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Winter Hat Ornament

By Admin1 on November 28, 2014 in Christmas, Holidays, Paper Crafts

I love this little paper crafted winter hat ornament. It would be great to use for decorating a tree or adding to a gift as a card or a tag.

I created it using one of the new dies that will launch in January 2015 with Ellison Education and Sizzix as part of the calendar set. Aren’t the little buttons from my Laura Kelly buttons line super cute on the ball of the hat?

There are lots of great projects being shared using this hat today and I would love for you to hop around and see them all.

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Happy Paper Crafting with Buttons,

Laura

Leapin Lizards Toy Bucket with Laura Kelly Pet Shop Dies from Sizzix

By Admin1 on August 30, 2014 in Kids Crafts

Boys will be boys and that means the little ones will probably collect “stuff”. This pail has been transformed to an adorable “catch all” with a leapin lizards theme to match the cutest of little boy personalities.

It is easy to make. I used the lizard from my newest collection of Sizzix dies – the Pet Shop collection. I cut eight lizards out of fun decorative papers in greens and oranges.

Then I used Collage Pauge from iLoveToCreate to adhere them to the pail.

I added a complete coat of the Collage Pauge over the whole bucket to add strength to the paper.

To finish it off, I added a wire twisted with buttons in Outrageous Orange and Candy Apple Green from my Laura Kelly collection and tied some ribbons on it. I added it to the pail handle with a few twists.

And now to fill it up with all of these goodies.

Ta Da!

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Happy Creating,

Laura

Give Inspiration Kits for Christmas Gifts

By Melony Bradley on December 2, 2013 in Christmas

This Christmas, why not give your artsy crafty friends and family Inspiration kits? These adorable Christmas Inspiration Kit Gifts are embellished with buttons. They are fun to make and will surely delight every creative person on your list.

Materials and Tools for Inspiration Kit Gifts

Sizzix Bag, Caddy Die Cut, tags die cut, Tattered Florals
Sizzix Little Sizzles Matboard
Sizzix Big Shot die cutting machine
Laura Kelly Hand Dyed Buttons from Buttons Galore and Morein Radically Red
Unfinished wood- bird shape, teardrop, clothes pin
Patterned paper, cardstock
DecoArt Americana Acrylics, Tuscan Red, Antique White, Lamp Black, Snow White
Prima Flower centers- red sequined, Brown chalk ink
National Nonwovens Wool Felt- Country Red, Moss
Stazon Black ink
Beacon Adhesives Gem-Tac, Fast Finish Decoupage
Strong double sided tape (“red line” tape)
Paintbrushes, Foam brush
Rubber stamps- sentiment of choice
Paper trimmer, scissors, ruler

To create your Inspiration Kit Gifts, die cut one Bag Caddy from the matboard. Assemble it according to manufacturer’s instructions using the red line tape.

Paint the box, inside and out Tuscan Red. Measure the front and sides of the box and cut patterned paper using the paper trimmer. Use the foam brush and decoupage medium to apply the paper to the box.

Dry brush snow white on front of box. Paint the bird shape Antique White. Paint the teardrop for wing and bird beak Lamp Black.

Using the brown chalk ink, ink the clothes pin. Print out holiday sentiments using plain computer paper and a printer.

Cut the sentiments out with the scissors. Use the decoupage medium to apply them to the clothes pin. Glue button on one end of clothes pin with the Gem-Tac. If desired, glue a flat backed acrylic stone to the center of the button.

Glue the bird shape, wing and flower center to the box.

Stamp sentiment over white swatch of paint on box front.

Here is the super fun part… die cut flowers, tags, etc. to fill your Christmas Inspiration Gift Kits. Die cut the cardstock and the wool felt.

I also included some hand dyed stamped ribbon in my Inspiration Gift Kits.

Glue some buttons to the front of the box.

These Inspiration Kit Gifts are great gifts for teachers, hostesses, neighbors, gift exchanges, etc. Make several at once so they will be on hand if an unexpected guest drops by. Instead of art supplies, fill the boxes with homemade edible goodies.

Thanks for letting me share my Inspiration Kits with you.

Live Life Creatively,

Gift Packaging Idea

By Melony Bradley on September 12, 2013 in Paper Crafts

Are you looking for a creative gift packaging idea? A fantastic gift packaging idea can be very important because the recipient often judges the inside of the gift packaging but what he/she sees on the outside!

I love buttons. I love to create with them and I love to give a little of my excess stash away as gifts. I have used mason jars, baby food jars and other containers to give a gift of buttons. Searching for yet other ways for gift packaging ideas, I ran across this cute sliding drawer box from Sizzix. Used with their Little Sizzles Matboard, the die creates a sturdy little box to present a gift of buttons.

Materials for gift packaging idea:

Sizzix Sliding Candy Jar Gift Box

Sizzix BigShot Die Cutting Machine

Sizzix Little Sizzles Matboard

Sizzix Bigz Die Tattered Florals

Susiebee Studios Patterned Papers

DecoArt Americana Acrylics in Tuscan Red and Boysenberry Pink

Beacon Adhesives Fast Finish Decoupage and Premium Tacky Glue

Buttons Galore and More Assorted Buttons

To create this gift packaging idea, I used my Sizzix BigShot die cut machine to cut the box pieces from the matboard. There are visual instructions included with the die but the box was very easy to construct.

The matboard is great because it accepts paint very well. I painted this box using DecoArt’s Americana Acrylics in Tuscan Red.

I also cut patterned papers from SusieBee Studios to fit the sides and top of the box.

Patterned papers can be decoupaged using Fast Finish decoupage from Beacon Adhesives. I used a foam brush for this step. I chose to paint a blank craft shape from Buttons Galore and More in DecoArt’s Boysenberry Pink.

After I painted my blank craft shape, I sanded it to lightly distress and stamped buttons with Clearsnap’s Colorbox pigment ink.

I topped off my die cut button box with a die cut felt flower with a button sewn in the center.

Create these little cute button feet for your box by stacking buttons together starting with the largest on the bottom and working towards the top with the smaller buttons. Getting the button feet to be even can be tricky but well worth the effort!

Glue the button feet to the bottom corners of the box. Super cute gift packaging idea! Especially when filled with buttons.

Hope this inspires you to create your own creative gift packaging version of this die cut button box.

Live Life Creatively,

Quick and Easy Place Cards Ideas

By Allie Gower on April 7, 2013 in Occasions, Party Planning

Quick and easy place cards ideas!

Do you need place cards for your next event? Create some with just buttons and paper. Here are some quick and easy place cards ideas.

These are easy to create.

I’ve cut my cards 3X3″ and folded them in half. The image below shows how the easy grass border is made and attached. This month we’re lucky enough to be playing with Fiskars products, so of course I used my Fiskars orange handled scissors. Thanks, Fiskars!

The cloud is a die cut that I inked. To finish off these quick and easy place cards, just add stickers. I love these adorable, chunky butterflies from Buttons Galore’s Butterfly Kisses Collection. I like to use Beacon’s 3-1 glue to make sure they stay put. Buttons Galore has several kinds of adhesive to offer in their Adhesives section.

Supplies Used

Buttons Galore Buttons from the Butterfly Kisses Collection
Papers and Stickers – DoodleBug Designs
Buttons Galore Adhesives

Tools Used

Fiskars scissors
Sizzix Vagabond and cloud die

Thanks for joining me today. I hope you will find that our buttons are a great embellishment for all of your paper crafts.

Sunday Cardmaking: Create an Easy Ombre Easter Card

By Allie Gower on March 24, 2013 in Card Making, Holidays

Let’s Create an EASY Ombre Easter Card. Ombre is a Spanish word that simply means graduated colors. I really wanted to make a simple, sweet Easter card, and I did not want to use traditional colors. These blues are calm and happy to me. I like the tone on tone bunnies on the blue strips, and the bunnies and button eggs add a little bit of fun. I used a paint sample as my inspiration. This simple construction allows you to make a lot of cards, without a lot of work.

Material used to create an EASY Ombre Easter card:

Buttons Galore Product used:

White Buttons – Buttons Galore & More
Adhesives – Beacon’s

I also used:

Dies – Quickutz
Embossing Folder – Sizzix
Cardstock – Bazzill
Dimensional Adhesive

Directions for making the EASY Ombre Easter Card:

Create a 5×7″ card base.
Cut four pieces of graduated blue cardstock 4 3/4 x 1.5″ and emboss. Place on card, leaving room in between each strip. Adhere to card base.
Die cut four bunnies from same graduated card stock. Adhere to graduated blue rectangles with dimensional adhesive.
Add buttons.

I hope you enjoyed this Ombre Easter card. When I’m making a lot of cards, I love to do something simple, but different. You can get a lot of strips out of each piece of blue card stock, and cut all your bunnies out of the scraps. When my kids were little we used to have their friends over and make fun cards for friends and family.

Thanks for stopping by.

Allie

Upcycled Spring Floral Bouquet – An Earth Day Project

By Admin on April 18, 2012 in Home Decor, Spring

Burlap and buttons make a great wrap for a bouquet that will last longer than a week. I love fresh flowers, but they do not love my budget. A more budget friendly idea is the tin can that I repurposed.

Tools and Materials:

Sizzix Tattered Florals and Leaf Die Cut

Beacon Adhesive – FabriTac

Jute Cording, Burlap, Styrofoam, Krylon Spray paint, Westcott Scissors and kraft knife.

Buttons – Tangerine Tango, Class

Directions:

Clean and dry tin can. Spray paint can. Let dry and repeat.

Place floral foam inside can.

Cut burlap to fit. Adhere burlap with Quick Grip.

Slide buttons on to jute cording. Wrap cording around container. Adhere buttons into place. Add a second layer of buttons where desired and glue into place.