Crafty Adventurista: Lace and Buttons - August DT Project 2 for Country View Crafts

Hello all,

Today is my second DT project for the August Challenge ‘Lace and Buttons on a greeting card’ at Country View Crafts and Challenges on Facebook.

You can find the link here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/164920247712393

You can enter 5 times each month with different projects and there is a fabulous prize of the Tim Holtz stamp set ‘Floristry’ from his latest release for this month’s prize.

You must use products from brands that Country View Crafts stocks, and please mention them in your post. If you miss this step out, we will not be able to enter your project in the draw.

So, I had to make a 90th birthday card and so I thought I’d use this for my project. If you die cut and coloured multiple stems and made a few backgrounds, ready to go, this is a great card to have on hand when you need one.

First, I smooshed my background page with Distress Ink Tea Dye.

Once dry, I inked up the Stampers Anonymous 'Hodgepodge' stamp with Distress Ink Frayed Burlap, Tea Dye and Rusty Hinge, spritzed with water and then placed it on my background sheet. 'Hodgepodge' is an awesome stamp for a quick background and you can also cut bits out of the stamped image to use as ephemera.

I cut this down to 5x5 inch and then using Versamark with the Stampers Anonymous 'Crochet Trims' stamp, I heat embossed a coral coloured embossing powder that I had in my stash. I did this 3 times, overlapping the last one. I blended over Distress Ink Frayed Burlap to bring out the crochet trims more.

I die cut the Tim Holtz Sizzix Stems 664163 and coloured with Distress Watercolor Pencils and glued these down onto the background sheet.

I added a bow made from string, hot glued this on and sewed on a button.

Finally I stamped the number 90 from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Sign Painter and ‘happy birthday’ from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Curiosity Shop and heat embossed these with Black Embossing Powder.

This was then added to the black border card and then the main Kraft Card substrate which measures almost 6x6 inch.