Thank You

Flower Shop Thank you

Guess what?  This card was chosen as a Pals Paper Arts pick of the week!  Thanks so much to the PPA design team for choosing my card!

Yeah! I’m back!!!!  I’ve been to New York City, Okoboji, and Kansas City all in the last two weeks. It’s time for me to stay home for awhile.  My puppies missed me and my gardens and stamping have been suffering.  I’ve also missed sleeping in my own bed.  There’s no place like home!

StampinUp Thank you card made with the Flower Shop stamp set designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

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UYS # 227 Good Things in 3’s! is the challenge at Use Your Stuff Challenge Blog this week. Here’s my threes: 3 flowers, 3 kinds of polka dots, 3 colors.  Please play along here.  I’m a designer for this challenge blog. 🙂

 

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I love the sketch challenge at PalsPaperArts this week.  Please play along here.  I hope to be a designer for this challenge blog some day!

StampinUp Thank you card made with the Flower Shop stamp set designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

With all the fun things in the new Stampin’ Up! catalog, don’t forget to use the awesome stamps that have been around for awhile.  This flower from the Flower Shop stamp set is one of my favorites because of it’s whimsical look.  I also love that I can punch it out with the Pansy punch.

StampinUp Thank you card made with the Flower Shop stamp set designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

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Superman did his second triathlon of the season today.  He did awesome!

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They swam 1/2 mile.  These blue swim cap guys are the 40 and over men.  There were five other groups that started their swim in staggered heats.  Elite men, elite women, under 40 men, under 40 women and over 40 women.

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Biked 16 miles.  Biggest obstacle was that his iPhone holder fell off his bike three times.  He lost about 5 minutes in total retrieving it.  His speed is usually at least 20 miles per hour, so his iPhone case did a great job. The screen did not break on his phone.  Needless to say he has now used Gorilla glue on the phone holder on his bike and it will never fall off again!

 

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Ran 3.2 miles.

There were actually a couple hundred people doing the triathlon this morning, but I noticed in most of the pictures, Superman is there by himself.  Just assume it’s because Superman is winning! 🙂  Not really, but he did do very well!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

 

Apple of My Eye thank you card

StampinUp Thank you card made with the Apple of my eye stamp set, created by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

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It’s time for another sketch challenge for Use Your Stuff  #UYS221.  Wouldn’t you love to enter the challenge here?

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This was designed for a scrapbook page, but it’s not too hard to make a card with it instead.

 

StampinUp Thank you card made with the Apple of my Eye stamp set, created by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

You can see the cherries are popped up on dimensionals and so is the circle layer.

StampinUp Thank you card made with the Apple of my Eye stamp set, designed by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.Stampingmom.com #StampingMom

“you’re just the sweetest” is the perfect sentiment for this card.  I made this card to thank Crystal, my sweet friend who made Revelation scripture cards for each member of our BSF discussion group.  Thanks so much Crystal!

james and the giant peach

Here’s the “peach” from Keegan’s play, James and the Giant Peach.  Sunday was Keegan’s group fifth day in a row to perform the play.  They are done and they did a great job!  Keegan’s next thing is trying out for the performing choir and jazz choir at his high school.

Abby and the American Boy’s Choir had their concert today and it was fabulous!  Choir is over for Abby until next September.  Her next thing is the six AP exams she has over the next two weeks starting with AP Chemistry tomorrow.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

 

Directions for Kate Spade inspired gift card set

The cards in this gift box are not the standard A2 size.  They are what Stampin’ Up! calls Note Card size.  The cards are 5″ x 3 1/2″ and the envelopes are 5 1/8″ x 3 5/8″.  You need to purchase these from Stampin’ Up! or cut your cards yourself and use the Envelope Punch Board to make the envelope.  You can purchase the Note Cards by clicking here or Envelope Punch Board here.  This size does work for mailing.

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough. Please see my blog for directions to make the box stampingmom.com/... #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

You can get both piece A and B cut from one 12 x 12 sheet of cardstock.

Cut the cardstock for piece A at 7 1/4 x 12. Score at 1/2′”and 1″ on all four sides. You fold at the 1/2″ score line with the end tab piece in between the two side layers and then fold at the 1″ score line.  The sides of the box are a double layer of card stock.  Please let me know if you have any questions about how to fold this box together. You need a strong adhesive.  I’m using Stampin’ Up Tear & Tape.  You can buy the Tear & Tape here.

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough Please see my blog for directions to make the box stampingmom.com/... #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

You are basically making “mountains” on the front side of this piece to have a separation between the cards, envelopes and sentiment tags.

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough. Please see my blog for directions to make the box stampingmom.com/... #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

The yellow piece is in the picture just so you can see the Window Sheet on top of it. The box is 10 inches long so you do the scoring on the 12 inch side.  If you don’t have 12 x 12 Window Sheets which are available in my Stampin’ Up store, click here, you can also use adhesive to combine two Transparency sheets and cut them down to a 10 x 11 1/2 size.

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough Please see my blog for directions to make the box stampingmom.com/... #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

I wrapped the box with a piece of Night of Navy ribbon.  I thought about adding a tag, but instead added a “thank you” tag on the top card.  This is a hostess gift for my sweet friend,Janene , who hosted our family for Easter.I can’t wait to make some more gift card sets!

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You can pin the pictures to your Pinterest board, showing the directions in case you want to make a gift set in the future.  I’ll also have the directions pinned on my board, “How to Make Simple Card and Gifts.” click here

crab apple

The Des Moines area has beautiful crab apple trees in colors of pink, white and red  that bloom every April.  Water Works park has hundreds or thousands of these trees.  Super Man and I are going on a bike ride this afternoon to see the trees and I’ll probably take some pictures.  Abby heard what we were doing and packed us a picnic lunch.  What a sweetie!  Hopefully tomorrow’s blog post won’t have a story about a biking mishap!

Have a wonderful weekend.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂