Count Down to New Whimsies!! Sneak Peek Day 1

Good Monday morning to everyone! I hope that you had a great weekend! I am finally back on call again after six glorious days off in a row!! My family went camping this weekend and we had a very relaxing time with our friends and family. I was thrilled to have gotten as much done as I did during my time off, but I don't feel really rested!! LOL!!

This week is a very exciting week for me!! There is a LOT of stuff going on and you will hear about it as it all draws near. But let's start with the first order of business which is that Whimise Doodles sneak peeks begin today for the upcoming release of some new digital stamps and cutting files on Thursday October 15th!

Today we are sharing with you sneak peeks for two of the new releases. I have incorporated both of them into my card below...

The little skater girl comes in the set called Go Figure and the sentiment that I chose to pair with her is from the Axelent Christmas set. Both sets come with an image and at least one sentiment!

This view might show you better how I added some Fun Flock to the fur portion of her winter coat and also how I add glittery snow to the edge of the ice rink. The DP I used for the base is from My Mind's Eye and the contrasting red holly paper is from Cosmo Cricket. Copic markers were used to color her in.

This sentiment is sold in the Axelent Christmas set that comes with an image of a pair of skates. As you can see though, this sentiment can be paired with the Go Figure image too! To frame the sentiment for this card I just positioned my Nestabilitie Label number 4 over the top part of the sentiment and then hand trimmed it to go straight down.

To create the ice pond I used one of the Frosted ShortCuts full sheets and cut it out free form to look like a pond. I layered a piece of white CS under the frosted card base and then added the glittery snow to the edges and also to her skate line.

To see some more of the WD Winter images in Sneak Peeks today, please visit the following blogs...

• Whimsie Doodles
• Nicole Anderson
• Kelli Caslow
  

I hope that you have taken advantage of the opportunity to get some WD stamps and try them out! You know you can even get some FREE ones from the WD blog, so I encourage you download some and see for yourself just how cute they are. Plus the quality of the images that prints out is perfect and they are a lot of fun to color too!!

Whimsie Doodles now has a Group over on PaperCraft Planet!

Come visit us there and participate in this week's challenge!

Just click on the picture above to be taken there!

My Sweet N Sassy card for today is up over on the SNSS blog, so please take a moment to check that out today as well!! Click HERE to see that post!

Have a great day and may your bucket overflow with "axelent" things that make your Monday special! See you tomorrow!

SheetLoad, ShortCuts and Cardvaarks Oh My!

I have another Intersite challenge to share with you today! Alicia with SheetLoad of Cards and the Owner of ShortCuts has teamed up with the Caardvarks site to make a challenge for all of the DT members on each of the sites.

Our assignment was to make a card or project using the July SheetLoad sketch and a ShortCuts product. Have you ever heard of ShortCuts before? Well the concept of Alicia's store is to sell products that help you make cards faster and to be more productive with your projects. She has done some of the work for you already and has products that work so well with other products that half the work is done and you get to focus all your time on embellishing!!

The product that I used from ShortCuts is one of the Frosted Card bases that you can see below. These bases are made of high quality thick semi translucent plastic that is fun to use with your coordinating cardstocks. Here is a view of the card front so you can see the amount of translucency that you get with the frosted card base! As you can see in my sample below, I have a window cut out of my cardstock that allows you to see through to the stamped image on the inside!

It is like giving the card recipient a little sneak peek of what is to come!!

Next is a view of the inside of the card that shows the full stamped image with the sentiment that was computer generated! This digistamp is one of Melyssa Connolly's from Whimsie Doodles. This adorable image comes with a sentiment that says "I'm FLIPPED over you" but I didn't want to use a sentiment for this card that seemed like a valentine to me. So, I put my thinking cap on and figured out another cute way to use this adorable little turtle that is flipped over on his shell. I decided to make this an apology card that I will probably end up giving to some one in my family after snap at them for being all stressed out trying to get a card done to make a deadline!! LOL!!!

Here is a closeup of the stamped image. I used Prismacolors and Gamsol to color the image. I cut it out of white cardstock and placed it onto the previously printed out sentiment that was also printed on to white cardstock.

Sorry I Flipped My Lid

Supplies List: Frosted Card Base: ShortCuts; Sketch: July 2009 SheetLoad of Cards; Digistamp: Whimsie Doodles; DP: MOD; Cardstock: Stampin Up (colored papers), Georgia Pacific (white); Pencils: Prismacolors; Nestabilities (Square and scalloped square); Border Punch: Martha Stewart.

Please take a few moments to visit this link and check out more information about our intersite challenge going on between SheetLoad, ShortCuts and Caardvarks If you decide to play along in the challenge with us, you could win some goodies from the ShortCuts.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend!! Did you notice that I am one Follower away from having 100 Followers??? I have a special surprise for you guys when I reach that milestone!!

Thanks for all your support and I will be back tomorrow! May your bucket overflow with shortcuts to make your card making easier!

Fruitful Greetings! SheetLoad of Cards Intersite Challenge

Using June's Sheetload sketch, the SheetLoad and ShortCuts DT's had an intersite challenge with the DT's from Cutting Cafe and Bitten By the Bug. Regina from Cutting Cafe gave us some incredible digital stamped images to use. You might remember my first submission for this challenge, the Watermelon card that I blogged about recently.

I decided to use the same watermelon image plus all the other fruit images she designed to make an adorable collection of Fruity Greetings. I also used one of her cutting files to make a Card Box with a lid to hold them in.

Here is the whole collection called Fruity Greetings complete with six cards using June's great sketch from SheetLoad and DP from Crate Paper's Samantha collection...

Here is the Card Box with the lid. I used the cutting file that has a circular window cut out of it. I placed one of ShortCuts Frosted Card Blanks behind the window so the recipient of the box full of cards could get a sneak peek at what was inside.

All of the cards and the Card Box top use SheetLoad's June Sketch. I simply flipped or flopped the sketch or used it portrait or landscape to provide variety.

Here are closeups of the individual cards in the collection...

Have a Grape Day!




You're the Apple of My Eye!

Cherry the Moment!

You're Berry Sweet!

You're One in a Melon!

Such a Cute Pear!

Here is another shot of the whole collection!

If you haven't been to SheetLoad's site to download June's eZine and sketch, you still have plenty of time to do so. If you make a card using the sketch and submit it on the site, your card could be chosen as a winner of a prize.

Also, check out the adorable digital stamps at the Cutting Cafe. The set that I used here is called Fruit Greetings. You can buy it very reasonably at the Cutting Cafe HERE.

Have a great night and may your bucket overflow with fresh and juicy fruits!!