It’s time for another Festive Friday Challenge! I love being a designer for Festive Friday and this week’s challenge #FF0046 is National Button Day (Nov 16). The Inspo List is 10 items you can choose from to create your project. Incorporate THREE or more of the items in your project and link up! #festivefridaychallenge I hope you’ll make a card, scrapbook page or 3-D item and join us. If you want help entering, please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and I’d love to help you!
You can see the fun fold better on the picture below.
For a free PDF with supplies and directions click here.
Do you want to make cards for your crafty friends? Follow Your Art is a great suite to do just that 🙂
Steve’s surgery will be next Tuesday. We expect a very good outcome, but would appreciate your prayers for a successful surgery and quick recovery. He is anxious to be done with it. We were surprised to find out that his heart will actually hurt afterwards. Neither one of us have ever heard of a heart actually hurting.
Steve’s office dresses up for Halloween. I think some of his friends at work were amused when Cowboy Steve walked in this morning. Jeri- he did wear the Hudnut red bandana too. 🙂
If any of you will be in Lansing for OnStage in a couple weeks, come see Jean and I. We are preparing a 3-D project that involves Steve’s fudge. Let me know if you’ll be there and I’ll save one for you. 🙂
I love making these “Lever cards.” Here’s a link to my YouTube video showing how to make this lever card. Please subscribe to my channel and give me a thumbs up while you’re over there. I really appreciate it! I made this card recently on my Wednesdays at noon CST Facebook Live, “Crafting Fun with Stamping Mom.” Click on “Videos” to see the past Crafting Fun with Stamping Mom videos. Please join me at noon on Wednesdays or you can catch the replay later when it’s convenient for you.
You can attach any type of shape at the end of your lever. On the top card I used the Square Stitched Framelits and on the bottom card I used the Circle Stitched Framelits.
It’s fun being a designer at Use Your Stuff Challenge Blog. It is after all why we buy all these crafting supplies. To have fun using them to make beautiful creations for ourselves and for blessing others. The challenge this week is birds, bees or butterflies. You can enter your card, scrapbook page or 3-D item that has birds, bees or butterflies on it. Ready, go! I can’t wait to see what you create!
Marcelyn Churchill is my friend, Stamping Joy team member (Stamping Joy is my group of stampers from all over the USA), fellow BSFer (Bible Study Fellowship) and prolific crafter. She doesn’t have a blog, so I share some of her creations on most Mondays. Marcelyn makes lots of fun fold cards, but this is one of my favorite cards she’s ever made. It involved a whole lot of fussy cutting.
Lots of you loved this card I showed last week on Marcelyn Monday and asked for directions. I plan to get them posted this week.
Here’s another Bird Ballad Fun Fold card I made with the directions below.
July 1-July 31 – Bonus Days are Back!
Bonus Days are here again! During the month of July – for every $50 (before shipping and tax) you spend, you earn a $5 Bonus Days coupon code that can be redeemed in August. How fun is that?! There are so many amazing, new products on your wish list – buy lots of them in July so you can complete your list in August.
For every order you place, you will receive an email with your Bonus Days coupon codes. Write them down, print them out or save them in a handy spreadsheet. That way, you’ve got everything you need to redeem the credits in August.
July 1-August 31 – Extra! Extra! Join Promotion
You’ve thought about signing up to be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator – July is your time to shine. Between July 1 until August 31, new demonstrators will receive an additional $30 of product in your Starter Kit. You will pay $99 to sign up and choose $155 worth of Stampin’ Up! products in your Starter Kit – and Stampin’ Up! covers the shipping. How incredible is that?!
Oh, there’s more! You will also receive a $10 coupon code the following month to spend however you wish.
And more! Along with your purchase of a Stampin’ Up! Starter Kit, you:
will earn a 20% discount on all purchases immediately after joining (and for as long as you are an active demonstrator) with the possibility to earn a bigger discount. What an awesome benefit and fun incentive!
get personal help and attention from me and also be part of a huge nationwide awesome community of kind, talented stampers with daily inspiration.
have no obligation to ever sell or share with anyone (although it makes you really cool if you do) and no obligation to buy another thing if you don’t want to.
Welcome Linda M! I’m so happy you joined Stamping Mom’s Joy Team! It’s a great way to participate in my close knit group of stampers, get all your crafting supplies at a discount and be part of a very active nationwide group, Stampin’ Pretty Pals. Contact me today and let’s talk about how easy it is to get started. 🙂
You can always email me at Beth@StampingMom.com if you don’t want to place your order online. I’d love to help you! My current host code is 7ER94T9D . If you place a $75 order using my host code, you get a package of the 2019-2021 in Color Faceted Dots.
If your order is $150 or more, don’t use the Host Code, but you’ll still get the Color Faceted Dots. 🙂
Here’s my sweet Molly. She lays under the counter while I craft, helps run off the bunnies and snakes while I’m gardening. (I’ve never seen a snake at my current home of 27 years but I’ve always joked that Steve removes them because he’s afraid I would want to move if I saw one.) She and her sweet sister Maya, do pet therapy visits with me and love to go for car rides. Molly still likes walks, but shorter ones than in the past. Molly is ten and Maya is twelve. I totally get why everyone loves their pets so much! I’d love to see a picture of your pets.
This summer is flying by. I spend a lot of time biking with friends and my biking team, gardening, stamping, Bible study, and working on my Stamping Mom business. Next week my sister and I are flying to Utah for the Young Living Essential Oil conference. We also have our annual week at family Bible camp in Okoboji coming in August. I hope you’re having a blessed season whether it’s summer or winter where you are!
Another fun fold card made with the gorgeous Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper (DSP). Jean and I made this card for a recent Joy Team stamping event and also for Mother’s Day. I actually gave this card to my sweet mother-in-law, Ruby!
June 4, everyone will be able to buy this gorgeous DSP.
You can add a Whisper White 3-3/4″ x 4-3/4″ piece instead of the Stitched Nested Label, if you need more room to write.
There’s another new challenge at Use Your Stuff this week. This week’s challenge is celebrating Moms – your mom, your grandma, aunt, cousin, sister, step mom, so many different kinds of moms that we have! Please head over and join our challenge here.
Here’s Marcelyn having a blast at OnStage last month. Her very first official Stampin Up event happened just a few weeks before her 80th birthday. Thanks to all of you that have sent Marcelyn birthday cards! She’s still getting them, so if you haven’t sent one yet, it’s not too late.
If you’re here for the first time and don’t know who I’m talking about, Marcelyn Churchill is my friend, Stamping Joy team member, fellow BSFer (Bible Study Fellowship) and prolific crafter. She doesn’t have a blog, so I share some of her creations on most Mondays. Today I’m going to share some of the birthday cards Marcelyn received. I’l share more of them on future Mondays.
Ruth Sollberger from Australia sent Marcelyn this beautiful card. I wonder if Ruth knew this is one of Marcelyn’s all time favorite sets?!
Ruth also sent this cute Tea Bag Holder. So thoughtful!
Chris sent this cute card! This Happiness Blooms DSP was one of my favorites and is still available while supplies last or through June 3, 2019.
This darling card came from Donna H from Ontario! This makes me want to get out my Happy Tails stamp set. I’m so glad this set is carrying over to the new catalog.
Sue is from New Jersey and I love her beautiful card! I’d love to know how she made the beautiful watercolor background. Thanks so much to all of you for sending cards from all over the world. Each and every card means so much to Marcelyn. It makes my heart happy too! There are many more cards to show and I hope to have more ready for next Monday.
We had a fun weekend! Steve did his first triathlon since his bike crash last July. Thankfully this one went very well and without incident! Steve and I then spent about four hours planting herbs, vegetables, flowers and a blueberry bush. We’ve had raspberries and strawberries for several years but this is our first blueberry. We weren’t sure where to plant it, so ended up putting it in our raspberry garden. If this was a mistake, please let me know soon. 🙂
We also planted two Peonies. I’ve never had those before either. Steve’s favorite vegetables to grow are cucumbers, onions, green onions, garlic and red peppers. He likes to call one of our small gardens his “Guacamole Garden.” What about avocados? Well, he gave me two avocado plants for Mother’s day two years ago. I’ve kept them alive in our Sun Room, but recently they’ve started not looking so good. I think we are going to have to keep buying the avocados!
We went to church with two of our boys, one girlfriend, and two of our nieces. The seven of us then went to our house and everyone helped get dinner ready and make Rhubarb Crisp (fresh from our garden and it was yummy:) Everyone played cards and I was the biggest loser for the second week in a row. I typically do well with board games and card games, but I’m on a losing streak.
We’ve enjoyed having two of our kids home this summer and visits from many of their friends. I feel a little like we’re running a Bed & Breakfast, but Steve and I love having our kids and their friends around. I hope this phase lasts a long time.
You’ve been asking about shares. Yes, I’m offering them again and will get the details to you soon! I will have paper, ribbon and embellishment shares. We can’t order the supplies until June 4.
My new catalogs have arrived and I’m getting ready to send them out. If you don’t already have a Stampin Up demo, please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and I will send you a catalog. If you already purchase from someone else, please check with them and they will get a catalog for you.
Please stop by my Stamping Mom Facebook page on Wednesday at noon CST. I’ve got a darling card to show you!
You can always email me at Beth@StampingMom.com if you don’t want to place your order online. I’d love to help you! My current host code is 3VM4DYMU . If you place a $75 order using my host code, you get a package of the 2019-2021 in Color Faceted Dots. Please click on the pictures below to order from my online store.
