Monster Fun Summer SheetLoad of Cards with Scrapbook.com

For this month's SheetLoad of Cards collaboration hop with Call Me Crafty Al's creative team, I followed the July 2026 sketch and made a whole batch of nine cards using the Sunkissed 6x8 pattern paper pad from Scrapbook.com! Even though the sketch calls for 6 by 6 paper, I easily adapted it from the 6 by 8 pad and used my favorite wavy design as the main background for all of my cards, pairing it with either a beachy pastel pattern or a starfish print for the secondary layer.

I layered the two pattern papers onto Scrapbook.com Studio A2 side fold card bases using liquid glue and my A7 Card Maker T Square to keep everything nice and straight, then created a white cardstock panel with the word "hi" die cut from the Hello Bloom die set in the lower right corner, layered that onto a light purple cardstock panel that I ran through the Little Boxes 3D embossing folder, and pressed them all together under my MISTI with magnets to give the glue time to set through all of those raised boxes..

For the focal image, I stamped the cutest little summer monster from the silly monster summer stamp set in alcohol marker friendly ink and colored him in as pastelly as I could to coordinate with all of the fun paper pad colors, then fussy cut around him and popped him up onto the sentiment panel with 1mm foam adhesive. I originally planned to stamp the "Have a Monster Fun Summer" sentiment on the front of the cards too, but there just was not enough room once everything was layered together, so the die cut "hi" ended up being the perfect solution and honestly I think it looks even cooler!

I filled in a little bit of open white space above the sentiment with Lemon Chiffon Pops of Color, tapping the back of the card so they settled flat, and stamped "Have a Monster Fun Summer" on the inside of one card with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink while I figure out what occasions the rest will be used for. Nine cards from one sketch, one paper pad, and one silly little monster turned out to be such a fun summer batch!

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I Lava You Fandom Friday Card with Trinity Stamps

For this week's Fandom Friday, the new I Lava You sentiment from the July Trinity Stamps release immediately made me think of the Pixar short, so I ran with that as my fandom inspiration and built a whole ocean and sky scene to match! I started by ink blending a sky panel on white mixed media cardstock using Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide, holding my cloud stencils from the October Night Sky stencil set in place with magnets while I blended, then added water reactive splatters, opal pigment watercolor in a soft blue tint, and white bleedproof paint for a dreamy layered background.

For the ocean panel I blended Salty Ocean and Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxides, repeated the same splatter technique with heavier water and opal watercolor, then finished with a few flicks of Black Soot Distress Oxide spray for contrast before trimming and layering both panels together onto a top folding A2 card base with a wave die cut from the Tiny Island die set creating that soft horizon line.

For the sentiment, I die cut the I Lava You letters twice, once in yellow cardstock and once in red, then used an orange marker to hand draw an outline around each yellow letter to replicate the font style from the Pixar short before gluing the yellow letters onto the red shadow die cuts slightly offset to the bottom right for that drop shadow effect. I cut the volcano from kraft cardstock, added green Rustic Wilderness Distress Ink at the base for a grassy look, and glued the red lava die cut a little higher than intended so I would have room to draw on an adorable little face with a black pen.

I mounted the full sentiment onto a vellum shadow die cut so the ocean scene could show through underneath, tucked my lava spurts into place, added 1mm foam adhesive strips behind everything so the foam would stay hidden through the vellum, and attached the whole sentiment to the front of the card. It turned out so cute and I absolutely love that the I Lava You sentiment does all the heavy lifting for the fandom connection!

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