Birthday

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Stampin Up birthday card made with the Balloon Celebration stamp set. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

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I was excited to see the Global Design Project has the theme of Balloons this week. Balloon Celebration is the first set I bought from Stampin’ Up’s 2016 Occasions Catalog and I haven’t been disappointed.  I was also inspired by Jeanna’s card.  See it here.  The tricky part of this quick and easy card, is to only ink up part of the balloon string when stamping the sides.  Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.  I’d love it if you would subscribe to my blog.

Abby’s 17th Birthday was today and we celebrated with Pulled Pork (Yum! The house smelled so good, the dogs could hardly stand it) and Scratch Cupcakes.  Here’s the recipe for my Yummy Pulled Pork  if you’re interested.

 

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Stampin Up birthday card made with the Balloon Celebration stamp set. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

 

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Abby’s 17th Birthday!

StampinUp birthday card made with the Large Numbers Framelits, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Abby will be 17 on Tuesday, but we had her birthday party Friday night!  She and her friends had a great time.abbycookie

Are you wondering why there are monsters on her cookie cake?  Me too!  Abby picked out exactly what she wanted.  🙂

 

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To design Abby’s card, I used the Global Design Project Challenge GDP022.

StampinUp birthday card made with the Large Numbers Framelits, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I got out my Balloon Framelits and popped up the Balloon with dimensionals.  The silver cord and silver stars jazz up the card and make it special for my awesome Abby!

StampinUp birthday card made with the Large Numbers Framelits, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I’ve used the It’s My Party DSP on every birthday card I’ve made recently.  I just love it! I always like to add a coordinating envelope too.

Abby was so excited to get an Amazon gift card from her oldest brother today.  For years he got her nothing, but being gainfully employed as greatly increased his generosity!

I drove Abby to Afton for an archery tournament this afternoon.  We had a great time until we were driving home in the dark and it was snowing.  She stayed very calm and didn’t admit how scared she was until we were safely off the interstate.  Our biggest issue was my car slides sideways while driving on snow.  Steve has now scheduled an appointment for me to get snow tires later this week.

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Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

 

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Pals Blog Hop

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Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for February 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes.  This month we are CASE-ing a project shown in a current Stampin’ Up! catalog. After all, with the Annual, Occasions and Sale-a-Bration catalogs available right now, there is much inspiration to choose from. We hope 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.

StampinUp birthday card made with the Balloon Bouquet Punch, designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom    StampinUp birthday card made with the Balloon Bouquet Punch, designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom 

Do you think there is too much “party” in the card above to the left?  I toned it down in the card on the right.  I’m curious which one you like better?

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Above is the card I CASEd from the Occasions catalog on page 47.  Do you see they marked it “Quick & Easy” in the catalog. Yep, that’s my kind of card.  In fact I already CASEd this card back in December, please see that card Here.

StampinUp sympathy card made with the Bold Butterfly Framelits, designed by demo Beth McCullough.  please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I needed a Sympathy card so I CASEd it one more time.  I love the new Timeless Textures I stamped behind the butterfly.

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Some of you have been asking about the kids results from the State Speech contest last weekend.  Abby is a junior and her Television Newscast Performing group was selected for All State!  Keegan’s One Act play did well, but was not selected for All State.  He is now practicing for a vocal solo contest and will soon be trying out for Valley High School’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical.  We’ve been teasing him that he probably shouldn’t try out to be a Oompa Loompa.  Keegan is too tall at 6’3″!

Please leave me a question or comment.  I’d love to hear from you!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

StampinUp sympathy card made with the Bold Butterfly Framelits, designed by demo Beth McCullough.  please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

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! 

 

  1. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
  2. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
  3. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
  4. Jennifer Michalski at Stamping Serenity
  5. Kelly DeTommaso at Kelly’s Creative Corner
  6. Denise Hoepfner at The Mountain Magpie
  7. Debbie Crowley at expressively deb…
  8. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
  9. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
  10. Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo.com
  11. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
  12. Susan Itell at Simple Stampin’
  13. Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
  14. Jane Knudsen at see jane stamp
  15. Peggy Noe at prettypapercards
  16. Julie DiMatteo at The Paper Pixie
  17. Nancy Gleason at My Stampin Space
  18. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
  19. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
  20. Kim Jolley at Stampin’ Artfully
  21. Rae Harper at Wild West Paper Arts
  22. Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
  23. Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stampin’ Habit!