Last night was the moment to spend some relaxing time making my January 2026 Paper Pumpkin Kit, Special Delivery. Paper Pumpkin is the monthly treat you get in your mailbox when you subscribe! Usually, the kit is for making cards, but sometimes it is something different. This kit even had a specially designed box that is worth saving. The pretty boxes are nice for storage, and we all have plenty of supplies that need storing! While this kit came with Valentine stamps (mostly), the cards are just pretty ones that you could send any time.
I always love opening up the box with everything wrapped in tissue paper and all the supplies sealed up. Then you get to open that package and see what goodies you got to make the project. Adhesive is even included! Usually it is dimensionals and sticky strip tape. Sometimes you get sparkly gems to use as embellishments. Each kit comes with an exclusive stamp set and ink spot. I tend to save my ink spots and use my regular ink pads. There is even a video you can watch to see the whole process from unboxing to assembling the cards or project, if you want a little extra help besides the printed instructions.
Paper Pumpkin is a kit that comes to you in the mail and there is no risk or obligation. Just go into your account after you subscribe and you can skip a month or cancel your subscription any time by the 10th of any month before the next kit gets billed and sent out. It’s good for beginning crafters or those who just like to get a project already planned out and all the supplies in one box!
Join Paper Pumpkin before February 10th to get the cute Celebrate Spring Kit!
Subscribe January 11–February 10 Craft whimsical handmade cards that celebrate Easter and sweet spring days. • Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs with 9 coordinating envelopes • Precut paper pieces and pink baker’s twine • Iridescent pink and yellow sequins • Coordinating colors: Balmy Blue, Crumb Cake, Lemon Lolly, Peach Pie, Pretty in Pink, Shy Shamrock (Classic Stampin’ Spot)
I’m here to tell you that if you like to make easy Valentines or a lot of Valentines, this Love Notes 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper is for you! Put it on your order right away! If I didn’t already own this package of paper, but I saw this pattern with the little heart flowers, I would buy it just for this sheet of paper! This Love Notes pack of paper has 8 sheets of each of 6 double-sided designs, so that’s a lot of paper you can use making multiples. Some papers are 6″ x 6″ full sheets, but lots are cut-apart designs to be used for making Valentines, tags, scrapbook pages, cards, or whatever you are making. Just trim down the designs you want to use. You can make them smaller than the design on the paper if you like or use part of the design or fussy-cut it for something different. Once you start playing you might not be able to stop!
This photo above gives you an idea of what the papers are like. You can easily cut out one of these square designs or the other larger and smaller designs to make whatever design you want on your card or project.
My sample card today has a card base of Garden Green cardstock. The designer paper layer on the card is exactly what the 6″ x 6″ paper looks like except that I trimmed it down for my card. It comes with that diagonal design on the left side of the heart flower garden. I trimmed it down so the side design was only 3/4″ of an inch wide, and of course trimmed down the whole sheet to 4″ x 5 1/4″ to fit on the card front. I didn’t have to add the extra diagonal piece on the side because it was already part of the paper!
The center focal point is one of the square designs on one of the cut-apart papers. It is 2 3/4″ x 2 3/4″. I layered it on a square 3″ x 3″ piece of Petal Pink cardstock and popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Now this is one of the rare cards that I did not embellish! No ribbon, no sequins, no gems, no sparkle! I wanted to show you how EASY this card was to make and yet it is still very pretty even without any extra things or work!
On the inside of the card, I added a Basic White layer for a stamped or handwritten message or greeting and I added one of the scrap strips from the heart-flowered paper to the side of the white layer for a little decoration inside the card.
While a lot of this paper is Valentine-themed, you can still use a lot of it for other occasions. So if you need some paper for Valentines and wonder what you will do with the rest, I’m sure you will be able to use it beyond (or before!) Valentine’s Day.
Here is the new Paper Pumpkin Kit for January 2026! This Special Delivery Paper Pumpkin Kit will help us start the year off right! Personally, I don’t even have to see what is in the box, I want THE BOX! Look at how pretty it is! This is a box you will likely want to save for storage or gifts or anything after you make the kit.
This Paper Pumpkin Kit will arrive in time for making valentines with sweet postage stamp designs and sentiments for love and friendship. But what is Paper Pumpkin? It’s a complete papercrafting kit that arrives in your mailbox every month after the 10th unless you skip a month or cancel. All the supplies you need except scissors are included in the kit, even adhesive. Plus an exclusive stamp set and an ink spot, like a tiny ink pad for this project. You can follow the directions and photos on the brochure included and also watch a video! The kit is fine for beginning crafters and people who don’t have supplies to make cards and other projects. All you need comes in the box! You can also look online at what other people make sometimes with alternate ideas with the supplies in the kit. So if you want to change up the project sent to you, you are free to do so! It’s your kit!
• Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs • 3 different coordinating envelope designs • Precut paper pieces with gold foil accents • Coordinating colors: Blueberry Bushel, Bubble Bath, Darling Duckling, Garden Green, Mossy Meadow, Poppy Parade (Classic Stampin’ Spot
I think this is going to be a Paper Pumpkin Kit we will love, and we probably will be able to use these cards not just for Valentine’s Day but for other occasions as well!
You must subscribe to Paper Pumpkin by January 10th to get this kit and that is less than a week away!
Go ahead and subscribe to Paper Pumpkin right now so you won’t forget! And once you are a subscriber, if you see a past kit or refill (no stamp set or ink spot) you like, you can purchase it. If you already have a subscription, you don’t need to do anything. If you skipped the December Kit, be sure to go into your account and make it active for January.
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!
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!
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 beautifulMarbled 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!
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.
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!
The December Paper Pumpkin is being sent out and now it’s time to sign up for Paper Pumpkin so you get the next kit in January! I couldn’t believe I was writing 2025 in the post title! But this will be the fun Paper Pumpkin Kit you can receive in your mailbox mid-January 2025 which will be perfect for you-know-what…..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.
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, you can order more than one kit in your account if you’d like to make more than 9 cards!
Love is in the air! Send a little love to someone special with the Sending Hearts Paper Pumpkin Kit. From heaps of heart-shaped elements to paper pieces in red and pink, this month’s kit has everything you need to create eight adorable cards—with coordinating envelopes—for Valentine’s Day, anniversaries, and every celebration of love in between!
With the add-on to January’s sweet and sentimental kit, there’s even more love to share! The add-on—called Little Love Boxes—includes 20 tiny, printed boxes and 24 die-cut, heart-shelled snails and sentiment labels. When combined with the remaining components from the Sending Hearts kit, you can create treat packaging, additional cards, and so much more! Order the Add-On from the Stampin’ Up! Online Store after becoming a Paper Pumpkin subscriber.
Who doesn’t love making Valentines and sending them? I think Valentine’s Day takes us back to our childhood, to elementary school, when we would decorate shoeboxes or lunch sacks in which to receive our valentines from our classmates!
Today is the LAST DAY to sign up for the January 2021 Paper Pumpkin Kit, Sending Hearts! Sign up TODAY or reactivate your account so you will receive this kit mid-January!
