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About Beverly

Hi! I am Beverly Polen, owner and designer for Guneaux Designs, a rubber stamping home-based business of direct sales of top-quality rubber stamping products. We create create beautiful artwork (e.g., greeting cards, scrapbook pages, 3-D paper crafts, and more) that features Stampin' Up! (SU) products . Making greeting cards for my family and friends is something I love and have done for years. Initially, I made cards using various software. Then in 2005, I was introduced to hand-made cards, using rubber stamps. I jumped in with both feet. In 2006 I was introduced to SU stamp sets. I was amazed that there were stamp sets with coordinating stamps. No more buying individual stamps, playing the mix and match game. I was so impressed by the quality of the SU products that allowed me to make beautiful and creative greeting cards. I have been hooked ever since and my creativity continues to blossom.

Hero Arts Color Layering Poinsettia Christmas Card

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Hero Arts Color Layering Poinsettia Christmas Card

Happy Christmas Eve, my friends!  Do you have your gifts wrapped and goodies baked to be ready for tomorrow!  I commend you if you are ready as I have not wrapped the first gift.  Guess what I will do today!  But before I begin wrapping gifts, I wanted to share my last Christmas card for this year.  The card features Hero Arts Color Layering Poinsettia stamp set bundle.

Matthew 1:18-25  – The Birth of Jesus Christ

18: “This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about:  His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.
19:  Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
20:  But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
21:  She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
22.  All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:
23.  “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” — which means, “God with us.”
24.  When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife.
25.  But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son.  And he gave him the name Jesus.”

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Gina K. Designs Whimsical Wildflowers

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Gina K. Designs Whimsical Wildflowers

My friends, this is the fastest card I have ever made and it is a CAS card which is typically not my style!   And fast is not the speed I typically create cards!  I had to pat myself on the back for this accomplishment!   Dancing animated emoticon  (I’m doing the happy dance!)  LOL.

I created the card for today’s Inspiration Challenge on Splitcoaststampers.  The hostess for the challenge chose this site from which to draw inspiration.  When I saw this Laced Metal Wall Hanging, I knew it would be my inspiration piece.  My card features Gina K. Designs Whimsical Wildflowers and Heartfelt Creations Heart Dies and Love Banner.

Galatians 4:4

“But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.”

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Hero Arts Fairy Window

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Hero Arts Fairy Window

It is with great pleasure that I create this card in honor of this week’s Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers (SCS).  Vicki (Hawaiian) is the Featured Stamper, and she has a remarkable SCS gallery.  Should you check out her gallery, you will notice that she loves to create fairy cards.  Thus, I selected this beautiful fairy card of hers to CASE.

John 14: 23 & 24

“Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching.  My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.  He who does not love me will not obey my teaching.  These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.”

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CAS-UAL Fridays Tutu – Happy Birthday Shadow Box Card

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CAS-UAL Fridays Tutu – Happy Birthday Shadow Box Card

Yesterday was my precious granddaughter’s birthday and I created this shadow box card for her using the Cas-ual Fridays Tutu Stamp Set.  I have often talked about my granddaughter, Mikayla, who just turned four years old!  Wow, time is flying by and she is growing up.  It seems like yesterday that I was holding her in my arms right after she was born.  This little girl makes my heart so very happy!  Therefore, I created this card in colors she loves and little girls dancing in their tutus.  She loves putting on a tutu and dancing around.  She is so precious and I love her immensely.

Malachi 3:2

“But who can endure the day of his coming?  Who can stand when he appears?  For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap.”

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Christmas and Winter Scene Bauble

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Christmas and Winter Scene Bauble

I love creating 3-D crafts, and lately, I have really enjoyed doing so.  Today I have for you a 3-D Christmas and Winter Scene Bauble.  I created it in response to Saturday’s Splitcoaststampers Inspiration challenge.  The hostess for the challenge selected this site from which to draw inspiration.  I selected this Tree Scene Glass Ball Ornament as my inspiration.

This is my inspired bauble:

Matthew 24:42-44

Jesus said, “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.  But understand this:  If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.  So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.“

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PTI Make It Market Wonderland Kit

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PTI Make It Market Wonderland Kit

How often do you purchase stamp sets/kits because you think you have to have them and when you get them, you do nothing with them?  I have so many unused stamping kits that it is embarrassing.  For example, I purchased the Papertrey Inc. Make It Market Wonderland Kit in October but had not used it until this past weekend.  Believe me, I have many others that have never been used.  The only reason I used this kit was to respond to a Splitcoaststampers Inspiration Challenge.  I created this Wonderland Cloche with the kit in response to my inspiration piece.

The site selected by the Splitcoaststampers hostess for inspiration is the Josh & Main website.  This pillow is my inspiration piece.

Colossians 2:8

“See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.”

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