Shout Out to SheetLoad

This month's SheetLoad of Cards is sponsored by Squigglefly - an online store of digital stamps. Each month, SheetLoad of Cards gives a general design with cutting instructions to make 6-8 cards from several sheets of patterned paper. Sometimes they have you use 12 x 12 sheets & other months 8.5 x 11 or a combination of the two. I love how you have the design & cutting instructions right there in front of you and you don't have to think about it. Of course, you're free to change the design to suit your needs/tastes and they even give the measurements if you only want to make one card. Their design team also gives examples of how they changed up the basic design. If you are a card-maker or would like to be, check out this month's edition.

Thank You Card SheetLoad of Cards - July 2009

With our traveling ministry, we send out a lot of Thank You cards. Sometimes we need something a little special so I wanted to make a few Thank You cards to have on hand. The July 2009 SheetLoad of Cards had a great design so I chose to use it. I found some music ribbon at Michael's that was perfect for our music ministry theme. Here are some of my cards from this month's edition.



Supplies: Papers: Paper Studio & Georgia-Pacific cardstock; Ribbon: Michael's; Ink: ColorBox Fluid Chalk & ColorBox Piment Ink; Stamp: Studio G; Punches: Fiskar's & McGill

Recent Cards

A couple recent cards.....

This one uses Sketch #64 from Triple the Sketch


Supplies: Paper & Stickers: MAMBI, Stamp: Studio G, Stickles, Colorbox Fluid Chalk



Supplies: Paper - Three Bugs in a Rug



Supplies: June 09 Digi Cards by Lainey's Designs, Papers: Paper Studio, Colorbox Fluid Chalk

CPS 124 Card

I made the following card for the CPS 124 challenge on the Card Positioning Systems site.


Supplies: Paper - Basic Grey Two Scoops, Hero Arts & Michael's Pearls, Colorbox Fluid Chalk, Stickles

June 2009 Card Maps Cards

I needed to make a couple cards today and wanted a little inspiration. I went to PageMaps and looked at the new June Card Maps. I found one I really liked, raided my stash of scraps and made the following versions.

Hang in There




Supplies: Cardstock & off-white paper - unknown, Papers: Scribble Scrabble's Betty's Collection (Red Floral & Dots and Love Blossoms & Stripes), Ink: Color Box Fluid Chalk, DMC Floss, Stamps: Stampin' Up


Make a Wish



Supplies: Cardstock & off-white paper - unknown, Papers: Studio45's Times Nouveau Collection (Bee's Knees), Ink: Color Box Fluid Chalk and Stampabilities, Ribbon: JoAnn Craft Essentials (Cream),, Stamps: Stampin' Up, Stickles

Fiskar's Prize Package Giveaway

Lisa at Paper Fashions has a fantastic Fiskar's giveaway up for grabs. Here's a list of what's included:

Fiskars XL Oopsie Daisy squeeze punch
Fiskars XL Loves Me Loves Me Not squeeze punch
Fiskars Something Old, Something new corner squeeze punch
Fiskars Heart pop up punch
Fiskars tape runner
Fiskars Glue Dots
Fiskars Acrylic Stamp block set
Heidi Grace Urban Acres Blvd stamp set
Wausau Papers Cardstock to create your own layout

Be sure to stop by her blog to find out how you can get your name in the hat for her drawing. She'll be drawing for a winner on Friday, July 3rd.

Triple the Sketch & Pink Persimmon

Triple the Sketch is helping Pink Persimmon celebrate their first anniversary. They are giving away a $50 gift certificate to the Pink Persimmon Stamps store. To enter you have to make a layout, card, tag or altered item based on TTS Sketch 63 and use a stamp on it. For all the details see the post here.

For a circle journal I needed to complete a 2 page layout on one of my favorite places to see God's handiwork. I chose our favorite vacation spot in Ely, MN.

I stamped a bracket onto pink cardstock, cut it out and embellished the dots with stickles. I used a stitch stamp to add stitching to the edges of my green cardstock background. I embellished the centers of the flowers with stickles. I drew stitching along the edges of my patterned paper with my favorite Zig pen.


Journaling says:
Left side: "...stand still and consider the wondrous works of God." Job 37:14

Right side: I love to see God's handiwork in the great outdoors. No where is it more evident than in the beauty of our favorite vacation spot in Ely, MN. We've seen elk, moose, loons, and bald eagles feeding their young. Jobs & stress seem far away in this setting.

Supplies: Stamps - Unity Stamp Co. - Polka Dot Left from the Amazing Me kit & Sassafrass Lass - Stitched Borders; Papers: Cosmo Cricket (Girl Friday - Sunday), DCWV, Coredinations; Ink - Stampabilities; Stickles; Ribbon - Michael's; Pen - Zig Ball Writer

A Couple Digi Collages

A friend asked me to do a couple collages of she & her boyfriend for a surprise for him. She gave me lots of pics and total design freedom. How fun!! Both are digi collages.

The first one is 12" x 12"



Supplies: Template2 by Sarawise and My Favorite Guy digi kit by Steel City Scraps.


I resized the 12 x 12 template for this next one to 11" x 14"



Supplies: Template 101 by Scrapping with Liz and My Favorite Guy digi kit by Steel City Scraps.

Edited to add: I was really excited to find out that this layout was chosen as Layout of the Week for 6/20/09 at AC Bailey Designs.

Bind-it-All giveaway

Jan is giving away a Bind-it-All and some O-wires on her blog. Be sure to stop by Paper Craft Pleasures to see how you can have a chance to win it. You'll want to look around her blog for some great inspiration projects.

I'm So Excited

My digi layout of Ian & Amy's wedding was chosen as Layout of the Week over at AC Bailey. There are a lot of talented ladies over there so I'm pretty excited to have been chosen. You can find the pic of my layout here.