Sunday, 3 March 2013

Lots of buttons

For today's card I have combined several challenges, involving a sketch, handmade embellishments (buttons), and pink.


The following sketch is by Lucy Abrams:


I created the buttons by stamping the Tim Holtz woodgrain stamp in Memento Rich Cocao onto some cream cardstock and using a die to cut out the circles. Next, I used a smaller circle die to emboss the inside circle and then pierced the button holes using a real button as a guide. After inking the buttons with distress ink, I threaded all buttons with some button thread and adhered them onto a piece of soft pink Papicolor cardstock (which I've had for ages) using foam tape. The die-cut pink flower and the strips of PP are by Kaisercraft. The pink fibre comes from a very old selection of Kars fibres. The sentiment (Paper Smooches) was also stamped in Rich Cocao.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
A Blog named Hero - 121 Just make your own!
Totally Gorjuss - 173 Anything goes with pink
A Gem of a Challenge - 69 Button it
Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - 258 Something old
Allsorts - 196 For a lady
Crafts and Me - 122 Dies and punches
Bearly Mine - 75 Anything goes

17 comments:

  1. A really imaginative and inspirational card Marianne.

    Thanks so much for sharing your lovely work with us at Allsorts this week.

    B x

    I have a little competition running with lots of prizes and it would be wonderful if you joined in, you can check it out here

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  2. Love the woodgrain feature behind the buttons.. thanks for joining us at Simon Says Challenge blog

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  3. That's a great card!
    Wonderful job with the buttons!

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  4. Very creative buttons! Great colors. I really like your card. Thanks for playing with us at A Blog Named Hero! :)

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  5. this is lovely. Thanks for playing along with us at CCt.x

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  6. WOW!! I love buttons!! this is fabulous!! thanks for joining us over at BMC hope to see you again soon
    hugs
    laney

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  7. Love this! The buttons are fabulous! Thank you so much for playing along with us over at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog!

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  8. Thanks for joining Allsorts challenge with this great entry, good luck.
    Happy crafting
    Tracy x

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  9. Fun card - and a great interpretation of the sketch.
    Thanks for entering my challenge.

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  10. Great creation you defo nailed the Button theme at AGOAC..

    Thanks for sharing with us at AGOAC this time.

    smiles Christine x

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  11. Beautiful creation with buttons. Thanks for joining us at Totally Gorjuss this week.
    hugs Anke

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  12. What a wonderful project! Thank you so much for sharing with us at Allsorts and good luck in the challenge!

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  13. That's a very clever idea Marianne. Love it! x
    Edna x

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  14. Marianne, your buttons are so pretty and I love them in the woodgrain. That's a fun, funky sentiment, too..I really like it.
    Thanks for the mention of the small precision scissors on your comment today on my blog. I have a very small pair of embroidery scissors that I tried to find to cut with but, of course, I couldn't find them. LOL You know how that goes. Right?

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  15. Love the wood grain buttons - beautiful card.

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  16. Fabulous card, Marianne! Love those buttons, so creative!

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