2 Ways With Purple Pumpkin Spotty Buttons.

For those of you who don't already know Purple Pumpkin, where ya bin??? As soon as you've finished checking out my cards (not before, you hear) get yourselves over there to have a look. There is heaps of great eye candy from the DT and a sale of handmade embellishments, like the buttons you are about to see, on a regular basis.

Now, I said "2" ways with spotty buttons and here is the first. I chose this Bo Bunny PP specifically to use with the spotty buttons but when I put them together the buttons were just to bright. The white spots were very well...ummm...white! What to do? What to do? Reach for the antiquing spritz and dauber of course! 

A teeny spray on the dauber, a rub on scrap paper to remove most of it again, making the dauber nearly dry, and then a rub on the buttons. Voila! 

The little orange doily, Purple Pumpkin again, also got a spritz of the antiquing spray.

Here's the inside of the card also. I always forget to include a photo of the inside but I'm going to try really hard to remember from now on.

OK, that was one way. The next is soooo easy.

Did you spot it?? Excuse the pun.......lol.....

Top of the class if you thought they were unaltered! Yep, spotty buttons in their "pure" form. Bright, bright, bright and so exactly JUST RIGHT for this fun card.

And look! All the way to the end of the post I hadn't forgotten to include the inside!

Just one more thing before you pop over to Purple Pumpkin.

I've been very remiss about giving you a list of supplies with my posts so from now on I'm going to list what I use at the end of each post and if I ever have time I'll try and edit previous posts as well.

OK, you can go and have a look at Purple Pumkin now.

Happy papercrafting!

Dream Card

Bazzill Cardstock - Tanner, Desert Marigold

PP - Bo Bunny - Flower Child and Flower Child Hippy

Scrapmatts - CB1115 Leaves 01

Kaisercraft rubon flourishes

Paper flowers

Purple Pumpkin spotty buttons and doily.

Tweet Day Card

Bazzill Cardstock - White

PP - Kaisercraft - Funfair

Purple Pumpkin spotty buttons.

Sympathy Cards.

Over the last couple of weeks I've been asked to make two sympathy cards. Sad occasions, both of them, one was for a child and one was for a great grandmother.

The first one, for a little girl, was commissioned through my madeit store. My brief was that her parents had called her their "little ladybug". I had a gorgeous little ladybug button from Purple Pumpkin that was pink and white and I wasn't comfortable using dark colours for a child so this is what I came up with.

See the little ladybug button?

The next one was for a great grandmother and I used the more traditional dark colours and a flourish from Flourish with a Bling.

I hope I might have helped you with ideas for sympathy cards, they're so hard to make.

Christmas Canvases For The Teachers.

Remember this? All the supplies to make the teachers gifts?

Well, this is what it all became! (WARNING: Glitter ahead!)

I made these bows with my newly acquired Bow Easy. If you don't have one, get one. What a great investment!

And this bow too!

This one has a spotty Xmas button from Purple Pumpkin.

They can either be hung or stood on a plate stand or easel.

Birthday Card For A Tomboy.

My 10 year old daughter was invited to the birthday party of one of her classmates this weekend. This friend is quite a tomboy and I didn't think would appreciate a girly girl card so I compromised by using red, black and white with only a teeny bit of bling. The music theme was because she was getting a set of drums and lessons for her birthday.

That spotty button round is a Purple Pumpkin one of course and the two music buttons are lovely ones sent to me from Vanessa at The Clip Cafe. 

The sheet music I found on Google and printed onto shimmery cardstock to make my own DP. Not toooo girly, just a little!

My entry in the Fab 'n' Funky Challenge - Go with the flow.

It's Been So Long........

since I've posted a card! I always have such GRAND plans for the evenings and weekends and it never, ever works out that way. Life just keeps getting in the way of my cardmaking! It doesn't help that I'm the sort of cardmaker that doesn't just stick and go. I put it together (without the glue), take it apart, put it together...you get the drift. It takes me ages to make one card and even then it never looks like the one in my mind!

Well, here it is. A Christmas card with a Purple Pumpkin button taking pride of place on my little red rosette (1/2 a rosette actually because I couldn't quite get it right). The image is from the Graphic 45 Christmas past Deluxe Collection and the PP is from the Kaisercraft 'Tis The Season 6' x 6' paper pad.

A closeup of the Purple Pumpkin button.

Happy papercrafting everyone.