Sneak Peeks - Sale this Friday!

It's nearly SALE TIME!!!

Our SALE will be at 7pm THIS FRIDAY 25th of May in the Purple Pumpkin Shop. Check out these sneak peeks of our NEW ELMO KIT!






Each kit will contain 2 XL Elmo buttons, and an assortment of matching buttons and embellishments. Perfect for scrapping those toddler layouts!

Make sure you keep an eye on the blog and our facebook page, for more sneak peeks leading up to the sale, and to be in the running for $50 to spend in the shop on sale night, make sure you go HERE :)

Hi, Sarah here :)

Brrrr its freezing cold here in NZ this morning - great weather to stay indoors and craft (I wish) but my daughter has her school cross country event today so I will be standing in the cold cheering her on. I should get some good photos anyway :)
I have a girlie page to share this morning. Over at 'Scrap the Girls' the current challenge is a quote. Here is my page - full of Purple Pumpkin goodies!

I used my spray inks and new 'Dylusions' (Ranger) mask  for the background. I love making my own 'arty backgrounds' with inks, masks and stencils. The gorgeous yellow and denim flower that I used as the focus for my embellishments is ofcourse from Purple Pumpkin. I pulled it apart to remove the smaller flower and little button from the centre. I replaced these with a larger blue spotty PP button and used the little yellow flower on the corner of my other photo to balance out my page. I used the green PP tickets to emphasise my title - I have a Tim Holtz ticket stamp (designed for the ranger ticket stamp set) that fits perfectly on these PP tickets too. The little green doily peeping out from behind my larger photo was a perfect colour match for my photos. I often cut my doilies in half to spread them out further - no use covering up something that pretty now is it??

Sorry I don't have any close up photos for you today - my camera battery died and I can't find the charger (the joys of having sticky fingered toddlers around the place!!). Instead here is another page that I did this week using PP goodies. I have already put it up on my blog but if you haven't seen it here it is again :)

It is based on a sketch over at the challenge blog 'Sketches with a Twist'. The gorgeous denim flower is PP and ofcourse so is the green ticket and the bakers twine.

Have a great week everyone - wrap up warm and find some time to stay inside and create :) - Oh and don't forget the next PP sale this coming Friday!

Hi from Vicky!

Hello lovely Purple Pumpkin followers!

I hope you all had a great weekend!

I decided to participate for the 1st time at CSI challenge blog!

There was a great color combo with blues and greens so it was the perfect chance to use my blue buttons and twine!

I LOOOOOOVE the flowery buttons!!! And that cute rabbit is so impressive!!

And for my hidden journaling tag, I used blue, light blue and lime green twine!

This color combination is perfect!!!

Don't forget to participate in our sketch challenge until the end of May for your chance to win some yummy goodies!! Also be ready for the sale on the 25th!!!!!!

Have a nice day!!!

My 3 P's of scrapping

Hi Everyone,

My daughter stated Prep this year and I felt like I started school again too!  This week's letter of the week was the letter "P" and with all the P words rolling around the house, it got me thinking about my 3 "P's" of scrapping.  I just love "products" of every kind and "piling pretties" on my "pages" so it was hard to "pin" down just 3.  But these 3 did "pop" up a lot!!

1.  Pink pattern paper,

2.  Purple Pumpkin and  

3.  Prima.

and today's layout is a very good example of that!  Created to show the change in my daughters wardrobe from all the pretty pink dresses to her new school uniform.

I know how you all love close ups... Doilies, buttons and twine all teamed with Prima.  I love using the small doilies as part of a flower cluster with a brad through the centre.

How yum is that Pink/Yellow twine, the perfect match to my colour scheme.

Now I don't know about you, but I have plenty of Prima and quite a bit of Pattern Paper in my stash, but a little birdie told me there will definitely be some new Purple Pumpkin goodies at the next sale that I will just have to have! 

Hope you all can make it!

Gwen

Hi Ladies

Well i hope you had a lovely Mother's Day, spending it with family and friends.I recieved some lovely scrapping goodies, what a surprise.(not really a surprise when you buy it yourself). Well now to show you the latest page i have done.

Dont you just love the large denim flower with the green spotty button, and how cute is the bee button.

Then i have used the twine by threading it through the wholes of the boarder punch, and another spotty button.

Well thanks for stopping by and having a look , did you notice the date and time for the next SALE is up.
You DON'T want to miss out on it, SO MARK IT ON YOUR CALENDAR.
And you still have time to enter this months sketch comp.  Ok, see you soon.
This page was done using a Sketchabilities sketch.

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Lately i seem to be scrapping alot of photos of my family.... Its nice to remember the happy and great times shared together. We don't often get a chance to do things that involves ALL family members but on these occasions ....i love them!!!!

Some close ups:

I just love the earthy tones in these buttons and hessian lollipops too. The bright doileys make these pop also when placed on top.This layout i created for Scrapjacked. If you haven't checked out this challenge site you should.

Easter has been and gone, although there is still a stack of easter eggs in my fridge! This layout is based on the Kraft It Up May challenge. Bridget just loves this time of the year, and of course she has no chocolates left!

These little bunny buttons were perfect for my easter themed layout.I LOVED THEm so much that i completed another easter themed layout for Lime Tree Creations challenge.

and a close up:

So you can see that the Purple Pumpkin Embellishments are very versatile and can be used on alot of themed layouts

Happy "Hump" Day, Scrappers!!

Good morning, it's Chantal with you today! I've got another bright layout to share with you all... (oh yes, you may need to reach for your sunglasses again...LOL!)

I've been really enjoying using sketches quite alot at the moment. This layout is based on one of the latest challenges this month at Creative Scrappers...


It's an unusually busy sketch, so I decided that a busy sketch calls for some busy photos! This was so much fun to create. I've done some different things for this one, like I actually stuck all my photos onto white cardstock first with tissue tape around the edges. Then I cut around the photos (cutting the photos freehand) to leave a much thinner tape border. In doing this, I have then been left with a funky bordered photo plus a matching sized piece of cardstock (which was underneath - but now not attached) to layer with! Fun!

I have also been inspired by the colour combination of the packaging for Morrocanoil... :D Do any of you get inspired by funny random things like that for your scrapping? I do, quite a bit!


I've cut up one bright blue Purple Pumpkin doily to make "splashes" around the photos and I've used NEW "Shore" Light Blue Baker's Twine to replicate the wavy movement of the swimming pool. Love that heart button there too... all these lovely goodies are from Purple Pumpkin's store. :)

Don't forget about our very own sketch challenge right here! We've had some fantastic entries so far! There's still plenty of time to link up your creation using our sketch on our sidebar. There will be two fabulous Purple Pumpkin prize packs to give away - one winner will be chosen by the design team, and the second will be a random prize draw. How cool is that?!

Thanks for looking and have a lovely day!

Cheers,
Chantal :)