Monthly Archive: August 2016

Garden in Bloom

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Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for August 2016.  We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes.  This month we are featuring projects using our favorite Stampin’ Up! cutting tools. There are so many wonderful punches, framelits and edgelits available that help make paper crafting more detailed and fun! We hope to provide you with lots of ideas and that 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 Garden in Bloom All Occasion card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

When it comes to Stampin’ Up! products, I find the punches and framelits the hardest to resist.  Please keep this between us, but I may own almost every punch Stampin’ Up! has made since 2003. This is information we don’t need to share with Superman.  I would tell him if he asked, but fortunately, he’s never asked. 🙂

Anyway, I made this card with the brand new Layering Ovals Framelits.  The flowers are from the Garden in Bloom stamp set. The flower is raised on dimensionals and splattered with the black marker.  Both these things make the card really pretty in real life.  Do you like the matching envelope?  When I send a card, I want the recipient to be excited about it from the moment they pull it out of the mailbox.

StampinUp Garden in Bloom All Occasion card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Since the envelope is cute, the inside of the card needs to be cute too.  The flowers are all embossed using Versamark, black ink and Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder.  I colored them in with using ink pressed into the lid of the stamp pad and an aqua painter.  Who needs adult coloring books?  If you color on a card instead, you actually get to send it to someone and brighten their day.

StampinUp Garden in Bloom All Occasion card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I almost always make my cards with someone in mind to receive them.  This card has no recipient, so if you would like to receive this card in the mail, please comment at the top of this post.  I’ll randomly pick someone and hopefully brighten their day!

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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! 

Blog Hop Line-up:  

  1. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
  2. Rae Harper Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts
  3. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
  4. Jeanie Stark at Just Stampin’
  5. Kim Jolley at Stampin’ Artfully
  6. Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo
  7. Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
  8. Jennifer Michalski at Stamping Serenity
  9. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
  10. Lynn Tague at Beyond Beaches & Blessings
  11. Brian King at Stamp with Brian
  12. Amy Hoptay at Craft Carnivore
  13. Debra Simonis at Deb’s Stampin’ Grounds
  14. Jackie Diediker at Stampin Jackie
  15. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
  16. Karen Zaring Browning at Stamp With Me KZB
  17. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
  18. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
  19. Pam Dotts at Clearly Southern Stampin’
  20. Susan Itell at Simple Stampin’
  21. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
  22. Becky Volpp at Inkblossomwithbecky
  23. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
  24. Sherrie Gross at Stampin’ Sunshine

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One Wild Ride

StampinUp One Wild Ride birthday card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

My Aunt Irene is having a birthday and she rides a Harley, so One Wild Ride is the perfect stamp set!  I love the combination of Harley and pink and sparkly.  Hope your birthday is awesome Aunt Irene!

StampinUp One Wild Ride birthday card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I also love the tire track on the envelope!

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Have I shared my DIY summer project with you?  Several years ago my kids wanted a backyard trampoline, but Superman was worried someone might get hurt.  Later, I decided to ask for a trampoline for Mother’s Day and Superman gave in.

StampingMom trampoline DIY by Beth McCullough. Please see card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom #StampingMom

We’ve had the trampoline a long time and the springs are starting to rust.

StampingMom trampoline DIY by Beth McCullough. Please see card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom #StampingMom

So Abby and I went to WalMart and bought 16 $1 pool noodles.  I used a utility knife and cut each noodle lengthwise.

StampingMom trampoline DIY by Beth McCullough. Please see card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom #StampingMom

I then cut the noodles into 6 pieces, the length of each spring.  My trampoline has 96 springs.

StampingMom trampoline DIY by Beth McCullough. Please see card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom #StampingMom

Isn’t it cute?!  I love it!  Did you also notice I also have a “Hosta Farm” under my trampoline?  My friend Teresa gave me a few hostas several years ago.  I’ve been growing them under my trampoline and then moving them out to areas around my yard.  My yard is full of hostas now.  So…are you wondering who jumps on the trampoline?  As the kids were growing up, lots of days after school we would go out and jump, talk and I would listen to my kids.  This summer I didn’t always have a kid at home, but I still jump even by myself.  (Remember, I was a gymnast!)  I like to go out in the mornings and weed, water, and take card of my flowers and vegetable gardens.  Before I go back in, I usually jump on the trampoline.  It’s a great way to get your heart rate up fast. I always hope no one sees me.  The neighbors have never mentioned it.  They are probably embarrassed for me!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

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Casing a card

Among card makers we have a phenomenon called CASE or casing.  One definition I’ve heard is, “Copy and Steal Everything.”  I CASE cards all the time.  Sometimes I change the paper or the layout.  Sometimes I take one element I love from three different cards and put them together on a totally different card.

I saw this card recently that used a little star for the “dotted i ” in Birthday using the Stylized Birthday stamp.

StampinUp birthday card made by Marlene Heringer.

Isn’t Marlene’s card cute?!  Well when I saw it, I knew I wanted to make a card with the Stylized Birthday stamp and put a cute star to dot the “i”  I haven’t made my cased card yet, but it’s on my list.

I love it when people comment on my blog, “like” my StampingMom page on Facebook, or follow me on Pinterest.  After being a stay at home and work at home Mom (accounting and bookkeeping business) for 26 years, I’m thrilled with every little bit of affirmation I can get.  For some reason, my children don’t compliment me on my laundry skills, thank me for cleaning the kitchen, or tell me I did a good job driving them to school.  🙂

Well, Jan Ross commented on this card.

StampinUp All Occasion card made with the Flourishing Phrases stamp set by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

And then she took it one step further.  She CASEd it and sent me a picture.  This truly makes my heart happy!  Thanks Jan for taking the time to comment and also to CASE and send me a picture.

StampinUp card made by Jan Ross.

I love your cards Jan! Notice how she used the same black Flourish Thinlit flower with two Enamel Shapes dots, layered the “Just a Note,” but used different DSP and changed the layout.

I hope you feel inspired to CASE one of my cards and send me a picture!  I’d love to share them here on my blog.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂