Birthday

Snickers Boxes

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

My favorite box to make is the cute and simple Snickers Box made with the Envelope Punch Board.  When I was making Display samples for the Kansas City Stampin’ Up! convention, I couldn’t resist including this box.

At the Thanksgiving Dinner at our house, my nephew’s wife saw my Stamping Studio and was excited to make something.  Allie ended up making Christmas Snickers boxes for her entire fifth grade class in Manhattan, Kansas.  I know the kids are going to love them!  I wish I would’ve taken a picture of her boxes.

Stampin Up Snickers Box made by demo Margaret Coffey.

These beautiful Christmas Snickers boxes were Margaret Coffey’s 3-D Swap at the Kansas City On Stage event.  I was blessed to meet her as she shared her boxes with me, and told me she used my directions to make them..  Here’s the link to the directions.

Here’s other Snickers boxes I’ve made the last couple of years.

Stampin Up Snickers Boxes made with the Envelope Punch Board, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

Stampin Up Snickers Box made with Candy Cane Lane DSP designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

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

If you make a Snickers Box, please send me a picture and I’ll share it with everyone!  As Pat Knight taught me, you can fill them with a full size Snickers or four mini Snickers.

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So I got my very tall son, Keegan, to help me with the lights on my tallest tree last night.  Unfortunately  only a short string was still working.  He thought we should put them at the very top so when I bought the replacement lights, I wouldn’t need his help.  That boy is always thinking!

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Here’s my nativity set which I absolutely love!  It was hand made in Australia by one of our camp counselors from Okoboji, Paul.  Did you notice anything different about this nativity set?  Typically in the USA our nativity sets don’t include kangaroos.  Sadly my kangaroo got his feet broke off during our construction project.  I’m hoping I (ie Superman) can glue him back together.

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Ruth Sollberger, I thought you would especially appreciate my kangaroo.  Ruth is my sweet friend who is a Bible Study Fellowship group leader and Stampin’ Up! Demo in Australia.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

 

 

Party Animal Birthday Gift Tags

Stampin Up Party Animal Gift Tag Box designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

These birthday gift tags and coordinating box were so much fun to make!  I got the idea for the box of tags from Kadie Labadie. Here’s the link to Kadie’s instructions for the box.

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Isn’t it adorable?!  Thanks Kadie for the directions!

Stampin Up Party Animal Gift Tag Box designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

I hope you’re not tired of seeing my display stamper projects.  Hopefully you’re convinced that you need the Balloon Adventures and coordinating Balloon Pop-Up Thinlits Dies?!

Stampin Up Party Animal Gift Tag Box designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

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Stampin Up Party Animal Gift Tag Box designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

Abby and Keegan spent a couple hours this afternoon at a local senior living facility helping senior citizens with their technology.  I can’t remember if I’ve told you that for Abby’s Senior Honors project she started an organization called Tech Support for Seniors.  She’s recruited high school students and most every Saturday they visit a senior facility and give free help to the residents.  Some Saturdays they go one place in the morning and another place in the afternoon.  The most common request they get is, “How do I connect to the wifi?”  The high school students earn “silver cord hours” or volunteer hours.  The senior citizens get to meet some really neat kids and get help with their cell phones, ipads etc.  Abby has gotten some really sweet emails from people who appreciated the help they received.

While Abby and Keegan were gone, Superman and I tackled putting together our very tall Christmas tree.  After the entire tree was in place, Steve decided it wasn’t stable, so we ended up picking the whole tree up out of the stand.  It was going to be my job to hold the tree while he fixed the stand.  However, the “tree trunk” is in two pieces and came apart unexpectedly.  I believe if we had been filming this ordeal you would be laughing hysterically right now.  Some how after much maneuvering the tree is back in the stand and pretty much standing up straight.  I’ll let you know if it falls over during the night.  Our next step is lights and ornaments.  I wanted to mention to Superman that I would like to also put a tree up in the new Sun room, but after 30 years of marriage I decided timing is everything and I’ll wait to make that request at a later date.

Hope you’re having a good weekend.  Please comment at the top of this post and let me know what Christmas preparations you have done.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

 

Party Animal Gift Bag

I love the new Party Animal Designer Series Paper (DSP). I made this gift bag using one 12 x 12 sheet.  “Open me Already” is from the Stampin’ Up! Balloon Adventures stamp set available beginning Jan 4, 2017.  Do you like the Whitsper White Mini Pompom Trim?  I think it looks adorable on this gift bag.  I love the little birthday hats on all the animals too!

Party Animal Birthday Gift Bag designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

Here’s the directions to make the gift bag and another gift bag I made using the Candy Cane Lane DSP.

Candy Cane Lane Christmas Gift Bag designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom #cute&simple4u

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At Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) this morning we discussed John 7.  Basically it talks about how God is in control of the world.  It’s very comforting to me, given the things going on in the world today.

This afternoon was my first time to be in my house alone without any construction workers or family members.  My pups and I were very happy to finally have some alone time after a couple of months of people here daily.  Tomorrow the construction guys are back to tidy up a few things on the list.  If you are wondering if I have any regrets about doing the construction, the answer is absolutely not.  We saved, planned and dreamed about it for over twenty years and we truly do love it!

Keegan started taking weekly voice lessons and is pretty fired up about it.  He’s trying out for a solo in his vocal jazz group.

Abby just got done with a big scholarship application.  She is trying to get most of her college paid for so she can afford to go to medical school or grad school to do Alzheimer’s research.  I can’t believe in six months she’ll be graduating from high school.

Steve installed a sound bar on our new TV in the sun room.  It’s amazing how handy he is.  He also washed the pups for me because I’m doing therapy dogs tomorrow.

I hope everything is going well for you during this Advent season.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂