CRAFTING DAILY DOSE

Want a fun colorful background? Add a starburst design to your card! This technique lets you arrange 12 triangles to form a striking pattern behind your focal image. I was inspired by a card made by Amanda Mertz a few years ago using a retired die that is no longer available, and I wanted to recreate the look. I dusted off my trigonometry and did the math so you don't have to! To get the correct angles, start with a rectangle that is 3-1/2" x 2" and cut it in half diagonally.

Hi! I’m Vy with Crafting Daily Dose. Welcome to this month’s A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop, featuring alternatives for the January 2026 Watercolor in Bloom kit. This kit included supplies for 9 cards, 3 each of 3 designs. Kits always come with an exclusive stamp set, a mini ink cube, embellishments, and adhesives. As of today, refills are no longer available for this kit. I really love the envelopes that came with this kit, so I turned one into a card. I started by trimming

Paper Pumpkin is Stampin' Up's monthly subscription box. January's "Special Delivery” kit contained supplies for 9 cards, 3 each of 3 cards. Kits always include an exclusive stamp set, a mini ink cube, and adhesives. The intended projects are always fun, but I love to find different ways to use these versatile kits. Like many cardmakers, I have a special fondness for postal themes, and I hope these ideas will get your stamp of approval! For this first card, I used my own Bas

Paper Pumpkin is Stampin' Up's monthly subscription box. January's "Special Delivery” kit contained supplies for 9 cards, 3 each of 3 cards. Kits always include an exclusive stamp set, a mini ink cube, and adhesives. The intended projects are always fun, but I love to find different ways to use these versatile kits. The kit included 3 very large die cuts shaped like postage stamps. I used two of them as card fronts, as they were intended to be, but I created different version

Birthday Fancy is one of my favorite current kits. The images are lovely, as are the sentiments in the included stamp set. There are a total of 12 cardbases, 4 each of 3 designs. The cardbases are printed on both sides, so if you wanted to cut them in half and mount them onto your own cardbases, you could easily make plenty of extra cards because there are lots of diecuts of various cakes and sweets and other layering pieces. The kit provides step-by-step instructions in the

Hi! I’m Vy with Crafting Daily Dose. Welcome to this month’s A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop, featuring alternatives for the December 2025 Watercolor in Bloom kit. This kit included supplies for 9 cards, 3 each of 3 designs. Kits always come with an exclusive stamp set, a mini ink cube, embellishments, and adhesives. As of today, refills are still available for this kit. This is a very simple fun-fold alternative that takes advantage of the beautiful laser-cut panel. Reorient

Hi! I’m Vy with Crafting Daily Dose. Welcome to this month’s A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop, featuring alternatives for the November 2025 Wrapped in Cheer kit. This kit included supplies for 8 gift boxes, 2 each of 4 designs. Kits always come with an exclusive stamp set, a mini ink cube, embellishments, and adhesives. As of today, refills are still available for this kit. I use a lot of small gift boxes this time of year to treat my child's teachers, the postal carrier and d

Did you know that Stampin' Up has 2 different white cardstocks? Basic White has been the standby since 2021, and White Willow was added in 2024 when they integrated products from the Close to My Heart company that closed (Stampin' Up colors all have names with alliteration, so White Daisy was renamed to White Willow). I've been working with these colors over the last year and I keep both! They're also both represented in my cardstock swatch deck . Here's a quick comparison:

Handmade & Heartfelt is the ultimate all-in-one kit because it even comes with a card holder for all your creations! First, here’s a closer look at the cards as originally designed, with few if any tweaks. When putting these together, you can use a shorter length of twine than what the directions say—12” is plenty. Of course I couldn’t resist playing with the beautiful pieces and creating some more ideas! This is the simplest alternative, just using one of the cardbases on it

Hi! I’m Vy with Crafting Daily Dose. Welcome to this month’s A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop, featuring alternatives for the October 2025 Cozy Christmas kit. This kit included supplies for 9 cards, 3 each of 3 designs. Kits always come with an exclusive stamp set, a mini ink cube, embellishments, and adhesives. As of today, refills are still available for this kit. I wanted to create a simple alternative from the supplies in the kit, and this one is very quick to do! It folds