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What a talented group of bloggers and stampers Sherrill Graff has hired to work for her. We will be making her Convention swap cards for her and she is paying us with $50 in Stampin Up products of our choice. What a wonderful lady she is!! Go check out her site. She loves to have visitors.

Blessings
Heidi

This card was absolutely so fun to make that I think I might have gotten carried away with the embossing. You want embossing, you got it, both Dry and Heat… LOL And the aluminum embossing technique that I did was super cool once I finished it.

• I started out with the Ballet Blue Background CS, layered it with Basic Gray and Brushed Silver.
• The Brushed Silver is Dry embossed with the Small Dots from the SU Textures Backgrounds.
• On top of that is 1″ strips of DSP from the Patterns 11 Hostess Pack in Basic Gray and layered with Ballet Blue. I added the newer Silver Brads to the ends and used dimensionals to attach.
• The next step is my favorite. I used the SU Textured Backgrounds again on Brushed Silver and dry embossed it with the argyle pattern.
• Then I took my veramark pad and rubbed it on the entire piece of paper.
• I applied clear embossing powder and heat embossed it.
• I then took the paper piercer and pierced all of the diamond edges to look like a tool box.
• The Brushed Silver is layered with Basic Gray and Ballet Blue CS.
• Then I took the sentiment from All Holidays, stamped it on Whisper White CS in Basic Gray.
• I colored in the “D” with a Ballet Blue Marker and embossed the whole thing.
• Layered again with Ballet Blue and Basic Gray CS and added the Silver Brads to the edges of the sentiment.
• Dimensionals were used to attach.
• I then punched the arrows out of Ballet Blue.
• Clear embossed the edges of the large one and total embossed the smaller ones.
• Added the sentiment from Three Little Words “I love You”
• Attached all the arrows.

We gave it to my husband because he just found out yesterday that he has Strep throat and he is miserable and he loved it. He said its very shiny and manly. So my attempt at this challenge is completed. I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial on how I made this card.

Blessings
Heidi