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Welcome to our Blog Hop!

This time we are focusing on all things Thanksgiving! Get ready for some great ideas, inspiration, tips, resources and how-to as you move along through the blog hop.

You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from Cristi Wuenschel at The Keeper of the Memories on our Living with Style Blog Hop. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog so you make sure to see and learn from all of the articles featured here today.

I love hosting Thanksgiving at my house each year!  The first thing I do is send out homemade invitations.  Here’s the invitations I sent the last two years.

StampinUp picket fence with swag card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMomStampinUp Thanksgiving card designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

The second card is much prettier without the X’s, but since I already have around 25 people coming to Thanksgiving, I didn’t really want to invite anyone else!  🙂

I also like to make a set of place cards for the adult table and a different set for the kids table.  At our house the oldest 12 people are at the adult table and everyone else is a kid, or kid at heart.  Sorry Sean…there are so many people coming this year, you may get demoted.

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

The adult place cards all had leaves, but you can see each place card was a little different.

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

The kids all had turkeys, but again each turkey was unique.  I love the googly eyes on the turkeys.

Last year I decided to make place card/treat combos.  The adults got my husband’s delicious homemade fudge.  At the State Fair Steve always wins second place in every fudge category he enters, so I tease him he’s the Second Best Fudge Maker in Iowa.  Even second best is honestly quite a feat in Iowa!

.  StampinUp Thanksgiving placecards and fudge boxes designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Last year the Stampin’ Up! Paper Pumpkin (Monthy subscription craft box) included these pie shaped boxes.  We poured Steve’s fudge into pie pans and everyone got a pie shaped slice of fudge to take home.

StampinUp Thanksgiving gift made with the Curvy Keepsake Box Thinlits, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

The kids got these Curvy Keepsake Box turkeys filled with Reese Peanut Butter cups.  I think most of the turkeys went home empty, but they loved having their names on the turkeys.

I also enjoy making little treats at Thanksgiving for my kid’s teachers and friends.  Here’s a box that fits a full size Snickers or Milky Way.

StampinUp Thanksgiving Snickers boxes designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

You can find the directions to make the Snickers Box  Here

Another box I’m giving away this year, is made with the Square Pillow Box Thinlit Die.

StampinUp Thanksgiving box made with the Square Pillow Box Thinlit Die, designed by demo Beth McCullough. Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

Please subscribe to my blog and come back next Wednesday when I’ll show you what I’ve come up with for Thanksgiving 2015!  I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

 

The next stop is Lory Robinson at The Robin’s Nest Designs on Living with Style Blog Hop! Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you again next time around!

  1. Natalie Bradley at NatalieBradley.com
  2. Pam Bennett at The Birch Cottage
  3. Nicole Watt at Pixel Maven’s Retreat
  4. Cristi Wuenschel at The Keeper of the Memories
  5. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
  6. Lory Robinson at The Robin’s Nest Designs
  7. Robin L at A Home to Grow Old In
  8. Brandy VanDeKop at The Dutchman’s Wife
  9. Lisa at Harmony and Happiness

Superman turns 52 today!

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

Well not that Superman, but my Superman is 52 today!  Happy Birthday Steve!  The kids and I love you so much! I was blessed to meet my husband at age 12, so I’ve known him for 40 years.  He is an awesome husband and father. A year ago, Steve started a healthy eating and working out program.  He’s lost around 50 lbs, completed three triathlons and is quite burly.  Hence his new nickname, Superman.  He’s competing in a year long challenge at Farrell’s and also doing the Isagenix’s Isabody Challenge.  I’ll show you his official before and after photos in a few weeks, but you’ll see the change in these pictures.

Before                                                         After

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He looks the best he’s ever looked in the entire 40 years!  I’m so proud of you honey and hope you have a wonderful birthday!

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

I used Stampin’ Up’s Happy Birthday, Everyone set to make this card.  It is one of the Host sets you can get with a $150 order.  Please click on the pictures below to order the products you need to make this card.

I love hearing from you, so please leave me a comment, question or to wish Steve a Happy Birthday!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

 

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My daughter, Abby, and her AP Chemistry class are celebrating Mole day today!  Celebrating at our house usually means crafting or baking.  Abby chose to bake.  She made Oreo Cake Balls proportional to the atomic radius of each element.  Here’s a picture of some of the cake balls.

Periodic cake ball chart.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

There are 118 elements and Abby color coded them by type- Noble gas, Halogen, Metalloid, etc.

Periodic cake ball chart.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom

These Oreo cake balls are delicious!  Abby has made them for graduation parties, Halloween parties and various other events.  Please let me know if you want the recipe.  Please see the Stampin’ Up Weekly Deals below.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

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The Bow Builder punch on the Weekly Deals is necessary to make this cute witch hat!
Stampinup Pumpkin box and witches hat made with the Bow Builder punch, designed by demo Beth McCullough.  Please see more card and gift ideas at www.StampingMom.com #StampingMom