All Occasion

May Pal’s Blog Hop

 

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Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for May 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 that are “stepped up” by using textures or fun techniques. 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.

Remarkable You is such a beautiful stamp set and I was so happy to see it in the new catalog! I chose to use Gold Emboss Powder on water color paper and then splatter on Wink of Stella Gold.

StampinUp All Occasion card made with the Remarkable You stamp set, designed by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

I used Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, and  Cucumber Crush reinkers.   My flowers were made with a combination of regular watercoloring and the Floating Reinker Technique.  I believe Sandi MacIver is the originator of the Floating Reinker Technique.

StampinUp All Occasion card made with the Remarkable You stamp set, designed by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

So what do you do with the flowers where the ink runs outside the lines?  Cut out the flower and make another card. 🙂

StampinUp All Occasion card made with the Remarkable You stamp set, designed by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

I didn’t want to waste the Gold Foil paper, so I cut out ovals and again made more cards.

StampinUp All Occasion card made with the Remarkable You stamp set, designed by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

StampinUp All Occasion card made with the Remarkable You stamp set, designed by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

StampinUp All Occasion card made with the Remarkable You stamp set, designed by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

StampinUp All Occasion card made with the Remarkable You stamp set, designed by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

StampinUp All Occasion card made with the Remarkable You stamp set, designed by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

StampinUp All Occasion card made with the Remarkable You stamp set, designed by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

Which card do you like the best? Please leave me a comment or question at the top of this post.

StampinUp All Occasion card made with the Remarkable You stamp set, designed by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

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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. Kelly DeTommaso at Kelly’s Creative Corner
  3. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
  4. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
  5. Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
  6. Sherrie Gross at Stampin’ Sunshine
  7. Amy Hoptay at Craft Carnivore
  8. Sue Becker at RnR Stamping
  9. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
  10. Natalie Bradley at NatalieBradley.com
  11. Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
  12. Kim Jolley at Stampin’ Artfully
  13. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
  14. Becky Volpp at InkBlossomwithBecky
  15. Peggy Noe at Prettypapercards
  16. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
  17. Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
  18. Pam Dotts at Clearly Southern Stampin’
  19. Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo
  20. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
  21. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
  22. Jennifer Michalski at Stamping Serenity
  23. Nicole Everitt at Stamp Scrap Love

Directions for Kate Spade inspired gift card set

The cards in this gift box are not the standard A2 size.  They are what Stampin’ Up! calls Note Card size.  The cards are 5″ x 3 1/2″ and the envelopes are 5 1/8″ x 3 5/8″.  You need to purchase these from Stampin’ Up! or cut your cards yourself and use the Envelope Punch Board to make the envelope.  You can purchase the Note Cards by clicking here or Envelope Punch Board here.  This size does work for mailing.

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough. Please see my blog for directions to make the box stampingmom.com/... #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

You can get both piece A and B cut from one 12 x 12 sheet of cardstock.

Cut the cardstock for piece A at 7 1/4 x 12. Score at 1/2′”and 1″ on all four sides. You fold at the 1/2″ score line with the end tab piece in between the two side layers and then fold at the 1″ score line.  The sides of the box are a double layer of card stock.  Please let me know if you have any questions about how to fold this box together. You need a strong adhesive.  I’m using Stampin’ Up Tear & Tape.  You can buy the Tear & Tape here.

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough Please see my blog for directions to make the box stampingmom.com/... #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

You are basically making “mountains” on the front side of this piece to have a separation between the cards, envelopes and sentiment tags.

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough. Please see my blog for directions to make the box stampingmom.com/...  #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

The yellow piece is in the picture just so you can see the Window Sheet on top of it. The box is 10 inches long so you do the scoring on the 12 inch side.  If you don’t have 12 x 12 Window Sheets which are available in my Stampin’ Up store, click here, you can also use adhesive to combine two Transparency sheets and cut them down to a 10 x 11 1/2 size.

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough Please see my blog for directions to make the box stampingmom.com/... #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

I wrapped the box with a piece of Night of Navy ribbon.  I thought about adding a tag, but instead added a “thank you” tag on the top card.  This is a hostess gift for my sweet friend,Janene , who hosted our family for Easter.I can’t wait to make some more gift card sets!

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You can pin the pictures to your Pinterest board, showing the directions in case you want to make a gift set in the future.  I’ll also have the directions pinned on my board, “How to Make Simple Card and Gifts.” click here

crab apple

The Des Moines area has beautiful crab apple trees in colors of pink, white and red  that bloom every April.  Water Works park has hundreds or thousands of these trees.  Super Man and I are going on a bike ride this afternoon to see the trees and I’ll probably take some pictures.  Abby heard what we were doing and packed us a picnic lunch.  What a sweetie!  Hopefully tomorrow’s blog post won’t have a story about a biking mishap!

Have a wonderful weekend.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

Kate Spade card set

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by Stampin' Up demo Beth McCullough. Please see my blog for directions to make the box http://stampingmom.com/directions-for-kate-spade-inspired-gift-card-set/ #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

My sweet friend, Janene, gave me the kitchen towel that inspired this Kate Spade knock off card set.  Janene also hosted our family for Easter.  I told her I would make her a card set as a hostess gift.  I always have trouble deciding what kind of cards to make for other people and hadn’t made them yet, even though Easter was a month ago.  Since Janene liked the towel, I’m confident she will like this card set.

Stampin' Up Kate Spade inspired CAS card designed by demo Beth McCullough.  See more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

The card set includes six note cards and envelopes and six optional tags.  I’m not sure if she’ll want to use the note cards plain or with a sentiment, so I put dimensionals on the back of the tags and she can have fun putting them on if she wants them.

 

Stampin' Up Kate Spade inspired CAS card designed by demo Beth McCullough.  See more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Stampin' Up Kate Spade inspired CAS card designed by demo Beth McCullough.  See more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I’m proud to tell you that I did not case this box from anyone.  It’s a Stamping Mom original!  Here’s the link to the directions to make the gift card box.

Several of you have asked about the flower stamp.  It is from the  Stampin’ Up! Paper Pumpkin April 2016 free set called All About Everything.

Please leave me a comment or question at the top of this blog post.

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Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by Stampin' Up demo Beth McCullough. Please see my blog for directions to make the box http://stampingmom.com/directions-for-kate-spade-inspired-gift-card-set/ #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

You can pin the picture above and see more on my Pinterest 3D Gifts Board here

Today was therapy dog day and Super Man was out of town.  That means I got to wash the pups.  We wash them in our kitchen sink.  Here they are after their bath.

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pup-4

They did a great job at their therapy dog visit.  One gal who works there spent some time petting them and told us it really brought joy to her 13 hour work day.  Not sure why it was 13 hours?  I assume she has two different jobs back to back? Anyway Maya and Molly are happy to bring joy to anyone who needs it.

Super Man got home from his trip tonight and Ryan came home from college.  It’s going to be a great weekend.  Hope you have fun weekend plans.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂