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Winter Woods

Festive Friday Challenge

It’s time for another Festive Friday Challenge! I love being a designer for Festive Friday and this week’s challenge #FF0019 is Halloween (Oct 31) and/or Black. You can earn points to choose free items from our Festive Friday Store! #festivefridaychallenge To enter, you only need to post a picture of your card to Pinterest. I can help you with the link. Please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and I would love to help you. Entering challenges is truly a lot of fun. Please join us!

If you want instructions, please enter our challenge at Festive Friday and you can choose the free tutorial for this card with the points you earn.

Stamps: Winter Woods (147661)

Paper: Whisper White Cardstock (100730), Basic Black Cardstock (121045), Copper Foil Sheets (142020), Silver Foil Sheets (132178), Sparkle Glimmer Paper (146957),

Ink: VersaMark (149165)

Accessories: Stampin’ Trimmer (126889), Bone Folder (102300), Big Shot (143263), In the Woods Framelits (147919), Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals (144108), Copper Emboss Powder (141636)

Techniques: Heat Embossing

I just got back from a couple days of helping with Steve’s parents, while Steve spent a week there helping. Steve’s Dad had hip surgery and he is the caregiver for Steve’s Mom, who suffers with Dementia. Steve’s parents did a great job raising their four boys, all of which would do anything to help their parents. 🙂

One of my jobs this week was to start going through the bins of pictures, newspaper articles, etc. in their basement. It was like a walk down memory lane. One entire bin was about the Floods of 93. The flooding in Buffalo, IA where they live and Des Moines, IA where we live, was the worst we’ve ever experienced. They had a house surrounded with sandbags and pumps in the basement trying to keep the water out. Here’s a picture I found of Sean-age 3 and I riding in a row boat down the streets of Buffalo.

Reading about the floods was sad, but I was thrilled to find the picture below.

This was the Iowa Student Loan Annual Report from 1997, the company where Steve works. They asked employee’s kids to draw a picture of what they wanted to be when they grew up. I didn’t remember Sean was such a good artist or that he had drawn this picture. Even more fun is that today, Sean is indeed an engineer! It looks like he planned to be an engineer at NASA when he was seven, but today he is an engineer at Microsoft in Seattle, WA. It’s even more interesting to go through dusty old bins when you find a nugget like this that made my heart so happy! I sent the picture to Sean and he thought it was pretty cool as well.

I have to show you one last picture…we just finished studying the book of Joshua at Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) this week. Well, if you’ve been around Stampin’ Up! for a long time you might recognize this.

I bought this decal from Stampin’ Up and it has been on the wall above my kitchen sink for around 10 years. I love this verse, but I had never really studied Joshua. When we got to it last week in our study, I was so happy to learn the context behind the verse and I love it even more today! Do any of you still have Stampin’ Up decals on your walls? Please leave me a comment at the top of this post. I love hearing from you.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

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Winter Woods Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$23.00

In The Woods Framelits Dies

$33.00

Winter Woods Clear-Mount Bundle

$50.25

Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock

$9.75

Basic Black 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock

Sparkle Glimmer Paper

Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals

$4.00

Copper Stampin’ Emboss Powder

$5.00

Heat Tool (Us And Canada)

$30.00

Versamark Pad

$9.00

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More Stampapooloza Cards

These four cards were designed by Jean. Some are totally Jean originals and some were made with an assist from Pinterest. Jean has been my very dear friend for the last 30 years. We are both Accountants and worked together at The Principal Financial Group. Jean is still there and is an officer at the company. She works very hard running the Commercial Real Estate Debt Accounting, Reporting and Operations teams. After working so hard, she likes to come to my house to use the other part of her brain and be creative. We usually spend a couple hours most weekends, both walking and stamping. If you regularly read my blog you know Allison. Well, Jean is Allison’s Mom. 🙂

Don’t you love these cards? Please leave a comment at the top of the post and tell Jean which one if your favorite.

After you see all these cards, you will probably want to join us at our next Stampapooloza on Saturday, February 23. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend.

Can you see the pearls on the tree? I love all her cards, but this one if my favorite. 🙂 Jean helps me design a lot of the cards you see on my blog.

Are you looking for a Stampin’ Up demo? Contact me and I’ll send you one of these cards and a new Holiday catalog!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Visit my online store here.
Shop the Clearance Rack here.
Follow me on Pinterest here
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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 J63GDW2R . If you order using my host code, you’ll get an additional free gift from me!

Spirited Snowman

I’m hosting this week’s challenge over at Use Your Stuff Challenge Blog. Do you have Enamel Dots in your stash? If so, it’s time to make a card, 3-D item or scrapbook page and add a few Enamel Dots to your design. Then head over to Use Your Stuff Challenge Blog and add your picture. Never entered a challenge? Never fear, I’ll help you get it done. Email me at Beth@StampingMom.com. I get it, I made cards for about 12 years before I ever entered a challenge. It’s pretty fun, and so exciting though when you win a challenge. Ask Ruth Sollberger and Marcelyn Churchill, I encouraged them to enter a challenge and they’ve both won some. 🙂

Stamps: Spirited Snowman (148072)

Paper: Whisper White Cardstock (100730), Granny Apple Green (146990), Brights 6 x 6″ Designer Series Paper (146964)

Ink: Momento (132708)

Accessories: Stampin’ Trimmer (126889), Bone Folder (102300), Big Shot (143263), Layering Ovals Framelits (141706), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Brights Stampin’ Write Markers (147157), Glitter Enamel Dots (146934)

Techniques: Fun Fold

Here’s the inside of the Fun Fold card.

Are you wondering why I’m making Snowman cards in October? Well, it’s Oct 14 and it snowed in Iowa today! I took this picture while it was snowing, but you can’t see the snow. You can see four of my raised gardens. They are still going strong and not ready for winter. Before it freezes we usually put tarps over the gardens and the hoops hold them up.The small square garden in front is my herb garden. Another reason I try to prolong the growing season is, I like to use my own fresh Rosemary and Sage when I host Thanksgiving. It’s over a month away so they might not make it this year. 🙂

Are you looking for a Stampin’ Up demo? Contact me and I’ll send you one of these cards and a new Holiday catalog!

I had such a wonderful week! Our dear friends, Debbie and John Gorman, were here visiting from Alabama. It had been two years since we’d seen them. Debbie and I spent one day by ourselves, having all the fun we could think of! Love you both and see you soon!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Visit my online store here.
Shop the Clearance Rack here.
Follow me on Pinterest here
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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 J63GDW2R . If you order using my host code, you’ll get an additional free gift from me!

Click on any of the pictures below to purchase from my online store.