Beverly's Stamping Beehive

BIRTHDAYS - GIFTS - HOW CAN WE PERSONALIZE GIFT WRAPPING?   Consider using supplies from our personal craft collections or altering commercial gift wrap products - and it's not too hard if you look at it from a new perspective. What do you possess on hand that could help make your gift tag more 'custom' or add more pizzaz to your gift wrap?  Myself - I'll experiment with just about everything. TRY THESE QUICK IDEAS:           1)  a PAPER FLOWER made from your scallop or circle punch.  Other punches are out there that can do this as well, just look here at my ORNAMENT PUNCH tutorials or posts to see more options.  I also made a lazy paper flower by twisting a strip of gift wrap loosely and gluing to a paper circle.  I cut out leaves from scraps - she loved it!           2)  Wire up a MONOGRAM INITIAL using thin wire and some jewellery supply beads or bugles! After adding beads, flip the wire into a small loop to close the ends. This is spectacular in my opinion

"Look who's ... 9"  doesn't only have to be for 9-yr old birthdays -  - how about someone's 9th year on the job? And look at our cutie-pie owl  - its so much fun designing "outfits" using our 2 Step Punch. 2-Step Punches refer to the fact that the punch creates several 'parts' in one click of the punch.  So this means you can choose the paper for each of those parts - so this adorable owl comes with 'her' pink dress and pink accents, or it could of been blue clothing  if I chose to - or how about even a 'red' owl itself?    For this celebration card, I paired my owl with several stamp set components - the balloons are from " Blowing Kisses " - a very sweet stamp set.  And ' On a Pedestal ' provided, well, the pedestal, lol!   Finally, I turned to another stamp set for birthdays - this time, its " Look Who's Turning.. " and highlighted the no. 9 which is significant for this recipient.  Have

I think I am in love with the 2-Step Punches the most!   Soon I will be showing you something I've done with the 2-Step Owl Punch which I finally acquired - but my 2-Step Bird Punch is so lovely, that I turn to it again and again when I need to create something special! Here I needed to demonstrate one of our rubber stamp alphabets, "JUMBLE ALPHABET".   I thought the word 'FRIEND' would be an excellent place to start! So I stamped out each letter, one by one, onto some WHISPER WHITE cardstock - a  Stampin' Up! signature product!   I also used the increasingly popular TULIP BORDER EMBOSSING FOLDER - and I matched the cardstock and ink - can you guess which colour it is?   { here it is spelled backwards, lol =    edeus tfos}  Using some scraps of the really popular SPRINGTIME VINTAGE Designer Series Paper, I punched out the bird with the 2-STEP BIRD PUNCH and did so in one of my fav ways, by mish-mashing the paper and the parts of the bird!   So the

   Hello again!   Here is another of my favourite projects! Cute Pocket Notecard Set  It's a "mini-note" card set of 3 inch square notecards . This is a great way to maximize your 12 in. cardstock. The technique is called the DIAPER FOLD POUCH You can see this in several tutorials on youtube. Therefore gather a group of stamps, pretty papers, embellishments and  have a great time decorating each one! Thank You Notecards Thanks for dropping by!

Today's hot word is HOMEMADE .... CAN YOU TELL WHICH IS THE REAL PIZZA? LOL! I personally think this is picture shows works of art - truly Renaissance worthy! But that is because - moi - made these, lol!  And I am not being too humble, am I? But, honestly, my "real" homemade pizza was the best - I love making homemade pizzas because I love, love the thick, puffy crust!  Plus - I can make it tailor-made to our preferableness (yes, that IS a word!)....and fresh ingrediants, mmm-hmmm! The usual around here is FRIDAY NIGHT PIZZA - and a Movie!  And I just overheard an adorable, little guy asking his Mom in the grocery store whether they could make Fridays, movie night!  So I helped him out, and said "Pardon me, but we have Friday night movies too! With pizza! It's really fun!"   So hopefully, the little guy gets his way...but I am thinking, its probably Friday Night Pizza in lots of households - practically a North American tradition . Anyways - the funn

1. Cut a strip of paper - make it twice as long as the desired length. 2. Score lines through the length of the paper strip at even intervals. 3. Following scored lines, accordian-fold the strip - fold in a 'z' fashion, bringing one fold forward  and pressing it down  and repeating until the length is used up.  Now you can add this paper 'ribbon' to your projects!  

G RAB B AGS !   A first for me as Demo for Stampin  Up!  Here is the news I found today: Beginning today, April 1 , and continuing while supplies last , you will be able to purchase special "grab bags" through me or the Online Store.  These grab bags will come in three sizes: the $6, the $12, and the $18 grab bag.  Each bag will contain a variety of discontinued products that could include a combination of any of the following: ribbons, Accents & Elements, chipboard, Designer Series Papers, and Simply Sent kit components. Grab bags will  not  contain stamp sets or tools. Please keep the following in mind: Grab bag orders can only be placed on demonstrator orders or in the Online Store. There is no minimum purchase required to participate in the grab bag special offer. There is no limit to the number of grab bags a customer may purchase; however, grab bag items are only available while supplies last.   All grab bag sales are final . There are no refunds or ex