Stamping Mom

My Holiday catalog order arrived!

We had a wonderful week at our Family Bible camp in Okoboji! I love spending a week away from daily life and have time to focus on God, our marriage family. The best part is, I got to bring my kids home with me! We are a family of five again until college starts in another week. It also means my design assistant Abby, and very sweet daughter, is on the job again!

The picture above is Abby, Superman and Keegan tubing in Okoboji. Can you guess who is standing up with this arms out on the back of the tube? Yep, it’s Keegan. Ryan was the lifeguard on the boat and he wasn’t happy about his little brother breaking the rules. Keegan kind of looks like he should be on the front of the Titanic.

When I got home, there was a box of goodies from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday catalog waiting for me. If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator already, I would love to be your demo. I have a stack of Holiday catalogs waiting to be sent out to my customers, so please let me know if I can send you one.

I am one of the September designers for Craft Project Central so I’ve been stamping all weekend, but it’s all things I can’t show you yet. Here’s my quick 3″x 3″ warm up card I made today. Do you do warm up cards? Sometimes I need to start small and get the stamping mojo flowing again.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Swirly Bird Christmas

Another beautiful swap card made by Betti Jotzke-Torrier. Isn’t this card stunning?! The silver foil Swirly Scribble Thinlit piece actually swings back and forth.

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We recently had our Olson family reunion and I thought some of you might enjoy seeing what the beautiful Iowa country side looked like on our way to the reunion. You can tell from this picture that Iowa is windy and we don’t always have a ton of cars on the road.

This is the Danish Windmill in Elk Horn, Iowa. My Grandma was Danish and I remember coming here many times as a kid. This is the only authentic (built in Denmark), working windmill in the USA.

Here’s some of the cousins getting John Deere Gator rides around the farm. As you can tell, there is a big age difference between the cousins! It was a really fun day seeing all my Dad’s siblings, and their kids and grandkids.

Hope you’re having a good week!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Garden in Bloom

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for August 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes. This month we are featuring projects using our favorite Stampin’ Up! cutting tools. There are so many wonderful punches, framelits and edgelits available that help make paper crafting more detailed and fun! 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.

When it comes to Stampin’ Up! products, I find the punches and framelits the hardest to resist. Please keep this between us, but I may own almost every punch Stampin’ Up! has made since 2003. This is information we don’t need to share with Superman. I would tell him if he asked, but fortunately, he’s never asked. 🙂

Anyway, I made this card with the brand new Layering Ovals Framelits. The flowers are from the Garden in Bloom stamp set. The flower is raised on dimensionals and splattered with the black marker. Both these things make the card really pretty in real life. Do you like the matching envelope? When I send a card, I want the recipient to be excited about it from the moment they pull it out of the mailbox.

Since the envelope is cute, the inside of the card needs to be cute too. The flowers are all embossed using Versamark, black ink and Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder. I colored them in with using ink pressed into the lid of the stamp pad and an aqua painter. Who needs adult coloring books? If you color on a card instead, you actually get to send it to someone and brighten their day.

I almost always make my cards with someone in mind to receive them. This card has no recipient, so if you would like to receive this card in the mail, please comment at the top of this post. I’ll randomly pick someone and hopefully brighten their day!

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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!

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