It’s time for another Festive Friday Challenge!  I love being a designer for Festive Friday and this week’s challenge #FF0041 is Patriot Day (September 11) and/or Metallic.   #festivefridaychallenge  I hope you’ll make a card, scrapbook page or 3-D item and join us. If you want help entering, please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and I’d love to help you!

Here’s a YouTube video of my Facebook Live showing how to efficiently cut the Copper Foil to make two different Christmas cards. I do Facebook Lives every Wednesday at noon CST on my Stamping Mom Facebook page Please subscribe to both my YouTube channel and my Stamping Mom Facebook page.

Project Supplies

STAMPS

Perfectly Plaid-sentiment(149418)

INK

VersaMark (102283)

PAPER

Pretty Peacock Cardstock (150880), Very Vanilla Cardstock (101650), Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper (DSP) (150429), Copper Foil Sheets (142020)

ADHESIVES

Snail Adhesive (104332), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Mini Stampin’
Dimensionals (144108)

TOOLS

Stitched Rectangles (148551), Swirls & Curls Embossing Folder (147923), Pine Tree Punch (149521), Bone Folder (102300), Heat Tool (129053)

EMBELLISHMENTS

Copper Stampin’ Emboss Powder (141636), Star Designer Elements (150430)

Measurements

• Cut 4-1/4″ x 11″ Pretty Peacock Cardstock (CS)
• Cut 3-1/4″ x 4-1/2″ Very Vanilla CS
• Cut 4″ x 5-1/4″ Very Vanilla CS for inside of card
• Cut 3-3/4″ x 5″ Copper Foil Sheet
• Scrap of Brightly Gleaming Specialty DSP

Instructions

Score 4-1/4″ x 11″ Pretty Peacock CS at 5-1/2″.

Run half the Pretty Peacock through the Big Shot with the Swirls & Curls Embossing Folder.

Run the Copper Foil Sheet through the Big Shot with the 2nd and 4th largest
Stitched Rectangles to make the Copper frame.

Stamp “Merry Christmas” with VersaMark near the bottom of the 3-1/4″ x 4-1/2″ Very Vanilla CS. Sprinkle with Copper Emboss Powder and heat with Heat Tool.

Adhere Very Vanilla piece to the back of Copper Frame.

Use the Pine Tree Punch to cut a tree from the DSP. Adhere to Very Vanilla piece with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Add Star Designer Element above the tree.

Adhere Copper Frame to Pretty Peacock cardbase using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Adhere 4″ x 5-1/4″ Very Vanilla CS inside the card.

Assemble as shown in the picture.  I liked the first one so much, I made another with Night of Navy CS and a retired Star embossing folder and one with Old Olive and a retired Holly embossing folder. The embossing folders closely resembled the design on each of the respective tress. Email me with questions at Beth@StampingMom.com

Please head over to Festive Friday Challenge and join us.

Please leave your comments or questions at the top of this post.

July 1-August 31 – Extra! Extra! Join Promotion

Have you ever wanted a discount on your stamping supplies with no obligation to sell to others? I’ve had three new team members in the last week, what are you waiting for? Only 8 more days to receive an additional $30 of product in your Starter Kit. You will pay $99 to sign up and choose $155 worth of Stampin’ Up! products in your Starter Kit – and Stampin’ Up! covers the shipping. How incredible is that?!

Oh, there’s more! You will also receive a $10 coupon code the following month to spend however you wish.

And more! Along with your purchase of a Stampin’ Up! Starter Kit, you:

• will earn a 20% discount on all purchases immediately after joining (and for as long as you are an active demonstrator) with the possibility to earn a bigger discount. What an awesome benefit and fun incentive!
• get personal help and attention from me and also be part of a huge nationwide awesome community of kind, talented stampers with daily inspiration.
• have no obligation to ever sell or share with anyone (although it makes you really cool if you do) and no obligation to buy another thing if you don’t want to.

Just ask my current Joy Team members from all over the USA, we have a great time stamping, laughing, and having fun together as a group. Everyone needs a group to belong to, come and join our amazing group!

I have so much to tell you from this summer, but I’ll start with last weekend. My husband, Steve, has been doing triathlons for four summers. He’s told everyone that when he places in the top three in his age group, he’ll retire from doing triathlons. He’s a good swimmer in the pool, but his right side is so much stronger than his left and it contributes to him swimming to the left in a lake. He really needs the stripe on the bottom of the pool to swim straight. For the Boone triathlon, they bused the swimmers to the other side of the lake and they were supposed to swim in a straight line toward the cheering family and friends on the dock. I met a couple other wives on the dock and they were lamenting that they wouldn’t be able to see which “orange swim cap” was their husband. I said that I may be able to pick my husband out because of his tendency to swim to the left. Little did I know not only could I pick him out, but he had his own personal canoe volunteer paddling beside him yelling, “Go to the right!,” the entire swim race. Needless to say, Steve swam twice as far as the other swimmers and ended up in last place.

Think how tired he must’ve been swimming so much father than the other swimmers. In his defense, he realized after getting in the water that he forgot to take off his third wedding ring. Yes, I said third wedding ring! His first wedding ring was lost while swimming at Lake Okoboji when the kids were little. His second wedding ring was lost training for a triathlon in the water at Raccoon River Park in West Des Moines a couple years ago. Steve was bound and determined not to lose his third wedding ring. (Three strikes and you’re out?!) Because of the way he was cupping his hand trying not to lose his ring, caused him to go even further to the left. I’m glad he didn’t lose the ring and probably would’ve teased him if he had lost it. I can imagine telling him he’s getting expensive to keep around. 🙂

When Steve faces adversity it makes him all the more determined. After the swim, he took off on the newly purchased “used” tri bike reaching speeds over 26 miles an hour! (He’s told me he might get a speeding ticket some day 🙂 His biking was very successful, which he attributed to the new bike, and he ended up 2nd in his age division. He knew it went well and took off running as fast as he could. In the running, he again got 2nd in his age division. He didn’t get new running shoes or younger legs, so I think he’s got to take credit for this one. Steve has never placed so high in the biking or running in the past. Apparently having a bad swim is a great motivator! It was a cool cloudy morning and when the race was complete, Steve felt great. We went up to look at the race computers to see how he placed. Steve got third place in his age division and the bronze medal! It only took four years and lots of 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th etc. finishes, but Sunday was his day! We called the kids and met them at Jethro’s Bacon Bacon to celebrate!

Later that day I was telling Jean that Steve had placed. Jean said, “That means he’s done doing triathlons! He’s always said that. ” “Yep, ” I said, ‘He has always said that, except now he wants to learn to swim straight in a lake and win a triathlon! I should have known, this is just the beginning. 🙂

This summer Steve has been making his Protein Muffins for my biking group. They love them and started calling him, “Muffin Man,” and even singing him the, Do You Know the Muffin Man song! Well, some of you may remember that I used to call Steve, “Superman,” on this blog and he was too humble and asked me to stop. Well “Muffin Man” is not exactly what he was hoping for either, so I suggested they call him “Tri Guy,” instead. Now that he’s placed in a triathlon, I think I’ll start calling him “Tri Guy” on the blog. What do you think? I think he’s earned it!

I’ll save the rest of our summer adventures for another day. Please subscribe to my blog and don’t miss future adventures or cute and simple cards, fun folds and 3-D creations! If you’d like to leave a comment at the top of my blog, I’ll pass it along to Tri Guy! (Or you could leave one for me, if you like my card) 🙂

I do Stamping Mom Facebook Lives on Wednesdays at noon CST and I’d love to have you join me! I also have a Stamping Mom YouTube channel. You can subscribe and be notified when I post a new video. I’d love to get a “thumbs up” if you like my videos!

Blessings,

Beth 

• Visit my online store here.
• Shop the Clearance Rack here.
• Follow me on Pinterest here
• Follow me on Facebook here. 
• Subscribe to my YouTube channel here. 
• Join my Stamping Mom’s Joy Team and receive a discount on all Stampin Up products here
• Paper Pumpkin here.

You can always email me at Beth@StampingMom.com if you don’t want to place your order online.  I’d love to help you!  My current host code is 7ER94T9D .  If you place a $75 order using my host code, you get a package of the 2019-2021 in Color Faceted Dots.