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Cookie Cutter Christmas Double Z Fold card

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Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for October 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes.  This month our projects feature cards made using “wicked” folds. What is a “wicked” fold? It is anything other than the standard A2 card fold. We hope to provide you with lots of ideas and that 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.

Stampin Up Cookie Cutter Christmas Double Z Fold Card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #Stampingmom

The little gingerbread house that I snipped out of the Candy Cane Lane DSP is adorable!

Stampin Up Cookie Cutter Christmas Double Z Fold Card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #Stampingmom

Were you surprised to see the cute gingerbread kids on the inside?  I hope it made you smile!

Stampin Up Cookie Cutter Christmas Double Z Fold Card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #Stampingmom

All the supplies I used are shown at the bottom of this post.  The red card base is 4-1/4″ x 11″, scored at 2-3/4″ and 5-1/2″. The smaller red piece is 2-1/4″ x 11″.  I had to make it that wide to cover the gingerbread kids when the card was shut.  The white “snow pieces” are (2 pieces) 2-1/2″ x 4 and (1) 4″ x 5-1/4″.  Please email me if you have any questions. Beth@StampingMom.com

Stampin Up Cookie Cutter Christmas Double Z Fold Card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #Stampingmom

Here’s the view from the top.  You may be able to see I used the Softly Falling embossing folder to have “snow” all over the background of the card.

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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! 

Blog Hop Line-up:  

  1. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
  2. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
  3. Sherrie Gross at Stampin’ Sunshine
  4. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
  5. Beth Fairweather at Beth Fairweather Designs
  6. Amy Hoptay at Craft Carnivore
  7. Jennifer Spiller at Westside Paper Creations
  8. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
  9. Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
  10. Lynn Tague at Beyond Beaches & Blessings
  11. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
  12. Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
  13. Jeanie Stark at Just Stampin’
  14. Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stampin’ Habit!
  15. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
  16. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
  17. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
  18. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
  19. Staci Rivera at Clever Bow Tie Designs
  20. Sue Becker at RnR Stamping
  21. Rae Harper Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts

 

Candy Cane Lane DSP

Stampin Up Candy Cane Lane DSP. Please see card and gift ideas designed by demo Beth McCullough at www.StampingMom.com #Stampingmom

Have you ordered the Candy Cane Lane DSP yet?  If not, you should.  I can’t stop making projects with it. This is a collage I made for Pinterest.

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Those of you who knew Abby and I were visiting the University of Oklahoma on Sunday and Monday might be curious to know how it went?  Well, by the time we got there after nine hours of driving we both decided it was too far and we probably shouldn’t have come.  I enjoyed being in the car with Abby and I laughed harder than I have in a long time.  Abby patiently taught me the songs and story of Hamilton, the musical.   She has all 23 songs memorized.

 

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We got up Monday morning and went to the campus. My goodness it is beautiful! OU really wants National Merit Scholar finalists and offers them huge financial incentives to go there, including five years of free tuition among other things. Let’s just say OU is in the running and I’m trying to get used to the idea that I will rarely see my sweet daughter. At the end of the day an adviser was telling Abby that it would be OK if she wasn’t able to come home for Thanksgiving because of the weather, because she would have a community of people to spend Thanksgiving with. It was at that point I started tearing up. Abby needs to be at my house for Thanksgiving, not stuck in Oklahoma! OK,so I have a few regrets about raising a confident, independent young lady. Actually, I want Abby to do what’s best for Abby and I promise not to write about being sad that she’s so far away.

 

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Every square inch of my house is covered in dust from the construction project, so it’s time for me to leave again.  I’ll be in Wisconsin for four days at a Stamping Business Building conference that my awesome upline Lisa Pretto is having.  The good news is all my team will benefit from everything I’ll be learning.  It should be a beautiful drive with all the trees changing colors.

My BSF group helped with the children’s program today.  I got the “pink” class which is the youngest babies.  I love babies!  There was a baby named Caleb who has been crying every week at BSF.  I took it as a personal challenge to hold and play with Caleb.  He was pretty happy most of the time.  The children’s leader asked me to stop being a group leader and come back next week and be Caleb’s friend again.  It’s tempting, but I would miss my ladies!

Abby had her swim team senior recognition tonight.  I can’t believe the four years of high school are coming to an end.

Hope all is well with you.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

Trio of Halloween Bag in a Box, boxes

Stampin Up Halloween Bag in a Box designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Here’s the directions to make a Bag in a Box.

All you need is a 6″ x 6″cardstock or DSP, Envelope punch board, adhesive, embellishments to decorate as desired and candy to fill the box. 🙂

  1.   Using the Envelope punch board, line up the left edge of the paper at 1 3/8″ and punch and score down the diagonal line to the right.  Move the paper to the left and line it up at 4″, punch and score the same as before. Rotate the paper to the remaining three sides and use the scored lines as a guide to punch and score all three sides.

Stampin Up Bag in a Box Directions made by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

2.  Cut down the score lines on both sides on top and bottom near the A and B to make the tabs.

3.  Use the Reverse Punch at the top center of the board.  This will corner round your edges on all four corners.  The picture above shows what your paper should look like after steps 1,2 and 3 are finished.

4.  Fold the two C’s together in the center and wrap the A’s and B’s around each side of the C’s. An A overlaps a B on one side of the box and the same thing happens on the other side of the box. Apply adhesive.

Stampin Up Bag in a Box Directions next step by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

5. Fold the D tabs back and apply adhesive or let the flop depending on the how you want it to look.

Stampin Up Bag in a Box Directions final step by demo Beth McCullough. See more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

6. I used a 1/2″ Circle Punch and made a handle by punching through one C and then lining up with the other C and punching again.

7. Decorate as desired.

Please email me if you have any questions at Beth@StampingMom.com.

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StampinUp demo Beth McCullough team gift. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Congrats to my team member Lynn Tague for promoting to Bronze Elite!  She signed with me June 1, 2016 and already promoted in September! Please check out her blog here.  This stamp set is the gift from me that she got to choose to celebrate her promotion.  I dressed it up to make it look cute.  I love the new red glitter embossing powder I used on the tag.  Please email me if you’ve ever thought about signing up to purchase Stampin’ Up! at a discount.  Lynn did and I think she’s pretty happy with her decision.

Stampin Up demo Beth McCullough. Please see card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Look what “popped” up in my backyard this week.  It’s a sunroom being added on to the back of my house.  24 years ago when Superman and I were looking for a house, I wanted one with a sunroom so it would be easier to get some sunshine during the long winter months.  Superman promised me we would add one someday since we have no windows on the south side of our house.  About eight years ago we signed with a contractor to build a sunroom and we checked his references and Better Business Bureau etc. and 30 days later he went out of business taking thousands of our dollars with him.  We saved up money a second time and with much prayer and some lack of sleep on my part, we again signed with a contractor for a sunroom.  Along with the sunroom we are turning another room into a stamping office for me complete with cabinets, countertops and Stamp n Storage organization.  I have a link at the bottom of the right column where you can click on Stamp n Storage and get 10% off. Anyway it’s supposed to be done by Thanksgiving and since I host a big family Thanksgiving at my house, I hope that truly happens.   If you’re wondering why it took me so long on the Bag in a Box directions, I’ve spent about fifteen hours at the cabinet store in the last two days finalizing the counter tops and cabinets.  All summer we were consumed with making decisions about this project and I’m kind of relieved most of the decisions have been made.  I’m also very pleased that there is a shell of a room attached to my house.  I’ll let you know how it goes.  So far, so good!

I need to get some sleep, Abby and I take off for our college visit to The University of Oklahoma Sunday morning.

Hope you’re having a great weekend.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂