12 Alternative January 2021 Sending Hearts Paper Pumpkin Projects

Do you send Valentine's Day cards? I don't usually send them to family and friends, but this year, I am! I want to make sure they know I am thinking of them and that they are loved! The January 2021 Sending Hearts Paper Pumpkin kit is perfect for making cards to send to family and friends! 

Even though the projects are professionally designed and ready to complete, I always love the challenge of using the kit pieces in different ways to create alternative projects. Here's what I came up with the using the January 2021 Sending Hearts Kit:

One way to consider the patterned card bases is to cut them in half and adhere the card front to a solid piece of cardstock. I cut smaller pieces of the card front to use on these cards.

Don't forget to decorate the inside!

Since I made a sampler with the Christmas kit and the Halloween kit, I decided to make one for Valentine's Day. This one is SUPER simple since I used the big pieces from the kit and cut two pieces from the Poppy Parade card base (1" x 3-1/4" and 2" x 3-1/4"). I spaced them all out on a 8" x 8" piece of Basic Black cardstock

One of the first things that I thought of doing with the heart stamp is making a butterfly! I trimmed down the tag to round the sides for the butterfly body. 

Same layout, different focal image. I stamped row of snails and used the die cut snail from the Little Love Boxes Add-On to highlight the "hi valentine" sentiment. Which color variation do you prefer: Petal Pink or Poppy Parade?

This Paper Pumpkin Kit was Valentine cards, so Paper Pumpkin released a coordinating add-on kit that includes materials to make 20 treat boxes with 24 die cut tags and 24 die cut snails. I love these cute little snails and all of the work is done for you! (They also coordinate perfectly with the Snail Mail Suite from the January-June Mini Catalog. Here's a simple way that I decorated the box by adding a 1-1/2" Pool Party circle and a white twine bow.

Here are some more Little Love Box projects created by the Paper Pumpkin team:

Here's another set of simple cards that I created with the cute snails! I think I will give the black card to my hubby and the lighter card to one of the kids. Which one do you like best?

Every other week, I do a creative challenge with my team. We usually focus on a card layout. Here's the card that I made for this week's challenge.

Here's the sketch that I used for this card.

I try to limit the extra supplies that I use when I create alternative projects. For this kit, I add solid color cardstok (in the coordinating colors: Petal Pink, Poppy Parade, and Basic Black) and the Heart Punch Pack.

I've been making an effort to decorate the insides of all of my cards instead of leaving them blank. For this card, I created a simple pop-up! The 3" x 3" square (with 2-3/4" x 2-3/4" patterned cardstock) is attached to the 1" x 4" pop up piece. (Score every inch.) Check out my video below to see how to assemble the pop up (around 23:00).

Watch my video for tips and details about all of these projects:

Here are some more alternative project ideas created by the Paper Pumpkin team at Stampin' Up!

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