Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Let’s Capture These Sketches/The Paper Variety

11 Dec 2011 2 Comments

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: , , , , , , , ,

The Paper Variety’s challenge this week is to create a paper based project inspired by a Christmas song title or lyrics. So I kept that in mind as I created this layout of my youngest son last winter in his first bunting. He hated that thing, but he was sooo cute in it! LOL I remember he kept looking at us accusingly, like he was thinking, “How COULD you”? The song, Baby It’s Cold Outside, kept popping in my head, so I’m hoping it counts though it’s not really a Christmas song. It’s a winter song that’s often played around Christmas?

This is my dt project for this week’s sketch by Charlotte at Let’s Capture These Sketches:

Materials:

Fancy Pants Hot Chocolate pp
Fancy Pants sticker
Brown Bazzill cardstock
ZVA Creative flourishes
Rhinestones from my stash
ZVA Creative flower
Prima flowers
Paper Secrets flowers
Snowflake charm from my stash
Distress Inks

Adhesives:

Helmar gemstone glue
Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner
Helmar Premium Craft Glue
Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots

Here’s Charlotte’s fabulous sketch:

TFL!

Paper Secrets Sketch Challenges

01 Dec 2011 Comments Off on Paper Secrets Sketch Challenges

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects, Scrapbook Layouts Tags: , , , , , ,

If you love sketches, these 2 are for you! 😀 Joyce is hosting a lovely Card Sketch Challenge (she created a sketch and Rochelle vamped it up for her). Head over to the forum to check out the sketch, but here’s my take on it:

Rochelle designs all of our monthly sketches at Paper Secrets now and they’re so much fun to work with! Her sketches for inspiration are always unique and creative. She will be hosting the Layout Sketch Challenge each month. Here’s what I came up with for her current sketch:

Materials for the card:

Webster’s Pages 6×6 Botanical Christmas pp
Little Yellow Bicycle doily
WP Botanical Christmas trims
WP tinsel trim
WP sparkler

Adhesives:

Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner
Helmar 450 Quick Dry
Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots

Tools: Needle and Thread

Materials for the layout:

Bo Bunny Sweet Treats pp
Tag by Marivic (Berry71bleu)
Bo Bunny Sweet Treats Buttons
Bo Bunny Sweet Treats chipboard sticker
Bo Bunny Sweet Treats Layered Sticker
The Paper Company shimmer paper

Adhesives:
Helmar 450 Quick Dry
Helmar Gemstone Glue
Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner
Helmar Zap Dots

TFL! To check out the December challenges on Paper Secrets, CLICK HERE!

Stop back tomorrow for our Holiday Hop (and our 5th December challenge)! All the fun begins on the Paper Secrets Blog!

Paper Secrets December Challenges – Now Live

01 Dec 2011 Comments Off on Paper Secrets December Challenges – Now Live

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects, Scrapbook Layouts Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

I can’t believe it’s December already! There’s so much happening this month! 😀 The five Paper Secrets December challenges are now live and ready for your fabulous entries! I’m going to break them up into 3 posts. Two posts today with 2 of the challenges featured on each and 1 tomorrow for the hop which starts on the Paper Secrets Store Blog. There will be giveaways and prizes, so don’t forget to stop back tomorrow! 😀

First we have a technique challenge hosted by Nicolle. Our challenge is to use distressing on your project. For my example, I’ve splattered ink, scraped and inked pp, fringed paper and curled paper for the banner:

Next, Kimmy’s Stash Challenge is to use scraps from a layout you’ve created to make another layout, card or project. I used the scraps from my example for Nicolle’s challenge to create a Christmas card. Here’s what I came up with:

Materials for my layout:

Lily Bee Picket Fence pp
Bazzill black cardstock
Bazzill White cardstock
Lily Bee Picket Fence Stickers
Tattered Angels Shimmer mist
Distress Ink
Epiphany bubble caps and buttons
Glass stone

Adhesives: Helmar Premium Craft Glue
Helmar Gemstone Glue

Tools:

Epiphany Crafts punches

Materials for the card:

Lily Bee Picket Fence pp
Bazzill black cardstock
Lily Bee Christmas Town rubons
Stickles

Adhesive:

Helmar Premium Craft Glue

TFL! To play along with our December Challenges, CLICK HERE!

DD’s Birthday Party at Home – Kaisercraft November Sketch#2

29 Nov 2011 Comments Off on DD’s Birthday Party at Home – Kaisercraft November Sketch#2

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Each Saturday, Kaisercraft features a sketch challenge on their blog and you have until the end of the month to enter your take on one or all of the sketches for your chance to win an awesome prize pack! 1st place wins one of Kaisercraft’s new collections (approx $50 value) and 2nd place wins a Kaisercraft scrap pack that includes new products (approx. $30 value). I decided to give it a try and went with sketch# 2 for November since it worked well with the photo I wanted to scrap of my daughter’s 4th birthday and I could also easily use the grungeboard alphas I was sent by Marie for this week’s feature on the Firefly Expressions blog. I was sent a sheet with the letter P. After considering the various options of what to do with the letters, I decided to use as many as I could by flipping them around. I turned 2 upside down to make D’s and flipped one over and turned it upside down as well to make the B. Here’s what I came up with for the sketch using the grungeboard alphas as well:

This is the fab Kaisercraft sketch I worked with:

Materials:

Kaisercraft Blae & Ivy pp
American Crafts white cardstock
Tim Holtz grungeboard alphas
Prima flowers
Pink Paislee alpha stickers
October Afternoon mini market alphas
Distress Ink
lace trim from my stash

Adhesives:

Helmar Premium Craft Glue
Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner
Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots
Helmar Zap Dots
Helmar 450 Quick Dry

Tools:

Martha Stewart Score Board
Martha Stewart circle cutter
Martha Stewart doily lace border punch
EK Success Scalloped Circle punch
Making Memories Large and Medium circle punches

TFL!

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