A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop "Nests of Christmas"

How about checking out a few quick and simple alternative projects featuring the Nests of Christmas Paper Pumpkin Kit from October? Sounds good? Well, here they are.

My first card here uses products from the Nests of Christmas Kit and a little bit of green Natural Tones Linen Thread. I typically start out by making an alternative card with bits and pieces from the a kit and I rearrange them. It helps me get the creative juices flowing and it gives me a good sense of all the pieces.

There is a die cut in the kit that has a bird and two pine boughs. I like to fussy cut that apart into three separate elements. That gives more flexibility to retool the designs of the kit.

It made total sense to me to make a tag out of the remnant from the trifold card above. For this tag I did bust out the Merry Tags and More Dies that have been designed to compliment the Paper Pumpkin kits from October, November, and December. From the other trifold style card in the Kit I used the Shaded Spruce rectangle punch out from which to cut two sets of fern leaves. This tag was done in record time.

For this card I cut the frame side off entirely and then reversed the fold of the card inward. On the Shaded Spruce half of the card I scored at 2 1/8" to create a "Z" fold. The tag was die cut using the Merry Tags and More Dies.

Here's a look at the inside of the card. My plan is to sign the back of the card as there is plenty of white open space.

This is another super quick card. I started with a Thick Basic White card base and finished with more Natural Tones Linen Thread and Iridescenct Faceted Gems.

Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to subscribe by November 10th to be sure to get your Filled with Joy Paper Pumpkin Kit in November. And now, have some fun visiting more blog posts filled with lots of alternative projects and the Nests of Christmas Paper Pumpkin Kit.