June '09 Show Us Your Sheetload

Sheetload of Cards June '09 Show Us Your Sheetload

Sheetload of Cards June 2009 e-zine

It's that time again...Sheetload of Cards is featuring a new sketch this month so we want to see you show off your sheetload samples! You have until the end of the month to enter your card or project to win a prize from our fabulous sponsor Shawna Renville from The Angel Company.

Digiments - Challenge #4

This is the last week to participate in the Digiments challenge. Visit the Digiments blog to download the free digiment, make a card, and for a chance to win the entire June digiments line! TWO winners will be picked this month so you won't want to miss one!

Make sure to mark your calendars for sneak peaks starting on June 10 that will lead to the release and digiments ready for purchase on June 13th.

Remember this is your last chance to participate!!!

DIGIMENTS CHALLENGE #4

Sheetload of Cards/Shortcuts Intersite Promotion with the Cutting Cafe!

Here's to another great intersite promotion!

Between June 7-21, Sheetload of Cards and Shortcuts DT members will be sharing projects created from the Cutting Cafe. You can also check out Bitten by the Bug to view creations this week from the Cutting Cafe DT using Shortcuts products.

Share your creations with us! If you would like to participate and already own some Cutting Cafe digi image files already (and even if you don't), you can use the June sketch that you can download here. Just think, you can use your creation and enter it in "Show Us Your Sheetload" at the end of the month!

Angels Landing - Mini Bears and Birds

Hello All! This week is all about celebrating summer at Angels Landing. I would like to showcase some cards made with the new digi-stamping set called Mini Bears and Birds. For only $4.99, this set offers over 52 files! This was inspired from Judi's teddy bear line (you can see a pic of her inspiration in these posts on her blog: New Release: Mini Bears and Birds; Mini Bears: Chubby Chubby; Mini Bears: Chubby Cousins) Judi is one talented lady...her first book had sewing patterns for six bears.

One of my favorite images from the Mini Bears and Birds set is Chubby Cousins bear. The expression on his face shows just how much he wants to give you a hug so I thought this image with a bird perched on his shoulder would be a card to give to a friend who has been under the weather.

This was inspired by this project from croppixie on SCS (you can see her sample here). I ended up drawing my own apple pieces, scanned it and created my apple shaped card (you can see how I used the apples as embellies in this post here and here) . What's great about digi images is that they are resizable. Once I imported the picture of the body of the apple, I resized it to 5.08 x 5.34 inches. This created an approximate size of a 5x5 card. My sewing machine was having a tantrum again so I ended up creating some faux stitching around the apple and apple pieces. I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder on the center layer and distressed it with Antique Linen ink. Topped it off with gingham ribbon, lace, and the image. The inside of the card showcases the sentiment, "Hope you'll be feeling better beary soon."

This is the template I used to create the apple shaped card. If you are interested in creating one, refer to the measurements above to create a 5x5 card.

Digital Images: Angels Landing (Mini Bears and Birds)
Patterned Paper: Archivers
Cardstock: Unkown
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Antique Linen), Stampin’ Up Ink (Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red), Stampin’ Up Pastels Chalk
Die Cut: Cuttlebug (Swiss Dots), Nestabilities (Classic Ovals)
Ribbon: Wal-mart (Gingham Ribbon), Jo-Ann’s (Lace Border)
Piercing: Stampin’ Up Paper Piercing kit

For the second card, I wanted to simulate Bearly Adequate bear sitting on a beach. So I used the wavy sentiment to my advantage and used it to simulate a sand dune by distressing and embossing with it the Swiss Dots embossing folder. I printed the sentiment at .61 x 4.15 inches (perfect for a 4.25x5.5 card) and hand drew the wave above the sentiment before cutting. To create a second wave, I just used the first one as a template and flipped it over before embossing. To simulate the waves in the background, I used the SU slit punch to create waves and used my D'Vine Swirls embossing folder for some depth. The sun is a die cut created from the Cricut using the George cartridge (size 3 inches) embellished with glitter glue to make look like it was glistening. Bearly Adequate bear was printed at 2.01 x 1.33 inches and cut out to make him sitting on sand enjoying the day at the beach. I added a fun paper pleating technique I had seen in a Papercraft magazine issue last year at the bottom of the card to tie it all together.

Digital Images: Angels Landing (Mini Bears and Birds)
Patterned Paper: Vibrant Paper Pad Stack
Cardstock: Unkown (Blue, Yellow, White)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Antique Linen), Stampin’ Up (Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip)
Die Cut: Cricut Personal Die Cutting Machine, Cuttlebug (D’Vine Swirls, Swiss Dots)
Ribbon: Wal-mart (Grossgrain ribbon)
Punch: Stampin’ Up (Slit)

Glitter: Jo-Ann’s (Opal Glitter Glue)

Make sure to check out the other yummy goodness that the other DT gals created this week.

Have a great day!

Time for a MAKEOVER!

I'm giving my blog a makeover!!!

I have been scouring the net for some cool free templates and I came upon this fabulous designer, Gisele Jaquenod, who created the look that Leigh Ann Baird is currently using for her blog (so adorable). I have been looking for a 3 column template for awhile and Gisele had one she was offering on her site. I just love the little birds that she created for the blogger templates. Now I am thinking about changing my title, but Stamping Mutt has kind of stuck with me and I think it would be difficult to start all over with the whole name changing so I will just stick with the blog makeover. I had gotten the HTML code for another blog template awhile back but I lost a lot of pics for my posts for some reason. Well, anyway...hope that doesn't happen this time. I actually had to download a zip file for this one and it completely replaced my old blogger template but deleted a lot of my widgets so it was kind of tedious work to create those all over again but did not lose my follower list so anyone who is following my blog won't have to sign-up again.

So what do you think? I LIKE IT A-LLLOOTTT!

Sheetloads of Cards - JUNE ezine now available

Sheetloads June Ezine

Hello All! Just wanted to post a quickie announcement that the June ezine is now available to download on the Sheetloads of Cards blog. This month's sponsor is Shawna Renville. She is a representative for The Angel Company™. She had so much fun sponsoring the November 2008 issue that she wanted to come back and sponsor another. So make sure download your copy today and make some cards! You will have until the end of June to show off your card and win a prize!

Digiments Challenge #3

The new weekly challenge starts today at the Digiments blog. You can download the free digiment to make a card to enter yourself to win the entire June release. Remember there will be two winners chosen this time!

The June digiments will be released on June 13 with sneak peaks from the DT members starting on June 10th.

So make sure to participate in as many as you can to increase your chances of winning the whopper of a prize!

I'll be posting a sample soon of this week's digiment challenge so stay tuned!

DIGIMENTS CHALLENGE #3