Free Shipping for Cyber Monday and In Praise of Stampin' Blends

Well, if you snoozed, you loozed out on the great deals from Online Extravaganza, which ended yesterday. The last order went in last night! But good news! All is not lost, because today, Stampin' Up! has announced FREE SHIPPING all day long, Cyber Monday! That's like 10% off everything in the catalogues! WAIT!! That's more than 10%, because our tax is calculated on the shipping as well as the product, so BONUS! But don't snooze again! Get your orders in to me today by 7:30 pm at the latest. Order will go in at 8:00 pm. But because there are no minimum orders on this, you could submit your own order online and not worry about that high flat rate shipping charge because - IT WON'T BE THERE! Just head over to my On-Line Store and shop to your heart's content. Just be done by 10:55 pm.!!  If your order is less than $200, please use the Hostess Code:    Q2CT33CB when placing your order online. If you do, I will include a package of Rhinestone Basic Jewels with your order, free from me as a thank you! And who doesn't need a little extra bling over the holidays??

Today, I want to share a card with you that I made to show you more of the benefits of the Stampin' Blends alcohol markers. This card has a layout that follows a sketch that I love from Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #314:

I took a swirl that I had die cut from Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper using the Swirly Scribbles Thinlits and I coloured it using the darker shade of my Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Blends marker. Because it's an alcohol marker, and permanent, you can colour all sorts of things, Glimmer Paper included. You just don't want to do it a lot with the same marker, because it has the potential to ruin the brush nib of the pen. Conversely, you could purchase an alcohol marker of each colour eventually just for the purpose of colouring other objects. Let's see if you can find anything else that I coloured with my Stampin' Blends:

• I started with a fairly clean look with lots of Whisper White space on a base of Cherry Cobbler. I added a narrow strip of Merry Music Specialty Designer Series Paper for the bottom-most element of the sketch, then added the Glimmer Paper swirl. I had added a Multipurpose Adhesive sheet to the back before die-cutting, so after colouring it with my Stampin' Blends, I just had to remove the backing and stick it to my project.
• Next was the "Sentiment/Strip" from the sketch. I found this NOEL edgelit in the Christmas Stocking Thinlit Dies. It was the perfect thing for this element. I tried it in Cherry Cobbler, too, but it needed the black to make it pop!
• The smaller shape in front is represented by the detailed star here. This was die cut from Silver Glimmer Paper using one of the dies from the Starlight Thinlit Dies. It was also backed with the Multipurpose Adhesive sheet, so was easy to stick down.
• That brings us to something else coloured by the Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Blends marker - some small and medium Clear Faceted Gems. I added them to the card front to balance things, then added a couple of rhinestones to complete the balance. The Cherry Cobbler faceted gem in the middle of the star really helps it to show up better.

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

Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper [135315]	Silver Glimmer Paper [135314]	Merry Music Specialty Designer Series Paper [144623]	Cherry Cobbler 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119685]	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Cherry Cobbler Dark Stampin' Blends Marker [144575]	Clear Faceted Gems [144142]	Rhinestone Basic Jewels [144220]	Swirly Scribbles Thinlits Dies [141497]
Starlight Thinlits Dies [141840]	Christmas Stockings Thinlits Dies [141841]	Big Shot [143263]	Big Shot Die Brush - New Configuration [144262]	Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets [144106]
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]