Welcome to the May Pals Blog Hop. This is the first hop on our new day – the 2nd Wednesday of the month. Before we celebrate the release of the new Stampin’ Up! catalog next month, we want to take time to say goodbye to our favorite retiring products. This month we are showcasing projects that feature stamps or accessories that are retiring along with the 2013-14 Idea Book & Catalog on June 4th.

You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from Kalyn Shubnell at Stamping Chronicles stop number 25 on the Pals Hop. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog.

One of the items I am going to miss the most from this retirement is the Rev Up the Fun stamp set.  I often hear how hard it is to come up with masculine cards and this set helps me out with that.  Today, I’ve done a tri shutter card with the Rev Up the Fun set:

This card starts with a 12″ x 5.5″ piece of card stock.  It was scored at vertically at 2″, 4″, 3″ and 10″.  Then it was horizontally cut 1.5″ from each side from the 2″ score line to the 10″ score line.

Here are the measurements for the layers inside the card:

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The next stop is Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo stop number 27 on the Pals Blog Hop! Thanks for visiting and  I hope to see you next month.

 May Line-up:

1. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
2. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
3. Debbie Pierce at Stampin’ Sunshine
4. Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
5. Nancy Gleason at My Stampin Space
6. Sue Becker at RnR Stamping
7. Susan Itell at Simple Stampin
8. Michelle Quinno at Shell’s Life
9. Beth Beard at My little craft blog
10. Amy Lazzell at Just A Thought…Cards by Amy
11. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
12. Rae Harper at Wild West Paper Arts
13. Katie Ferguson at Cottage Paper
14. Colleen Mollema at Uncanny Crafting
15. Natalie Bradley at Natalie Bradley Events
16. Dawn Tidd at Tiddbits from Dawn
17. Kerry Willard Bray at Peonies and Paper Chains
18. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’ 
19. Marlene Heringer at So Many Toys So Little Time
20. Diane Roberts at Score at Four and a Quarter
21. Lynn Kolcun at Stamping With Avery’s Owlery
22. Kelly DeTommaso at Kelly’s Creative Corner
23. Shannon Hokanson at Paper Works by Shannon
24. Christie Crosby at Stampin’ Creativity
25. Kalyn Shubnell at Stamping Chronicles
26. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
27. Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo
28. Debra Simonis at Deb’s Stampin’ Grounds
29. Nicole Watt at Pixel Maven’s Retreat
30. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
31. Maxine Conrad at Stamp to the MAX!
32. Donna Kopenski at Crafty Cardmaker
33. Angie Blake at Angie’s Musings