3D Gifts

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.

If you give small gifts to your coworkers at Christmas, I think this calendar will be well received.

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 🙂

 

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for July 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! Designer Series Paper as well as coordinating embellishments. What we love about Stampin’ Up! is they make it so easy to mix and match colors. And, the amazing selection of embellishments provides a wonderful finished look to our projects. 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.

I love making these Coaster Calendars plus Post it Notes!  The Affectionately Yours Specialty DSP is stunning!  The shiny part is beautiful Copper.  I also love the coordinating 3/8 Ruched Ribbon in Flirty Flamingo.  The calendar is 3″ x 2 1/4″.  I bought them a few months ago here.  Unfortunately, they are out of stock.  For the calendars I made last year, I bought the calendars here.

Here’s the side view showing how you can set it up on your desk.  I also bought the chipboard several years ago.  I make these calendars every year.  Last year Stampin’ Up! sold chipboard so you could cut your own 4″x4″ and corner round the edges.  You can google chipboard or I did find coasters today here.  Hopefully they are they same.  I’ve never purchased chipboard coasters from this company.

Here’s the Post it Note side.

I love bright and happy colors!  I have every color of bright and happy Fiesta dishes.  Well, the Affectionately Yours Specialty DSP reminds me of my Fiesta because it’s also so bright and happy.  I typically give away most of the projects I make, but this Coaster Calendar plus Post it Notes is going to be sitting on my stamping desk through all of 2017!

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I only have one video on my You Tube channel and it’s the directions to this Coaster Calendar plus Post it Notes.  Please have grace if you choose to watch my video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbs62Az6oX0

If you’d like to see more videos with directions for my projects in the future or have any questions, please leave me a comment at the top of this blog post.

I made this video a year ago and Stampin’ Up! no longer sells the Coaster Board. Leave me a comment and I can tell you where you can purchase the coasters.

Blessings,

Beth

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. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
3. Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
4. Amy Hoptay at Craft Carnivore
5. Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
6. Kim Jolley at Stampin’ Artfully
7. Karen Gooch at Inker’s Workshop
8. Pamela Sadler at stampin pink rose
9. Sherrie Gross at Stampin’ Sunshine
10. Karen Zaring Browning at Stamp With Me KZB
11. Becky Volpp at InkBlossomwithBecky
12. Susan Itell at Simple Stampin
13. Jennifer Spiller at Westside Paper Creations
14. Maggie Mata at Maggie Made Cards
15. Laura Schollaart at Laura b’ Stampin’
16. Lynn Tague at Beyond Beaches & Blessings
17. Shannon Jaramillo at ShannonKayPaperie
18. Pam Dotts at Clearly Southern Stampin’
19. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
20. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
21. Jennifer Michalski at Stamping Serenity
22. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
23. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
24. Rae Harper-Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts

 

This week’s Use Your Stuff Challenge Blog #UYS229 challenge is to make a project with fruit or vegetables.  Please join the challenge here.  Since strawberries are a favorite at our house and we have our own small strawberry bed, I decided to use the strawberry paper for my project.

Here’s the back side of the packet.  Isn’t this DSP (Designer Series Paper) gorgeous?!

This picture shows all the beautiful patterns in the Fruit Stand DSP pack.

I used one 8×8 sheet of DSP, a bit of ribbon and some dark chocolate almonds from Trader Joe’s.  Easiest project ever!

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I mentioned our strawberry bed.  Well, here it is.  Yep, Superman built it for me a few years ago.  You might be wondering about the pvc pipe?  I cover the strawberry bed with netting to keep my strawberries safe from the birds and also safe from my sweet pups, Maya and Molly.  I caught Maya “red handed” in my strawberry bed munching away and figured out I needed to secure my netting better.  You might wonder why my pups love strawberries so much? I blame my oldest son, Sean.  When Sean is home, strawberries are his favorite thing to eat.  He also loves our pups so much, he shares his favorite food with them, which in turn made my two pups love strawberries as much as he does. Hence, why I have two strawberry thieves living with me. 🙂

For those of you who don’t grow strawberries, you might be fascinated to learn that each strawberry begins as a beautiful flower.  The yellow center becomes the strawberry.

Here’s some berries after the white petals fell off and the yellow center part formed the berry.  As you might be able to tell, I love gardening almost as much as stamping!  Most days I spend around one hour each morning weeding, watering, picking up sticks and enjoying my flowers and vegetable gardens.  Oh, I also jump on our trampoline, but I’ll save that story for another day.

Today was Keegan’s first day at musical theatre camp.  His day started off bad by accidently dropping his iphone in water and ruining it. After he got to camp things got better.  He nailed his first solo, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from Les Miserables, and was selected for the top group.  He made three new friends from Nevada, IA and reconnected with an old friend he met at The Playhouse a couple years ago.  He’s excited to go back again tomorrow!  He’ll spend all week with three professional actors from Broadway working on singing, dancing and acting.

Since Keegan was at camp, and Abby’s still  a camp counselor at Okoboji, I had to do therapy dogs alone today.  I almost never go alone so I thought about cancelling, but I’m so glad I didn’t.  Maya brought so much joy to so many people today.  One of my favorite gentlemen in Assisted Living was having a really tough day today.  Maya and I succeeded in cheering him up.  It made my heart happy!  I always say that the best way to cheer yourself up, is to cheer up someone else.  It works for me anyway.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂