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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Hope you had a nice Valentine’s Day.  I forgot I had already made Steve’s Valentine, so this morning I jumped up and made him this card.

StampinUp CAS Valentine made with the Lovely Amazing You stamp set designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at  www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom Global Design Project #GDP022 #StampingMom

Do you recognize the sketch? It’s the same one I used for Abby’s birthday card yesterday.  Here’s the link to the Global Design Project.

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This afternoon I remembered I had made Steve’s Valentine a couple weeks ago.

StampinUp CAS Everything Eleanor Valentine designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

It’s funny how different they are, but I’m sure Steve probably is OK with the fact he makes my heart happy and that I love him!  I also gave him two bags of dark chocolate.  Since he’s been on his fitness and healthy eating kick he doesn’t eat many sweets, but he still enjoys a bite of fine dark chocolate.

So would you like to see what Superman (Steve) got me for Valentine’s Day?  He got me a dozen red roses last Tuesday from Costco, before the price of roses when up.  It’s true, Steve and I are both ahem… cheap or it sounds better that we’re thrifty.  I actually get flowers from Superman about every other week or two year round.  The good news is during the Spring, Summer and Fall he actually picks the flowers from our yard and puts them in a vase for me.  During the winter he resorts to buying them, but they usually come from Walmart or Costco.  So he came home with red roses for me and yellow roses for Abby.

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OK so the yellow roses don’t look so good, but we’ve had them almost a week and I did accidently let them run out of water once during the week.  The red roses still look great.

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He also went in my stamping office last night and made Abby and I with homemade Valentines.  He does this every year.  Steve always uses punches, but I was surprised that he had somehow learned to use framelits.  I asked him about it and he said he actually cut the big hearts out with scissors.  I think he did way better than I could’ve done.  Good thing I have framelits.

Abby and Keegan received their standard two Reese’s Peanut Butter Hearts in a Valentine box made with the Gift Box Punch Board from me.  They are always happy with this gift.

StampinUp Valentine boxes made with gift box punch board, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gifts ideas at  www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Ryan is away at college and Sean works in Seattle, so they got boxes in the mail.

How to mail Scoteroos.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Typically I can send them almost an entire 9 x 13 pan of bars divided in two layers in a small priority box.  This time they got fewer Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Bars so I had room for two Reese’s Peanut Butter Hearts.  I sent these bars to Sean for his birthday in September and he shared them with his coworkers at Amazon.  The coworkers LOVED the bars and had never had them before.  So I’ve sent them several more times.  I guess they are a Midwest thing.  If you would like the recipe for Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Bars (also called Scotcheroos), please let me know.

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Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

 

Valentine 3 Nugget Box

Have you made treats for Valentine’s Day?  You only have 10 days, so it’s time to get started!

StampinUp Valentine 3 Nugget Box designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom.com

Grab a bag of Hershey’s Nuggets.

StampinUp Valentine 3 Nugget Box designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom.com

Here’s the directions so you can make some Valentine 3 Nugget Boxes.

StampinUp Valentine 3 Nugget Box designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom.com

You might be wondering where I came up with these nontraditional Valentine colors?  Yep, I used the color challenge at Global Design Project.  You should check them out and play along.

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Miss Abby is turning 17 soon, so I’ve been working on her birthday invitations.  I can’t wait to show them to you. Please sign up for my posts to be delivered to your inbox so you don’t miss anything.

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

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

StampinUp Valentine 3 Nugget Box designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom.com

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Valentine Berry Basket and Gluten Free Sweet Treats

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Welcome to our Blog Hop and a happy early Valentine’s Day to you! We have some great ideas, inspiration, tips, resources and how-to for you to have some fun this Valentine’s Day as you move along through the blog hop.

You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from Lisa Milligan at Life on Merlin  on our Living with Style Blog Hop. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog so you make sure to see and learn from all of the articles featured here today.

StampinUp Valentine Berry Basket with Hershey's Hugs designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I love making Berry Baskets for little holiday gifts.  This sparkly Valentine Berry Basket is full of Hershey’s Hugs.

StampinUp Valentine Berry Basket with Hershey's Hugs designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I made a coordinating 3×3 card, sometimes called a love note!

 

StampinUp Gluten Free Sweet Treats- you can find the recipe on my blog www.Stampingmom.com/... Stampin' Up! demo Beth McCullough #StampingMom

A tradition in our family is making Gluten Free Sweet Treats for Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Christmas and other holidays. Back in the day when we first started making this, gluten free wasn’t a thing.  I adapted the recipe and it’s still very yummy!

With the addition of a cute tag, I’m ready to surprise and delight someone!  Stamping can be so quick and easy.  If you’ve never done it, you should try it.

Gluten Free Sweet Treats

  • 8 c. Gluten Free Rice Chex
  • 2 c. Peanuts (I use Trader Joe’s 50% Less Salt Roasted & Salted Peanuts)
  • 1 16 oz. M&M’s ( I typically use the holiday M&M’s)
  • 1 pkg. Almond Bark
  • 4 oz. Snyder of Hanover Gluten Free Pretzel Sticks

Melt Almond Bark in the microwave on low.  Mix in other ingredients and spread onto waxed paper.  Store in a covered dish.

StampinUp Valentine boxes made with gift box punch board designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

My kids love receiving Reese’s Peanut Butter Hearts for Valentine’s Day gifts.  You can put two hearts in each box.

Please see a previous post about the Valentine Boxes Here

I’ve included links to the Stampin’ Up! products I’ve used, below the Blog Hop Lineup.

I’d love to hear your comments or questions.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

The next stop is Jennifer Spiller at Westside Paper Creations  on Living with Style Blog Hop! Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you again next time around!

Blog Hop Lineup:

  1. Natalie Bradley at NatalieBradley.com
  2. Kristy Stewart at Under My Gabled Roof
  3. Lory Robinson at The Robin’s Nest Designs
  4. Pam Baker at The Birch Cottage
  5. Sherry Macdonald at Elite Physiques
  6. Lisa Milligan at Life on Merlin
  7. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
  8. Jennifer Spiller at Westside Paper Creations

 

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