Beverly's Stamping Beehive

Super cute shaker ornament card with an adorable penquin peeking out!  This card features a number of techniques of which none are difficult but as a group takes time. I definitely spent a couple of hours putting it together, but I love it so I would do it again!!    Here's some of the supplies I used:  Jillibean Soup Ornament Shaker Stamp Stampin' Up retired penquin stamp, scalloped border die,  Martha Stewart Branch punch,  Simon Says Stamp High Tide, Hot Mama and Black inks, various embossing powders, Versamark ink, confetti snowflake punch.  Thanks for taking a look, till next time!

F all G reetings! Our lovely fall is bestowing us with all its gracious gifts:  weather ranging from crisp to warm, wind whirls of leaves, colours spreading throughout nature and of course, the thanksgiving fare for us to share! So when I discovered Lindsey Serata's ' Pumpkin Spice ' collection of stamps and dies (c/o Sizzix), I was most intrigued by her shaker pocket sets. Now a week further, and I am the happy owner of the Multi-frame Shaker Pocket die set! And I present my first project... Click on picture  I really love how Sizzix Designer Lindsey Serata included so many die pieces in this set - even wee little confetti dies to make your own sequin/confetti shapes! As you can see I've layered my word dies and that gorgeous coppery metallic paper really pops with the black paper behind it.  I didn't use the pocket and frames for a shaker card but rather as a gift box to which I tucked in a couple of Nescafe's coffee pouches and I will presen...

The following project was inspired by Jennifer McGuire's card Love Joy Peace . It's a window card and I haven't done one of these in ages!!!  So I promptly started rummaging through the house looking for clear acetate....and couldn't find any, awww.  But for one card I created a cellophane wrap "baggie" and for the other, I used a square cut from some clear packaging I had in the recycle bin. Voila! I decided to make a fall and a christmas card as experiments. Both cards have a white heavy cardstock bases ( folded 8 1/2 x 5 1/2) and a panel of decorative paper cut to 2 1/8 x 5 1/2 and attached to the left half of the card front. * To extend the paper around to the back of the card, cut it at 3 1/8 x 5 1/2.  [see end photo of Fall card].  This causes a straight division down the front and where I " centered " my dies to cut the window.  I decided to cut the windows after I attached the decorative panel to one half of the card front - thi...