All Occasion

Beautiful Promenade

Festive Friday Challenge

It’s time for another Festive Friday Challenge! I love being a designer for Festive Friday and this week’s challenge #FF0013 is State Fair and/or Turquoise. You can earn points to choose free items from our Festive Friday Store! #festivefridaychallenge To enter, you only need to post a picture of your card to Pinterest or Facebook. I can help you with the link. Please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and I would love to help you. Entering challenges is truly a lot of fun. Please join us!

Tip- You can get the Beautiful Promenade stamp set and Beautiful Layers thinlits dies as a bundle and save 10%.

Stamps: Beautiful Promenade (146842), Beautiful Promenade Bundle (148389)

Paper: Coastal Cabana Cardstock (131297), White Cardstock (100730), Bermuda Bay Cardstock (131197), 6×6 DSP-Brights (146964)-used on the envelope

Ink: Bermuda Bay (147096)

Accessories: Beautiful Layers Thinlits(147043), 1/4″ Mini Striped Bermuda Bay Ribbon (146939), Clear Blocks (118491), Stampin’ Trimmer (126889), Big Shot (143263), Stitched Shapes Framelits (145372), Tufted Embossing Folder (146335), White Stampin’ Chalk Marker (132133)

Techniques: none

I like to use coordinating Designer Series Paper (DSP), or stamp an image on the envelope, so when the recipient gets it from the mailbox, they know it’s happy mail!

You may know I’ve been riding my bike all summer getting ready for RAGBRAI, which is an annual week long bike ride across the state of Iowa. Steve, his brothers and I usually ride two days. This year I had a sponsor, the Iowa Soybean Association. They gave me my bike jersey and bike shorts. Don’t be too impressed, I’m actually friends with the marketing director and she said I could get a high quality jersey and shorts if I wore it on RAGBRAI and posted it on social media. 🙂

Here’s Steve with his brothers at the after party. Did you notice Steve’s bandages? He crashed on his bike during the Okoboji Triathalon last Saturday after a patch of gravel flipped him on his side. He ended up in the emergency room with nine stitches in his arm, a broken finger and “road rash” everywhere. He took five days off his bike and then rode 72 miles today on RAGBRAI. He’s one tough guy, but I hope he slows down a little. 🙂

Which set of ink pads do you want to get for free? Yep, I said free! Email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and I’ll tell you all about it.:) The last chance to get 10 free ink pads is next Tuesday, July 31. Don’t miss out! This is open to anyone in the United States. My Stamping Joy Team has a lot of fun together and we would love to have you join us!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Visit my online store here.
Shop the Clearance Rack here.
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You can always email me at Beth@StampingMom.com if you don’t want to place your order online. I’d love to help you! My current host code is FSHK42KZ . If you order using my host code, you’ll get an additional free gift from me!

Blended Seasons and Sunshine Sayings

Festive Friday Challenge

It’s time for another Festive Friday Challenge! I love being a designer for Festive Friday and this week’s challenge #FF0012 is Friendship Day (Aug 5) and/or Yellow. You can earn points to choose free items from our Festive Friday Store! #festivefridaychallenge To enter, you only need to post a picture of your card to Pinterest. I can help you with the link. Please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and I would love to help you. Entering challenges is truly a lot of fun. Please join us!

Tip- Whenever my card base is white or vanilla, I always use the Thick cardstock. The Glitter Enamel Dots are so pretty and sparkly. How nice of Stampin Up to make them in my favorite colors, except they forgot Bermuda Bay. 🙂

Stamps: Blended Seasons (149016), Sunshine Sayings (141594)

Paper: Melon Mambo Cardstock (115320), White Cardstock (100730), Thick Whisper White Cardstock (140272)

Ink: Gorgeous Grape (147099), Melon Mambo (147051), Granny Apple Green (147095), Coastal Cabana (147097)

Accessories: Glitter Enamel Dots (146934),Clear Blocks (118491), Stampin’ Trimmer (126889)

Techniques: none

Recently I was telling you about my favorite ice cream at Whitey’s in the Quad Cities, and learned some of you already know about Whitey’s. 🙂 Last weekend my family went to Chicago to see the Cubs play and since we drive through the Quad Cities to get there, we all enjoyed a treat from Whitey’s. We also stopped and took Steve’s parents out for dinner. This is Ryan, Steve and Abby at dinner. Keegan stayed at camp where he’s working for the summer. Sean flew in and met us in Chicago.

We all had fun at the Cubs game on Saturday. Saturday night we went to a Irish Festival and got to listen to a great Irish Band, Tupelo, in which Sean’s childhood friend, Dan Kristan, was playing the stand up Bass and Electric Bass. On Sunday Abby and I met up with a couple of our friends, first Aiden and her family and later Jenny and her family. It was great to see them all! The guys went to the Cubs again on Sunday. The Cubs won both games which made it even more fun!

Come join us for a day of stamping at my Stamping Studio in West Des Moines, IA. I promise you won’t be disappointed. Email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and reserve your spot. We have a couple spots remaining. Beginners welcome! If you can’t make it on July 21, you can reserve a spot and come stamp with me on a different day.

Which set of ink pads do you want to get for free? Yep, I said free! Email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and I’ll tell you all about it.:) Two people have already gotten their free ink pads from me this week. This is open to anyone in the United States.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Visit my online store here.
Shop the Clearance Rack here.
Follow me on Pinterest here
Follow me on Facebook here.

You can always email me at Beth@StampingMom.com if you don’t want to place your order online. I’d love to help you! My current host code is FSHK42KZ . If you order using my host code, you’ll get an additional free gift from me!

3 Nugget Box

Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper

When you need a little gift just to show someone how much you care, make a simple Hershey’s 3 Nugget Box. This one is made with the gorgeous Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper (DSP). This paper is part of the July Sale at Stampin’ Up- Buy 3, Get 1 Free!

If you want a sampling of all the sale paper, email me and purchase a paper share at the lower sale price. You’ll get one fourth of the package of each of these ten papers. The cost is $30 including shipping or $23 if you can pick it up at my house in West Des Moines, IA. Please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com You can use PayPal or send me a check. This is a great deal! Email me today and reserve your share. You can also order entire packages of the paper from my online store.

When you use Stampin’ Up DSP everything coordinates so well, even the Nuggets inside the box are adorable! This little gift will surely put a smile on someone’s face. Here’s the link to my directions to make the 3 Nugget Box.

We have an event coming up on Saturday, July 21 at my Stamping Studio in West Des Moines. You get to make adorable cards and gifts and receive gifts we’ve made for you as well! Even if you’ve never stamped before, we will be here to help you and a lot of the prep work is done for you. Please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and let me know you’d love to join us. Each session is $20 or $35 for both sessions. See the flyer above for more details. I promise you won’t be disappointed!

Happy 4th of July to those in the USA! My sweet Abby spent hours making a special lemon cake for our family 4th of July celebration.

I must admit cake is usually not my favorite treat, but this truly was the best cake I’ve ever had! Grandpa and Grandma were quick to take additional cake home with them when they left.

Sean and Keegan were pretty sad they weren’t here, when the texts started going out about the cake they were missing. Sean lives and works in Seattle. Although he comes home for many holidays, he can’t come for all of them. Keegan is working as a counselor at our church camp in Okoboji and having an awesome summer! Keegan grew up going to Family Bible Camp every year of his life and now gets to help other families have the same wonderful experience. The families who have Keegan as their counselor never lack having someone to push their kids on the tire swing. 🙂

Have you heard about the ultimate bundle special this month? You can choose $125 in products for $99, pay no shipping and choose one “family” (set of 10 ink pads) for free. Yep, almost $200 for $99. After that you can buy Stampin’ Up at a 20 discount for several months. There is no further obligation. You can have fun on my Stamping Mom Joy team and continue to buy at a discount or stop at anytime. Another happy person bought the ultimate bundle from me today and can’t believe what a good deal it was. There are no strings attached. Email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and I’ll help you. Can’t wait to hear from you!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Visit my online store here.
Shop the Clearance Rack here.
Follow me on Pinterest here
Follow me on Facebook here.

You can always email me at Beth@StampingMom.com if you don’t want to place your order online. I’d love to help you! My current host code is FSHK42KZ . If you order using my host code, you’ll get an additional free gift from me!

Beautiful Promenade

Festive Friday Challenge

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Blended Seasons and Sunshine Sayings

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3 Nugget Box

Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper

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