Thank You

A Whole Lot of Lovely

StampinUp thank you card made with the A Whole Lot of Lovely stamp set. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

For the first time ever, I used two challenges to inspire my card.  Pals Paper Arts provided the color challenge and Freshly Made Sketches gave me the sketch challenge.  I’ve never used these three colors together, but I must say I like it!

PPA-285-Jan28-1FMS Final 221-001

A Whole Lot of Lovely is a Hostess set from the 2015-16 annual Stampin’ Up! catalog.  I can see many uses for this “Thank You” stamp.  I used clear embossing powder on the sentiment and punched out flowers and used Candy Dots on some of the flowers.  I’ve included links to the supplies I used below.  Please let me know if you have comments or questions.

Believe it or not, today Steve and I took down the Christmas tree and put all the other Christmas decorations away.  I loved my tree this year decorated in bright and happy colors.  Every time I came in the house or walked downstairs, seeing the tree would make me smile.  I was telling a good friend about this and she told me seeing her tree up made her think of “work” as in work that needed to be done.  Since it is more than a month after Christmas and we heard the kids trying to explain to their friends why we still had a tree up, we decided it was time.  Steve did mention if we just left it up, we wouldn’t have to put it up again next year.  I decided the tree would get very dusty and I’ll try to survive the rest of this cold Iowa winter without my smile inducing tree!

christmastree2015

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

 

 

 

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Quick and Easy Thank You

StampinUp quick and easy thank you card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I needed a quick and easy thank you card today.  Do you recognize the polka dot paper?  Yep, it’s “Halloween” paper called Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper.  January 4 is the last day you can order this paper from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday catalog.

StampinUp quick and easy thank you card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Here’s the inside.  “You’re the best” and the flower are from the stamp set Watercolor Words.

StampinUp quick and easy thank you card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I hope my friend and upline, Ann, is excited when this thank you card arrives in the mail.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Quick and Easy Gift

traderjoestraderjoestraderjoesAre you ever in the situation where it’s time to go to an event and at the last minute you think, “I should bring a hostess gift!”  Well, I find myself in that situation all the time.  My go to stamp set for last minute emergencies is Stampin’ Up! Watercolor Thank You.  In this case, I was visiting a friend with a broken ankle and it happened to be her birthday.  I went to Trader Joe’s and got her French Vanilla Ice Cream (best ice cream ever!), Midnight Moo Chocolate Syrup and 50% Less Salt Peanuts.  There are two important things I need to mention here.  First of all, the Trader Joe’s clerk asked me what I was doing that day and I told her about my friend and that I was taking the ice cream etc. to for her broken ankle.  Well, the clerk got a reusable Trader Joe’s bag for me to use as a “gift bag” and ran and picked out some flowers for me to take to her also. ( The bag and flowers were free!) Trader Joe’s is an awesome store!  Second important thing is a note to my friends and family: If I break an ankle or other body part, please bring me the ice cream, chocolate syrup and peanuts pictured above. 🙂

Anyway now that the broken ankle was covered, I thought I really should bring her a little something for her birthday.  Since other people had also probably been bringing meals and maybe even ice cream, I thought she might need some thank you notes to send.  I spent the next few minutes whipping up 5 cards and envelopes.

thankyou

Not to be outdone by the cute Trader Joe’s bag, I came up with a cute Berry Basket to present my cards.

thankyou-1

Broken ankle gift- check

Birthday gift- check

It was time to go visit my friend and she loved both gifts.  When you need a last minute gift, make sure you have Watercolor Thank You on hand.  It’s saved me more than once, HERE’S another easy gift I made with Stampin’ Up! Watercolor Thank You.

Please subscribe to my blog and I’ll tell you more about my adventures and gift giving.

Please leave a comment and tell me what your favorite things are at Trader Joe’s!

 

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

 

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog