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Pumpkin Spice September Kits in the Mail

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It’s Pumpkin Spice Time! I am excited to share my September Kits in the Mail designs including cookies, chocolate, cocktails and pumpkin spice. You can easily create these designs after receiving a box of card kits prepared by me.

Here is what is included in the box…

Supplies to make 3 each of the 4 designs with envelopes and a package of vellum doilies so you can use as many doilies as you like.

Please Note: Purchase the Nothing’s Better Than Bundle to complete the cards. The stamped and die cut images from this bundle are not included in the kit.

Interested in getting a kit? Super Awesome! The cost is $35 via PayPal and includes USPS Priority Rate shipping. Click “Contact” at the top of my blog to let me know you want to order the September Kits in the Mail. Include the email address to send the PayPal invoice to and what the mailing address is to send the kit to. Porch Pick Ups are available too.

I generally ship each Monday for invoices paid by Sunday noon, central time. This kit option is available until September 30th or while supplies last.

Substitutions in pretty items (patterned papers, ribbons and embellishments) may be made so you have a greater variety of design options. Patterned papers are double sided for additional creativity. Thank you for understanding!

Here is what I used to finish the cards:

Nothing’s Better Than Bundle

Early Espresso ink pad

Gorgeous Grape ink pad

Soft Suede ink pad

Pumpkin Pie ink pad

Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Write marker is part of the Many Marvelous Markers

Poppy Parade ink pad

Crushed Curry ink pad

Real Red Stampin’ Blend

How to videos will be shared in my private Facebook group which you are welcome to join. Please ask to be added to the group when you order your kit.

Thank you for ordering the September Kits in the Mail!

Super Awesome Stamper Shirley Merker

More Than Chocolate CASEing the Blog Hop Design 11

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The word chocolate can be a noun or adjective. This chocolate is so luscious. The cake has chocolatey frosting. I love dark chocolate! Just a few ways the word can be used to convey meaning.

My More Than Chocolate hand stamped greeting card will make you want to seek out your nearest chocolatier shop. A local shop, Chocolate Caper, just opened a second location in my town. Their chocolate is luscious. Another favorite is Gail Ambrosius on Atwood Ave. I love Gail’s dark chocolate with caramel inside! Chocolaterian has yummy chocolatey frosting on their Badger Bites.

My card today was inspired Twila Davis’ Sale-A-Bration blog hop entry. See her star design here with the spiral inside. If you missed our hop with 15 stops, hop along here.

I had window sheets in stock and thought this material would make a good spiral base. So I used the largest circle framelit from the Layering Circles collection to cut a circle of window sheet. I used a paper snips to custom cut the spiral.

The stamped chocolate pieces helped with reducing the scrap pile so that is a bonus! Each mini chocolate is attached to the window sheet spiral with a glue dot. I used the 1 inch circle punch to punch whisper white. This circle was used to cover up the adhesive keeping the spiral attached to the inside of the card directly below the score line. I cleverly covered the glue dot attaching the other end of spiral to the top of the card with another stamped mini chocolate.

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inside of the card…

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outside of the card…The gold doilie just retired so hopefully you still have a few in your stash.

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Supplies used…You can see my work surface which is a large desk blotter. I turn the calendar pages over after the month is done and use it to pre-clean my stamps before I clean them with my stampin scrub and stampin mist. If you have been following my CASEing series, you will see the doggie test run towards the bottom and then faint images from pre-cleaning stamps in the corners.

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Our valentine designer series paper this year is Painted with Love Specialty. It features gold throughout the collection with melon mambo, rich razzleberry and peek-a-book peach combinations. A nice change from real red images.

Thanks for stamping with me today!

The Sale-A-Bration brochure is online at my store here. Customers, hosts and new recruits are rewarded for ordering, party sales and signing up to be a demonstrator on my Super Awesome Stampers team. Check out the brochure and then contact me if you have questions about ordering, hosting or being a demonstrator.

Thanks for stamping with me today. Have a nice weekend!

Super Awesome Stamper Shirley

I did a Facebook Live today sharing how to make the swirl pop up. I was able to publish it to Youtube so can share it on my blog here. HTH and thanks for watching!

Visit your local chocolatiers #gailambrosious #chocolatecaper #chocolaterian for luscious, chocolatey goodness!