Well, here’s my first Paper Pumpkin May 2016 Alternate – I’ve been a bit slow with this because I was so busy playing with my preorder (it was a bigger box than Paper Pumpkin!). The Many Manly Occasions kit is really great, but I don’t want eight cards so similar – do you? I decided to save a piece of the corrugated orange card and replace it with something else. It turns out that it’s best with a plain colour behind it and I hit on the happy idea of combining Paper Pumpkin with my preorder. Hence, I chose a piece of dapper denim.

Isn’t it a beautiful blue? I then used emerald envy (definitely going to be a favourite colour) to cut out my happy sentiment from Hello You – a thinlit that is happily continuing into the coming annual catalogue. I stamped the sentiment from the Many Manly Occasions (say that fast 3 times!) in dapper denim after figuring out positioning so that I had enough room for my emerald envy sentiment. I attached the happy with the 2 way glue pen which I’m sad is on the retiring list. It works so well for skinny sentiments.

As you can see, I cut out a second happy sentiment to decorate the envelope. I’m not so sure how this would do through the mail, I may have to do a test and let you know. This one though, I’ll add to my stack of birthday cards in the office.

So that’s it for the first Paper Pumpkin May 2016 Alternate – I think I’ll go and come up with a card using the now leftover orange corrugated card.

Just a reminder that retiring stamp sets are continuing to be produced through tomorrow. After that, it’s as supplies last, so if there’s anything you want, you need to move quickly.  Additionally, it’s only just over a week before the new catalogue goes live – at that time, I’ll be ordering ribbon and paper for my paper share announced here. Send me an email at lizbaileycards@gmail.com if you want to get in on the first order.

See you tomorrow,

Liz