August 2018 Blissful Blooms Paper Pumpkin Alternatives

The August 2018 Blissful Blooms Paper Pumpkin Stamp Set gives you lots of multi-occasion uses, like sympathy, thank you, congratulations, or “just because this is a freaking awesome day”—making it a real stamping workhorse. 

Each Blissful Blooms kit comes with 10 card bases, 10 envelopes, 3 laser-cut vellum sheets, 1 sheet silver foil tags, 4 yds. baker's twine, 75 dimensionals, and 75 adhesive dots. And don’t forget the exclusive stamp set and Blackberry Bliss ink spot!

Here are my alternatives on how I made this garden of loveliness work for me.  First I inked the Stampin’ Around Speckled wheel with Flirty Flamingo on every card flowered card front before cutting them apart.  There was just too much white showing for my liking.

Card 1

Stampin’ Around Speckled wheel with Flirty Flamingo ink.

Mossy Meadow card.

Cut the top and bottom of the flower panel to get rid of some of the white then cut it apart to fit on a 3-3/.4” x 5-1/4” Daffodil Delight panel.

Layering Ovals Framelits, Sequins.

Blackberry Bliss ribbon left over from the March 2018 May Good Things Grow Paper Pumpkin kit. 

Stamped the dark flower with full strength Blackberry Bliss ink then stamped the other two without re-inking (known as 3 generation stamping).  Centers are Daffodil Delight with black stamens.

Card 2

Stampin’ Around Speckled wheel with Flirty Flamingo ink.

Flirty Flamingo card.  Flowers are mounted onto Daffodil Delight cardstock.

Pearlized doily, Old Olive oval die cut from Layering Ovals Framelits, Sequins.

Card 3

Stampin’ Around Speckled wheel with Flirty Flamingo ink.

White card.  Melon Mambo panel run through the Layered Leaves EF.  Mossy Meadow cardstock.

Summer Starfruit Baker’s twine, rhinestones, Pearlized doily.

Flowers are 3^rd generation stamping using Melon Mambo ink.

Card 4

Stampin’ Around Speckled wheel with Flirty Flamingo ink.

Daffodil Delight card.  Mossy Meadow panel run through the Layered Leaves EF.

Ran out of small labels so made one using the Ticket Punch.

Blackberry Bliss ribbon left over from the March 2018 May Good Things Grow Paper Pumpkin kit. 

Silver sequins.

Card 5

Stampin’ Around Speckled wheel with Flirty Flamingo ink.

Flirty Flamingo card.  Daffodil Delight and White cardstock.

Silver Glitter paper die cut with the Swirly Scribbles dies.

Flowers are 2^nd generation stamping using Flirty Flamingo ink.

Rhinestones.

Card 6

Stampin’ Around Speckled wheel with Flirty Flamingo ink.

Old Olive card.  Strip of Daffodil Delight cardstock.

Stitched rectangle is by Cherry Juilt (off Amazon), die cut from Blackberry Bliss cardstock.

Flowers are 2^nd generation stamping using Flirty Flamingo ink.

Brayered a piece of vellum in Mossy Meadow ink, punched leaf with the Leaf Punch.

Rhinestones.

Card 7

Stampin’ Around Speckled wheel with Flirty Flamingo ink.

Used the full card from the kit.

Added a Blackberry Bliss banner die cut from the Banners Framelits, run through the Subtle EF.

Daffodil Delight and Silver Glitter cardstock.

Bold Butterfly Framelits, Butterflies Thinlits dies, Rhinestones.

Card 8

Stampin’ Around Speckled wheel with Flirty Flamingo ink.

Mossy Meadow card. White panel run through the Basket Weave EF.

Blackberry Bliss oval die cut with the Layering Ovals Framelits.

Brayered a piece of vellum in Mossy Meadow ink, punched leaf with the Leaf Punch.

Flowers are 3^rd generation stamping using Blackberry Bliss ink.

Sequins, Berry Burst ribbon.

Card 9

Stampin’ Around Speckled wheel with Flirty Flamingo ink.

Blackberry Bliss card.  Flirty Flamingo strip run through the Softly Falling EF.

Pearlized Doily cut in half, Sequins.

Flowers are 2^nd generation stamping using Flirty Flamingo ink.

Brayered a piece of vellum in Mossy Meadow ink, punched leaf with the Leaf Punch.

Card 10

Stampin’ Around Speckled wheel with Flirty Flamingo ink.

Blackberry Bliss card.  Succulent Garden DSP (Occasions 2017).

Flowers are 3^rd generation stamping using Blackberry Bliss ink.

Crushed Curry ribbon, Sequins.

Card 11

Stampin’ Around Speckled wheel with Flirty Flamingo ink.

Old Olive card.  Raspberry Ripple, White and Mossy Meadow cardstock.

Layering Ovals Framelits, Pearls.

Flowers are 3^rd generation stamping using Melon Mambo ink.

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