Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Hope you had a nice Valentine’s Day.  I forgot I had already made Steve’s Valentine, so this morning I jumped up and made him this card.

StampinUp CAS Valentine made with the Lovely Amazing You stamp set designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at  www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom Global Design Project #GDP022 #StampingMom

Do you recognize the sketch? It’s the same one I used for Abby’s birthday card yesterday.  Here’s the link to the Global Design Project.

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This afternoon I remembered I had made Steve’s Valentine a couple weeks ago.

StampinUp CAS Everything Eleanor Valentine designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

It’s funny how different they are, but I’m sure Steve probably is OK with the fact he makes my heart happy and that I love him!  I also gave him two bags of dark chocolate.  Since he’s been on his fitness and healthy eating kick he doesn’t eat many sweets, but he still enjoys a bite of fine dark chocolate.

So would you like to see what Superman (Steve) got me for Valentine’s Day?  He got me a dozen red roses last Tuesday from Costco, before the price of roses when up.  It’s true, Steve and I are both ahem… cheap or it sounds better that we’re thrifty.  I actually get flowers from Superman about every other week or two year round.  The good news is during the Spring, Summer and Fall he actually picks the flowers from our yard and puts them in a vase for me.  During the winter he resorts to buying them, but they usually come from Walmart or Costco.  So he came home with red roses for me and yellow roses for Abby.

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OK so the yellow roses don’t look so good, but we’ve had them almost a week and I did accidently let them run out of water once during the week.  The red roses still look great.

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He also went in my stamping office last night and made Abby and I with homemade Valentines.  He does this every year.  Steve always uses punches, but I was surprised that he had somehow learned to use framelits.  I asked him about it and he said he actually cut the big hearts out with scissors.  I think he did way better than I could’ve done.  Good thing I have framelits.

Abby and Keegan received their standard two Reese’s Peanut Butter Hearts in a Valentine box made with the Gift Box Punch Board from me.  They are always happy with this gift.

StampinUp Valentine boxes made with gift box punch board, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gifts ideas at  www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Ryan is away at college and Sean works in Seattle, so they got boxes in the mail.

How to mail Scoteroos.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Typically I can send them almost an entire 9 x 13 pan of bars divided in two layers in a small priority box.  This time they got fewer Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Bars so I had room for two Reese’s Peanut Butter Hearts.  I sent these bars to Sean for his birthday in September and he shared them with his coworkers at Amazon.  The coworkers LOVED the bars and had never had them before.  So I’ve sent them several more times.  I guess they are a Midwest thing.  If you would like the recipe for Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Bars (also called Scotcheroos), please let me know.

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Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

 

Valentine Party Invitation

Mom and Dad were going to have a party around Valentine’s Day and needed invitations, so I came up with two choices.

StampinUp Valentine invitation designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Red sparkly hearts…

StampinUp Valentine invitation designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

or Valentines hanging by a string.  Which do you think they chose…?  Red sparkly hearts win every time!  I ended up using the card on the top left where the “you’re invited” is right beside the red sparkly heart.  As I make more cards, I’m learning how the placement really matters.

I am so excited to see Abby and Keegan perform at the State Speech and Drama contest this weekend.  Keegan is a “strong man” in the circus performing in the one act play, Elephant Graveyard.  It’s a sad, but moving story of a circus elephant.  Abby is in TV News…she helped write the commercial about “Peace for Paris.”

Hope you have a great weekend!

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Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Valentine 3 Nugget Box

Have you made treats for Valentine’s Day?  You only have 10 days, so it’s time to get started!

StampinUp Valentine 3 Nugget Box designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom.com

Grab a bag of Hershey’s Nuggets.

StampinUp Valentine 3 Nugget Box designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom.com

Here’s the directions so you can make some Valentine 3 Nugget Boxes.

StampinUp Valentine 3 Nugget Box designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom.com

You might be wondering where I came up with these nontraditional Valentine colors?  Yep, I used the color challenge at Global Design Project.  You should check them out and play along.

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Miss Abby is turning 17 soon, so I’ve been working on her birthday invitations.  I can’t wait to show them to you. Please sign up for my posts to be delivered to your inbox so you don’t miss anything.

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Blessings,

Beth 🙂

StampinUp Valentine 3 Nugget Box designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom.com

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