with creating alternates from the paper pumpkin kit. Some months are easier than others, but once I got going, I found this month's to be fairly easy.
Thank you for taking some time with me to go over these alternative cards from the Sprinkled with Love kit from Paper Pumpkin. I hope you will join me next time for my next project.
