Belle Papier {pretty paper}

May 28 2009

I love Buttons

Published by Julia Stainton at 6:29 am under Card Designs, Copics, Cornish Heritage Farms

I love buttons. I do. They are such a great inexpensive embellishment and they work well with so many styles. Shabby, vintage, cute, modern…what’s not to love? My favorite way to add buttons is in clusters. The more the merrier. Buttons make great accents on patterned paper, you can arrange them to make a shape and I love the depth and texture they add to a project. It’s no surprise then, that today’s challenge is Ways to Use Buttons. Have fun with it and check out the challenge here. I’d love to have you play along.

Button Blooms

This fun, clean and simple design features buttons to look like spring flowers along the fence like. I created this little scene using Kim Hughes’ Summer Trees stamp set. The little picket fence is one of my favorite images and of course the curves on those clouds. No one draws curves like Kim! I was trying to decide how to add flowers to the fence line when I thought of buttons. I usually use the larger buttons first so this was the perfect design to use up lots of the little buttons in the package. BTW if you’re looking for buttons, my favorite package to buy is from Autumn Leaves. The packages are great for storing the buttons in and they seem to last forever. I’m still using up one of the bags that I bought a couple years ago!

Quick Tip: Don’t be afraid to draw in your own elements when creating a stamped scene. It’s super easy to add brush strokes for grass, little birds, flowers…whatever you can think up.

Supply List:

Stamps: Summer Trees (Kim Hughes line) by Cornish Heritage Farms
thank you from Making the Grade set (Kim Hughes line) by CHF
Paper: Simply Smooth White cardstock by Cornish Heritage Farms
Ink: Black Memento by Tsukineko
Other: buttons by Autumn leaves, glue dots, copic markers

Happy stamping!

11 Responses to “I love Buttons”

Bev J.on 28 May 2009 at 6:47 am 1

That is so cute using the little buttons as flowers! Love the design. tfs
Bonnie aka raduseon 28 May 2009 at 9:25 am 2

I love your card. I have a very hard time using buttons; don’t know why, just a very hard time.
Darleneon 28 May 2009 at 11:26 am 3

I hope I get a chance to do the challenge today. I love buttons too.
Your card is so cute. I love the way you used the buttons here. You are so creative.
Genevieveon 28 May 2009 at 12:31 pm 4

Love the button blossoms! Cute!
Tracyon 28 May 2009 at 2:39 pm 5

This is oh-so-adorable! Love that image and the buttons are the perfect touch.
Linda Beesonon 28 May 2009 at 4:53 pm 6

That is just completely precious! LOVE your little image and love the buttons.
Traceyon 28 May 2009 at 5:39 pm 7

This is so pretty Julia! I love it!
wendypon 28 May 2009 at 6:37 pm 8

oh, how CUTE!!! Love the buttons as flowers!
Conniecrafteron 29 May 2009 at 2:35 pm 9

so cute, great idea!
Michelleon 29 May 2009 at 5:51 pm 10

I too love buttons and have jars of them! What an awesome way to use them!
Angela Won 03 Jun 2009 at 10:58 am 11

This is a beautiful card, love the colors and buttons!