Well good morning. Here’s my Paper Pumpkin June 2016 alternate 2. I noticed, when I opened my kit that this was an unusual situation. Well, actually it wasn’t the first time I opened it, since it arrived about 10 minutes before I was due to go to a party (oops) but later on I saw that there weren’t actually enough supplies to make the cards as shown. The video shows 6 cards and implies that you can make 6 banners saying HAPPY. Well, with only two sheets of gold letters, you can only make 2 HAPPY banners. So, what else to do?

I looked for some twine to use instead of the white supplied but I didn’t have a colour that I really liked. So I stuck with the kits colours and pulled out the mint macaron sheer linen ribbon – it’s an awesome ribbon to play with. I simply pushed it through the hole in the spine of the card and made a bow. It came out a little lopsided and that’s when I realised how perfect it was to balance my sentiment. Sometimes you just get lucky!

I used one of the circles from the kit – or you could stamp and punch one out using a 1 3/4 inch circle punch – and stamped in mint macaron. I put the HAPPY and DAY together on one block figuring that they would line up perfectly if I pushed them together and they do. Easy. I punched out a 2 inch circle of tip top taupe and popped that up with dimensionals.

Here’s the official video on this kit

So what alternatives are there for HAPPY on the banner? ENJOY would work – so two HAPPYs and two ENJOYs would work.

If you don’t have the mint macaron sheer linen ribbon, why don’t you?! I’ll be offering another product share in a week or so, but you can email me now to secure a place at lizbaileycards@gmail.com. The details will be the same as the first one – you can read about it here. If you’re not familiar, the advantage of a product share is that you can get a taste of a lot of product at a fraction of the price.

I hope you have a great Monday, see you tomorrow,

Liz