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Wedding Card

By Allie Gower on May 5, 2013 in Card Making, Wedding

Wedding Card

Make a lovely wedding card. Wedding season is upon us!

I love to use the colors chosen by the wedding party. By stamping and adding matching buttons, any card can become extra special to the bride and groom.

This is a simple easel card with a little bit of stamping with die cuts. It’s not difficult. The background is embossed panels – the folder is Swiss Dots. The swirls are die cut from the Belle Rose set from Heartfelt Creations. The sprigs are from a Spellbinders set called Foliage. When some were too big, I just cut them down. Make your dies work.

I stamped my bird cage and fussy cut it. I also cut a mat for it, so it would stand out in the business of the flowers. The buttons help the card stay open. To one I added a bling center, and then I took two buttons and tied them together with twine. The larger white button is actually upside down, so that the twine doesn’t touch the card.

I stamped and cut out the label. My sentiment was a tad too big, so I just matted it and accented it with some fancy bling.

The buttons are from the Valentino Collection, the flower buttons are blank Flower Shapes, and I added some bling to the centers. The flowers came with bling already attached.

Supplies Used:

Valentino Collection Buttons
Blank Flower Shapes
Buttons Galore Adhesives
Stamps – Gina K
Bling – Want2Scrap and Hero Arts
Flowers – Petaloo
Ink – Close to My Heart and Copic
Twine – Doodlebug Design

Tool Used:

Die Cutting and Embossing – Cuttlebug, Heartfelt Creations, Spellbinders Paper Arts
Fiskars Stamp Press
Fiskars Craft Scissors

Altering Buttons

By Allie Gower on April 14, 2013 in Card Making, Mixed Media, Paper Crafts

Altering Buttons

There are lots of ways of altering buttons. Today, we cut off shanks and paint.

I’m back with more buttons from the Butterfly Kisses collection. I needed to do something to make these butterflies match the cards I was wanting to make.

Butterfly Kisses Collection

Here’s how to get started.

Gesso is like paint, but different – it’s almost like a crafty primer coat.

Once your button is primed, you can try lots of products.
Here, I use Smooch in a couple of colors.

Smooch comes in a nail polish style bottle with it’s own brush. So convenient. It’s made by ClearSnap.

To finish off this card, I added some ribbons from May Arts. As a kid, I grew up watching my mom sew. When she passed away, I received her sewing basket, and inside were her orange handled Fiskars scissors. Her scissors were carefully hand labeled – for sewing, for ribbons, and for paper. I still have them all.

You can also ink your primed buttons.