Happy last Thursday of July, where did the month time go?! So happy to be hopping once again with the A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop! I can't wait to show you this months alternatives to the July Paper Pumpkin Kit. I love that I get to receive a little bit of guaranteed happy mail every month by subscribing to Stampin' Up!'s one stop box.
This month Stampin' Up! really made the kit versatile by designing it to coordinate with three suites from the annual catalog: Garden Lane, Woven Threads, and Come Sail Away. For my projects I decided to focus on the coordinating Sail Away Suite.
I created a standard size card and cute little gift box by combining die cuts from the kit along with the Come Sail Away Designer Series Paper, Sailing Home stamp and die bundle, plus some of the adorable trinkets and baker's twine.
This adorable little treat box was super quick and easy to put together using a Clear Tiny Treat box, love that all I had to do was fill it and decorate. I added a strip of DSP and then wrapped it with the awesome night of Navy/Sahara Sand Thick Baker's Twine. This twine can be easily separated to fray the ends or completely separated so you have individual threads in two colours, super versatile! I made two little tags using the Stitched Nested Labels Dies and hung them from the twine along with Sail Away Trinket. I filled the box with some "Life Savers" to go along with the nautical theme.
For my card I started with a card base of Shimmery White Cardstock and then layered on another piece that I added a watercolour wash too using inks and an Aquapainter. I used the die cute ship and wheel from the Paper Pumpkin Kit. the ship was watercoloured with Classic Inks and I stamped the wheel with the Crackle Paint Background stamp. The sentiment was stamped on a die cut circle from the Stitched Shapes Dies and I placed some separated twine behind it along with a trinket to add some texture and a little more interest.
I hope you enjoyed these projects! Now it's time to visit the fabulously talented stampers on the blog hop, please be sure to check out all of the amazing alternatives by clicking on the names below. Have a great day!
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