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Paper Pumpkin Kit Hearts For You January 2025

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Paper Pumpkin Kit January 2025 Contents

It was a rainy Sunday afternoon yesterday so the perfect time to get out my January 2025 Paper Pumpkin Kit, Hearts For You. If you aren’t already a Paper Pumpkin subscriber and you didn’t get this kit in the mail maybe a week ago and you’ve GOT to have it, I can help you out a little bit on that! Stay tuned!

The weekend always seems like a good time to work on a Paper Pumpkin Kit. It certainly was a good time to work on this kit and get a bunch of Valentines made instead of at the last minute! If you aren’t familiar with Paper Pumpkin, it is a monthly subscription program for creative success! Paper Pumpkin subscription kits are designed for anyone who wants to quickly and easily achieve beautiful, handcrafted projects—anytime and anywhere! You’ll get a new project every month—one that’s great for all types of crafters.  Inside the box and the pretty tissue paper, you’ll find a pre-designed, pre-cut paper crafting project. Everything is ready to stamp and assemble. The only thing you might need is a scissors. The kit even comes with adhesives! And anyone can make these projects, whatever they are!

In the photo above, you see I have opened up my box and the packages inside with all the supplies, have the directions out, and the exclusive stamp set. Your first kit will come with an acrylic block for mounting the stamps. Every kit also comes with one ink spot. I usually hoard mine and use my regular ink pad but the 1″ ink spots don’t take up hardly any space! There is always a video of the assembly of the project that you can watch, and I do like to watch it, but the pictorial directions in the box are easy to follow. It tells you exactly where to put the adhesive and how long the string or ribbon should be, etc.

Of course, you can always “go rogue” and make your own creations with the supplies you are given in the kit. There are always alternate designs you can find online using the kit.

Here are the three designs of the finished cards! You also get matching envelopes and in this kit, foil hearts to seal the envelope flap!

Paper Pumpkin Kit Hearts For You January 2025

It was funny, when I made my first card (which is the second card in the top row), I stamped the hearts and greeting, tied on the twine, glued that piece to the marbled card base and I thought “Well, this card is okay but it lacks some pizzazz!” Then I realized I hadn’t added all the “things” yet!! There was the champagne foil outline of a heart, a smaller champagne foil heart, and the large Flirty Flamingo diecut heart with the foil accents. I added those things and then discovered there were also tiny little heart gem embellishments!! Once I actually completed the card with all the intended supplies, I thought it was beautiful for a valentine!

The second card I made was the bottom one in the photo. That card had a really creative background – lines of attached small white hearts! All I had to do, thought, was put the dimensionals on the back of each row, punch them out and adhere to the very faint guidelines shown on each card base. It went perfectly smoothly adhering all those rows of hearts! Then it was just a matter of adhering the two diecut hearts one layered on another, adding the foil word “Love” and stamping the little banner to put below the word Love. To complete it, I just added a twine bow.

The very first card in the photo was probably the easiest except for adding the dimensionals to the back of the foil heart so they wouldn’t show! But the directions showed how to cut one of the dimensionals in half to make them smaller. It worked fine.

All three cards for Valentine’s Day are very pretty and were fun to make! If you would like to get this kit, this is how you can do it. First of all, you must subscribe to Paper Pumpkin to purchase any extra full kits that are available or the refill kits. In this case, it looks like there is a Hearts For You Paper Pumpkin Refill that is available. With the refill kit, you will not get the ink spot and you will not get the exclusive stamp set. But if you have any stamps in your stash, you probably have an assortment of heart stamps and greetings that you could use on these cards, and if not, you can draw your own hearts with a red marker or red pencil or cut some out of red paper. You can write your own Valentine message on the banners with a marker or pen if you don’t have appropriate stamps. Just be creative! Actually, the only stamping you would need to do would be the card with all the hearts and on the greetings. And even if you omitted the greeting, the cards would still look pretty on their own!

If you are interested, subscribe to Paper Pumpkin and then order the Refill right away so it doesn’t sell out. It will count toward your Sale-A-Bration total as well! Once you subscribe, if Paper Pumpkin is not for you, then simply go into your account and cancel, or skip a month. It’s easy and no risk or obligation.

If you are already a subscriber and you’d like another kit or two to make more valentines, just order this Hearts For You Refill Kit right away!

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Hearts For a Valentine’s Day Card

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This Hearts For a Valentine’s Day Card has to be one of the quickest and easiest cards I’ve ever made with no idea of what I was going to make! I know that sounds crazy, but yes, I didn’t know what I was going to make until I got out the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper and looked at the Hearts of Elegance Dies. Since I hadn’t tried all the dies yet, I just chose one. Then after diecutting with that, I chose another heart shape, and another one, and another one. Pretty quickly I had this card made!

The card base is Melon Mambo cardstock. There are several coordinating colors listed for these designer papers, but I mostly keep coming back to Melon Mambo….or Real Red on some cards I made. First I chose the second largest heart die, the one with the pierced border around the edge. I used a piece of the Marbled Elegance Paper, thinking at first I would use “the other side” and not the marbled size. Luckily, in my package I already had a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece cut and luckily, I centered the heart die on this paper. After I cut it out it looked like the best idea was the adhere the negative piece to the card base with the marbled side up. I thought it was so pretty with that heart opening in the center. I didn’t even use the heart I had just cut out, but I saved it for another card another time.

Next I cut out another smaller heart from another piece of the marbled paper and placed it in the center of the open heart space. It needed something, so I cut out a larger heart from Gold Foil. Then for one more heart, I diecut a small gold heart with the decorative edge to place in the center. As you can see, once the hearts were all stacked on top of each other they looked so pretty!

I already had this greeting stamped and cut out in my scraps so I just adhered that flat in the corner of the card. For a moment, I thought about using the banner in the Mixed Labels Stamp Set to go across the hearts, but I liked the greeting I already had so I kept it simple and just used that. If you are trying to make a quick card, don’t overthink everything.

You could pop up some of the hearts or the negative piece on the card base. You could add some embellishments for a little sparkle. Or you can just leave it simple as is because the Marbled Elegance Designer Paper is so pretty on its own! It’s named Marbled Elegance for a reason!

You’ll find these supplies in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives!

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To the Point Punch Berry Burst Card

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To the Point Punch Berry Burst Card

Sometimes you don’t even know how or where you came up with an idea for a card, and this To the Point Punch Berry Burst Card is one of those! I just had the idea of using this new punch in this design so I just started stamping and punching. And it worked out!

The card base is Berry Burst, one of the colors in the Brights Family. I don’t use this color a lot, but it is what I chose glancing at my cardstock. The Basic White layer on top of the Berry Burst is stamped with the little flowers in the Bright Borders Stamp Set. They are just randomly stamped around on the cardstock because the background needed something.

I stamped the outline image on Basic White with Berry Burst ink. I chose one of the greetings from the Bright Borders Stamp Set to stamp in the center. For the other two side border pieces I stamped the flower from the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set. I punched those out, but after placing them on the card, I decided they needed a Berry Burst layer behind them. I trimmed down each white stamped piece with Paper Snips, then punched three Berry Burst pieces with the To the Point Label Punch. I adhered the stamped pieces on the punched pieces and then they could show up better on the card.

The center border image is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals, but first I applied Stampin’ Seal to the back so I could wind the Gold Twisted Thread back and forth on the back so some loops would stick out from the sides. For a little more embellishment, I added two gold dots from the Low Profile Dots.

That’s all there is to this card. It is monochromatic but you could add other colors instead of making your card monchromatic.

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Storybook Moments Village Gate Fold Card

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Storybook Moments Village Gate Fold Card

This Storybook Moments Village Gate Fold Card is made with the pretty Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper. You will find this paper and entire Suite in the Spring Mini Catalog. I had the idea of putting the patterned paper with little cottages on it on the inside of this card. When I looked at the diecut sheets and saw these two characters, I thought they looked like the lady and lord of the manor on the inside of the card!

This is called a gate fold card because the two sides of the card fold in and meet in the middle. There is nothing complicated about it! To make this card base, cut the Old Olive cardstock at 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ as always. Then score at 2 1/8″ from each horizontal end so that those two ends fold and meet in the middle. The inside panel will measure 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. When you fold in the two side panels to the center they should meet up perfectly. If they overlap a tiny bit which prevents them from laying flat, just trim as slightly as you can with your Paper Trimmer to help them fit next to each other.

On the inside center panel, I adhered the paper on the Storybook Moments DSP that has images of lots of little cottages. It looks like a little scene when you open the card. That paper would be 4″ x 5 1/4″. On the outside folded side panels, the DSP is cut at 1 7/8″ x 5 1/4″. This designer paper is “the other side” of the paper that has all sorts of different frames and designs in rectangles that can be cut apart to use on cards or scrapbook pages. As you can imagine, it was very difficult to cut into that paper to use the other side and ruin some of the images on the “main” side. But I really liked this leafy side so I gritted my teeth and cut into the paper! Sometimes you have to do hard things! 🙂

The center panel is a piece of Old Olive cardstock cut at 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″. You can vary the size for your card if you want it smaller or a different shape. The layer on top is Flirty Flamingo 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″. It happens to be an embossed piece of scrap cardstock in the package, embossed with a retired folder called Scripty. I decided to use it because I liked the little bit of texture it provided in the background, even though it is retired.

The two sheep characters on the square panel are images you will find on the pages of diecuts that coordinate with this Storybook Moments Designer Paper. That is why it is called “Specialty” paper because it has these extra two sheets of all kinds of diecut images, ready to go! These two “lords of the manor” are just glued flat to the card although you could pop them up on Dimensionals. They fit just right on that square.

The greeting is stamped from the Layers of Beauty Stamp Set which I haven’t used for awhile and almost forgot about. You will find it in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. I stamped it on a narrow strip of Basic White cardstock and flagged both ends. To help it work just a little better with the card, I sponged the edges very lightly with Old Olive ink and an old piece of sponge I had that Stampin’ Up! used to sell. You could use Sponge Daubers or one of the Blending Brushes. We used to do this all the time when I started stamping and I rarely do it nowadays, but I think it is the perfect touch sometimes.

When you adhere this center panel to the card, you will adhere it to the left front panel. Only put glue on the left side of the square so that it doesn’t also stick to the right side panel. Sometimes it’s hard to remember not to put the glue everywhere! Don’t ask me how I know!

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On the inside of the card, if the cardstock you used for the card base is rather dark, you might want to put plain cardstock on the inside of those side panels. I used Basic Beige which looks good with the cottage paper in the center. You can stamp a greeting or write a personal message on those plain inner panels. Or you could cut or diecut a plain piece for a greeting adhered to the inside center panel, even though it covers some of the cottages.

Any gate fold card similar to this one is easy to make so I hope you will try one!

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Hearts of Elegance Love Book Card

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Hearts of Elegance Love Book Card

Here’s a fun Valentine to make! I used the book fold design which is easy to do and just gives a little different look to your card. You can make this Hearts of Elegance Love Book Card with this design and decorate it for any occasion.

To make the book fold card, cut a piece of cardstock at 4 1/4″ x 11″. Score at 4 1/4″ and 5 1/2″. Basically, you are cutting a sheet of cardstock in half vertically, scoring in half at 5 1/2″ and adding an extra score line at 4 1/4″. That’s the line that makes this a book fold card. Before adhering that book fold together you can choose to wrap some ribbon around the inside to tie on the front or punch two holes in that side book fold for some ribbon and a bow.

The card base for this card is Real Red. I adhered a 1″ x 4″ strip of the Cherry Cobbler color in the Festive Glimmer Paper. Even though it is not Real Red, I think it looks fine on the card. Before glueing the book fold, I wrapped around a very long piece of Gold Twisted Thread twice and then tied a bow. After having the book fold how I wanted it I glued it together with Multipurpose Liquid Glue or you could use Stampin’ Seal.

The front of the card is decorated with a piece of the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper. It is cut at 4″ x 4″. You could make it smaller and add a layer underneath if you wanted. This designer paper has gold foil marbled designs on it which is what makes it extra-special and fancy to use on Valentines and other special cards.

To decorate the card, I diecut three hearts with pierced designs with the die in the Hearts of Elegance Dies. These hearts are Gold Foil, Real Red, and Petal Pink. Before I decided on these three hearts, I used some of the other heart dies to cut out extra hearts and the ones I didn’t use I just saved in the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set case. As long as you are diecutting, go ahead and make some extras of general things, like hearts, that you can use any time!

Here’s a tip for diecutting gold foil without leaving marks on the foil from your very used cutting pad! Place the dies on the cardstock you are cutting, then place a scrap piece of computer printer paper over the whole piece of gold foil. Run it through the Cut & Emboss Machine and the paper will protect the gold foil from looking scratched up!

For the greeting I stamped the “Love You” sentiment on Basic White cardstock in Real Red ink, but I chose to cut out around the word “Love” and also trim the word “you” just into a rectangle. It’s plenty easy to trim around a word or phrase like this for a different look to your sentiment just by taking your time, cutting outside the inked lines for the word and don’t go into every nook and cranny of the stamped word! Just use Paper Snips or some other sharp small scissors that allow you to twist and turn the paper to reach the areas you want to cut.

Everything is glued down flat, but you could pop up the sentiment or one or more hearts if you wanted to. For some extra embellishment, I added three Petal Pink dots in the Low Profile Dots. These are great because they do not stick up on the card barely at all so they won’t poke holes in the envelope when you mail the card! On the inside, put a layer of Basic White, maybe trimmed with a piece of the designer paper or a stamped or diecut heart so you can stamp a message or write a personal note inside the card. Then mail your Valentine or special card to someone who will be happy to hear from you!

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Marbled Elegance Trio of Valentines

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Marbled Elegance Trio of Valentines

If you want to make some easy Valentines, here is a design for you!! I think I could have made 100 of these! Well, maybe not, but I did make these Marbled Elegance Trio of Valentines! They were easy and fun and came to me right away! All you really have to do is get out the beautiful Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper and start cutting!

The card bases are just Basic White cardstock. If you have the Thick White cardstock it might be a good idea to use that or you could use Melon Mambo for a card base, then Basic White for a layer and the center design would just be a little bit smaller than these measurements.

The side of the designer paper could vary a little bit, but I cut mine at 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″. Obviously I used one of the marbled patterns with the gold foil accent marbling. It doesn’t matter which one! I layered the designer paper on a piece of Melon Mambo cut at 3 3/4″ x 3 3/4″.

Since there is plenty of space at the bottom of the card I simply stamped the greeting in that space right on the card. Now, it might be a good idea not to glue anything on the card until after you stamp the greeting in case it doesn’t come out well! But if you have everything glued down and the stamping isn’t perfect, just cut a label or banner or shape, stamp on that, then adhere over the boo-boo. On these cards I used Melon Mambo ink. All of these greetings are in the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set.

I made each card a little bit different. On the first card, all I added was one gold foil die cut heart with one of the hearts in the Hearts of Elegance Dies. You can purchase the stamp set and dies together in the Hearts of Elegance Bundle and save 10%!

On the second card, I liked that middle heart cut out of the designer paper but it still needed something. I added two diecut Melon Mambo hearts on each side of the DSP heart. For a touch of embellishment, I simply tied a bow with the Gold Twisted Thread and adhered it to the center heart with a Mini Glue Dot just rolled up into a teeny tiny ball. This Gold Twisted Thread is part of the Marbled Elegance Suite or you can purchase it separately. The middle heart is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For the third card, I diecut the fancy heart with the pierced design in Gold Foil. I popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. And for a little more pizzazz, I added three Gold Dots in the Low Profile Dots package.

With only the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper, some diecut hearts, and a greeting you can make a very pretty card….or even three!

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“Hello Spring” Paper Pumpkin Kit For February 2025

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Paper Pumpkin February 2025 Hello Spring

It may be difficult to think of spring while lots of us are smack dab in the middle of winter, including snowstorms! Not here in Houston, of course, except for feeling cold to us when anyone in a real winter climate would think our temperatures are spring-like! My husband even has lettuce, radishes, and carrots coming up in his garden box on the patio!

Nevertheless, you can get a taste of spring with this “Hello Spring” Paper Pumpkin Kit from Stampin’ Up! If you subscribe to Paper Pumpkin between now and February 10th, you will receive this kit in the mail mid-February!

Kit Details:

Plant the seeds of happiness with these lovely garden-inspired cards!

Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs
• Precut pieces with bronze foil
• Unique spring-themed envelopes
• Coordinating colors: Basic Beige, Bubble Bath, Lemon Lime Twist, Lost Lagoon, Old Olive, Petunia Pop (Classic Stampin’ Spot)

Coordinates with the Grow with Love Bundle (item 164804)! One of the Stampin’ Up! New Arrivals online!

Each kit comes with all the supplies you need to make the project inside, except for scissors! You get an exclusive stamp set, a Stampin’ Spot 1” x 1″ ink pad, embellishments, cards and envelopes. It’s really fun to open the box and see what is inside, even if you have seen pictures online! Seeing it in person is always better. I like to say Paper Pumpkin is the gift you give yourself each month, a treat you get in the mail, just for you….or maybe you’d like to share the fun with a family member or friend! You can always order more than one kit in your account. And if you have a busy month coming up, you can always skip that month and look forward to the next month’s kit! No risk, no obligation. Cancel any time if you don’t feel Paper Pumpkin is for you. You can always come back!

These kits are designed for everyone! New crafters, non-crafters, and experienced crafters! Sometimes it is nice to just open the box and there is a project already designed for you and everything at hand that you will need. A video is always available online if you like to watch the assembly (I do!!) and you will always find alternate ideas for using the kit various places online if you feel more adventurous.

Don’t wait! Go ahead and join Paper Pumpkin now so you will be ready for the February Kit!

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Find Out More About Sale-A-Bration 2025!

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Sale-A-Bration Brochure 2025
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Stampin’ Up!’s biggest annual promotion, Sale-A-Bration, has already begun so don’t delay! This special promotion has been going on for years and yet it is always fun to earn FREE products from Stampin’ Up! With every $60 you spend at Stampin’ Up! on any products (before shipping and tax) you can choose a FREE product in the special Sale-A-Bration brochure! You can choose from stamp sets, designer series paper, embellishments, an embossing folder, and even a card kit! If you spend a larger amount, for $120 you can choose from the Heart Shaped Bundle or the intriguing Corner In Bloom Stamp Set. Or instead of one of the $120 level products, you can choose two of the $60 level products. Spend $180 on Stampin’ Up! products and earn three free $60 level products, PLUS Stampin’ Rewards because your order is $150 or over. With an order of $300 (a party order with others or an individual order) you can choose any extra $30 worth of products!

Watch this video below and see what Sale-A-Bration has to offer!

And if you’d like a closer look at the designer paper and sample projects, enjoy this video!

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Storybook Moments Easy Card

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Storybook Moments Easy Card

Here’s another easy card, almost like the one I made in yesterday’s post! It’s the Storybook Moments Easy Card, and it is fine that it is so simple because the paper is so cute in the background! Yesterday when I made the Quick and Easy Bright Borders Card I said I used one of the generic patterns on “the other side” of the cute paper. Today I used the themed side of the paper with the cute little squirrel and flower images.

The card base is Boho Blue cardstock. It coordinates with the Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper has darling images of little animals, gardening images, and countryside cottages. Plus you get two sheets of diecuts to go with the papers. You can use them on cards, scrapbook pages, or other projects.

Today I just flipped over the paper I used yesterday so I was using all the little squirrels swinging, playing, and doing other fun things. I made the same type of greeting as I did yesterday using the Bright Borders Stamp Set and the To The Point Label Punch. I stamped the border with Boho Bue ink and punched it out. To help it stand out a little bit, I also punched a piece of Boho Blue cardstock and cut it in half horizontally. Then I adhered it with some glue to the back of the top and bottom of the label which leaves a little white space on the back, but no one will see that. You have a choice of putting those points of the border at the top or to the side. Either way works. I liked them at the top and bottom.

For a little bit of embellishment, I added two gold Low Profile Dots in the center of the flowers at the top and bottom. These dots are great because they truly are “low profile” so they won’t stick up and poke the envelope when you mail it. This package has gold and light pink dots in several different sizes. They are great to have in your stash.

Remember, if you shop with a $60 purchase in mind, you can earn a FREE product during Sale-A-Bration at Stampin’ Up! through February 28! No limit to how many products you can earn with the proper qualifying amounts!

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Quick and Easy Bright Borders Card

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Quick and Easy Bright Borders Card

This Quick and Easy Bright Borders Card is indeed quick and easy and fun to make with new products! It’s a good card design to keep on hand for when you need something “quick and easy”! And remember, quick and easy isn’t necessarily “less than” a super fancy card with all kinds of papers, textures, and embellishments, maybe a fancy fold or two. Sometimes “quick and easy” is just as elegant as anything fancy you could make.

I used the brand new Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper for the card layer. The card base is Lost Lagoon which is one of the coordinating colors of the designer paper. This paper is called “Specialty” because it contains two sheets of diecut designs. These will really be fun to play with! This paper is part of the Storybook Moments Suite Collection with lots of products included.

Although the main sides of this Storybook Moments Designer Paper have the cutest little images of bunnies, squirrels and other animals plus gardening images, for this card I chose “the other side” of the paper which can be used for almost anything. I love the colors and design.

For the greeting, I stamped one of the border images and greeting in the Bright Borders Stamp Set with Lost Lagoon ink. The new To The Point Label Punch works with this stamp set perfectly. After playing a little bit, I decided I wanted a layer under the punched greeting so I trimmed off the edge of the stamped border image so that I could punch out a piece of Lost Lagoon cardstock which would be larger than the stamped image so I would have a layer. If you don’t want to do this fussy-cutting, you can punch out the label shape and cut it in half horizontally or vertically and use that for a layer on the sides or the top and bottom.

For some embellishment, I adhered some white ribbon back and forth behind the label and popped up the whole greeting on Stampin’ Dimensionals. This ribbon is part of the Petal Pink and White Diagonal Trim Combo Pack. Additionally, I added two Lost Lagoon gems in the Tinsel Gems Three-Pack. If you will be mailing this card, you may want to adhere the greeting flat on the card so that the gems won’t interfere with mailing.

Be sure to check out the amazing number of new products that became available on January 7th at Stampin’ Up! And remember that it is also Sale-A-Bration, a promotion where you can earn free product with each $60 purchase. Have fun shopping!

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New Year! New Products Galore at Stampin’ Up! Today!

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Spring Mini 2025 and Sale A Bration Catalogs

New Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog Is LIVE TODAY….

Plus It is Sale-A-Bration Time!….And More!

Today is like Christmas or your birthday at Stampin’ Up! So many new things! And what do we stampers like better than NEW PRODUCTS! Not only do we have the new January-April 2025 Mini Catalog (I like to call it the Spring Mini for short!) but Sale-A-Bration has started! Sale-A-Bration is a big promotion Stampin’ Up! has held “forever” almost and we love it because we get to earn FREE products from the Sale-A-Bration brochure with every $60 purchase (before shipping and tax, of course).

Scrapbooking Brochure Jan 2025

New Scrapbooking Brochure for January 2025!

This Scrapbooking Brochure for January 2025 incorporates new scrapbooking products available without waiting for a new catalog! You will have to scroll through the brochure online to take in all the new products available! Read the description of each. You’ll find 12″ x 12″ cardstock, designer series paper, sticker sheets and diecut images, and more! This is great for starting your New Year getting into Memory Keeping that we all just put off!

SU Online Exclusives January 2025 Partial Flyer

New Online Exclusives For January!

Check out this Flyer of new Online Exclusives for January!

SHOP HERE for ALL the Online Exclusives! Remember, these are available as long as supplies last and as long as Stampin’ Up! can restock anything that sells out.

Kits Collection New Products Jan 2025

There are 3 new Kits released today in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection!!

The Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection makes it easy for ANYONE to craft and make beautiful creations! Each Kit contains all the supplies you will need except maybe a scissors, if that! Follow the directions for the project OR change it up however you like! There will be information in the instructions of where to go for more help with the kit, if you need it.

Brightest Birthday Kit

Thank You Kindly Kit

Birthday Bash Kit

Just check out the Stampin’ Up! website, click all around, and you’ll get caught up with all the new products! I know after the Christmas holidays it is difficult for me to take in all the new information but I hope this post and links will be helpful to get you started! Remember, anything you REALLY want, be sure to order early just in case certain things sell out quickly. You never know what the most popular things will be!

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Easy Celebrate Love Hearts Card

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Easy Celebrate Love Hearts Card

With the Christmas holidays and children home for two weeks altogether, coming and going, I haven’t had time to play with my new pre-order products for the upcoming Spring Mini Catalog on January 7th! I almost don’t remember what I ordered, but I will catch up! One thing I noticed I had was this new ephemera pack so this was something great to use to make this Easy Celebrate Love Hearts Card.

I got out the Celebrate Love Mix & Match Ephemera Pack and checked out what the coordinating colors were on the back of the pack. Pretty in Pink was one of the several colors so I started with that as a layer on a Basic White card base.

You see three precut heart images from the ephemera pack on my card, but that actually is just one in the pack. You can leave it that way or you can punch the pieces apart and use all or one or two of the hearts. There are also greetings in the pack. I loved the precut long flower image but wasn’t quite sure how to use it on my card. It took me a couple of minutes to somehow lay out the three individual hearts the way I did and then I felt like I was on my way to making a card I would like.

The long, curved flower stem was still a problem, but don’t be afraid to cut it apart as I did! That gave me two stems of flowers that were a size that fit my card better. I liked the way they looked just placed along the sides of the two hearts. I popped them up on Stampin’ Dimensionals when I was ready to adhere them to the card.

The third heart in the lower right of the card looked best placed over one of the colored hearts in the ephemera pack. These are sized just right for this purpose if you want some color underneath the white diecut heart. That heart is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals also.

It was easy to choose a greeting for the card and this one was in the Celebrate Love Ephemera Pack. I just adhered it flat on the card. You know I had to try out some of the new embellishments coming in the new mini catalog! I used the Pretty In Pink dots in the Party Dots package. They are fairly flat so good for mailing.

It still seemed like the card needed “something” so I used the Pretty In PInk Stampin’ Blend marker to add some very small dots on the white hearts. I was hoping this wouldn’t ruin the card, but I did like it. Not one to leave well enough alone, I wondered what some tiny little hearts scattered around in the background would look like, even if I ruined the card, I took the brush end of the Stampin’ Blend and made little hearts. If you push down a little on the brush tip and then lift up as you pull down a tiny bit you will make one side of a heart. Do it again on the other side and you’ll have a cute little heart!

That’s my Easy Celebrate Love Hearts Card that I made a little more involved than I first intended! It still was easy and would certainly be easy for you to copy! You can make this card with just the ephemera pack and none of the extra things I added to this card…except, of course, maybe the Party Dots! It’s just too fun to add some dots, gems, jewels, sequins, or whatever to a card for a little bling!

Get ready because the new January-April 2025 Mini Catalog is going live on Tuesday, January 7th, along with Sale-A-Bration! Try to order at least $60 so you can get a free product from the SAB brochure!

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Sign Up For the January 2025 Paper Pumpkin Kit

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It’s a New Year and a new year for Paper Pumpkin, the fun monthly subscription from Stampin’ Up! Each month a new Paper Pumpkin Kit will be delivered right to your mailbox. This January 2025 Kit, Hearts For You, will be the fun Paper Pumpkin Kit perfect for Valentine’s Day! Or of course any time you want to send hearts to someone throughout the year!

Paper Pumpkin is a monthly, all-inclusive crafting kit that you subscribe to. Each kit includes a photopolymer stamp set, Classic Stampin’ Spot, and step-by-step instructions to complete exclusive paper craft projects, including cards, tags, and gift packaging. There is no obligation to subscribe for any length of time and you can go into your account and skip a month any time you need to. Stampin’ Up! guarantees each Paper Pumpkin Kit so if you ever have a problem or question about your subscription, you can contact them and they can assist you. Here at the beginning of the year is a great time to try out Paper Pumpkin or come back if you were a past subscriber given there is no risk, obligation, or pressure to continue.

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KIT DETAILS

JANUARY: Hearts for You
Subscribe December 11–January 10
Create heartfelt cards for Valentine’s Day, Galentine’s Day, and beyond!
• Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs with 9 envelopes
• Heart-shaped precut pieces and stickers
• Twine and heart gem embellishments
• Coordinating colors: Flirty Flamingo, Petal Pink, Real Red (Classic Stampin’ Spot)

Since this will be useful for Valentine’s Day, keep in mind you can order more than one kit in your account if you’d like to make more than 9 cards! Order a couple of kits to make with your children, grandchildren, or friends for fun!

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Heart Shaped Thank You Card

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Heart Shaped Thank You Card

Here’s a new card for 2025 and one using a new product! This Heart Shaped Thank You Card is an easy one to make with just stamping and a little scissor-work! My diecutting products are still put out of the way for Christmas so I didn’t want to pull those things back out just to make a card at the time. So it was back to “just stamping” which often feels good to do, like back in the day when we didn’t have a die-cutting machine and dies and embossing folders. Keep it simple.

The card base is Real Red with a layer of Basic White just to set off the designer paper a little. The patterned paper is the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper which is in the Marbled Elegance Suite. This was a new Online Exclusive back in early November when most of us weren’t interested yet in something that would work for Valentine’s Day, not that it can only be used for Valentine’s Day as you can see, but we were into the Christmas holidays.

The stamp set I used is the Heart Shaped Stamp Set, a freebie in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. It is actually part of a Bundle that you can get FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $120 purchase beginning January 7th. That is only days away now!! While mostly you get a single product with every $60 purchase during Sale-A-Bration, Stampin’ Up! always includes a couple of bundles or combination of products that you can earn free with a larger purchase. I really liked the stamp set since it CAN be used for Valentines but also lots of other occasions, even just to say “Hello”. The Sale-A-Bration Bundle also comes with a set of dies, but as I said, since my Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine is put away right now, I only used the stamps.

I did copy a sample in the Sale-A-Bration brochure for this bundle but I used different designer paper in the background and I only stamped the heart, I didn’t use a diecut shape. That’s how you can use the samples in catalogs to get ideas but still put your own spin on it if you like. The heart is stamped with Garden Green ink on Basic White. The little flowers are stamped in Real Red and I just cut those out with my Paper Snips. A little tedious when I could have used a die but that’s what I wanted to do in the moment. The greeting is in the stamp set and is stamped in Real Red ink on a narrow scrap of paper that I still trimmed down to be very narrow and short with my Paper Trimmer. I flagged the ends of the greeting and popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The white banner piece is cut first at 2 3/4″ x 3 1/2″. Your measurements can vary. I just tried to get a size that didn’t take up too much space on the card, so it is basically the width of the wreath with a little margin on each side. At the bottom I put a tiny pencil mark at the center, which was about 1 3/8″ and maybe about 3/4″ down from each side. Then I just used a scissors to cut a diagonal from each side. Or after you cut one diagonal piece on one side you can flip it over and put it in the corner of the other side and use that as your cutting guide to get the same size. The whole banner is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals also.

While you could “fancy up” this card a little bit with some ribbon or gems, I opted to leave it simple. You wouldn’t even have to cut the banner shape at the bottom. Just cut a square or rectangular shape or use a diecut.

When January 7th arrives and Sale-A-Bration and the new January-April 2025 Spring MIni Catalog go live, if you spend at least $120 be sure to check out the Bundles you can choose on pages 12 and 14 of the Sale-a-Bration brochure. But you can also choose the individual products with each $60 purchase so for $120 you can choose two products rather than one bundle. Yes, the qualifying order did rise to $60 this year instead of $50 as in the past, but the past has been “forever” so maybe it was time to raise the dollar amount a little bit.

I hope you enjoyed this first card of the New Year. There will be lots more to come in 2025!

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