Mr. Santa's Steampunk Birthday Card and Stampin' Storage Starts Today!

My hubby is my willing Stampin' Up! product delivery man. In fact, my local customers love to see him coming up to their doors carrying their orders so much, that some have started calling him Mr. Santa and even Mr. Stampin' Up! Well, Mr. Santa had a birthday a while ago, and I was very excited to be able to use the Geared Up Garage product suite to make my best steampunk-type birthday card for him. I die cut, I embossed - both ways, I stamped, I sponged and generally had a great time and here's what came out of that flurry of creative activity:

• I altered the Classic Garage Designer Series Paper I chose by stamping the grease spot from the Geared Up Garage stamp set on it in both Basic Gray and stamped off Soft Suede ink. Then I added the All Geared Up to Celebrate sentiment all over the perimeters of the page in Basic Gray ink. It gives it a moodier look.
• I used some Copper Foil Sheet and ran it through the Big Shot with the Corrugated Dynamic Embossing Folder. I couldn't spritz the paper because it was foil, but it didn't handle the dynamic embossing process very well either, cracking in several places along the ribs of the corrugations. To hold it together, I ran strips of Tear & Tape across the ribs on the backside and that not only held it together well, but provided adhesive to add it to the card front.
• The gears are copper foil as well as Smoky Slate cardstock heat embossed with Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder and sponged with Soft Suede ink.
• The sentiment is on a strip of Sahara Sand, again heat embossed using Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder and sponged with Soft Suede ink. 
• The three narrow ribbons on the left are: Copper Trim, Black/Silver Striped Metallic Ribbon and Braided Linen Trim. 
• There's even a couple of pieces of vellum in their, die cut using one of the Garage Gears Thinlits.

And now for the exciting news today! Stampin' Storage is now available for you to buy! Orders will be going in this week so give me a call or go to my On-Line Store to place your own!! How great is all this modular storage! Buy a little, or buy a lot - it does what you want it to do! And the prices are so reasonable!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Geared Up Garage Cling Stamp Set [148590] $29.00	Geared Up Garage Cling Bundle [150610] $66.50	Classic Garage 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [148482] $15.00	Copper Foil Sheets [142020] $5.50	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101856] $12.25
Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119686] $11.50	Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121043] $11.50	Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131202] $11.50	Versamark Pad [102283] $12.25	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115] $10.25
Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad [149165] $10.25	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [147113] $10.25	Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder [141636] $6.75	1/4" Copper Trim [144179] $8.25	Black/Silver 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Striped Metallic Ribbon [148486] $9.50
3/16" (1 Cm) Braided Linen Trim [147808] $9.50	Heat Tool [129053] $41.00	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25	Stamping Sponges [141337] $4.75	Garage Gears Thinlits Dies [148521] $45.00
Corrugated Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [148026] $14.00	Big Shot [143263] $150.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50	Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50