Birthday

Avant Garden Gift Set

Welcome to the Blog Hop for March 2017. This month our theme is “SaleABration”.  You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog – Stamping Mom or may have come from the person previous to me in the list. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog so you see all the projects.

Stampin Up Avant Garden 2017 SAB set makes a CAS set of cards with matching box for gift giving designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

  • I love the Avant-Garden 2017 Sale-A-Bration stamp set.  I got the idea for these cards from a beautiful card made by Marsha Reed.

Stampin Up Avant Garden 2017 SAB set makes a CAS set of cards with matching box for gift giving designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

  • At first I started making these cards in all my favorite “flower colors”.  This one is Calypso Coral.

Stampin Up Avant Garden 2017 SAB set makes a CAS set of cards with matching box for gift giving designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

  • Then I decided I needed a cute box to put the cards in for gift giving, and turned my attention to making the cards in colors that would coordinate with the Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper (DSP).  This card is Mint Macaron.

Stampin Up Avant Garden 2017 SAB set makes a CAS set of cards with matching box for gift giving designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

  • I also used the Succulent Garden DSP to make coordinating envelopes for each card.  Sweet Sugarplum was used to make this card.

Stampin Up Avant Garden 2017 SAB set makes a CAS set of cards with matching box for gift giving designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

  • The box is made with a 9″ x 9″ DSP and created with the Envelope Punch Board.  The box fits standard A2 cards and is about 3/4″ thick.

Which SAB set is your favorite?  You have until March 31 to get a free SAB gift with every $50 order.

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Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Thanks for taking part in our blog hop, there are so many amazing ideas and inspiration you don’t want to miss. Remember that currently you are at my blog – Stamping Mom, so check the blog hop line up list to see who is next in the list.

1. Lisa Pretto

2. Janet Wakeland

3. Peggy Noe

4. Nicole Watt

5. Beth McCullough

7. Lisa Ann Bernard

8. Jennifer Michalski

9. Kadie Labadie

10. Tricia Chuba

11. Amanda Dickson

12. Megan Herst

13. Chris Miller

14. Diana Eichfeld

15. Gloria Plunkett

16. Jennifer Spiller

17. Anna Masciovecchio

18. Debbie Henderson

19. Debra Byrd

20. Lisa Milligan

21. Kim Vogel

22. Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

23. Katarina Ewa

24. Valerie Moody

Abby’s 18th Birthday weekend

Stampin' Up Clean and Simple Birthday card made with the Wish Big Framelits, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u #GDP074

I’ve made several cards trying to come up with the best birthday card for Abby’s 18th birthday.  For this one I used the design sketch from Global Design Project. #GDP074

I’ll show you some others I made later this week.

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Happy Birthday Abby! Abby turned 18 on February 16 and we celebrated last weekend with a trip to Chicago.  We don’t usually make a big deal out of birthdays, but this was an exception.  We actually planned this weekend last June and kept it a secret for eight months.  We told Abby and Keegan that we would be going to Chicago a couple weeks ago, so they could put it on their calendars.  Friday we drove the six hours and went to dinner at Giordano’s for deep dish pizza. As you can see this is not exactly health food, but it’s a favorite of ours and we don’t get to Chicago very often.

On Saturday we went to Water Tower Place and did some shopping.  Abby got tea from David’s Tea, a fancy “to go” tea bottle,

and a Chicago Cubs World Championship Bear from Build A Bear.  The Bear actually plays the Go Cubs Go song!

Abby named the bear Zobrist after the Cubs Second baseman.  Yep, Abby is Superman’s daughter!

Saturday evening we went for a nice dinner at Lloyd’s and surprised Abby and Keegan with tickets to Hamilton.  Hamilton is the wildly popular Broadway musical and the tickets are extremely difficult to get.  Tickets were going for around $450 a piece in Chicago.  We are much too thrifty (cheap) to spend that kind of money.  Superman figured out that with a certain credit card you could get tickets last June for shows in Chicago in February for a reasonable price.  We purchased the tickets and told not a soul for many months.  We’ve only surprised our kids one other time in their lives and now I remember why we don’t do this.  Superman and I have a really hard time not saying anything when we are super excited about something.  Abby and Keegan did know Hamilton was showing in Chicago and mentioned it on Saturday.  We had them look up the $450 price on the tickets and they understood right away that they would not be going to the show.  Both kids were so excited when they found out that night at dinner that we really were going to the show.  The show was fabulous!  They sang the songs all the way home on Sunday.  Abby already had all the words memorized last summer.  Anyway I hope this weekend is a fond memory for both Abby and Keegan for a very long time.  I know Steve and I will always cherish this memory!

Blessings,

Beth  🙂

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Some of my favorite Stampin’ Up! projects

Stampin Up birthday card made with the Party Animal Suite designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

The Party Animal Suite is my favorite in the new catalog that begins Jan 4, 2017!

Stampin Up Christmas card made with the Star of Light stamp set, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

Star of Light is my favorite stamp set from the 2016 Holiday catalog. I love making shaker cards now that Stampin’ Up sells the Foam Adhesive Strips.

Stampin Up card made by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

Clean and simple cards will always be a favorite of mine.

 

Stampin Up scrapbook page made with the Party Animal Suite designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

I love the Stampin’ Up coordination of products to make scrapbooking a snap!

Stampin Up Hershey Nugget snowmen treats designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

My Hersey Nugget snowmen treats were a hit with Abby’s friends and were pinned over 6,000 times on Pinterest!

I hope Stampin’ Up! never retires the Envelope Punch Board.  I’ve made dozens of Snickers boxes with it.  More people come to my blog to get directions to make a Snickers Box than anything else.

I can’t wait to get started on new projects for 2017!

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The new 2017 Occasions catalog is awesome!  If you want a little bit of everything without spending a lot of money, order a “share” from me.  The “I want it all” share is $46 including shipping.  Please see all the details here

Blessings,

Beth 🙂