Skipped a day

Yesterday was a crazy day of overachieving, but no blogging.  I was just too tired and wanted to watch the awesome Seahawk game.  By the time I did my most hated task of climbing a twelve foot ladder to wash skylights and high up great room windows and then drove to Rainier, Oregon to pick up and deliver last weeks orders, blogging was the last thing on my mind.  But I did finish my swaps for tomorrow's Unite and Excite Stampin' Up! gathering in Redmond, Washington.  And I did create new thank you notes for September so all in all it was a pretty good day.

My swap for tomorrow is one of my favorite techniques that I used on a card for the Holiday Sneak Peek.  I have been saving used fabric softener sheets for the past eight months after seeing this technique somewhere.  It was perfect on Lovely as a Tree, Stampin' Up!s oldest set, but when I saw the Ornamental Pine in the new Holiday Mini, I knew it would be great on it too.  It is so easy to do, but very messy if you manage to get the glue on your fingers like I did.  You just stamp your project on white cardstock and then spray it with adhesive spray.  I use Super 77 multipurpose adhesive by 3M.  As soon as you spray it, you pat a used fabric softener sheet over it.  After getting my hands all gooey, I learned to use a small trowel to press it down over the adhesive.  Then you pour Dazzling Diamonds glitter over the whole surface and gently tap off the excess.  It gives a beautiful sparkling sheen like sun on snow.  Love the technique.  Here is the finished card.  I made an extra 36 of them for tomorrow's swap.

It is a little hard to see the sparkle, but trust me it does sparkle......so much that I was wearing it for the last three days.  Here are the supplies you need to create this card.

Stamps

Ornamental Pine

Paper

Mossy Meadow and Whisper White

Ink

Mossy Meadow and Early Espresso

Accessories

Dazzling Diamonds Glitter

Non Stampin' Up! Stuff

Used fabric softener sheet and 3M Super 77 Multipurpose Adhesive

Don't forget this weeks special deals.  They come out every Tuesday and are good until the following Monday.   This Weeks Special Deals

And lastly, the Paper Pumpkin promotion of half off your first two months ends on September 10.  The kits have been getting progressively better and you don't want to miss the cute Halloween kit coming in September.  Or if you don't do Halloween you can always sign up and skip the first month.  Just click on the Paper Pumpkin link here on my website and enter promo code HALFOFF
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Stay tuned for pics of our fun SU gathering tomorrow and the best of the swap gets that I get in exchange for mine.