All Occasion

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.

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.

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.

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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My inspiration for this card came from the Mojo Monday 459 Challenge.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

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

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%!

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.

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 🙂