Share sunshine with this beautiful new craft kit

I’ve become a big fan of the fabulous craft kits from Stampin’ Up!® I took one on holiday with me the other week (projects to come another time) because they’re perfectly compact and self-contained, so they don’t take up much space and know you won‘t have left something behind.

The perfect summer holiday craft kit is the new Share Sunshine Paper Pumpkin kit, which is available today while supplies last. This bright and cheery kit has been specially developed with Sara Douglas, our CEO, to help you share sunshine with friends.

It contains everything to make eight cards with envelopes, including a stamp set and ink spot (you’ll need Clear Block D or larger). While Paper Pumpkin is a subscription service currently only available in North America, this kit has been rolled out globally so everyone gets the opportunity to #sharesunshine.

Please get in touch ASAP if you’d like to order a kit, or you can order yourself from my store here, using August’s host code JKNMFKHY

Whatever the weather, this is a beautiful box of sunshine to share. Weather hot? Share that sunshine! Weather cold and wet? Create your own sunshine.

And, when you’ve made your projects, you will have leftover supplies to decorate the box, fill it with yellow gifts, pop in a card and send some sunshine where it’s needed.

Please let me know if you’d like me to order a kit for you – then, if you wish, we can get together on Zoom to craft and chat while we create.

Retiring stamp set: Tropical Chic

 
Is that pink? What's happening to me? I saw a similar card to this created by a crafter called Yana Smakula and couldn’t resist making one of my own with the Tropical Chic stamp set before it retires at the end of this month.

I used Flirty Flamingo, Daffodil Delight and Smoky Slate to create a DSP-style background. This would be great for a one-sheet wonder!

I also use the Share Sunshine PDF of greetings which has some fabulous sentiments for the current situation. You can download that here and all proceeds go to two very good causes helping to fight Covid-19.

There's a very small sneak peek on there, too – can you spot it? It’s the Flirty Flamingo die-cut on the card on the right. This is from the new Tasteful Labels set and I’m currently using it all the time. It’s going to be really popular, I’m sure.

My Smoky Slate ink pad desperately needed re-inking but, once I’d done so, I found it a bit dark (left card) so created another background by stamping off onto scrap paper first to get a paler look (right card). This is a good way of toning down colours which are too dominant and also a great way of getting more out of your ink pads, as you can get 2-3 shades from each colour.