June Paper Pumpkin: Hello to You


Did you get your Paper Pumpkin for June?  If you haven’t signed up, tomorrow (July 10)  is the last day for the July Pumpkin – go HERE and say Yes to the Red Box!!

Stampin' Up! Maui Stamper June Paper Pumpkin Hello to YouI confess that I added a smidge of ribbon, but otherwise this is the card as designed.  Oh.  Well, not quite.  The example showed it as a landscape card, but I turned it on the side to make it portrait.

The stamps included the Hello to You sentiment (nice masculine font – we don’t see too many of those!) plus the little heart and a big square zig zag (I guess the trendy term is chevron) background stamp used to create the Soft Suede hexagons.  (Once a nerd, always a nerd.  You can call them honeycomb.)

Stampin' Up! Maui Stamper June Paper Pumpkin Hello to YouInitially I thought I would make all the cards the same, but then I started looking at those pukas (that’s Hawaiian for holes) and I realized how much fun it would be to put different things in the openings.  Flowers seemed like a natural.

Then I started to get silly.  Yeah, goes without saying – it was late:

Stampin' Up! Maui Stamper June Paper Pumpkin Hello to YouDon’t look too closely at the lion, I smudged his face and had to give him a makeover.

This last one is my favorite:

Stampin' Up! Maui Stamper June Paper Pumpkin Hello to YouOH YEAH!!!  Now that’s a card I would love to get in the mail!

Stampin' Up! Maui Stamper June Paper Pumpkin Hello to YouDear Maui Stamper,

Please come for cocktails.  Now would be nice. 

Sincerely,

Your Friend.

I mean, SERIOUSLY.

 


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