October winners!!!

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!!!

So.......

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

IrinaR 

You have won $25 to spend in the Purple Pumpkin shop. 
Just place your order as normal and put "October 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 "mywishbooks(at)yahoo.com" if you wish to be our guest designer for next month's sketch!!! In the subject line write "PP Sketch winner"! Thank you!!xx

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Nicolle Kramer (USA) 

Now, our Random Winner is this really gorgeous layout !!! Congrats!!! You have won $15 to spend in the Purple Pumpkin shop. Just place your order as normal and put "October Random Winner" in the comments. (The amount won't come off your order automatically, but just take the $15 off your total :))

Featured layouts!!

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

Алена Гринчук 

Joefil Cate 

Thanks again to everyone who entered our Sketch Challenge. For more chances to win, make sure you enter the November challenge too!

Have a nice creative day!!xx

November Sketch challenge!!

Hello wonderful Purple Pumpkin friends!!!

New month, new sketch, new inspiration by our wonderful design team!!!

Here is the new romantic sketch by Debbie Burns !!!

Judith Armstrong

I used some crocheted lace, a green yo yo flower, some pink resin flowers, and a resin cameo and a musical notes flair.

Karen Grose

 I've used a large fabric button, XL fabric button, flair button, satin flower and washi tape

Yvonne Yam

I used washi tape, twine, fabric buttons and fabric bloom.

Jess Mackenzie

i have used washi tape, a ticket, fabric button, acrylic spotty button & a doily xox

Arnlaug Koppang

I've used two different fabric buttons, washi tape and a denim flower.

Vicky Varvadouka

I used a leather flower & 2 fabric buttons.

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You have until the end of the month to complete this Sketch Challenge and link it up in our sidebar by midnight 30th of November 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 similar 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!!!

NO NEED TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO PARTICIPATE.

*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.

We would love to see your pages on our FACEBOOK wall whenever you use our products too!!

Thanks for visiting Purple Pumpkin today and good luck!

Album Covers by Vicky Varvadouka

Hello everyone!!

In this post I will show you how gorgeous Purple Pumpkin products look on album covers and how they can be used!!

Here I have used a fabric button which has a yellow butterfly on it since the theme was a big butterfly and it's tail...

And another album cover where I have used a pink crochet doily and a pink fabric button with flowers!!

And finally this gorgeous dress shaped vintage album with that magnificent pink flower which you can find HERE!!!

I hope I have inspired you to use some PP products on your covers!!

I have more album covers to show you but in another post!!

Have a nice creative day!!!

"Surprise" by Karen Grose

Hi PP followers.  Another month is almost at an end, who can believe how fast this year is going??  I'm sharing with you my latest creation using plenty of PP goodness on this.  This is a LO of my family at my dad's surprise 60th birthday a couple of years ago.

"SURPRISE"

On here I've used a YoYo flower, a fabric flower  and  a script flair button

And here is a close up of the gorgeous flowers

You can see more close ups and background details on my blog HERE.

Don't forget you still have time to enter in our sketch challenge.  Loving all the entries so far.  

Hope you have a great week, and thanks for stopping by :)

So loved by Judith

Good morning Purple Pumpkin fans. This morning I have a very girly layout to share with you. I have teamed up some Kaisercraft True Romance pp with some Purple Pumpkin embellies for the current Frosted Designs challenge using tags.

I just rediscovered this photo last week, when I took a photo out of a frame to scan. This was behind it. This was taken of my daughter 15 years ago.

Now for some close ups of my Purple Pumpkin embellies. 

Here I have used a sweet floral fabric button

A cute little fawn fabric button.

A vintage rocking horse flair button, a pink fabric flower and dotted around I have some light pink  twine bows.

A pink crocheted doily peaking out.

Hope I've inspired you to pull out some girly embellishments.

Thanks for looking

Judith xx

I heart vintage books by Jess Mackenzie

Heya gorgeous people!

Today I have another CSI challenge (S365-2) to share with you.

Once again I have dug into my purple pumpkin stash for the PERFECT embellishments!!

Here is my layout:

Here I have used a gorgeous flair button: 

Here I have used a cute spotty button flower round:

I hope you are inspired to start creating with Purple Pumpkin goodies :)

Love and Peace xox

Jess

"Happy birthday" - card by Arnlaug Koppang

Today I'm going to show you something I almost never make - a card! I'm really trying to make more to give to my friends and family:-)

A while back I participated in a class of Yasmin. We made a steampunk style canvas.

My card is not in the steampunk style, but I've used the same technique. All you have to do is layer lots of different paper scraps, lace, doilies etc., I've used a doilie and some washi tape from the Purple Pumpkin shop. It's not easy to see but it's there making a nice base for my card.

Then you put on LOTS of different embellishments and junk. It don't have to look pretty together but it looks nicer if you have some kind of "order" in your mess;-) Like gluing strips of paper in the same direction. 

When this is dry you paint everything with gesso and dry it of. And now it's time for the real fun part! Get your mist and choose a few colors and start spraying. this is like magic I think:-)

I love to see something boring or even ugly, get so beautiful in just a few seconds. It's nice to add some black for shade and gold to top it of. I also highlight some parts with gesso. I like to add some stamping and maybe a frame around the card.

 To finish my card up I've printed out "Happy birthday" and glued it on using 3D dots. I've put on a piece of unpainted wood veneer and last but not least this adorable owl button:-)

Thanks:-)