Craft, Again

Today, I am sharing a card that uses the same kind of flower used on yesterday's card.  There were some questions about how I made it so I thought it would be fun to show it again.

Look at that paper.  It's from October Afternoon - isn't it divine?  I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE designer paper.  I buy it and hoard it.  I take it out and and touch it and look at it and actually hate to cut it.  I am in awe of its perfection.  I know I'm not the only one.  Fess up, those of who could easily join my DPHA (Designer Paper Hoarders Anonymous) group!  My name is Sue, I am a Designer Paper Hoarder and I don't want help!

Anyway, I digress - on to the flower.  I used the SU!'s scalloped circle punch to make five circles.  I scrunched and crumpled them up and used SU!'s distressing tool around the edges.  I stacked them up and then sewed the button onto the stack with jute twine.  I then "fiddled" with the paper to get the look that I wanted.  Dawn McVey does a picture tutorial that I drew from, and it was super easy.  I know that I will make many, many more - it seems to add the right touch to cards that I love. 

Wow!

Thanks sooooo much to my new friends at PTI for such a lovely welcome to the land of blog and for the sweet comments on my first blog hop card.  This afternoon I plan to edit the post to add the card details - lots of questions about the basket and the designer paper.  I don't have the paper info near me right now, and I don't want to steer anyone in the wrong direction!

Until then, I'll share some more PTI love - one of my favorites - a card that I plan to send to a wonderful friend who has really been there for me in the last few months.  I hope she enjoys it and that you do, too!  Have a fab day!

A Couple of Firsts!

       

I couldn't be more happy that this inaugural post is a "craft" post - and how cool is it that it is also my first time participating in Papertrey Ink's Blog Hop! This month's challenge was to use buttons. Not hard to meet that challenge. Gotta run for now, but I'll add the deets later. TFL (thanks for looking) and enjoy!

ETA:  Stopping in to add this card's fun details:

All supplies are from PTI unless otherwise noted. Stamps:  Everyday Button Bits, Take Three: Spring, Vintage Picnic, Asian Fusion; Cardstock:  Aqua mist, white; Designer Paper: American Crafts, Dear Lizzy series; Ink: Dark Chocolate, Melon Berry, Summer Sunrise; Vintage Buttons; Melon Berry Twill Ribbon; Vintage Touch Tea Dye Duo; Rustic Jute Button Twine; Medium Scalloped Border Die; Sewing Machine; Copic Marker.

To make the basket, I stamped one of the Vintage Picnic basket stamp and cut it to fit the bicycle.  I colored it with my Copic markers and then used the Tea Dye Duo to "vintage" it up.  I stamped small flowers from the Asian Fusion set onto the panel and then added the basket.  I really wanted it to look like the flowers were in the basket.  I truly had so much fun making this card, and it was one of those times when what was in my brain actually made it to the paper - yeah!