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Coaster Calendar plus Post it Notes and give away!

StampinUp Coaster Calendar plus Post it notes made with Affectionatley Yours Speciatly DSP designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and 3-D gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

The Coaster Calendar plus Post it Notes that I posted on July 13 has been wildly popular, so I’ve decided to do a give away.  For every $50 Stampin’ Up order purchased from my online store using Host Code UGQHHRVJ, I’ll send you the supplies to make your own coaster calendar.  This includes two pieces of 4 x 4 coaster board, two pieces of Stampin’ Up! DSP cut at 4 1/8 x 4 1/8, one calendar, one small stack of post it notes and two coordinating ribbons.  If you purchased these products on your own, you would probably spend almost $50.  For every $100 Stampin’ Up order purchased from my online store using Host Code UGQHHRVJ, you’ll get the supplies to make your own coaster calendar plus a second coaster calendar completely finished by me.  Here’s the link to my online store.  I only have a limited amount of supplies, so please order soon!  My offer will be combined with the Stampin’ Up! Bonus Days offer in which you’ll get an additional 10% back to spend in August.

I’m a designer for the Use Your Stuff Challenge blog and this week our challenge is to use floral patterned papers on your project.  Please join the challenge here.

new header hinge clearIf you give small gifts to your coworkers at Christmas, I think this calendar will be well received.

StampinUp Coaster Calendar plus Post it notes made with Affectionatley Yours Speciatly DSP designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and 3-D gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Here’s a video I made last year showing how to make these Coaster Calendars.

This will be an exciting week because we are getting on our bikes for a couple days and riding across Iowa.  Isn’t that what everyone does when they become empty nesters for five days?  Here’s a link explaining RAGBRAI.  We are only doing two days out of seven and both days are around 70 miles.  So if you’re wondering if I’ve ever ridden 70 miles on my bike in one day, the answer is no.  Superman has participated a couple days for each of the last four years, so for him 70 miles is no big deal. Superman and I go to cycle classes at our YMCA and I typically ride about 20 miles in 45 minutes.  Never mind that I’m in air conditioning with a fan blowing on me, no possibility of falling down, only fake hills that I create by upping my gears and not on a crowded road.  I did do one day of RAGBRAI two years ago and I loved it!  It was 75 degrees and cloudy, almost no hills and the ride was around 45 miles.  I’ve had it on my bucket list since I was 14 to ride on RAGBRAI, but didn’t do it until I was 50.  I thought I was pretty smart to participate on a beautiful day with short mileage and not many hills.  Unfortunately this year will be much hotter, longer and way more hills.  We’ll see how smart I feel this year. 🙂  My sister-in-law Peg will always be just a cell phone call away.  If at any point I’ve decided I’ve had it, I’ll call Peg and she’ll swoop in and rescue me.  Two of Steve’s brothers, Bill and Mike are going with us.   Please pray for us that everything goes smoothly and no one gets hurt.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

Sunshine Sayings

StampinUp note card made with Sunshine Sayings designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

The Sunshine Sayings stamp set has this adorable flower and leaf.  It also has awesome words in the set.

Sunshine Sayings from catalog

Isn’t it cute?  Did you see you can bundle it with the Sunshine Wishes Thinlits for $45?  With Stampin’ Up’s special this month, you get a $5 coupon to spend in August for every $50 you spend in July.  Who doesn’t want to save 10%!

StampinUp note card made with Sunshine Sayings designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I chose these colors because I wanted to participate in the Sunday Stamps Challenge. #SSC131  I love the bright and happy colors they were using this week.

SSC131F

I see a note card box gift set in my future.  Please subscribe to my blog so you can see the box when I get it done.

If you make Stampin’ Up! cards or 3-D gifts, please follow my Group Stampin’ Up Board here and let me know you want to be a collaborator on the board.  After I send you an invite, you can pin your Stampin’ Up cards and 3-D items to the board.  I just started the board last week and there are already around 650 people following the board, so lots of people will see your pins and projects! Please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com.

Bible school is done and it’s time to start stamping again!  I was surprised how worn out I was after spending a week with 26 first graders.  How do teachers do it?

Abby and Keegan are getting ready to go to a week of Bible camp for “kids only.”  This is different from the family Bible camp that we all go to every summer.  Abby loves that she gets to ride horses every day.  Keegan loves playing a game called Nukem.  They play it on a sand volleyball court.  They are also excited because the camp has a brand new awesome swimming pool.  If it’s as hot here next week as it was this week, they may need to spend all day in the pool. Superman and I will be empty nesters for a week.  It’s a good thing we still have our pups, Maya and Molly to keep us entertained!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

 

 

 

Botanical Builders and more

I have very talented friends on my Stamping team and I thought I’d share a peek at a few of their recent projects!

StampinUp Botanical Builder Framelits card made by Marcelyn Churchill. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Isn’t this beautiful!  Which of Marcelyn’s color combinations do you like better?

StampinUp Botanical Builder Framelits card made by Marcelyn Churchill. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Marcelyn also brought me the fry box below for 4th of July.  I love it!

StampinUp Botanical Builder Framelits card made by Marcelyn Churchill. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Marcelyn would tell you, if you don’t have the Botanical Builder Framelits, you need them!  Look how many ways she has used them lately.

Pat Knight

Pat Knight just joined my team in June.  Isn’t this a darling card!  I’m so glad you’re part of our team!

StampinUp Halloween card made with the Swirly Bird stamp set by demo Lynn Tague. See more card and gift ideas at www.BeyondBeachesand Blessings.com

Lynn is also new to my team, but a long time customer.  She made this awesome Halloween card with the Swirly Bird stamp set. She is so creative! Lynn entered this card on our team Facebook page and won a $40 shopping spree today!  Please check out her new blog here.

StampinUp All Occassion card made my demo Pam Sadler. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampinPinkRose.com

Pam Sadler is a long time member of my team.  She has been blogging for a couple years and has lots of videos.  Please visit her blog here.

I have other very talented team members and hopefully I’ll show you pictures of their projects next time.

Every one of us joined Stampin’ Up! to “purchase at a discount.” If you want to be a discount purchaser, email me at Beth@StampingMom.com  Can’t wait to hear from you!  We have an awesome team within a huge stamping community.

toughtful branches

This is a limited time stamp set and thinlit bundle only available in August.  Discount purchasers got to order it in July!

 

Abby, Keegan and I are having a great time at Vacation Bible School.

Bible School

All the green shirts are shepherds.  Do you see Abby and I?  We have 26 first graders in our group and more kids come each day.  I pray that we won’t lose anyone and that the kid’s experience God’s love for them.  Keegan is helping with Rec Fun, so he basically does recess with the 4th through 6th graders.Thousands of kids attend one of our three sessions of Bible school every summer. We have an Olympic theme this year and “One Goal, One God.”

I’m there for four hours each morning this week and I come home very tired.

Blessings,

Beth