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Directions for Kate Spade inspired gift card set

The cards in this gift box are not the standard A2 size.  They are what Stampin’ Up! calls Note Card size.  The cards are 5″ x 3 1/2″ and the envelopes are 5 1/8″ x 3 5/8″.  You need to purchase these from Stampin’ Up! or cut your cards yourself and use the Envelope Punch Board to make the envelope.  You can purchase the Note Cards by clicking here or Envelope Punch Board here.  This size does work for mailing.

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough. Please see my blog for directions to make the box stampingmom.com/... #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

You can get both piece A and B cut from one 12 x 12 sheet of cardstock.

Cut the cardstock for piece A at 7 1/4 x 12. Score at 1/2′”and 1″ on all four sides. You fold at the 1/2″ score line with the end tab piece in between the two side layers and then fold at the 1″ score line.  The sides of the box are a double layer of card stock.  Please let me know if you have any questions about how to fold this box together. You need a strong adhesive.  I’m using Stampin’ Up Tear & Tape.  You can buy the Tear & Tape here.

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough Please see my blog for directions to make the box stampingmom.com/... #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

You are basically making “mountains” on the front side of this piece to have a separation between the cards, envelopes and sentiment tags.

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough. Please see my blog for directions to make the box stampingmom.com/...  #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

The yellow piece is in the picture just so you can see the Window Sheet on top of it. The box is 10 inches long so you do the scoring on the 12 inch side.  If you don’t have 12 x 12 Window Sheets which are available in my Stampin’ Up store, click here, you can also use adhesive to combine two Transparency sheets and cut them down to a 10 x 11 1/2 size.

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough Please see my blog for directions to make the box stampingmom.com/... #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

I wrapped the box with a piece of Night of Navy ribbon.  I thought about adding a tag, but instead added a “thank you” tag on the top card.  This is a hostess gift for my sweet friend,Janene , who hosted our family for Easter.I can’t wait to make some more gift card sets!

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You can pin the pictures to your Pinterest board, showing the directions in case you want to make a gift set in the future.  I’ll also have the directions pinned on my board, “How to Make Simple Card and Gifts.” click here

crab apple

The Des Moines area has beautiful crab apple trees in colors of pink, white and red  that bloom every April.  Water Works park has hundreds or thousands of these trees.  Super Man and I are going on a bike ride this afternoon to see the trees and I’ll probably take some pictures.  Abby heard what we were doing and packed us a picnic lunch.  What a sweetie!  Hopefully tomorrow’s blog post won’t have a story about a biking mishap!

Have a wonderful weekend.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

Kate Spade card set

Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by Stampin' Up demo Beth McCullough. Please see my blog for directions to make the box http://stampingmom.com/directions-for-kate-spade-inspired-gift-card-set/ #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

My sweet friend, Janene, gave me the kitchen towel that inspired this Kate Spade knock off card set.  Janene also hosted our family for Easter.  I told her I would make her a card set as a hostess gift.  I always have trouble deciding what kind of cards to make for other people and hadn’t made them yet, even though Easter was a month ago.  Since Janene liked the towel, I’m confident she will like this card set.

Stampin' Up Kate Spade inspired CAS card designed by demo Beth McCullough.  See more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

The card set includes six note cards and envelopes and six optional tags.  I’m not sure if she’ll want to use the note cards plain or with a sentiment, so I put dimensionals on the back of the tags and she can have fun putting them on if she wants them.

 

Stampin' Up Kate Spade inspired CAS card designed by demo Beth McCullough.  See more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Stampin' Up Kate Spade inspired CAS card designed by demo Beth McCullough.  See more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I’m proud to tell you that I did not case this box from anyone.  It’s a Stamping Mom original!  Here’s the link to the directions to make the gift card box.

Several of you have asked about the flower stamp.  It is from the  Stampin’ Up! Paper Pumpkin April 2016 free set called All About Everything.

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Kate Spade inspired gift card set designed by Stampin' Up demo Beth McCullough. Please see my blog for directions to make the box http://stampingmom.com/directions-for-kate-spade-inspired-gift-card-set/ #StampingMom This box is not sized for standard A2 cards. Theses are note cards 5" x 3 1/2" with envelopes 5 1/8" x 3 5/8"

You can pin the picture above and see more on my Pinterest 3D Gifts Board here

Today was therapy dog day and Super Man was out of town.  That means I got to wash the pups.  We wash them in our kitchen sink.  Here they are after their bath.

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pup-4

They did a great job at their therapy dog visit.  One gal who works there spent some time petting them and told us it really brought joy to her 13 hour work day.  Not sure why it was 13 hours?  I assume she has two different jobs back to back? Anyway Maya and Molly are happy to bring joy to anyone who needs it.

Super Man got home from his trip tonight and Ryan came home from college.  It’s going to be a great weekend.  Hope you have fun weekend plans.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

#imbringingbirthdaysback birthday card from Shannon West!

Guess what arrived today?  A birthday card from the one and only Shannon West!  Yep!  Shannon is the awesome Stampin’ Up gal who started the #imbringingbirthdaysback movement and inspired me to participate.

StampinUp's Shannon West sent me a birthday card! See more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

I was so excited to find this awesome birthday card in my mailbox!  Shannon is making so many more cards than I am.  Another big difference is her cards arrive early and mine arrive late.  🙂

Stampin' Up Shannon West sent me a birthday card! See more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

All the cards have the #imbringingbirthdaysback on the back!  Thanks so much Shannon!  You made my day!  My birthday is actually next Tuesday, but I was excited to get the party started early.

Actually the last couple days have been pretty awesome!  Yesterday my dear friend, Donna, surprised me with a delicious coconut cream pie for my birthday! She also helped me organize my attic.  Yep, Donna’s a really good friend! Super Man challenged me to get the attic organized, and then he would deep clean the garage.  It was actually hard to walk through the attic and impossible to find anything.  Now I have a map and know where everything is.  When my nephews, Liam and Gavin, come back for a visit, the Brio train bucket will be on the train table waiting for them.  Last time they were here, I couldn’t find it.  Anyway, attic- check.  Super Man when does the deep cleaning garage project begin?

Today was another fun day.  My friend Teresa and I have birthdays a couple days apart.  Janene, Teresa and I met for breakfast at La Mie Bakery in Des Moines.  We were shocked when we got there at 8:30am on Thursday and there was no parking and no tables.  Don’t people have places they need to be at 8:30am? Thanks for breakfast Teresa!  Janene gave us each a very cute Kate Spade kitchen towel and fancy brownie mix.

When I looked at the towel, it looked very similar to a flower in the free additional set sent to all Paper Pumpkin subscribers in April 2016, called All About Everything.

allabouteverything

Inspiration can come from anywhere, here’s my Kate Spade knock off.

Kate Spade inspired CAS card designed by StampinUp demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Are you a Paper Pumpkin subscriber?  If not, you should be. It’s only $19.95 per month, and less if your purchase a subscription.  My Paper Pumpkin subscribers are invited to a free class every month to make creative Paper Pumpkin projects.  April subscribers- there’s a Kate Spade knock off card in your future.  Please stop by my blog tomorrow and I’ll show you my Kate Spade card set.

This afternoon Barb, my sweet BSF and stamping friend, and I worked on decorating 22 gift bags for a top secret BSF project.

StampinUp decorated gift bag made by demo Beth McCullough and Barb. See more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Here’s one of the bags.  Isn’t it cute?  I’ll show you the rest of the bags when we complete our mission.

Keegan is practically living at his high school for the next two weeks.  They are putting the final touches on the musical, James and the Giant Peach.  They practice from 5-10pm.  I get up at 5:15am to exercise six mornings a week, so I have trouble staying awake late enough to go pick him up at 10pm.

It’s rained for the last two days.  Iowa could not be any greener than it is right now.  I think of my gardens and flowers when it rains.  Keegan told me this morning he loves it when it rains.  Rain=$ to him, because he mows lawns.

Have a great day!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂