Halloween

When I was at Lisa Pretto’s Business Builder retreat, I met the very sweet demo, Dorothy Gunter, and  she gave everyone this adorable Halloween treat holder.  Well, she gave me one very similar to this and my dogs ate it.  (My dogs eat anything that smells like chocolate.  They actually snatched it off my desk in my stamping office.)

You can put a fun size Kit Kat or other type of candy inside.  Do you see how the fence actually holds the top flap in place? How cool is that?!  I can see decorating these for Thanksgiving, Christmas or other holidays.

Thanks Dorothy!  I love it and I hope you love it too!

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Hope you’re having a good weekend.  We were sad about the Cubs loss Friday night and here’s the W flag down in the bushes.  We are hoping to put the flag back up on Saturday night!

Superman, aka my husband Steve, was busy being super today.  He spent a lot of time spraying the new Stamp n Storage for my new craft room.  College son Ryan also helped him spray paint after he raked up all our leaves for us.  We need to remember to have Ryan come home more often!  Sweet Abby helped with the leaves too before she left for a choir performance.  Keegan did his mowing job for the neighbors this morning and then had drama all day.  I don’t think he minded not raking our leaves!

Here’s my new craft room!  The good news is it can only get better from here!  See the plastic over the door?  That’s how you walk out to the new sun room.

The sun room has knotty pine on the walls and ceiling.  The cabins we stay at for our Family Bible camp in Okoboji are made with the same knotty pine.  That’s where we got the idea.  Everything is supposed to be done in two weeks.  I can hardly wait!

I have lots of samples made for the Stampin’ Up! convention in Kansas City next weekend.  I absolutely love the supplies Stampin’ Up! sent me.  I can’t wait to show you everything I made.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

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Aren’t these two adorable?!  It reminds me of when Abby and Keegan were little, wearing matching costumes for Halloween. My favorite was when they were Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

Here’s the directions to make the 3 Hershey’s Miniatures Box

The adorable paper is Halloween Night Specialty Designer Series Paper (DSP)  The center of the bow is the largest Pearl Basic Jewel colored with a black Sharpie.

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I hope you’ve noticed I haven’t been posting much.  I came home from Wisconsin sick and haven’t felt great ever since.  Abby and Keegan have also been sick.  My construction project has turned the house into a messy haunted looking house.  I’ve been asked to design for Craft Project Central again in December, but the project outline is due this week and the complete project is due in two weeks.  Meanwhile my twelve projects I’m doing as a convention sample designer for Stampin’ Up need to be done in one week.  I’m also trying to hold it together as a BSF group leader, Mom and wife.   Needless to say, every time I stamp it’s for something I can’t put on my blog yet.  I am going to stamp two more Halloween projects and then I promise I’m done with Halloween.  I know some of you don’t like Halloween, but please stick with me.  I hope to have cute things you will like soon. Thanks for your patience.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Here’s the directions to make a Bag in a Box.

All you need is a 6″ x 6″cardstock or DSP, Envelope punch board, adhesive, embellishments to decorate as desired and candy to fill the box. 🙂

1.   Using the Envelope punch board, line up the left edge of the paper at 1 3/8″ and punch and score down the diagonal line to the right.  Move the paper to the left and line it up at 4″, punch and score the same as before. Rotate the paper to the remaining three sides and use the scored lines as a guide to punch and score all three sides.

2.  Cut down the score lines on both sides on top and bottom near the A and B to make the tabs.

3.  Use the Reverse Punch at the top center of the board.  This will corner round your edges on all four corners.  The picture above shows what your paper should look like after steps 1,2 and 3 are finished.

4.  Fold the two C’s together in the center and wrap the A’s and B’s around each side of the C’s. An A overlaps a B on one side of the box and the same thing happens on the other side of the box. Apply adhesive.

5. Fold the D tabs back and apply adhesive or let the flop depending on the how you want it to look.

6. I used a 1/2″ Circle Punch and made a handle by punching through one C and then lining up with the other C and punching again.

7. Decorate as desired.

Please email me if you have any questions at Beth@StampingMom.com.

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Congrats to my team member Lynn Tague for promoting to Bronze Elite!  She signed with me June 1, 2016 and already promoted in September! Please check out her blog here.  This stamp set is the gift from me that she got to choose to celebrate her promotion.  I dressed it up to make it look cute.  I love the new red glitter embossing powder I used on the tag.  Please email me if you’ve ever thought about signing up to purchase Stampin’ Up! at a discount.  Lynn did and I think she’s pretty happy with her decision.

Look what “popped” up in my backyard this week.  It’s a sunroom being added on to the back of my house.  24 years ago when Superman and I were looking for a house, I wanted one with a sunroom so it would be easier to get some sunshine during the long winter months.  Superman promised me we would add one someday since we have no windows on the south side of our house.  About eight years ago we signed with a contractor to build a sunroom and we checked his references and Better Business Bureau etc. and 30 days later he went out of business taking thousands of our dollars with him.  We saved up money a second time and with much prayer and some lack of sleep on my part, we again signed with a contractor for a sunroom.  Along with the sunroom we are turning another room into a stamping office for me complete with cabinets, countertops and Stamp n Storage organization.  I have a link at the bottom of the right column where you can click on Stamp n Storage and get 10% off. Anyway it’s supposed to be done by Thanksgiving and since I host a big family Thanksgiving at my house, I hope that truly happens.   If you’re wondering why it took me so long on the Bag in a Box directions, I’ve spent about fifteen hours at the cabinet store in the last two days finalizing the counter tops and cabinets.  All summer we were consumed with making decisions about this project and I’m kind of relieved most of the decisions have been made.  I’m also very pleased that there is a shell of a room attached to my house.  I’ll let you know how it goes.  So far, so good!

I need to get some sleep, Abby and I take off for our college visit to The University of Oklahoma Sunday morning.

Hope you’re having a great weekend.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂