Product Guide: Minimal/Distressed Style

This week, Simple Scrapper is highlighting four design trends with the Digital Scrapbooking Product Guide.

The Trend

Scrapping or designing in the Minimal/Distressed style often includes texture, gradients, script fonts and tiny details. It is actually a quite broad category, perhaps a catch-all for several styles that don’t quite fit elsewhere. It is perhaps a middle ground for the spectrum between Fresh/Artsy and Storybook/Fantasy.

Here are some examples that fit this style:

Shopping for Minimal/Distressed

If Minimal/Distressed is your favorite style, you might consider exploring these shops:

• After Five Designs
• Cat Scrap
• Funky Playground Designs
• The Lilypad
• Little Dreamer Designs
• Oscraps
• Pickleberry Pop
• Scrap Artist
• Scrapbook Graphics
• Shabby Pickle

From these stores, I picked out some of my favorite Minimal/Distressed products.

I also polled DST readers on their favorite designers for each style. Who would you add to this list of favorite Minimal/Distressed designers?

• TaylorMade, Fei-Fei’s Stuff, Paislee Press at Oscraps.
• Vinnie Pearce at Pixel Canvas and Catscrap
• ViVa Artistry at Sunshine Studio Scraps and Get Digi With It
• Leora Sanford at Little Dreamer Designs
• Ali Edwards and Andrea Victoria at Designer Digitals
• Karla Dudley at After Five Designs
• Sahlin Studio at Scrap Matters
• Dreamer’s Magic Designs at Brownie Scraps

So tell me – why does this style appeal to you or not? In your opinion, what are the essential defining characteristics of Minimal/Distressed? Is this the right name for the style?