Saturday 19 November 2011

Tatty Button Christmas Tree

This week a package dropped through the door with a couple of Tatty Button Christmas stamps from a magazine giveaway. The button Christmas tree is fab and is used on both these cards:

"Got carried away with the buttons!"

The background for both cards was made by heat embossing snowflakes in white onto white card, then inking with Tumbled Glass and Stormy Sky distress inks. The trees were stamped onto white card with Charcoal Versacolor ink and heat embossed with clear powder before diecutting and decorating with distress inks and buttons. As you can see on this first card I got a bit carried away with the buttons, which are all recycled from my button box, but I think the final result is quite pretty.

"Tatty Button Tree"

This second card shows off the stamping better. A few of the stamped buttons were coloured with promarkers. The real buttons here are cheap, black plastic ones that were decorated by dabbing with Adirondack silver mixative diluted with a little alcohol ink blending solution. The buttons were fixed onto both cards with pinflair dimensional glue.

Entered for the following challenge:
Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge - diecuts
Truly Madly Crafty - Inspiration Photo

16 comments:

  1. Ohhhhh I love these cards Maddy. I love the idea of adding buttons to the stamped image. Really beautiful cards. Love your embossed background too. Lee x

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  2. Gorgeous card what a great way to use buttons.. Chris xx

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  3. Beautiful cards, love the buttons.
    Wendy xx

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  4. I so love this idea and your cards are fab.
    Hugs louise xx

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  5. That is stunning...i love this stamp, I have it and after seeing this i must get it out and use it!!!!!
    Sharon x

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  6. Beautiful cards, love the button trees, they are fab! x

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  7. Lovely cards - love the buttons! Lea x

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  8. These are gorgeous- fab stamp
    Linda

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  9. I love all the buttons and the blues. Such a wonderful idea. Thanks so much for joining us for a challenge.

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  10. I have never seen anything like this...Gorgeous card

    Thank you for joining us at Frosted Designs. I hope you you enjoyed the challenge

    Amanda

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  11. Love these with the buttons. Gorgeous x

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  12. love the card and the buttons. Brilliant. Love Alison xxx

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  13. wow just loving these, brill idea
    hugs

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  14. WOW! I love buttons, and Christmas, and these cards just really inspired me!!! I have so many buttons, and now I have some new ideas! Beautiful work, and placement on your die-cut! I hope you'll join us again at Frosted Designs!

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  15. Absolutly LOVE this, I am a sucker for buttons and these just look brill! Thanks for entering another fab card into the Truly Madly Crafty Challenge :o)

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