April | 2011 | Distressed Scrapper

Paper Secrets Announcements

22 Apr 2011 Comments Off on Paper Secrets Announcements

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects, Scrapbook Layouts Tags: announcements, Challenge, design team, game, layouts, sketch

Though the announcement was made a little while ago on their site and I posted about it on facebook, I realized that I still hadn’t posted the info on my own blog! I’m thrilled to have made it on the Paper Secrets DT! I greatly appreciate the honor and am so happy to be able to share the news! 😀 The April Challenges are still going full swing, so be sure to check them out! Entries are due the last day of this month. Please be sure to upload your projects to the gallery. There will be a drawing for the winner. The more challenges you complete, the greater your chance of winning the fabulous kit! 😀

On another note, we’ve started taking sign-ups for the “Scrap Your Ass Off” event that begins on May 13th. You can sign up now through the 12th if you’d like to join in on the fun! Here’s how it will work (copied and pasted directly from the forum):

*Sign up before May 12th to play. You will not be able to sign up after this date.
*Challenges will be posted every Friday. The 1st challenge will be posted Friday, May 13th. You will have 7 days to upload your layout to the designated gallery album.
*Any participants who do not upload before the deadline will be eliminated. Those who do will move on to the next round.
*All the challenges will be based on a sketch & use of basic supplies such as ribbon, flowers, bling, buttons, etc.
*The series of challenges will go until there is only 1 participant left, making them the winner who will get their choice of scrap supplies valued at $75.

*Our Design Team will be playing along but will not be eligible to win.

CLICK HERE if you’d like to play along!

Congrats card – Get Sketchy challenge entry

14 Apr 2011 Comments Off on Congrats card – Get Sketchy challenge entry

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects Tags: card, congrats, congratulations, diecut sticker, dimension, echo park, For the Record, patterned paper

Another site I hadn’t visited in a while was Get Sketchy, so I headed over there next and loved sketch #82 that they have posted for the current challenge. I’m still working with the fabulous Echo Park papers that Fia from Sketches4All sent me and they seemed perfect for this sketch, so here’s what I came up with:

Materials:

American Crafts white cardstock
Echo Park For the Record PP
EP For the Record diecut stickers

Adhesives:

Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro Perma Tac
American Crafts This to That foam dots

TFL!

If you’d like to take a look at the sketch I used for this card or if you’d like to enter a Get Sketchy challenge, CLICK HERE.

Easter Wishes Card – Cardabilities challenge entry

14 Apr 2011 Comments Off on Easter Wishes Card – Cardabilities challenge entry

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects Tags: card, Core’dinations, dimension, Easter, fussy cutting, paper piecing, sanding, Whitewash

It’s been a while since I last entered a Cardabilities challenge, so I popped in to see what they had posted. I found a really cute sketch for this week’s challenge with gears on it. Well, with Easter quickly approaching, I decided to take the sketch a different direction and pieced together a couple of stamped images instead. I also went with a core’dinations whitewash base so I could add detail to the background by sanding it rather than going with a ribbon since I was popping parts of the image up with foam dots. Here’s what I came up with:

Materials:

American Crafts white cardstock
Core’dinations whitewash
Echo Park For the Record papers
Archival Ink

Adhesives:

Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro Perma Tac
American Crafts foam dots

Tools:

Studio G clear stamps

TFL!

If you’d like to take a look at the sketch I used for this card or if you’d like to enter a Cardabilities challenge, CLICK HERE.

Projects Created with For the Record by Echo Park

12 Apr 2011 2 Comments

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects, product reviews, Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12×12, alpha stickers, card, diecut stickers, echo park, For the Record, hand sewn, hand stitching, handmade flower, layout, pocket, project, ribbon, single page, single photo, stickles, tag

There’s a great site called Sketches4All that I visit frequently. The people there are great and the challenges are a lot of fun! Well, I won SGOTM (Sketch Girl of the Month) for March and Fia sent me Echo Park’s new For the Record paper pack! When it arrived early this month, I was soooo excited! The papers are vibrant and beautifully designed, which is no surprise if you’re familiar with Echo Park’s wonderful, high-quality papers. The paper pack comes with twelve 12×12 double sided papers, one 12×12 element sticker sheet and one 12×12 alphabet sticker sheet. Of the twelve cardstock papers, there are 2 that have a pattern on one side and the other side is divided into four 6×6 sections…perfect for cards and tags! There’s another sheet that is patterned on one side and has cutout border strips on the other and lastly, there is one sheet that has a pattern on one side and cutout journaling cards on the other side. They really thought of everything! I loved working with this fabulous paper pack. Thank you Fia!!!

So far, I made one layout, one card and one tag. I still have at least 5 sheets that I haven’t cut into yet and plenty of scraps for several projects. I adore the diecut sticker images that come with this set too! I’ve set most of those aside for a journal I’ll be working on later this month. 😀

This is a tag I created for Michelle’s challenge group on the site. It’s based on the first April tag sketch and features a diecut sticker that I turned into a ribbon slider by making a couple of simple cuts:

This card was created for the rolled paper technique challenge in Khristen’s group using the colors Rosey posted for a challenge. The handmade flower was very easy to make and I hope to post a tutorial on it in the future, along with other flowers I’ve made on past projects:

This layout was based on Fia’s first April challenge for the Get Sketchy group. All stitching is done by hand since I do not have a sewing machine:

Thanks for looking!

Materials:

Echo Park For the Record Collection Kit
Sei ribbon (on the tag)
May Arts ribbon (on the card)
jeweled brad from my stash
Stickles
Black Bazzill cardstock
American Crafts white cardstock
DMC embroidery floss

Adhesives:

Helmar 450 Quick Dry Liquid
Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro Perma Tac

Tools:

Fiskars border/edge punch

To play along with these and other fabulous challenges on Sketches4All, CLICK HERE!