Monthly Archive: February 2016

Plank Heart

StampinUp love card made with the Hearts Framelits, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMomplankheart2

If you’re a card maker where do you get your inspiration?  I took this picture at a church I recently visited.  I really think the plank heart is beautiful in front of the stone wall.  I wish I would’ve cut my planks a little narrower to be more similar to the heart at the church.

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I also get inspiration from Sketch challenges and used SSC119 for the colors on this card.  My heart is made with Cherry Cobbler, the brick wall is Sahara Sand sponged with Smokey Slate and layered onto Early Espresso cardstock.

I made this card for a family whose hearts are broken because of the death of their 18 year old son.  I feel so much empathy for them and can’t imagine many things worse than losing your child.  The community can see God’s light shining through this family during this difficult time.  The family attends the church where I took the picture and the heart was there at the time of their son’s death.

Hug your kids today.  Sean, Ryan, Abby and Keegan, Dad and I love you so much!  God loves you too!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

StampinUp love card made with the Hearts Framelits, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Pals Blog Hop

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Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for February 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes.  This month we are CASE-ing a project shown in a current Stampin’ Up! catalog. After all, with the Annual, Occasions and Sale-a-Bration catalogs available right now, there is much inspiration to choose from. We hope you enjoy our creations.

You may just be starting the Blog Hop or may have come from the previous link from the Line-up on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below.  The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you may see all the projects.

StampinUp birthday card made with the Balloon Bouquet Punch, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom    StampinUp birthday card made with the Balloon Bouquet Punch, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom 

Do you think there is too much “party” in the card above to the left?  I toned it down in the card on the right.  I’m curious which one you like better?

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Above is the card I CASEd from the Occasions catalog on page 47.  Do you see they marked it “Quick & Easy” in the catalog. Yep, that’s my kind of card.  In fact I already CASEd this card back in December, please see that card Here.

StampinUp sympathy card made with the Bold Butterfly Framelits, designed by demo Beth McCullough. please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I needed a Sympathy card so I CASEd it one more time.  I love the new Timeless Textures I stamped behind the butterfly.

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Some of you have been asking about the kids results from the State Speech contest last weekend.  Abby is a junior and her Television Newscast Performing group was selected for All State!  Keegan’s One Act play did well, but was not selected for All State.  He is now practicing for a vocal solo contest and will soon be trying out for Valley High School’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical.  We’ve been teasing him that he probably shouldn’t try out to be a Oompa Loompa.  Keegan is too tall at 6’3″!

Please leave me a question or comment.  I’d love to hear from you!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

StampinUp sympathy card made with the Bold Butterfly Framelits, designed by demo Beth McCullough. please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Thanks for visiting. To continue with the hop, please refer to the Blog Hop Line-up below. We hope to see you on next month’s Pals Blog Hop! 

 

  1. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
  2. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
  3. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
  4. Jennifer Michalski at Stamping Serenity
  5. Kelly DeTommaso at Kelly’s Creative Corner
  6. Denise Hoepfner at The Mountain Magpie
  7. Debbie Crowley at expressively deb…
  8. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
  9. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
  10. Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo.com
  11. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
  12. Susan Itell at Simple Stampin’
  13. Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
  14. Jane Knudsen at see jane stamp
  15. Peggy Noe at prettypapercards
  16. Julie DiMatteo at The Paper Pixie
  17. Nancy Gleason at My Stampin Space
  18. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
  19. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
  20. Kim Jolley at Stampin’ Artfully
  21. Rae Harper at Wild West Paper Arts
  22. Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
  23. Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stampin’ Habit!

“Sweet 16” Birthday Card

StampinUp Sweet 16 birthday card made with the Large Number Framelits, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom.com

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We went to our very good friend’s house for the Super Bowl tonight.  It was so much fun.  Good food, good game and good conversation!  Their daughter had her sweet 16 birthday today.  I wanted to make her a very fun card for her special birthday so I checked out PalsPaperArts for this week’s sketch.  Gracie liked the card and the Paper Pumpkin  I brought for her gift.  Paper Pumpkin is an awesome craft project in a box that arrives every month.  You should check it out!

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Abby and Keegan’s groups both got all 1’s at the State Speech contest on Saturday, so we’ll find out tomorrow if either group was chosen for All State!

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Blessings,

Beth 🙂

StampinUp Sweet 16 birthday card made with the Large Number Framelits, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom.com

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