June challenge WINNERS!!!!xx

Hello ladies!

Thank you ALL so much for playing along with us and inspire us with your beautiful work!!!

We had a lot of awesome entries!!!

REMINDER:

We have decided to make a few changes in our sketch challenge rules!!! THE BEST ENTRY WINS and there will be one random winner too!!!The Merit Winner gets to Guest Design in a future month - once they have received their Purple Pumpkin product of course! !!

 NO NEED TO USE PP to be the winner!!!!

However, if you DO happen to have some Purple Pumpkin products on hand we'd love to see how you use them so spread the word, we can't wait to see what you do with our sketch this month!!xx"

So.......

The design team has voted and our winner is.......................

Alz

We all loved her attention to details, the lovely Christmas colors and her great take on the sketch!!! Her use of Purple Pumpkin products (although optional) I think that made her page stand out !!

Huge congrats Alz! You have won $25 to spend in the Purple Pumpkin shop. 
Just place your order as normal and put "June Winner" in the comments. (The amount won't come off your order automatically, but just take the $25 off your total :)) 

Please send an email to "vartig12(at)yahoo.com" if you wish to be our guest designer for next month's sketch!!! In the subject line write "Sketch winner"! Thank you!!xx

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 26. sue schubert Australia 

Now, the Random Winner for April was this precious layout by Sue Schubert. Congrats Sue! You have won $15 to spend in the Purple Pumpkin shop. Just place your order as normal and put "June Random Winner" in the comments. (The amount won't come off your order automatically, but just take the $15 off your total :))

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Featured layouts!!

And as always, we are featuring a few layouts that have caught our eye!!!!

This layout by Miss Jane C. came second only by one point difference!!!

Amazing work Jane!!! You deserve big Congrats too!!!

Next up is Violette with this stunning, yummy page!

4th place is this beautiful layout by Jo! We all fell in love with her use of sequins!!

And a tie for 5th place between Lizzy Hill with this fun and bright layout!!

and Katie with this soft, girly, beautiful layout!!

Thanks again to everyone who entered the June Sketch Challenge. For more chances to win, make sure you enter the July challenge too!...and remember......may the best entry win!!!

Have a nice creative day!!xx

Upcycled loofah brush by Yvonne Yam

Hello there Purple Pumpkin fans! This is Yvonne here to share with you an upcycled loofah brush project brimming with Purple Pumpkin goodies;)

Love this photo of my nephews in the garden...so I thought a bumble bee fabric button would be the perfect embellishment. 

Love that the polka dotted fabric buttons make great mats for the cute photos! :)

"The look" by Vicky Varvadouka

Hello everyone!!xx
I tried something different this time....white space...few embellies...what do you think??

This is my DD Ioli who is soooooo sweet and sooooooo clever! When she wants something, she has many ways to become irresistible and get it!!!!

"The look"

Beautiful Green Tara & Purple Pumpkin goodies!!!!!!!!!

This mask is by Susan K. Weckesser and the colors are distress inks!!
 Washi tapes are all Purple Pumpkin!!!

Splatters by dylusions, prima mask "photo Camera" painted with distress inks, I love the color of this PP flair button!!!

Faux stitching with a Sass Lass stamp and some thread!!

Remember to play along with our sketch challenge and win some PP goodies!!

 You could be our next guest designer!!

read about it --->here!!!

July Sketch challenge!!!xx

Hello wonderful Purple Pumpkin friends!!!

July is here and we have a new sketch by Debbie Burns  to inspire you!!!

• Yvonne Yam

*I used baker's twine, fabric button, crochet doiley and bloom and a flair badge.

• Judith Armstrong
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•  *I kept it fairly simple as the photo is quite busy. I used: cupcake flair button, spotty button top which I altered (I changed the pink button to a purple button to match the cupcake icing), a spotty fabric button and some twine.

• Karen Grose

* I have used - Washi tape, ticket, large fabric button and small fabric button

Vicky Varvadouka

*I have used a doily, a spotty button, red twine and 2 different red washi tapes

• Lisa Wilkinson

You have until the end of the month to complete this Sketch Challenge and link it up in our sidebar by midnight 31st of July 2013. There will be two fabulous Purple Pumpkin prizes!

$25 & 15$ to spend in the Purple Pumpkin shop - one winner will be chosen by the design team, and the second will be a random prize draw. Winner gets to Guest Design in a future month - once they have received their Purple Pumpkin product of course!

Please check out our RULES:

*This is an international blog so anyone in the world can enter.

*You may combine challenges as long as you follow our sketch (only and not other simiral to ours) with a link back to our blog and a picture of the sketch.

* No digital projects are accepted.

* The winner will be chosen by our design team after voting and can be the guest designer for next month. There will also be a second random winner!!!

*Projects must be linked up to our linky tool in the sidebar, using the URL of the ACTUAL POST not your entire blog.

* We would love to comment on your entry! Please make it easier for as by turning OFF your word verification. If spam is a problem you can enable comment moderation.

Post your pages on our FACEBOOK wall whenever you use our products too!!

Thanks for visiting Purple Pumpkin today and good luck!

Project Life Week 18

Hi, Lisa here again with more Purple Pumpkin love!  I am back to share with you a simple sweet layout of our everyday.

Project Life Week 16, 2013

Here is the Left Page

Here is the Right Page

I layered and stitched the crochet doilie on one card

 and also a pretty polka dot button

I love how a few little Purple Pumpkin supplies finished off this layout perfectly!

You can find the crochet doilies HERE
and the polka dot button HERE.

I Could Kiss Every Freckle On Your Face - by Debbie Burns

Hi everyone, Debbie here with you today to share a layout!

In case you are wondering how I came up with the title of my layout, I snag pictures from my friend's FB page and usually use her comments about the picture as a title.  This cute little boy is her son.

Lots of Purple Pumpkin goodies on this one!

A cute little bird fabric button here

and

here.

Here I've added a Purple Pumpkin felt flower and a small house fabric button.

I hope I have inspired you with my layout.
There are still a few days left to join our monthly sketch challenge.
You don't have to use any Purple Pumpkin products (even though we would love it if you did!)

Happy Creating!
. . . Debbie

Guest designer Arnlaug Koppang

Hi! My name is Arnlaug Koppang and I'm a 31 year old "girl" from a small island at the west coast of Norway. I've been scrapping since 2008 but I would say it's the last 2 years my creativity really hit the surface. And now I'm totally in love with this hobby;-)  I love scrapping because it's a hobby for both memory keeping and creating art. When I scrap my mind relaxes and takes me away from the busy everyday life. 

I love to use social medias and I'm active on my blog, on facebook and also pinterest. Check out my blog here: Arnlaugshobbykosekrok. 

I'm currently on the designteam for a great sketchblog in NORWAY, Skissedilla. The blog is one of the big ones in Norway and we now get more and more international contributers aswell. I am really proud to be on the team with these great girls! Please pop in to play along sometime:-)

I'm also on the DT of a british online-store called A Sprinkle of Imagination and The Color Room.

I am a scrapper with a lot af variety and can't say I have one particular style. But I have to say I'm having a blast when I'm playing with mixed media:-)

I am so honored to be a guest designer here at Purple Pumpkin. Hope you'll all enjoy my projects:-)

I just love Purple Pumpkin products and have managed to build up a great selection of PP goodies in my stash. I was doing the happy dance when I got my kit with supplies:-)

Ok, here we go. My first page is a mixed media layout. There is A LOT of different mediums on this. The idea for the page came when I saw the flair button with the rainy cloud. It reminds me of how the summers often are here in the west coast of Norway. The photo is taken right after we came home from a lovely vacation in sunny Spain, and it shows how much fun kids can have even without sunny weather. 

To make this page I used what ever I had of scraps of paper, fabric, plastic and tags and glued them down. Then I added all kinds of different mediums before covering it all with glimmer mist. Then I embellished a bit here and there. I like to have a few elements popping off the page and also a few things matching it. 

The flair button is just perfect and you'll find loads of different kinds in the PP shop.

I also used a fabric covered button which I sprayed with some glimmer mist and water to make it blend in to the background. I did the same thing to the crochet flowers. On the bottom right you can see a bit of washi tape. The PP shop has a huge selection of Washi tapes. Love them!

Tucked behind some of the flowers are a wooden button and a few blue tickets.

My next layout is a bit different. When I saw the heart button I instantly knew I had to scrap a photo of my girls who are getting closer and closer each day. I had to add some texture on this layout aswell;-) For the background I used a stencil and some molding paste. I added a touch of red using paint. 

For my embellishment I used this gorgeous fabric button and to match it a beautiful felt heart. I also added a strip of washi tape on the right side. 

For my last project I wanted to make a card. I'm not much of a card maker but I'm trying to do something about it;-)

When I saw this darling Panda bear Jumbo Button I just fell in love. I thought about putting it on a layout but then I  figured it would be perfect for a card trying to cheer someone up. This is a really simple card made by layering many different Washi tapes. I added a stamp and last but not least the Panda bear button. Isn't it just to cute?

Ok, this was a long post I know;-) Hope you're still with me and enjoyed my projects. 

Thanks for having me:-)