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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 🙂

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Christmas Fudge Boxes

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Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for December; we are thankful you stopped by.  This month we are showcasing projects that feature Stampin’ Up! products that should be on everyone’s wish list. We hope you enjoy our creations.

You may just be starting the Blog Hop or may have come from the previous link from the Line-up on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below.  The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you may see all the projects.

Steve’s Famous Fudge!

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I’ve told you before that my husband, Steve, is the “Second best fudge maker” in the State of Iowa according to the Iowa State Fair. (Our family and friends know he’s actually #1!)  Anyway, at Christmas time his fudge making goes into high gear.  Every year I come up with a new way to package the fudge.  This year the boxes are smaller.  Now that Steve has lost a lot of weight, he feels like he should be handing out fudge in smaller quantities. 🙂

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This first box is my “rustic” fudge box.  I love the wooden Snowflake Elements.

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Here’s the “fancy” fudge box.  I wasn’t sure if I could use the Silver Glimmer Paper with the Bow Builder punch, but it worked great!

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I used the Softly Falling Textured Impressions Embossing Folder to make my “snowflake” fudge box.

 

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Which fudge box is your favorite?

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Thanks for visiting. To continue with the hop, please refer to the Blog Hop Line-up below. We hope to see you on next month’s Pals Blog Hop!

  1. Nicole Everitt at Stamp Scrap Love
  2. Nancy Gleason at My Stampin Space
  3. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
  4. Maggie Mata at Maggie Made Cards
  5. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
  6. Jane Knudsen at see jane stamp
  7. Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
  8. Susan Itell at Simple Stampin
  9. Kim Jolley at Stampin’ Artfully
  10. Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery
  11. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
  12. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
  13. Peggy Noe at prettypapercards
  14. Jennifer Michalski at Stampin’ Serenity
  15. Ronna Butt at www.cardstockcastle.com
  16. Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
  17. Shawn de Oliveira at ShawnStamps
  18. Becky Volpp at InkBlossomwithBecky
  19. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
  20. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
  21. Rae Harper-Burnet at WildWestPaperArts.com

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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.

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

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Broken ankle gift- check

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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.

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

 

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

 

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