My April 2025 Paper Pumpkin Kit, Inked Occasions, surprisingly was delivered to me on Saturday before Easter! I guess I hadn’t kept up with the tracking and it must have been delivered in the morning by the “package” mail truck because our regular mail came later in the day or evening (!) as is the usual schedule. I was looking forward to this kit becauses I’ve seen this kind of artwork and thought it was interesting and beautiful. When I opened the Paper Pumpkin box, I gasped out loud because the card bases were so stunning with all the colors and the gold accents! It would be fun to actually create the art you see printed on the cards myself, but on the other hand, just making these Paper Pumpkin cards from the kit was WAY easier and less messy! Sometimes you just want to enjoy “easy” and that’s what Paper Pumpkin provides – Just open the box and make the cards or project. No hunting around for all your supplies or thinking up the design in the first place!
In the photo at the top of the page are the three card bases and the extra diecuts to embellish the cards. All I had to do was fold those card bases in half on the score line and then add the design elements according to the directions. Usually I watch the video that is available for each kit but this time I did not. I just dove right in to this Paper Pumpkin Kit rather than setting it aside and then not getting around to making it pretty promptly. That’s how you end up with a stack of Paper Pumpkin Kits that haven’t been made yet even though you really wanted to make them!
This is a closeup of one of the card base designs and a peek at the gold foil words to place on one of the cards. This coloring is just gorgeous!
Here are the other two card bases in the kit. One has the bright colors and the edge of the card on the right side of the photo has the lighter colors in the same style. Once you get the kit in your mailbox, you can do with it what you want! Follow the directions and make the cards as designed. Or strike out on your own and do something different with the supplies! This kit in particular would be easy to cut the card bases in half and use those halves as the layer on another card base from card stock you already have and get twice as many cards! You would need to add your own envelopes of course. And before I forget to mention, the envelopes in this kit have these artistic designs on the corner of the envelope!
And finally, here is the photo of my finished cards! I changed the greetings on some of them to be something I might be more likely to use.
If you would like to have the fun and excitement of receiving your own Paper Pumpkin Kit in the mail, just subscribe HERE by May 10th to get the May 2025 Kit, Mountain Majesties. It is a card kit with a masculine theme. Perfect for Father’s Day and other occasions. But women like mountain scenery too so I don’t see that it is just “masculine”. It’s just that we often find it a little harder to make cards for men, and things in the craft world in general, so when we find something that really works for men, we tend to call it “masculine”. And once you are a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can check out the past kits and refills (refills have all the materials but not the stamp set or ink spot). Any extra kits that Stampin’ Up! has left over will be put online for sale at a certain time after that kit goes out to subscribers.
Check out my blog post HERE telling you about the May Paper Pumpkin Kit!