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Sketches4All – Spring is in the Air Event

16 May 2011 1 Comment

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects, Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12×12 layout, blog hop, Challenge, diecut stickers, event, fall, handmade embellishment, pink paislee, Pumpkin, single page, single photo, sketch, twine, Twinery

The Sketches4All Spring is in the Air event is still going full swing! If you haven’t stopped by already for the hop and exciting challenges, CLICK HERE for the hop post and be sure to stop by the site to check out the new challenges that have been posted daily! All entries to the challenges are due May 18, 2011. Hope to see you there!

The first challenge, which was posted by Fia last week, is a sketch. Here’s my take on the PageMaps sketch:

Materials:

Pink Paislee Hocus Pocus Papers
PP Hocus Pocus diecut alphas and stickers
October Afternoon Mini Market Alphas
Handcut and drawn pumpkin
Honeydew twine from the Twinery
Folk Art white acrylic paint
Distress Inks
Tattered Angels chalkboard shimmer mist

Adhesives:

Helmar Acid Free Glue
Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro PermaTac
Helmar Zapdots

Tools:

Imaginisce I-top

Be sure to stop by the site to see the sketch I used for my layout! TFL!

Buddies – MME Sketch Challenge Entry

08 May 2011 3 Comments

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: brads, Challenge, echo park, handmade flowers, Hattie, Layouts 12×12 layout, MME, multi-photo, My Mind’s Eye, ribbon, single page, sketch, trim

For this layout, I again combined 2 challenges. There’s an awesome sketch by Anam Stubbington for the My Mind’s Eye Blog Challenge 23, so the basic layout is based on that sketch plus the final NSD Challenge on Paper Secrets is to create a layout with 3 handmade flowers, each made with a different technique. Now the real challenge was the fact that it’s a boy layout and I needed to create flowers that go with the page but didn’t seem girly! Here’s what I came up with:

Materials:

MME Stella & Rose Hattie “Family” Pinstripe Paper
MME S&R Hattie “Buddies” Argyle Paper
MME S&R “Family” Silk Tie Paper
MME S&R Hattie trim
MME S&R Hattie brads
MME S&R Hattie title
MME S&R Hazel paper (for one flower)
Echo Park For the Record paper (for one flower)

Adhesives:

Helmar 450 Quick Dry
Cosmo Cricket Gluber
Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro Perma Tac
Helmar Zap Dots

This is the fab sketch my layout is based on:

If you’d like to enter the MME sketch challenge, entries are due by Thursday, May 19, 2011 midnight MST. TFL!

NSD – Challenge Event Announcements and Projects

07 May 2011 6 Comments

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects Tags: butterfly, buttons, card, Challenge, chipboard, fussy cut, patterned paper, project, recipe, rhinestones, ribbon, seam binding, tag, tickets, Webster’s Pages

Happy NDS (National Scrapbooking Day) all you crafter’s out there! Hope everyone finds the time to do something creative today. 😀

In case you haven’t noticed, I love to combine challenges whenever possible. I often find it even more challenging to take a color challenge and mix it with a sketch challenge or a recipe challenge and blend it with a themed one, etc. It’s great when you can combine 3 or more challenges on a single project! Not all sites allow you to do this for your entry, but you can always do it just for you too. 😀

Today’s projects are combined challenges, however they’re unique because this time I’m combining a challenge that I’m hosting on Paper Secrets for their NSD weekend event with one on Webster’s Pages’ InspireMe! 😀 The WP traditional challenge asks you to create either a Mother’s Day or Father’s Day card using mainly WP papers and embellish it with either one of their flowers or stamps. If you don’t have either of these embellishments, you can even make your own paper flower from their papers for this challenge (CLICK HERE to enter or for further details). My example was created with this challenge in mind and my recipe challenge for Paper Secrets which requires just 1 ribbon, 2 patterned papers, and 3 embellishments of your choice from the provided list. You can use any manufacturer and can pick any 3 embellishments from a list that’s posted on the forum (CLICK HERE to enter the challenge or view further details for the challenge). Here’s what I came up with:

Materials:

American Crafts cardstock base
Webster’s Pages 6×6 papers
WP Bloomer
Seam binding
WP Ladies & Gents Digi Tickets
K&Company rubons
Queen&Co. rhinestones

Adhesives:

Helmar 450 Quick Dry
Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro Perma Tac

For the challenge I posted on Paper Secrets, you can also opt to make a tag instead of a card, so here’s my example for the tag:

Materials:

American Crafts cardstock base
Webster’s Pages 6×6 papers
WP Ladies and Gents chipboard buttons w/twine
WP Ladies and Gents Digi Tickets
Seam Binding

Adhesives:

Helmar 450 Quick Dry
Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro Perma Tac

The tag was combined with Michelle’s May Tag challenge on Sketches4All. TFL and I hope you can play along too! 😀

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!