Stampin Up! Independent Demonstrator, handmade cards, card making instructions

If you're a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, I'm sure you fell in love with the October 2020, Joy to the World kit. The colors and images are very appealing and perfect for the upcoming holidays. OCTOBER Paper Pumpkin - Joy to the World Kit contains enough supplies to create 8 cards—four each of 2 designs—and coordinating envelopes The die-cut pieces are in English, French, and German, to allow you to create cards you can use to send holiday cheer to friends & family across the globe Watch video: Coordinating Colors: Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Just Jade, Soft Sea Foam...

This 3D paper pumpkin craft is so easy to make and is such a fun kids craft for fall or Halloween! The cute construction paper pumpkins are 3D and look like they're popping off the page! RELATED: 3D Paper Hot Air Balloon Craft 3D Paper Pumpkin Craft These construction paper pumpkins would make such a fun handmade card to give someone this fall! You can make the pumpkins all different shapes and sizes! Pumpkin crafts are some of my favorites to do with kids. There are so many variations and possibilities. The 3D paper crafts that I have shared before, such

Cute Pumpkin Craft For Preschoolers | Easy idea for kids to cut out & glue. Use the free printable template & construction paper to make at home or school.

The June 2020 Paper Pumpkin kit titled Box of Sunshine is amazing! The design of this kit was inspired by Sara Douglass, the CEO of Stampin' Up!® and is all about "sharing sunshine"

PAPER PLATE PUMPKIN HANDPRINT 🎃- such a cute craft!

Make your own cute paper pumpkins for Halloween - suitable for children. Design and pattern by handcrafted lifestyle expert Lia Griffith.

It’s fall, and this paper pumpkin craft tutorial is the perfect pumpkin craft for kids. Can’t you just imagine a whole classroom filled with these hanging pumpkins. They are beautiful as they twirl in circles. With very few supplies needed, it’s so easy to make these with kids. Working on how to measure can be...Read More

I hosted my monthly Zoom call with my Paper Pumpkin customers on Saturday afternoon. During our Pumpkin in the Fungeon call, I share some fun ideas with the items included in the monthly kit, and my customers share their brilliant ideas. I'm always impressed by what others are making and

Learn how to make these pretty paper pumpkins for your fall decor. This paper craft includes a full tutorial with free SVG cut files.

Make your own cute paper pumpkins for Halloween - suitable for children. Design and pattern by handcrafted lifestyle expert Lia Griffith.

Learn how to make these pretty paper pumpkins for your fall decor. This paper craft includes a full tutorial with free SVG cut files.

Every month I look forward to getting my Paper Pumpkin box in the mail. I also enjoy the little sneak peeks that the Paper Pumpkin team sometimes reveals before kits are released. For this July 2019 Paper Pumpkin kit, I was excited to see how they incorporated three different product suites from the current Annual

Hello my friends. It’s time for our monthly A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop. A blog hop filled with alternate ideas using contents from the monthly kit. This month our […]

This paper strip pumpkin craft is simple, affordable and easy adapted for any age or decor. Click here for the simple directions!

I am so excited to be sharing these cards with you today. I love June's paper pumpkin kit! I love the idea of beach themed cards (perfect for this time of year when we all wish we could be sitting on the beach with a yummy drink in our hand). I also love all the cute accents and the stamp set is great. I like little cards. They fit perfectly in my purse and I love the idea of handing them out with a plate of cookies or and little gift. However, I know that many people like using standard size cards so I decided to turn this kit into large 4.25 in x 5.5 in cards. I hope you enjoy. Here are the extra supplies needed to make these cards: 4 - Whisper White Cardstock card bases 5.5" x 8.5" scored at 4.25" 1 - Pretty Peacock Cardstock 4" x 5.25" 1 - Soft Sky* Cardstock 4" x 5.25" 2 - Crumb Cake Cardstock 4" x 5.25" 1- Soft Sky* Cardstock 0.5" x 4" *I know this is retired - so if you don't have any use a light blue color you do have. Sponge Aqua Painter Paper Snips Crumb Cake Ink Pad Coastal Cabana Ink Pad (or Ink Spot that came in your kit) Adhesive - Snail, Dimensionals, Glue Dots, Tombow Liquid Glue To purchase many of the products listed above visit https://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/default.aspx?culture=en-us&dbwsdemoid=2042902 Here are some close ups of each card: This is my favorite card out of the 4 I designed. I love how the element pops when paired with the Pretty Peacock Cardstock. I also love how adding color to the coral velum accent piece adds really helps it stand out. This card is very similar to the original one from the kit. I just added a brush of color with my aqua painter and coastal cabana on the Soft Sky Cardstock. I love how this gives it an ocean feeling. This is another one that didn't change too much from the original. Just added some starfish stamps to the background and splatters to add a sandy feeling. This card makes me want to head to the beach right now! Another card where I just added the original card to the front with some stamping behind it. Would you like to watch how I made these cards? Check out my YouTube video below. As a gift from me all my current paper pumpkin customers will receive the cardstock and instructions to make this card. Don't miss out on next months free gift - subscribe today! SUBSCRIBE to Paper Pumpkin - click here - https://www.paperpumpkin.com/en-us/sign-up/?demoid=2042902 Have a creative day! Chelsey

Have some crab apples or regular ones going bad? Just cut them in half and have the kids dip them in orange paint! Then have them stamp it all over a white sheet of paper,

here are 30 of the BEST pumpkin Halloween crafts for kids. These fun crafts are a great way to get excited about Halloween!

A lovely Autumn or Halloween Tissue Paper Pumpkin Craft that's perfect for preschoolers! A craft that gives kids a valuable fine motor workout.

This paper circuit pumpkin Halloween STEAM activity is a great way to learn about simple circuits and parallel circuits this Fall!

A fun family activity for the fall holidays, a papier mache pumpkin is excellent for Halloween or Thanksgiving decoration. The finished pumpkin can be used as a reusable jack o’ lantern, candy bowl, pumpkin-top hat, door decoration, scarecrow head, etc. Below are the tutorials on how to make your own pumpkins that will last the entire season. Check Out […]

How to repurpose and upcycle the Stampin Up Paper Pumpkin boxes from their monthly kits. From the basics to decorating, they are perfect for craft storage!

Since I shared how great Paper Pumpkin kits are in yesterday's blog post - HERE , I thought I'd share with you today a tip on how I store m...

Your pumpkin life cycle lessons are now sorted with all of these support resources! I love the idea of using paper plates for life cycles. I was so excited about the idea, I made a whole bunch of them! The pumpkin life cycle is very easy to create as children can read the poster after […]

Here is a tip for Storage and Organization of Paper Pumpkin Stamps! This quick and easy video shows how to organize your Paper Pumpkin stamp sets.

This scrap paper pumpkin is easy and fun! Make enough for the classroom or a Halloween party in less than 10 minutes! Free Printable!

Our simple hedgehog template is sure to inspire you to get crafting with your kids this fall and autumn season while learning all about woodland animals. Fall is the perfect time for learning all about the

This guest post is from our old friend Rex Winn, who has shown us so many of his lovely sculptures. You'll see Rex often in the comment sections of this site,

This post contains affiliate links of products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Falling leaves and a chill in the air mean it's the perfect time to study pumpkins! I'm excited to share with you this parts of a pumpkin free printable from my latest unit. We begin by doing a pumpkin investigation. We

I must say, it's hard to avoid the Yayoi Kusama dot pumpkin around the fall time. Searching for pumpkin-inspired art project ideas inevitably reveals this contemporary Japanese artist's dimensional, plump and somewhat psychodelic pumpkins. It's been done, again and again, but I felt it was now my turn... despite the hype. Kusama pumpkins White board instructions and guides, with teacher samples I love the graphic quality, and I particularly love the challenge of drawing contours without lines, by using only dots of various thickness. My kids classes (8-14 year olds) have varying degrees of experience with pen techniques since we did a few projects last year and in the last weeks involving stippling, hatching, and adding texture with pen. This no-lines drawing is not too far off, but definitely in a new direction, and I saw it as an extension of our previous illustration and pen work. Win win. Medium choice: I wanted the results to be super neat and crisp, like Kusama's own work. I knew painting dots with brushes would not give us that crisp quality, and I felt similarly about painting or drawing in the background pattern. So I opted for drawing in the dots with permanent black markers in various thickness, on colored paper. Pumpkins would be cut out and pasted on a background which was painted with a foam roller and stencil with black acrylic paint over top a vibrantly colored paper. With this approach we get the bright color of the pumpkins and the background, the neatly controlled lines of dots with the makers (that's the objective, after all), and the clean patterned background with the stencils. Process Day 1 1. Drawing pumpkins Student had visuals of Kusama's pumpkins as well as photos and illustrations of pumpkins to observe the variety of their form and shape. Simple step-by-step pumpkin drawing guides were also at their desk, so they could see how to break down and simply the drawing steps. I also demonstrated how to draw a pumpkin on the white board, and showed them several different options for shapes. Pumpkins are most easily drawn starting with the central 'section shape', them the section shape to the left and the right, and so on. The stem is drawn slightly tucked down into the top, so is doesn't look like it's sitting on the top contour edge, but rather growing out the pumpkin. Students were encourage to try a few different shapes - tilted, plump, oblong and even with wavy sections.... like Kusama's. We practiced a few rounds of pumpkins on scratch paper. Then we chose our colored paper, and began drawing our favorite version in pencil. 2. Dots Each pumpkin section must be filled with dots in a crisp, systematic fashion. Our dots must create the illusion of form. We analyzed Kusama's work and noted how she uses a row of larger dots at the center of her central section, with increasingly smaller rows of dots on both sides. This gives our section a 3-D shape. The tricky part is addressing the next sections to the left and the right. We noted that Kusama uses large semi-circle, or half-dots, along the outer edge of the first section (where we drew our section line with pencil). From there, the lines of dots get increasingly smaller again toward the other edge. This is repeated for each section. The darker intensity of the large half-dots serves the purpose of creating a strong visual line which separates the sections (thereby replacing our 'line' with 'dots'). *Super important for an effective gradient of dot sizes is using differently sized markers. We used permanent markers with hefty fat tips, medium tips (or a sharpie with a good point) and fine liners in various tops. 3. Stem We observed that Kusama did her stem in the same manner, but in the inverse. So dots are white, and the negative space is black. To achieve this effect, we simply drew open circles with our black pen, and colored the space around our white circles. Pencil lines were erased and pumpkins were cut out. We managed all this in a 90 minutes class. Drawing dots Drawing dots Day 1 results Day 1 results Day 2 Background: Student chose a colored paper that complemented or contrasted with their pumpkin color. Then they chose the stencil of their choice. My stencils are from Marabu. We chose stencils that contrast the dot pattern, so those with a different angular of liner quality. We did not, for examaple, use the stencils with hearts, small stars, circles, etc. because they are visually too similar to our dots. We used black acrylic paint and foam rollers to stencil on our colored paper. In many cases, our stencils were not as large as our paper, so we had to carefully reposition the stencil, lining up the stencil with the printed edge, and rolling again to fill the page. Pumpkins were finally pasted on the printed background, for a visually exciting result. My students were quite wowed by their vibrant, dimensional results, and proud of their hard work and dedication to neatness and precision. Hard work pays off. Ages 8-14 Ages 8-10

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