Buttons and seeds (beads that is!)

Hello everyone! I have been trying to make some birthday cards (some are overdue) to mail out to friends and family. I made this one and added a few to my ETSY shop. This card was created with a sketch from the 2sketches4you blog sketch #44 that I thoroughly had fun with. It's a great sketch, very versatile and I love the colour combo that I used from this Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday paper and the Ocean Tides from Papertrey Ink. The image is another adorable Baby Button Bits from PTI, not just for babies right?

I stamped the image with PTI black ink and used a square Nestability die and then outline embossed with the tan mat in my CuttleBug and cut out a larger square in the Ocean Tides to later layer under the cream square. I coloured the little "petals" with my Ice Ocean Copic marker #BG72. I think it is a perfect match to this PTI colour. I added cream and Ocean Tides buttons to the stamped image and I actually sewed them to the cream panel with a matching embroidery floss. I stamped a part of the button bits image (the leaves) onto the same CC dp and cut the leaves out and added to the leaf part on the stamped image. I added a little piercing to the top left and bottom right corners of the panel. I then backed the
cream square onto the Ocean Tides with my dimensional foam.

The CC pattern paper was cut to the regular size card, but I then cut off a 1/4 " strip that I adhered to the bottom inside of the card. I used a MS border punch on the front of the ivory card base to make a scalloped edge and then I glued the pattern paper to the card front so that the shortened size of this paper front just lets the scallop edge just peek out at the bottom. I made another cream scallop border and layered it onto an Ocean Tides wide MS border and added these to the card front.

The square was then added to the front and positioned so that just partial scallops are seen directly under the square. I love how the button treatment on the bottom of the card turned out. I threaded the individual buttons and tied the embroidery floss and snipped, leaving just the tiniest "tails" except for on the central blue button which I snipped quite close after tying a knot. I added some crystal effects to the button top and then I placed individual seed beads in a circular pattern following the button rim.

That's it for this one, all from a sketch and some amazing paper!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Cheers to a good week-end,

Chriss

Some new calendars

Here are some calendars I have been working on for a craft fair that I will be at this coming Saturday.  My favourite one is this first one made with these oh so pretty Cosmo Cricket Early Bird papers.  I really love this little mini deck of goodness!  I used an EK Success wavy border punch and a MS loop punch.  I like how they look layered together.  This next pink one is made with K and Co. Wild Raspberry pack and these are really nice papers too.  I used a nice narrow lucsious velvet ribbon with this one.

The other two are made with the Sabrina line from MM and I like the pink and black combo.  I used some PaperTrey buttons with this one and threaded with embroidery thread ion a darker pink shade.  The next pink one is also from the same paper pack and I used some MS border punches and some cute Sabrina flower brads and clear rhinestones.  Thanks for taking a peek today and have a wonderful Sunday!

Th

My Mojo 103 Delightful and Delicious

This is my Mojo card for this week's challenge.  I love how it turned out, in person, it did not photograph well, but I assure you, the colours are so rich in real life!  I wanted warm and rich for this great coffee themed stamp set from Verve, and my insoiration came from Cosmo Cricket's Earth Love.  Such a great collection, really.  So to make this card, I started by stamping the coffee cups with a SU craft chocolate chip ink on a delightful sheet of the saffron coloured flowers in the CC Earth Love collection and let them dry and cut them out.  I also stamped the sentiment from the same set in the craft ink and sprinkled with clear embossing powder and heated it up.  I used a Spellbinders long rectangular scalloped die to cut it out and edges with a Copic marker (the sketch end, so as not to ruin the finish on the other finer end).  The card base is on so saffron card stock that I stamped an Impression Obsession "Cover a Card" bg stamp with the craft chocolate chip ink.  The floral dp is CC and I backed these with really rust.  The ribbon is from some packaging and the border punches are from EK Success (the flat ones).  The ribbon is a nice chocolate chip grosgrain and I added 3 light brown gems, but they are quite difficult to see. (again, sorry for the photo)  Well, that's it for now.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great rest of the day.   Cheers ~ Chriss