Sunday, August 17, 2014

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Blog Challenge #14 - Button It Up!


Hello all!  So glad you stopped by today.  Altered Pages is not only a sponsor of the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog this month, but we are teaming up with their design team for a fabulous and fun blog hop. 

Crafters of every stripe are button hoarders! Buttons are pretty, inexpensive, and extremely versatile. If you are a card maker, quilter, layout artist, or anything in between, you probably have a button hoard!  Buttons come in many sizes, styles, shapes, and colors, plus they are easy to store...usually in cute containers! Pull out those bins of buttons and use some of them for your challenge project!  You can participate in the Craft Hoarders Challenge and win a prize from the blog sponsor... Altered Pages!

So, for their Blog Challenge #14 - Button It Up,  I want to share a card I made.  I found this collection of very regal looking metal buttons, and I love this collage image from the AP-952 Medieval Cards collage sheet, so I knew just how I wanted to put this card together.  
I first used Spellbinders die to cut various layers of card stock, using the teal cardstock as my base.  The next layer is a piece of gold metallic cardstock, then a die cut piece of royal purple suede paper.  I thought this would be so appropriate for royalty.  My next layer was a die cut frame piece of gold metallic card stock which I layered over my collage image.  I actually used colored pencils to color in parts of my collage image to bring out some of the colors to match my papers.  Both were then adhered to the purple suede layer.  

I used white Assorted Flowers and sprayed them first with water, then Tattered Angels Jazz Blue ink spray, and topped off with Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls mist.  When dry, I layered them, as shown, to the front of my card.  

It is my humble opinion that leaves should always be part of a flower spray, and I didn't have any large enough for these flowers, so I simply used one of the larger flowers, spritzed it with water first, then Lime Dylusions spray, and topped with a spray of Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls mist.  My flower was laying on a previously sprayed paper towel, and the tips of the flowers picked up some of the color from that.  I didn't mind, but if you want your color to stay pristine, use a clean paper towel for misting. 
Once dry, I simply cut the petals apart and Viola!, five leaves to add to my flower spray.  I then glued my regal buttons to the flower centers for a finishing touch.  I think they make beautiful flower centers, don't you?

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Other:  Purple suede paper, teal card stock, gold metallic card stock, Spellbinders Noble Rectangles die, Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold mist, buttons, Tattered Angel Jazz Blue ink spray

Below is a list of the blog links for your viewing pleasure.

Altered Pages Design Team



Craft Hoarders Anonymous Design Team

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Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy the hop!

Barbara

32 comments:

  1. Love your card... all the layers of cardstock framing the image are beautiful!!! Great buttons for your flowers!

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  2. Such a lovely card Barbara incorporating your beautifully ornate buttons. xx

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  3. Very pretty! Love the colors and embellishments with this image. They fit together perfectly.

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  4. What a lovely card! Those buttons used are beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing it with us!

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  5. Very elegant!
    stamping sue
    http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/

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  6. Nice tip about the leaves--I have some of those flowers, and will have to remember that! Very regal looking piece, Barbara!

    :)

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  7. Your flowers are just right for the project, and I love how you made the leaves! Thanks for the tip.

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  8. Beautiful card Barbara! Great tip on how to use a flower for leaves. I will have to use that in the future! <3

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  9. Very pretty. Love all your die cut layers. Thanks for hopping with us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  10. I like the use of the flowers for leaves, we always find a way to reuse, repurpose, rethink what we have!! lovely project and yes, VERY REGAL!

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  11. you must get so bloody tired of hearing me gush about how much I love your work - but, again, this card is just exquisite - so elegant and dignified - and I love the way you've transformed those cheap flowers into something elegant and refined. Brava, lady, brava!

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  12. Marvelous project! I love the flowers and the frame. This is stunning, B! I love it! Thanks so much for hopping with the Craft Hoarders Anonymous team this week!

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  13. Stunning card. Fab use of die cuts and colors.

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  14. So pretty! Thanks for joining the team at Craft Hoarders Anonymous for this hop!!

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  15. I have become quite a fan! I love this project for sure! Thanks for hopping with the design team at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  16. Such a regal card and those buttons are the perfect addition to your flowers!

    TFS!

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  17. very beautiful card and love the silver buttons on the flowers great addition!

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  18. Fabulous card, love the fun sewing details...and flowers, oh my.

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  19. Isn't it fun when happy accidents happen? The extra tinting on your leave tips gives them some great character. Great use of layers!

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  20. I was really impressed with the flowers, each one with a different center (button). But most of all, I liked how you used one of those flowers to make your leaves. Great inspiration piece.

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  21. So many wonderful things you did here. I really love the layers and flowers. Have a nice day!

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  22. Lovely flowers and great use of buttons too.

    Thanks for sharing.

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  23. LOve the way the metal pulls everything together...the gold in the image, the gold embossing and the metallic buttons. Such a clever way to make leaves that match your flowers, too, Barbara. It is a lovely piece! Thanks for hopping with us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  24. Great idea for making the leaves! Love all the great colors in your artwork here.

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  25. Beautiful card, love the vintage look and the metal buttons in the flowers. Thanks so much for joining Craft Hoarders Anonymous on this blog hop.

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  26. Beautiful card, the image, colors and buttons are all perfect together. Your technique for coloring your flowers is great.

    Sue
    http://suek86401.blogspot.com/

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  27. Very "modern victorian", beauty, thanks for share!

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  28. So pretty! Love those button flowers and your project! It was nice hopping with you (I'm just a little behind on the hop) Jan Marie, CHACB DT

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  29. New to this blog and the altered world. Can't wait to start digging my supplies and creating...............TFS

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