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Two Layouts for Paper Secrets November Challenges

01 Nov 2011 Comments Off on Two Layouts for Paper Secrets November Challenges

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 layout, Dove of the East, Glitz, pink paislee, scraplift, single page, single photo, Webster's Pages

I love the gorgeous sketches that Rochelle has been designing for us on Paper Secrets, so I had a lot of fun creating this layout as part of my dt work for the November challenges. I went with the beautiful All About Me collection by Webster’s Pages and added a little subtle texture and interest using a Prima mask and a bit of Helmar magic. 😀

For the brick wall behind the photo, I had really wanted a different Prima mask, but my fave online store was sold out, so I got the mask that features the mortar rather than the brick. To use it effectively, there are several options. I chose to go with a resist technique using Helmar Acid Free Glue. I simple lined up the mask where I wanted the design to appear, and using a foam brush, applied the Helmar Acid Free Glue in the openings by smoothing it over the mask. I then lifted off the mask. Once dry, I misted the image with some Shimmerz Spritz in Rockafella blue and immediately wiped over it lightly with a slightly dampened paper towel to remove the product from the resist areas. It worked like a dream. FYI, this method can also be used with the 450 Quick Dry, Premium Craft Glue and PVA glue that I know of and have tested, so you can use what you have on hand.

Here’s my take on Rochelle’s fabulous sketch for the November Challenge:

Here’s a close up of the brick wall resist:

I’m so excited to be back on the Paper Secrets DT! For my first challenge for the new term, I wanted to do something special. I greatly admire the work of an amazing talented multi-media artist who I first heard about just over a year ago when I started scrapping online. Steph Devlin is not only a designer for Webster’s Pages, Kaisercraft and Prima, she’s also a published author and has designed for numerous magazines. Steph is also one of the co-founders of The Color Room…a great site for fabulous color challenges and a sketch for inspiration. So, for this challenge, I’ve selected one of her pieces (with her permission) for us to lift for our November Scraplift Challenge!

Here’s my lift of her inspiring creation:

To give a subtle shimmer and add a bit of extra texture, I mixed a bit of iridescent medium to Helmar’s Textured Effects and applied it with a brush to the middle flower on the left of the page. I only covered the highlights on the images. It was really hard to capture in a photo, but here’s a close up:

I love that the Textured Effects not only helps add more detail, but it also keeps the iridescent medium on my project, not my fingers, so when I wipe my fingers across the page, I don’t end up with a bunch of shimmer on my fingertips! 😀

I also combined the PS lift challenge with my dt work at Firefly Expressions and incorporated some gorgeous Dove of the East products. 😀

Materials for Little Blessings Layout:

Webster’s Pages All About Me papers
WP All About Me fabric ticket
WP All About Me Princess Petal
WP All About Me storytellers alpha stickers
WP pin
Prima flourish
Shimmerz Rockafella Spritz

Adhesives:

Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner
Helmar Acid Free Glue
Helmar 450 Quick Dry

Materials for Friends Layout:

Dove of the East paper
Dove of the East ribbon
Dove of the East diecut
Glitz Vintage Blue papers
Glitz paper layers
Pink Paislee Artisan frame
Webster’s Pages sparkler
Webster’s Pages silhouette
sticker and cast corner piece from my stash
Tattered Angels glimmer glaze
iridescent medium
Helmar Textured Effects
Prima bling

Adhesives:

Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner
Helmar Acid Free Glue
Helmar 450 Quick Dry

Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots
Helmar Zap Dots

TFL!

Two Cards and a Project for Paper Secrets’ November Challenges

01 Nov 2011 Comments Off on Two Cards and a Project for Paper Secrets’ November Challenges

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects Tags: adress book, Crate Paper, Farmhouse, K&Company, MME, My Mind's Eye, Stella & Rose, Thanksgiving card

I’m thrilled to announce that Kristi has invited me for a second term on the Paper Secrets DT! 😀 I loved my time serving on the team in May-July 2011, so I’m super excited to be back! There are 5 fantastic challenges for November (though this post will only show my takes on 3 of the challenge), so I hope you can join in on the fun!

First up, we have a great card sketch with a twist, which is being hosted by Nicolle Kramer. The twist is to use glitter and twine. Please visit the challenge post on the forum for the sketch to use and to see the other dt member’s cards. Here’s my take on it:

Next there’s a paper piecing challenge being hosted by Kimmy. For further details and inspiration from the dt, see the post marked November Technique Challenge. Here’s my take on it:

This month’s manufacturer challenge is My Mind’s Eye, which is being hosted by Joyce. While chatting with the other ladies on the forum, I realized that our family does not have a physical phone number, address, email addy book, so if something should ever happen to my computer or our cell phones (like Larry frying his by dropping it in the lake while fishing as he did last year), we’d lose all our contacts. So I figured now would be a great time for me to get on that project I’ve been planning for months. lol I’ve had this Maya Road 5 tabbed sheer album for quite a while now. I’ve held onto it with the intention of using it for this purpose, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity. 🙂

Since I’ve been playing around quite a bit with some of the different Helmar products recently, I decided to give it a go on this one. It’s actually based on an idea I had for a project that’s going to be on my next post. I bought a jar of the textured effects and had wanted to take it for a test spin. I mixed a bit of it with some iridenscent medium and used it on a layout that will be shown on the next blog post. It worked beautifully and exactly the way I’d wanted, so for MR sheer album, I thought it might be cool to blend with perfect pearls so I can accentuate the outer edges of the pages, especially the tabs which I wasn’t planning on covering with paper. Here’s how it turned out:

This is one of the inside spreads so you can see the MME ledger paper I inserted between the dividers for us to write contact info onto:

It came out exactly as expected. I love the added texture and interest the textured effects creates with a bit of perfect pearls blended in. You can get a similar affect by using other powdered pigment products. When mixing, keep in mind that it will dry to a darker shade than it is while wet since the textured affects starts out as a thicker, creamy white medium and dries clear.Since I had some left over, I was also able to add details to the chipboard flower and leaves. I painted dimensional veins to the leaves, enhanced the colors on the center of the flower and outlined the edges too. I love the added subtle shimmer and fab texture!

Materials for the first card:

Crate Paper Farmhouse papers
CP Farmhouse stickers
Twine from the Twinery

Adhesives:

Helmar 450 Quick Dry
Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner

Materials for the second card:

Canvas Corp card base
Daisy D’s Autumn papers
K&Comanpy Fall Harvest rubons
K&Company Fall Harvest Leaves Grand Adhesions

Adhesives:

Helmar 450 Quick Dry

Tools:

EK Success Rock Fern punch

Materials for the address book:

Maya Road Sheer 5 tabbed album
MME Stella & Rose papers
MME Stella and Rose Chipboard stickers
Sassafras alpha stickers
Helmar Textured Affects
Perfect Pearls

Adhesives:
Helmar 450 Quick Dry
Helmar Acid Free Glue
Helmar Zap Dots

TFL!

Wonder – dt work for Let’s Capture These Sketches

29 Oct 2011 2 Comments

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 layout, baby, boy, Helmar, Prima, single page, single photo, Webster's Pages, ZVA Creative

This is the layout I created for my dt work for Let’s Capture These Sketches. We got to work with a gorgeous sketch by Ness and I’m still LOVING the All About Me collection by Webster’s Pages, so I figured they’d be a perfect fit for what I had in mind. I replaced the frame from the sketch with two strips of bling (I took the All About Me dazzle me gems strip apart) and my journaling. Here’s what I came up with:

Materials:

Webster’s Pages All About Me papers
WP All About Me trim
WP All About Me Dazzle Me gems
WP All About Me Storyteller Alphas
Prima Reflections Antique Mirrors
ZVA Creative flower

Adhesives:

Helmar 450 Quick Dry
Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner
Helmar Acid Free Glue
Helmar Clear Zap Dots
Helmar Gemstone Glue

Tools:

Martha Stewart 3 in 1 butterfly punch

Sketch #106 on Let’s Capture These Sketches created by Ness:

Hope you can play along! TFL!

Heart Canvas – Inspired by Tracy and Helmar USA

19 Oct 2011 2 Comments

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects Tags: 2 step crackle, acrylic paint, altered, canvas board, heart, Helmar

Just about every Monday night Helmar hosts a live Ustream class. Usually Tracy Weinzapfel hosts the show, but sometimes Jess (Kinderstamp) hosts as well. This last Monday Tracy shared a page with us from her art journal which inspired her to create a canvas piece and the class showed how to recreate it. CLICK HERE for the recorded show.

I’m always inspired by the Helmar classes and like to create a project based on the class, but usually add my own spin on things. Here’s my take on her canvas piece from the class:

Materials:

8″x10″ canvas board
acrylic paint
charcoal pencil
gesso
India Ink
lace trim from my stash
Prima flowers
Liquid Pearls

Adhesives:

Helmar 450 Quick Dry

Helmar 2 step crackle

I stuck pretty close to Tracy’s inspiring piece…what I changed was minimal. I chose a quote that spoke to me personally rather than using her words and did not add any rubons. Her version is handwritten using india ink and has the loops filled in with white acrylic ink. I wanted all of the words to really pop on mine rather than a single keyword, so I painted the words with white gesso (you could use white paint) and shadowed them using black india ink, intentionally capitalizing the first letter on a few chosen words and the enter word “heart.” The quote is from Helen Keller.

TFL!