It's a Magical Paper Escape Every Month!

Sweep away the mundane-your creativity carriage awaits!

I'm Paper Pumpkin . . .
I come to your door each month (a fully decked-out creativity carriage). I'll help you to escape your life with some paper fun.
I come in a sweet box, but you'll really love what you find on the inside:
All the stamps, ink, paper, and accessories to create pinable projects. Create stuff like cards, journals, décor, and more!
Paper Pumpkin by Stampin' Up! is a new monthly kit program that anyone (even you) can enjoy!

Get Started

It's so easy to get started. Simply sign up for the program starting Monday, January 14 by visiting www.mypaperpumpkin.com and click Get it. Every month a new, surprise project kit arrives at your doorstep. Just think of the anticipation of creating a fun project to pin, showoff, and share with your friends and family-every month!
The very first Paper Pumpkin will arrive on your doorstep starting in March-if you sign up before March 10.
Of course, you'll want to know more. So here's the nitty gritty:

• Each month we send you a unique, surprise kit with a project-cards, journals, décor, and more! (We've even color-coordinated, measured, and cut everything for you!)
• Each kit includes stamps, ink, paper, and accessories-everything but adhesive.
• Each kit gives you a 30-minute creativity escape.
• We will ship your Paper Pumpkin on or around the 15th of the month.  
• You need to sign up for a kit by the 10th of the month to get that month's kit. If you sign up on the 11th of the month, your first kit will come the next month. (Let's say you sign up on May 10th, we'll send your kit around May 15th. If you sign up on May 11th, we'll send your first kit around June 15th.)
• A Paper Pumpkin membership is $19.95 per month (and shipping is included!)
• There's no commitment, you can cancel your monthly Paper Pumpkin at anytime. You can also skip a month if you want.
• Starting in early March, we'll offer a Try-It kit if you'd like to try Paper Pumpkin for one month.

Here's How You Order

Sign up for your monthly Paper Pumpkin starting Monday, January 14 by visiting www.mypaperpumpkin.com and click Get it.
Starting in early March, you can try Paper Pumpkin for one month by visiting my online store.

A Free Gift in Your Very First Kit

The Welcome Kit is the very first Paper Pumpkin you will receive in your first month of membership. The Welcome Kit includes a free gift-a clear acrylic block!

Tea Time Trinkets

Tea Time Trinkets # 129326 $5.95

I just love the collage look combined with shabby chic'.  And these Tea Time Trinkets work so well with the look...they are adorable!!!  Get them now while you can out of the Spring/Summer catalog.  So much good stuff!!!!

Sale-a-Bration is upon us....if you didn't get a flyer in the mail...let me know and I will get one to you....so much fun product and ideas!!!  Not to mention FREE PRODUCT!!!!  Order $50 from me and you get a flyer pick.  Hostess a workshop and get a free pack of Glimmer paper...if it is a qualifying workshop ($400+) you get a free product bundle!!! And sign up to become a demonstrator, under me....and get 25% more in your starter kit...the kit is only $99, and totally customizable.  Such a deal!!!!  Stay tuned for my own personal product bundles!!!

This was the project card for my last weeks Technique Thursday Club.  We learned how to do Accordian Fold Flowers, and this was a cute variation I found of the technique.  Sorry it's a bit fuzzy...my scanner doesn't like to scan thick cards!

Here some more cards in my mail box.....these are from an Inkslingers swap...not sure when...think it may have been December!
 

Cindy's adorable little bird!!!!

Leatha's Hybrid creation....go Leatha!!!

This one was done by Carol....love the Embossing folder!!!

I made 2 more Rag Doll Sundresses for Easter gifts for the little girls.!  Such fun!!!!

These match the sundresses I made for them.....What little girl doesn't love to dress up the same as her dolly!!!

Here's another great pork roast recipe...we seem to be stuck on that lately!!!!

Herbed Pork Tenderloin

1 T.Garlic powder

2 stp. brown sugar

2 tsp. rubbed sage

1 1/2 tsp. dried thyme

1 tsp. ground mustard

1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper

1/2 tsp. pspper

1 (1-lb.) pork tenderloins

In a small bowl, combine garlic powder, brown sugar, herbs, and spices.  Rub over pork.  Place in a large ungreased shallow glass dish.  Cover and refrigerate for up to 8 hours.  Preheat oven to 400F. Place tenderloin on a rack in a shallow roasting pan.  Bake for 35-40 min.  Let stand for 5 min then slice.  Enjoy and Bon Apetit!!!!  

So Many Stars Builder Wheel

So Many Stars Builder Wheel  #118620 $4.50

If I could get only one of the builder wheels.....this is the one I would get...You can use it for just about anything!!!!  It combines with all the others in a wonderful way!!!  And who can't use a few stars in their life!!!!

 Last Wednesday night  I held my Black & White Class...and if you missed it, you missed a really good class!  I will be holding a similar one in March or April, Black & White with a Pop of Color.  Stay tuned for more information, you won't want to miss this one!!!!  Here's the cards we did Wednesday night.

This ones a little hard to see...the front is embossed with a texture folder.

I love the simple elegance of this one!

This one was everyones favorite....very elegant!

And of course we have to have a fun one!!!  Goofy owls!!!

And a whimsical one!!!

This one kept bluring when aI scanned it due to the faceted button....but another elegant one!

 I've been busy working on Easter projects for the grandkids....here's what I have done so far!!!

The frilly fashion scarfs are just so much fin to make...I can get one done in a couple of nights.  And the sundresses are just too stinkin' cute.  I will be making matching sundresses for the rag dolls I made at Christmas!  I want one!!!!  Now...what to do for a baby boy???

Vegetable Sandwich

Combine 4 Tbls. cream cheese, and 1 Tbls. pesto.  Spread on 4 slices whole wheat bread.  Make 2 sandwiches using 1/2 avacado, slices; 1/4 C. grated carrot; 1/2 bell pepper, diced; 1/4 tsp salt; and 1/4 tsp. pepper.  Yum!!!  Enjoy and Bon Apetit!!!

Birthday Builder Wheel

Birthday Builder Wheel # 118619 $4.50

You can never have enough Birthday Stamps...This little wheel is great to have on hand!!!  You can use it by itself, or team it up with other builder wheels!!!!

Here's some more of what we did at my Friday Stamper's 10 Club.  The Love card was our project and the Candy tag and Christmas card were to show how to use punches in different ways.

And here are some swap cards from this past month.....from my overflowing mail box/swap box!!!!

 Here's 2 frilly little scarfs I made this past week, for gifts, and also for sale on my Etsy Shop!!!!  Also this little guy....don't ya just love owls!!!!

Baked Pork Tenderloin

1 (1 1/2 -lb) lean pork tenderloin

1-2 T. Flour

2 c. canned chicken broth

1 (4-oz.) can mushroom stems & pieces, drained

Preheat Oven to 350 F.  In skilet, brown meat in Non-fat spray)  Remove from skillet and place in a casserole dish.  Add a little flour to drippings and add chicken broth and mushrooms.  Stir until heated and mixed.  Pour over pork and bake for 1 hour.  Yummy!!!!  Enjoy and Bon Apetit!!!!

It's a Magical Paper Escape Every Month!

Sweep away the mundane-your creativity carriage awaits!

I'm Paper Pumpkin . . .
I come to your door each month (a fully decked-out creativity carriage). I'll help you to escape your life with some paper fun.
I come in a sweet box, but you'll really love what you find on the inside:
All the stamps, ink, paper, and accessories to create pinable projects. Create stuff like cards, journals, décor, and more!
Paper Pumpkin by Stampin' Up! is a new monthly kit program that anyone (even you) can enjoy!

Get Started

It's so easy to get started. Simply sign up for the program starting Monday, January 14 by visiting www.mypaperpumpkin.com and click Get it. Every month a new, surprise project kit arrives at your doorstep. Just think of the anticipation of creating a fun project to pin, showoff, and share with your friends and family-every month!
Of course, you'll want to know more. So here's the nitty gritty:

• Each month we send you a unique, surprise kit with a project-cards, journals, décor, and more! (We've even color-coordinated, measured, and cut everything for you!)
• Each kit includes stamps, ink, paper, and accessories-everything but adhesive.
• Each kit gives you and your customer a 30-minute creativity escape.
• We will ship your Paper Pumpkin on or around the 15th of the month.  
• You need to sign up for a kit by the 10th of the month to get that month's kit. If you sign up on the 11th of the month, your first kit will come the next month. (Let's say you sign up on May 10th, we'll send your kit around May 15th. If you sign up on May 11th, we'll send your first kit around June 15th.)
• A Paper Pumpkin membership is $19.95 per month (and shipping is included!)
• There's no commitment, you can cancel your monthly Paper Pumpkin at anytime. You can also skip a month if you want.
• Starting in early March, we'll offer a Try-It kit if you'd like to try Paper Pumpkin for one month.

Here's How You Order

Sign up for your monthly Paper Pumpkin starting Monday, January 14 by visiting www.mypaperpumpkin.com and click Get it.
Starting in early March, you can try Paper Pumpkin for one month by visiting our online store.

A Free Gift in Your Very First Kit

The Welcome Kit is the very first Paper Pumpkin you will receive in your first month of membership. The Welcome Kit includes a free gift-a clear acrylic block!

Candle Crazy Builder Wheel

Candle Crazy #118618 $4.50

Yes, I liked it so much I bought two!!!!  Actually, with the builder wheels, you can use up to 3 on the wheel, so 2 isn't out of the question!!!! 

Here's some little Love Notes I showed how to make using one of the card kits, at Stampers 10, and also the cute candy bag!!!!  This used the Christmas Kit in the Holiday Catalog, but the Boutique Boxes Designer Printed Kit in the Spring Catalog would work just as nice...and the great thing about these kits is the embellishment sheets are pre-stickied ....so they go together really fast!!!  No cutting, just peel and stick!!!

This was the swap card I did for Decembers Inkslingers....It's a little hard to see...but it really came out nice!!! 

Here's a yummy, yummy cake recipe....great for a cold winter night!!!!

Moist Caramel Apple Cake

1 pkg. yellow cake mix

1 pkg. (3.4 oz.) vanilla instant pudding

1 C. water

4 eggs

1/3 C. oil

3 Granny Smith apples, peeled, coursley chopped

20 Kraft Caramels

3 tbl. milk

Heat oven to 350F.  Grease and flour 12 cup fluted tube pan(bundt)  Beat first 5 ingredientsin large bowl with mixer on low speed till blended.  Beat on high 2 min.  Stir in apples.  Pour into pan.  Bake 50 min. to 1 hour, or until toothpick comes out clean.  Cool cake in pan 15 min, looesn cakt from sides invert onto wire rack.  Gently remove pan.  Cook cake completely.  Transfer to plate.  Microwave caramels and milk on high  1-1/2 min.  Stir every 30 seconds, until blended.  Cool 10 min, and drizzel over cake....Yummy ...Enjoy and Bon Apetit!!!

Pennant Parade

Pennant Parade Wood # 122740 $21.95, Clear # 122742 $16.95

This is such a great little set.....Flags and Pennants seem to be the rage right now....and this makes things so easy, especially if you have the Petite Pennants Builder Punch!!!!

Time to go thru my mail box....It is overflowing!!!!

 

This is one from Phyllis....love the kites!!!  

This one is also from Phyllis....I know ...Halloween, I told you my box was full!!!

And from Miss Abby....Love the heart!!!!

And this one is from Melinda....I love anything in Black and White....so elegant!!!

And lastly, Leatha did this one...Leatha does a Hybrid card using the computer and paper supplies!!!  Love it.....

I made this for Inkslingers this past fall, and everyone loved it!!!! Sounds hard...but it really is easy!!!  I don't like goats cheese, but this is really good!!! 

Tuscan Splendor Spinach Braid

1 can (8 oz Crescant rolls

1/3 C olives, blended to a paste

1 box (9oz frozen chopped spinach , thawed, squeezed to drain

1/2 C. crumbled goat (chevre) cheese

3/4 C. julienne cut sun dried tomatoes in oil, well drained

1 egg

1 tsp. water

Heat oven to 350 F.  Unroll dough, and press seams together to make one large rectangle.  Place on ungreased cookie sheet.  Press into 12 X 9 inch rectangle.  Spread olives in 3 inch strip lengthwise down center of dough, leaving 1 inch on both ends.  Layer spinach evenly over olives.  Top with cheese then layer with tomatoes.  With scissors, make diagonal cuts 1 inch apart on long sides of rectangle to 1/2 inch of filling.  Alternately cross strips diagonally over filling.  Turn ends of braid up and press to seal.  In small bowl beat egg with water, brush over braid.  Bake 25-30 min. until golden brown.  Let stand 10 min. before serving.  Cut in slices. Enjoy and Bon Apetit!!!!