Reader Idea: Double Scrapling

Recently, as I was blog hopping for SheetLoad creations, I came upon Vicki Wizniuk's blog. She had an idea so fun and great, that I had to get permission to share it here.


Instead of cutting 2 scraplings per page, as the recent issue calls for, Vicki just cut one, kinda like a double scrapling. The robot card is twice as wide, which allows for a larger image on the front.




Vicki, then realized that these "double scraplings" were large enough to be a gift card holder,




so she added a pocket inside and voila...





I hope you will stop by her blog post for more information on the creations above, as well as other eye candy.

Show Us Your SheetLoad and Win - August

Wanna chance to win the "hard to find" Fiskars Threading Water border punch?! Then you definitely want to enter our August "Show us Your SheetLoad and Win" contest!!

GRAND Prize:

Fiskars Threading Water Border Punch (yes, really!), BasicGrey Two Scoops - Fibers, 6x6 paper pad and Heart Smudge Stamps

Runner Up:

BasicGrey Two Scoops - Fibers, 6x6 paper pad and Flower Swash Stamps

Honorable Mention:

BasicGrey Two Scoops - Fibers and Flower Swash Stamps

Here is what you have to do:
- Using either the August Monthly or Mini (Mini coming August 15th) issue, create a card based on the sketch.
- Upload it to your BLOG and create a post about our contest OR upload it to a PUBLIC gallery (ie: gallery cannot require a password to view images)
- If you are a blogger, make sure there is a link in your blog post back to SheetLoad
- Leave a comment on this post with a link to your card.

Timeline:
- Cards must be uploaded, and your comment must be left on this post by Midnight CST on Friday, August 29th.
- I will announce the winners the first week of September.

Make sure to do your best work,
as I will be asking some
of my SheetLoad team members
to choose their favorite cards,
to help select the winners.

Thanks to:
ShortCuts for donating the prizes shown above. Make sure to keep an eye out for new products, as well as the papercrafting products you love to buy, in the upcoming months.

Players so Far...
Monica M
Heidi
Kimmie0270
Amy J
Peggy
Riley 1 & Riley 2
Kim S
Noemi
Maureen 1 & Maureen 2
SA
Melissa in NC
Etha1 & Etha 2
Sara 1 & Sara 2
Handmade Cards
Dannie G
Joke
Giovana
dwaye
Monica - fc
Cindy V
Tanja
Jamie V
Jen T
Phyllis 1 & Phyllis 2
Craftinchick
Lyn S
NewEnglandStamper
Jessica G
Deborah P
Katy M
Alicia
Jamie
Jessica G

Contest officially closed...

Wow, the Show us Your SheetLoad and Win contest was a success! It closed a couple nights ago and I just finished going through all of the entries.

I wish I had enough prizes for all of the entrants. Unfortunately my money tree out front died, so I have to stick to the 3 original prizes.

Next Monday I will announce who those lucky winners are.

Thanks to all of you who participated!

They really DID make a SheetLoad of Cards...

I received an email a couple days ago from Jamie Schoppmann. She and her friend, Savannah Alvey, have been using SheetLoad to create lots and lots of cards.


This picture shows some of the 200 cards they made in just a couple of weeks. Amazing!

Jamie also sent me photos of other cards they have put together. She says some times they "get carried away" and that they think of "all the different styles and just keep changing out the paper" on the same sketch.

In the slideshow below you can see some of the cards they have made. What I noticed and thought would be a great tip to pass on to SheetLoad readers is they left the image/sentiment area blank. What a great way to personalize it later for the exact occasion.

Great job Jamie & Savannah - thanks for sharing your cards with us!

Galorious Stampers use SheetLoad!!

I received this email from a SheetLoad reader earlier in the week and just had to share:

~~

Hi. I absolutely love your e-zine, and I introduced it to our stamp group in January, wondering if they'd like to take the November design and make cards.

I didn't specify what holiday or a specific kind of card; they could choose what they wanted. Each person made 12 card fronts from their batch, and then we swapped, so that we each of us (there were 5 of us there) ended up with two card fronts from the other four people.

I'm attaching a JPEG of the kinds of cards that were made. We ran the gamut from Valentine's, to Easter, to... Blank!

Just thought you'd like to see what your ezine inspired!

(And one of our members liked the idea and the process so much that she has suggested to me, privately, that we should do it again later this year!)

Thanks for your efforts.
Pat Gonzales

~~

Of course I had to contact Pat to find out more about her group.

Galorious Stampers is a group located in the Lexington, KY area, and they have been meeting for around 9 years. Originally they met at their local stamp store named "Stamps Galore" and that is where they got their group name from.

Pat found SheetLoad from a posting on Gingerwood's stamp message board and was curious to see what each of the stampers in her group would do with the design.

Pat's favorite features of the eZine are:

• specific materials list - how many sheets of what kind of paper
• the cutting diagrams
• the fact that you know how many cards you will be making
• seeing the various ways the same design is interpreted - with other publications they only show the sketch and one finished card

Pat - thank you so much for your feedback. I can't wait to see what else your group does with SheetLoad!!

If anybody else out there has a stamping group that has done something similar, please feel free to email me at sheetload@comcast.net

Happy scrappin'

NEW Look for a NEW Year... and some more reader cards.

I am just so very excited about SheetLoad and 2008!!


Some of my artists have seen the "new look" already and can agree, SheetLoad is getting an Extreme eZine Makeover for the new year!


We also have a few sponsors lined up and are excited to get some product for our artists to use, as well as get the sponsoring companies additional publicity. It's a win-win if you ask me.


Make sure to keep checking back, as I will be giving a sneak preview of the January sketch in the next week or so.


I will close today with a few cards made by Tammie. She used the layout from our first-ever issue of SheetLoad. Thanks for sharing, Tammie!

Reader Cards

Vera was nice enough to send me pictures of the some of the lovely Christmas cards she made to send out using the September issue of SheetLoad.

Thanks for sharing these, Vera!!

To the rest of the readers: Keep 'em coming. I love to see what you are doing with the SheetLoad. Not only may I feature your cards in a post, but everyone's will get added to the slideshow at the bottom of the main page.

What have you done with your SheetLoad lately?!

I would love to feature cards that have been made using any issue of SheetLoad right here on the blog.

If you have pictures of cards you have made (whether it is 1 or 9), please email them to me at: crafty_al@comcast.net.

Please make sure to include the following:
- "My SheetLoad Cards" in the subject line
- Your Name
- Your Blog / Gallery info (if applicable)

Can't wait to see what you have made!