It’s time for another Festive Friday Challenge!  I love being a designer for Festive Friday and this week’s challenge #FF0030 is National Handmade Day (April 7) and/or Dots.   #festivefridaychallenge  I hope you’ll make a card or 3-D item and join us.  All our cards are handmade, so enter your favorite card that you’ve made lately. 🙂 If you need help figuring out how to enter, please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and I’d love to help you!

I had never seen this type of fun fold card before until the darling card below arrived in my mailbox, made by Georgia Burhite from Stevens Point, WI!

Thanks for the adorable card Georgia and I hope you don’t mind I CASED your card to make the butterfly card. 🙂

Project Supplies

STAMPS & BUNDLES

Beauty Abounds (150617)

PAPER

Bermuda Bay Cardstock (131197), Coastal Cabana Cardstock (131297), Crushed Curry Cardstock (131199), Whisper White Cardstock (100730), Tea Room Specialty Designer Series Paper (DSP) (146894)

INK

Bermuda Bay (147096)

ADHESIVES

Multipurpose Liquid Glue (110755), Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets (144106)

TOOLS

Big Shot (143263), Stampin’ Trimmer (126889), White Stampin’ Chalk Marker (132133), Tufted Embossing Folder (146335), Clear Rhinestones (144220)

Measurements

• Cut 4-1/4” x 5-1/2″ Bermuda Bay Cardstock
• Cut 3-1/4″ x 8″ Bermuda Bay Cardstock scored at 4″
• Cut 3″x 3-3/4″ Crushed Curry Cardstock
• Cut (2) 1/4″ x 4” Tea Room Specialty DSP
•  Cut  3″x 3-3/4″ Whisper White Cardstock
• Scraps of Bermuda Bay and Coastal Cabana for the butterflies

Instructions

1. Run the Crushed Curry through the Big Shot using the Tufted embossing folder. Add dots to the intersections of the diamonds using the White Stampin’ Chalk Marker and set aside to dry.
2. Apply Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets to the back of the Bermuda Bay and Coastal Cabana scraps and run through the Big Shot using the Butterfly Beauty Thinlits Dies. If you cut out all five butterflies for each color you have enough butterflies to make three of these cards.
3. Adhere the Coastal Cabana butterflies to the top of the Bermuda Bay Butterflies and add Clear Rhinestones.
4. Adhere the two Tea Room DSP pieces to the sides of the 4-1/4” x 5-1/2″ Bermuda Bay Cardstock leaving about a 1/8″ border on all three sides.
5. Adhere the 3-1/4″ x 8″ Bermuda Bay Cardstock scored at 4″ to the front of the card between the two DSP pieces.
6. Stamp the butterfly from the Beauty Abounds stamp set on the Whisper White Cardstock and adhere on the inside of the Bermuda Bay folded piece.
7. Remove adhesive paper from the back of the butterflies and attach to the front of the Crushed Curry piece.
8. Don’t forget to stamp something cute on your envelope. We don’t want naked insides or naked envelopes. More joy will be had at the mailbox, when the recipient knows there’s something fun inside. 🙂
9. Assemble the card as shown in the picture.  Email me with questions at Beth@StampingMom.com

Please head over to Festive Friday Challenge and join us.

My family has been skiing in Summit Co. Colorado this week. I actually taught Steve how to ski when we were in ninth grade. That first day of learning how to ski wasn’t pretty. You might find this hard to believe, but Steve used to have quite a temper. After he fell and threw his poles several times, I left him and skied with our friends, that actually knew how to ski. This motivated him and by the end of day one, Steve had mastered the bunny hill. I tell you this mainly because Steve can ski circles around me today, so I have to hearken back to when my skiing skills were superior to make myself feel better. 🙂

Steve and I taught all our kids to ski. Sean first skied in Colorado when he was three and four. He cried if we tried to leave him in the “ski nursery,” so instead he would ski behind me with his skis between mine and he would hold onto my legs. We made a pretty good team! Sean lives in Seattle and actually skis most weekends, so he is definitely a black diamond skier today.

We then had three more kids in five years and didn’t ski for several years. Not enough time, money or energy to take a family of six skiing. Ryan and Keegan didn’t learn until about four years ago, but Keegan is a daredevil! Unfortunately, late this afternoon the daredevil and a tree collided. Looks like the tree won and Keegan may be sporting a black eye tomorrow. Thankfully he’s OK.

I did some research during my years of raising boys and learned that the rational part of a boy’s brain isn’t fully developed until he is 25 years old or so. Ryan loves to ski as well, but since he’s 23 and has a close to fully formed brain, he is more careful and didn’t have any tree incidents. Keegan is 18, that might explain a few things…

Abby went to Seattle to a microbiology conference this week and had a wonderful time. Abby flew in the day Sean flew out. Abby actually doesn’t enjoy skiing so she wasn’t too sad to miss the week.

I have somehow bummed up my arm and was not able to ski at all. Now you know the real reason why I had to tell the story of be being a better skier than Steve back in the day. 🙂

Here’s my very handsome husband and the gorgeous mountains. Sean took this picture. If you read this all the way to the bottom, thank you! I love to hear your comments or questions.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

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