Thank You

Friends of Stamping Mom cards

I love receiving homemade cards in the mail! I bet you do too! These are some of the cards and pictures I’ve received. I’ll do another post soon, because I have more to show you.

This awesome card arrived recently from my sweet friend, fellow BSFer (Bible Study Fellowship) leader, and fellow Stampin’ Up demo, Ruth Sollberger. I’ve never actually met Ruth in real life, because she lives in Australia and I live in the USA. It’s on my bucket list to go to Australia and I would be thrilled to meet Ruth. She’s my sister in Christ and a wonderful source of encouragement for me. We correspond by email mostly and I love receiving her emails as well. Anyway, don’t you LOVE this beautiful card she sent me?!

Ruth sent me this cute picture in January, after I had posted the picture below on my blog. She cased mine and came up with wonderfully creative boxes.

Here’s my directions to make the Easy Triangular Box

Ruth gets inspiration from all over the place. I love that she saw this apron and created this beautiful card. Way to go Ruth!

Here’s some cute cards Ruth made for her BSF gals.

My sweet friend Cindy Lindquist also makes awesome cards! Love this Cindy!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

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Friends of Stamping Mom Friday Feature-week 2

Yeah! I got some more cards in the mail this week.

Shelby Freeman, from the Stampin Up Home Office, sent me this adorable card. Thanks Shelby!

My upline, Ann Schach, sent me this cute card. Thanks Ann! This card is made from the Watercolor Christmas Project Kit which is on sale right now for only $16 and it makes 20 cards! The stamp set is sold separately.

I recently did a one on one card swap here on my blog and have some of these cards to show you. This first card is a very nice fun fold card. Toni sent this to me just to be sweet. I love it Toni, thanks so much!

Here’s the adorable card Toni made for the swap.

I wish you could see Lisa’s swap card in real life. It is gorgeous!

This is Linda M’s fun and festive swap card.

Here’s Linda L’s cute swap card.

Next time I do a card swap, I hope you’ll consider participating. It’s pretty easy when you only have to make one card.

Ruth cased one of my 3×3 card sets and sent me this adorable picture quite awhile ago. I love your cards Ruth!

I love to CASE cards, and love it when others CASE my cards. If you ever choose to CASE one of my cards, please send me a picture so I can show it on my blog. I also love receiving cards in the mail. If you send me a card, I’ll put it on a future Friends of Stamping Mom Friday feature.

I bet you love to receive cards too. One of my new year’s resolutions is to actually send the cards I make. I give a lot of cards away as gift sets, but don’t send as many as I should.

To start the new year off right, I sent about ten cards this morning. I also sent out some of the new catalogs. If you’d like me to be your Stampin’ Up demo, please email me and I’ll send you the new catalogs. My email is Beth@StampingMom.com If you work with another demo, please check with them for your catalogs.

Saturday is the last day to reserve your Stamparatus. You may think you can wait until June, but when you see it, I believe you’ll want it sooner. Reserve yours here

Jan 2 is the last day to order from the Holiday catalog. Many item are on sale. Order online here.

I am doing shares from the Occasions catalog and plan to post the details on Jan. 1. I will begin to order the supplies on Jan. 3 and get everything out to you quickly.

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I’d love it if you would come to our stamp camp in West Des Moines, IA on Saturday Jan. 27. Details below.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

The whole McCullough clan (24 people) are descending on West Des Moines tomorrow and will be here until Sunday. The presents are wrapped, the house is decorated, the menu is planned and the groceries are purchased. I do have some last minute cleaning and a little more food prep to do tomorrow. I wonder how much sleep we’ll get with 14 teenagers in the house for two nights?! The other eight adults will stay in a hotel while Steve and I have a slumber party with all the kids. Hopefully they’ll want to do some stamping and play some cards!

Grandma Ruby’s 80th Birthday and Big Stampin’ Up Sale!

I’ve been asked why I haven’t been posting lately? I stamp almost everyday and have been doing lots of stamping related things. Today I looked and realized I have 16 posts that I never published. I’m going to share a few of them over the next couple weeks even though some are a little outdated.

*Note to Altanta Stampin’ Up! demo who used to live in Iowa- You tried to contact me through Facebook and I accidentally erased your message as I was trying to reply to it. Please contact me through email at Beth@StampingMom.com I’m looking forward to chatting with you. 🙂

We had a fun and busy Labor Day weekend. Saturday morning we drove to Davenport to take Grandma Ruby and Grandpa Harold out to The Machine Shed restaurant to celebrate Ruby’s 80th birthday. The weekend before was Grandma Ruby’s 80th birthday celebration but none of us were able to go. Steve and Keegan were in Tijuana, Mexico on a mission trip for Homes for Hope, a division of Youth With A Mission (YWAM.) Steve and I went on this mission trip last year. It was very rewarding to build a house for a family in Mexico in two days. Keegan wasn’t sure he wanted to go, but he loved it! He was the only teenager on the trip. He learned how to use a chop saw, how to frame and how to roof. He also loved the kids, ages two and four and the stray dog that hung out with them. It’s good for a sixteen year old from the USA who has his own room in a nice home, to see that there are lots of people in the world that live in a totally different situation. It was also good for him to see the joy that this Mexican family had, even though they were so poor by American standards. The Mom accepted Christ while they were there, which was amazing to witness.

Anyway we had a great time with Grandma Ruby and Grandpa Harold. I spent the day working on Ruby’s 80th birthday party album. I’ve been a SU demo for about fifteen years. My in-laws were thrilled with the album I made for Ruby. They said it was almost like I was a “professional.” It made me smile. I’m so glad I invested in the large numbers and letters. I use them all the time.

The Stampin’ Up! fiscal year goes from Oct 1 through Sept 30. Due to my sweet customers, awesome downline, and kind people buying “shares” from me, I was able to retain my title of Silver Elite for the second year. Thank you so much! When I go to OnStage in November 2017 and April 2018 I will get to attend the “special” events. I told you last year, that after 15 years of watching others get these special benefits, it was a thrill for me to be included. I feel so blessed to get to do this for a second year. Thank you so much!!

Stampin’ Up has started the new year off with many specials:

Please see which Designer Series Paper (DSP) are included here.

I’ve included links to the sale DSP at the bottom of the post.

Please see the details here

I’ve included links to all the sale items at the bottom of the post.

Free Catalog-If you don’t already have a Stampin’ Up demo you are working with and would like to work with me, please let me know if you need an Annual Catalog or Holiday Catalog. Please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com for your free catalog.

My Holiday Catalog Product Shares are sold out! Thanks to everyone who purchased them!

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Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Oh Happy Day, Happy Day! Yep, Abby was home this weekend for the first time since leaving for college seven weeks ago. I drove to get her Friday afternoon and was so excited as I getting closer to Iowa City. Before I actually got to Iowa City I started crying. Not sure what that was…relief to get to bring her home after seven weeks? Her requests for the weekend: go to church as a family Saturday night, make some of her favorite food (Ziti Cucina and Pot Roast), play with the pups and watch a movie with Superman. Yep, he’s a pretty super Dad too!