Button Trees

A little bit of fun with Tatty Button's Button Tree...

"Blue Buttons"

I enjoy working with monochromes. The first card is blue! These were all made by stamping the button tree in black archival and heat-embossing in clear before colouring the buttons with different coloured promarkers. Distress inks are lightly sponged onto the background using torn paper for a mask, giving a cloudy mountains effect. Some real buttons are added to the tree with Pinflair, which is a great, flexible glue for odd-shaped embellishments. Many of the buttons are just cheap, black, plastic ones which have been hand-decorated.

"Red"

 

Background papers used are all from magazine freebies, and holographic card is diecut to make the snowflakes, swirls and poinsettias.

"Green"

Ribbon and a sentiment add the finishing touches.

"Purple"

This last card has some alcohol-inked glossy card for a background. You might recognise it from an earlier project - I had some left over and never throw anything away :-)

Ingredients:

Tatty Button Button Tree stamp

Justrite Large Fancy Holiday Sentiments stamps

Spellbinders: Poinsettia, Fancy Framed Tags One, Creat-a-flake Four, Snowflake Pendant 2012,

Promarkers

Metallic Aquamarkers

Distress Ink Pads

Patterned papers from magazine freebies

glossy card

Adirondack alcohol inks

Archival ink, jet black

Stampendous embossing powder, clear detail

Ribbons

Buttons

 

Entered for the following challenge:

I Love Promarkers - Anything but square
Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Christmas