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Make a Pretty Button Flower Card for Mother’s Day!

By Nancy Nally on April 18, 2017 in Card Making, Mother’s Day, Paper Crafts

The spring flowers are in bloom, and Mother’s Day will be here before you know it! So why not combine the two to make a pretty button flower card for mom for Mother’s Day?

Supplies Needed:

Buttons Galore “Glam Girl” Button Bonanza
PPA Matte Adhesive
white cardstock 12″ by 12″
yellow cardstock scrap
dark blue ink pad
Hero Arts “Celebrate Everyday” stamp set
Simple Stories “Color Vibes” papers

This 5″ by 7″ button flower card is super simple to make but so cute! And it’s so easy to make that it would make a great kids’ project for the holiday.

To start this card project, cut a 10″ by 7″ piece of white cardstock and fold in half along the 10″ edge to create your card base.

Cut a 2.5″ by 7″ piece of cardstock from the scraps of the white sheet. Select buttons from the Glam Girl Button Bonanza to make your button flowers with. Then, using the PPA Matte Adhesive, adhere the buttons in place using dots of glue. Set the flower strip aside to dry.

While the glue dries, cut a 1.5″ by 7″ strip of paper for the top of the card, and a 2″ by 7″ strip of paper for the bottom. Adhere them in place along the top and bottom of the card front.

Stamp “Happy Mother’s Day” on a yellow cardstock scrap in dark blue ink. Trim the cardstock to slightly larger in size than the sentiment.

After the glue on the flowers is dry, adhere the flower strip in place across the card front. Glue the sentiment block down on the right side of the card front, over the seam between the flower strip and the bottom patterned paper.

This card design is so versatile! Just by changing the sentiment, the design could also be used for a thank you card, or for a birthday, or for a variety of other occasions. It’s a classic that you can use over and over! To create a smaller card, just use smaller sizes of buttons. With theGlam Girl Button Bonanza bag, you can make this beautiful button flower card over and over!

Easy DIY Flower Placemat for Easter & Mother’s Day

By Nancy Nally on April 4, 2017 in Easter, Home Decor, Mother’s Day, Party Planning, Spring

Spring means lots of special occasions! This flower placemat design is great for Easter, Mother’s Day, or for making a birthday girl feel extra special – and it’s super quick and easy to make!

This flower placemat uses supplies from the popular 28 Lilac Lane “Tropical Twist” kit. You can tell that it’s definitely one of my favorites since many of the supplies are used from it! Although the name of this kit, and its themed charms, are definitely summer themed, this project is a great reminder to look at your kits not just as themes but as color palettes as well.

Supplies Needed:

28 Lilac Lane “Tropical Twist” embellishment kit
15″ round placemat
Felt in pink, purple, & green
Tim Holtz Alterations for Sizzix “Tattered Florals” die
Needle & Thread
Embroidery Floss in yellow & orange

To start making this flower placemat, get out a large needle. Thread it with the baker’s twine from the Tropical Twist kit, and stitch around the outside edge of the placemat. (I recommend doing this is several short lengths to avoid abusing your twine and for efficiency.) To make more than one placemat, use embroidery floss for this step as the kit only contains enough twine for one.

Next, use a flower die to cut flowers out of felt (or hand cut your own). Use scissors to hand cut the leaves.

Position your flowers, and select buttons from the Tropical Twist kit to create their centers. Stitch through both the buttons and the flowers with a needle and embroidery floss to attach the flowers to the placemat. Use a needle and thread that matches the felt to stitch the leaves in place under the edges of the flowers as well.

Whether the occasion is Easter, Mother’s Day, or something else…this flower placemat will definitely brighten your spring table!

Easy Gold Button Charm Bracelet

By Nancy Nally on April 18, 2016 in Jewelry

This gold button charm bracelet project is easy to make with only a few supplies, and makes a perfect gift for the special stylish woman in your life!

Supplies:

Chunky gold link bracelet
7mm gold jump rings
Buttons Galore Gold/Silver Haberdashery Button pack

I also recommend having on hand a pair of jewelry pliers (long nose or bent nose) to open and close the jump rings to complete this project more easily.

Once the supplies are assembled, select a random assortment of stem buttons from the button bag. You’ll need enough to put one button on each link of the bracelet chain.

Use the jump rings to attach the stem buttons to the bracelet chain. Attach one button per link in the chain, keeping all of the buttons on the same side of the links.

Vary the size and design of the buttons that you use as you go to get a good random appearance. If you look closely above, you can see that I put larger buttons in the center of the bracelet, and smaller ones at the ends, to create a taper effect and make the bracelet more comfortable to wear.

That’s all there is to it! This fun gold button charm bracelet gift is so easy to make, but the results are stylish!

For a different look, try making this button charm bracelet project with our Fancy Silver Haberdashery buttons, and a silver bracelet and silver jump rings.

Make A Watercolor Floral Mother’s Day Card

By Nancy Nally on April 4, 2016 in Holidays, Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and what better way to tell Mom how much you appreciate her all year through than with a handmade card?

This fun and easy watercolor floral Mother’s Day card will show mom just how much you care!

Start by stamping the flowers on watercolor paper with permanent ink. Paint with watercolors. Remove the lid from the ink spray and use it to drop ink splatters onto the watercolor paper. Finish the flowers by adding button centers to them.

Cut and fold the cardstock to make a card base. Cut a piece of patterned paper to cover the front. Attach the flower elements on it.

Cut a patterned paper strip. Stamp “with mom” at one end of it, and adhere it across the card front. Use the die cutting machine to cut out the word “mom”, and attach it over the strip. Finish it with a button covering the “o”.

Supplies:

Ranger Watercolor Paper
Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black
Tim Holtz for Stamper’s Anonymous “Flower Garden” stamps
Tim Holtz for Stamper’s Anonymous “Simple Sayings” stamps
Ranger Dylusions Ink Spray in Melted Chocolate
Sakura Koi Pocket Field Sketch Box Watercolors
Tim Holtz “Wallflower” Paper Stash
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Ground Espresso
Cricut Explore machine and cut file
Cardstock sheets in brown and white
Buttons Galore Button Bonanza in Black
Buttons Galore “Pet Store” Button Basics

Mother’s Day Card

By Admin1 on April 24, 2015 in Mother’s Day

This adorable card was made by Laura Neiman from Housewife Hellraiser using simple and fun paper crafting techniques. It is the perfect card that can be made quickly which makes this a great project for Fifteen MINUTE Friday!

She used papers and a card/envelope combination from Darice and buttons from the Laura Kelly BRIGHTS collection along with adhesives from iLovetoCreate.

You can find out the details on her blog HERE.

There are so many great ways to create handmade cards with buttons. Browse the blog and you will be totally inspired!

Cheers,

Laura

You are the Bee’s Knees!

By Admin on May 2, 2014 in Holidays, Spring

It it that busy springtime season of gift giving again…Teacher Appreciation, Mothers Day, Graduation!!! Here is a cute bee that you can make out of buttons to decorate any gift and and let someone know that you think they are the bee’s knees!

To make the bee, you will need to use hot glue to hold all of the pieces together. I added ribbon for wings and wire for antennas. Super cute, really easy and lots of fun!

I chose my Sunshine Yellow and Black Beauty buttons from the Laura Kelly mix offered as a Bright Mix of Colors. You can buy them individually bagged by colors too.

Happy Gift Giving,

Laura

Felt Flower Clips

By Admin on April 18, 2014 in Back to School, Holidays

These cute little felt flower clips are great to create and make for Teacher Appreciation and Mothers Day gifts. They are easy and fun!

You only need BUTTONS (I used my Laura Kelly Brights Mix) giant paper clips (could use little ones too of course), felt (I used Kunin Group) and Aleene’s Max Tacky Glue. Cut out your felt flower layers then glue them together. Add a few buttons and wa-lah, you have super cute clips that can be used to hold paper together.

They make great bookmarks too and would be fun packaged with a journal or a cookbook or a gift card to a book store. I love this one packaged with a writing journal to give to a teacher.

What other ways can you think of to use these giant clips. I wonder how they would work to hold bags of chips closed.

Happy Creating,

Laura

Scrapbook Page with Buttons – Internet Inspiration

By Admin on July 17, 2012 in Paper Crafts, Scrapbooking

One of our Creative Team member Designs for Duetica. While I was checking out her work I saw a scrapbook page that was loaded with buttons and wanted to share. I printed repetitive words using the Duetica Mandolyn font. I love how crisp and clean this font is but still has a flowing feminine feel at the same time. I love how Keri Lee used all the names her mom has answered to in her life time….Marilyn, Mon, Mom, Kiddo, Momma, Mommy, Mother, Mimi etc…

How to make distressed buttons- Vintage style

By Admin on May 8, 2012 in Card Making, Paper Crafts

Please welcome Teri – A great paper crafter and fantastic card maker. She is a Go-To Gal For PaperCrafts magazine, and I know why! She is very talented, creative and never ceases to amaze me with her fresh ideas. I love her style and I hope you enjoy the card she made to share with you! It is a fun technique that makes new buttons look like vintage or distressed buttons. She gives them the perfect touch of vintage.

Supplies:

Classic Circles: Simply Pearls

Tangerine Tango: Color Blends

Clear Rounds

Zip Dry

Other:

Patterned papers from Jillibean Soup, Studio Calico, Crate Paper and My Mind’s Eye

Wood clothespin from Darice

“You’re Sew Nice” sentiment stamp from April 2012: Sew Nice stamp set by Avocado Arts

Jute by May Arts

White floss by DMC

Dressing Up Buttons for Cards

Hi everyone!

Don’t you just love buttons?

There is just something so fun about them and being able to add them to paper crafting projects.

I get bored using them the same old way they come so often times I’ll alter them up before I use them on a card or scrapbook page.

One of the easiest ways to dress them up is to sand them.

Take a sanding file or distressing tool. Hold it firmly in your hand and then brush a button over it repeatedly. This will scruff it up so you get something like what I got with this button from the Tangerine Tango: Color Blends (http://www.buttonsgaloreandmore.com/product/CB100.html) pack.

Take things a step farther by adding a circle from Classic Circles: Simply Pearls (http://www.buttonsgaloreandmore.com/product/4207.html) on top of the distressed button. Just be sure to use a strong glue and let the button sit awhile so the glue has time to dry.

I also like to stack them up.

Take a large button, place a small button on top of it and then tie the two buttons together with floss. When it comes time to use them, use a strong adhesive to put them on your project.

Another thing I like to do is add paper to them.

Start with a Clear Rounds (http://www.buttonsgaloreandmore.com/product/CF80.html) button. Add clear glue under it and then place it on any patterned paper. Let the glue dry completely and then use your scissors to cut away the excess paper. The end result is a cool patterned button.

Here’s a whole collection of buttons I made with these tricks. They look pretty spiffy on a card.

The trick to getting them to stay on the card is to use a good strong glue. I prefer Zip Dry (http://www.buttonsgaloreandmore.com/product/ZipDry.html).

Teri Anderson

Bio:

Hi! I am Teri, and I’m just girl who loves to play with all things crafty. I’m card maker and scrapbooker. And I am a Go-to Gal for Paper Crafts magazine and on a number of design teams. When I am not making stuff, I am going to concerts, spending them with my family and friends (and two fluffy dogs) and taking a whole lot of pictures. I blog at terisplace.wordpress.com.

Mother’s Day Canvas With Pinky

By Admin on May 7, 2012 in Holidays, Mixed Media, Mother’s Day

Can you believe Mother’s Day is quickly approaching? It is right around the corner and I love to make a handmade gift.

I want to share this artistic canvas made just for “Mom” using vintage doilies from around the house.

For this Canvas use an 8×10 canvas, and paint it with a sand colored acrylic paint.

After allowing the canvas to dry, take a craft spritz and carefully spritz canvas in random places. Set aside to dry for 10 minutes.

Using coordinating ink color, ink edges or canvas.

Take a pencil with eraser and dab into coordinating paint or ink, ink or paint onto canvas as shown in photos.

Adhere vintage doilies.

Grab some packages of beautiful Buttons’ Galore & More Vintage Gold buttons and apply buttons between doily stitches using hot glue.

Using rub-ons, carefully apply rub-ons in desired locations.

Using shank & pearl keepsake buttons, adhere over rub-on using hot glue gun.

Set canvas aside.

Choose a lightly colored patterned paper, using home printer, print quote onto page.

Trim out words and hand cut pennant edging.

Ink edges.

Adhere quote to canvas.

Wrap it up and give with love.

I hope you enjoyed the post today- Pinky: Buttons Galore & More Design Team

[Note: some products used in this tutorial have been discontinued so we have provided links to similar substitutes.]

Cameo Mother's Day Card

By Admin on May 4, 2011 in Card Making

Original Image Removed - This Image from The Graphics Fairy

UPDATE: 5/11/11 We are pleased as punch to say that the original photo needed to be removed because our incredibly talented Elise Durenburger will have her card published in Cards Magazine in October 2011. Congrats Elise!

Isn’t this card beautiful? Look at all of the layers and texture. Seriously, click on the photo and see the larger image.

I’ll wait.

If there are two things I love they are texture and layers. And who doesn’t love a beautiful silhouette or cameo? Of course a Buttons Galore and More button is the cherry on top! :)

To learn more about this card and how it’s made please visit Mamacow Creations.

PS. Elise is one of our design team members… aren’t we lucky!?!?

Quick Button Earrings

By Admin on April 27, 2011 in Jewelry

Button Earrings

Here is a pair of earrings I made as a last minute, I’m walking out the door right now, kind of thing.

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Monochromatic Button Pin and Button Gift Box

By Admin on April 26, 2011 in Jewelry, Occasions

Monochromatic Button Pin and Button Gift Box

Working with monochromatic color schemes is a quick and easy way to design a project. You don’t have to worry about the colors not coordinating.

This pin is going to be for Mother’s Day. My mom sent me a link to the dress she is wearing and I thought the pin would be a great surprise. If I know my mom well and I think I do, she will also save the box and re-use it. If she does that will make me happy.

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