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

The Sky's the Limit!

Remember me telling you how excited I was with the new Going Places Suite* in the 2016 Occasions Catalogue that comes out on January 5 to the public? Well, there is another stamp set in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure that works along perfectly with this set called Sky is the Limit**, and you could get it for free just by purchasing sixty dollars worth of products from the Going Places Suite*!

If you buy the clear stamp set, Going Global*, the Going Places Designer Series Paper Stack*, the coordinating cardstock pack*, the World Traveler Embossing folder*, some Basic Black Archival Ink, and some Lost Lagoon ink it would give you a total of $67.75 before shipping and tax, which would be enough to earn the Sky is the Limit stamp set** as a Sale-A-Bration Reward! How cool is that?

The other thing you need to know about the Sky is the Limit set is that it is only available in the first half of Sale-A-Bration until Feb. 15. After that Stampin' Up! will be adding some new products to take the place of the retiring ones for the remainder of Sale-A-Bration. This is the first time they've had products for only a limited time at the beginning of SAB. So any item from page 16 - 19 has to be earned before Feb. 15.

I roughly followed the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge sketch turned on it's side:

• I used the Sky is The Limit stamp set to stamp the biplane and the sentiments, in either Lost Lagoon or Basic Black. I fussy cut the biplane (easy job, by the way) and the top sentiment was cut out as a rectangle and mounted on a larger black rectangle and die cut together using a Lots of Labels framelit. The lower framelit is from the Project Life Cards and Labels Framelit Dies.
• The next stamping I did was the compass image from the Going Global Stamp Set*. It fits perfectly in a 2" Circle punch, but I didn't want to use the 2 1/2" Circle Punch to punch out a matte for it from the Going Places Designer Series Paper*. Instead, I picked a smaller circle from the Circles Collection Framelits and die cut the black compass circle that perfectly frames the compass face. 
• I love the schematic design on the paper in the background. It creates the perfect masculine design. The Lost Lagoon Striped Cotton Ribbon is masculine enough for the card as well.

*These products are found in the 2016 Occasions Catalogue and will be available to order on Jan. 5, 2016.

**These products are found in the 2016 Sale-A-Bration Brochure and will be available to earn on Jan. 5, 2016.

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

Lost Lagoon 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133679]	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad [133644]	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]
Lost Lagoon 5/8" Striped Cotton Ribbon [138418]	2" Circle Punch [133782]	Circles Collection Framelits Die [130911]	Paper Snips Scissors [103579]	Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits [135707]
Big Shot [113439]	Lots Of Labels Framelits Dies [138281]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fast Fuse Adhesive Refill [129027]	Glue Dots [103683]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Going Global Stamp Set*, Sky is the Limit Stamp Set**, Going Places Designer Series Paper Stack*

*These products are found in the 2016 Occasions Catalogue and will be available to order on Jan. 5, 2016.

**These products are found in the 2016 Sale-A-Bration Brochure and will be available to earn on Jan. 5, 2016.