Buttons Galore

       

 Hi creative friends.  You do not have to be a seamstress to use our versatile thin, 2 hole, matte finish resin buttons on a variety of your craft projects. They can be dyed, stamped & stenciled on with a variety of permanent inks & dyes. The possibilities are endless. 

We decided to jazz up our buttons with some thread, you can use embroidery floss if you like. We had so much fun threading these buttons to show what can be done. Take a look at these beautiful designs

Scrapbook pages with Snowflakes and Buttons.

Cards with buttons as the center of the flowers.

As you can see the options are endless for these cute buttons.

What will you be using them for?

As always you can find the products used here at https://www.creativeimpressions.com

It's a Dolphin Kind of Day!

Hello Everyone: Today I would like to continue the Beach theme from last week, so I am featuring a happy dolphin jumping in the waves:

 This time I stenciled a sun onto the upper part of a white panel.  I die cut a circle and used yellow chalk to add color inside the cut circle.  Here is picture of how I did it.

The dolphin was the first one I created.  He certainly looks happy, however, once I looked at photos of a real dolphin, I noticed that their "smile" was longer and their eye set back further.  Well, it really doesn't matter as it's art, right?  This particular dolphin has the matching word stamp placed over it (YY234).  Then I used just the solid dolphin stamp, swirling the ink onto the stamp to give it a textured look.  I cut it out and drew a mouth and eye on it and set it aside,

I then stenciled clouds onto my white panel using chalk.  However, any ink will word just as well.

Once my panel was complete, I added my waves from CI stamp O304 which were stamped three times, cut out and offset and glued together.  I once again used a mix of lighter and darker stampings.  Once glued, the waves were adhered to the bottom of my card panel.  "Have an Amazing Day (DD307) was stamped in black through the sun and the previously cut out dolphin was adhered to the card with foam squares.

As always you can find the products I used here at https://www.creativeimpressions.com

This was truly as easy card to put together and hopefully one which will put a smile on the face of your recipient!

Enjoy!

Susan

It's Beach Time!

 Hello Everyone!  It is hot here in Colorado and I'm sure in other places too!  Are you ready to go to the beach?  I sure am!

This beach collage is a bit different than the cards I usually make, but I wanted to challenge myself and am pleased with the results!

I used Creative Impressions solid rubber stamps:  T319 Lighthouse, SS100 Scallop Shell and O304 waveto create this look.  Using a white scrap of cardstock, I first used water based dye ink in a peach/coral color and spread it onto the shell.  I took a darker ink in the same color family and went around the edges of the shell.  I then very LIGHTLY sprayed the stamp with a bit of water so that the colors would run.  Once dry, I cut around the shell.  I stamped "By the Sea" No.  H179   in the middle of the shell with black ink.  Finally, I added three  Light Silver Pearls (50513) under the sentiment.  This piece was the set aside.

For the lighthouse, I used another scrap white cardstock to stamp it out.  I added the blue ink to the lighthouse in a swirling motion, leaving some areas white, as I wanted to give the impression of waves splashing onto the lighthouse.  I colored the windows yellow with a pencil and cut the lighthouse out once it was dry.  Set aside.

I had so much fun with the wave stamp!  I stamped it multiple times onto white scrap cardstock,  The second stamping was done right after the first to obtain a slightly lighter blue.  I adhered the two waves together by slightly offsetting them and adhering them together.  Set aside.

To create the cloud background, I used a piece of very light blue paper and stenciled clouds onto the piece.  I then took a piece of our Cork Paper (89000) and adhered a thin strip to the base of my panel to look like sand.

Now the fun part - putting it all together!  First I adhered the lighthouse just above my "sand". The shell was then added to the piece, placing it slightly over the edge of the lighthouse.  I did not glue the entire piece down as I wanted to see where the best placement would be for the Thin Jute Twine (Ivory 80606).  The ocean waves were then adhered slightly over the lighthouse and shell, leaving the top open for wrapping the twine.

I took the  Ivory Twine and randomly laid it in a circular pattern around the shell, lighthouse and waves to give the idea of motion.  I placed a spot of liquid glue in different areas to tack down the twine, wrapping it under the shell and around the waves.

Finally, I hand drew some seagulls into the sky to finish the panel.  It was then adhered to a larger blue panel and finally to a sand colored card.

Hope you like my "collage experiment"!  I'm ready to head to the beach now!

Enjoy!

Susan

Have an Amazing Day!

 Hello Everyone:  I have a sweet card to share with you today that uses one of my favorite Creative Impressions stamp - "Have an Amazing Day":

I'm sorry I don't know who created this card.  If it was you, please let us know so we can give you credit!

The front of this clever fold card has three layers on it.  The bottom and first layer is one that has the edge folded back towards the center fold of the card.  Our Web Ribbon in Black (70186) was then adhered to this layer.

Now a second layer was added.  A piece of white scrap was adhered to a slightly larger black mat and then adhered slightly down from the top of the card and just a little above the bottom.  The third layer is a narrow piece of white scrap cardstock that has had "Have an Amazing Day" (DD307) stamped onto it with black ink.

Now the fun begins decorating this card front.  A piece of our 1/2" Magenta Grosgrain Ribbon was tied in a knot in the center and adhered to the card on the left side.  Then small and larger blossom flowers were added to the top and bottom of the ribbon and card. The top blossom is from the Large Heritage Sheer Blossom 60702  and a Medium White Sheer Blossom Pastel 60601.  There are attached together using a Magenta Glimmer Round from Tropical 90900.  The bottom flower is composed of a Medium Heritage Sheer Blossom (60602) with a Small Pastel Blossom ( 60501) attached together with a Black Mini Round 90102).

One of Creative Impressions beautiful Felt Butterflies in Magenta (63126) was adhered to a small piece of black scrap cardstock which was trimmed to follow the shape of the butterfly.  Then the butterfly was adhered to the lower right of the front layers.

Now for the inside of the card:

Another piece of Black Web Ribbon was adhered next to the fold on the left side of the card interior.  A piece of white cardstock was stamped with Happy Birthday (H1400) and adhered to a slightly larger black mat.  Before adhering this piece to the inside of the card, attach a Magenta Tropical Dragonfly Brad (90675) to the lower right corner of the piece and another flower made with another Medium and Small White Blossom, attached together with a Black Mini Round.  This will be added to the top right of the piece before adhering it to the inside of the card.

Isn't this an interesting card? We were sure impressed with all the fun layers used to create this card.  Hope you will try it yourself!

Enjoy!

Susan

Happy Independence Day!

Hello Everyone!  Today I am featuring a similar card to last week's created by Candie!  I think you will love this one equally as much!

As you can see, Candie placed the Shooting Stars die on the diagonal of a white card this time.   Instead of a bow, she used a large star from Star Bling 50540 to place in the center of the exploding stars.  She then added a few more stars randomly to the upper right side of the card.

Candie then stamped "God Bless America" N063 or N063 Cling with red ink onto the left lower corner of the white card.

This card makes such a statement and is easy to make!

Happy Independence Day to all of you from Creative Impressions!

Enjoy!

Susan

Products can be found at https://www.creativeimpressions.com

Exploding 4th of July Stars!

Hello Everyone!  Today I am featuring another Independence Day card made by our very own Jo!

 Jo used this Exploding Stars die (available at Creative Impressions) on a diagonal and cut on a blue panel.  The panel was then adhered to a larger white card.  She then added a Ribbon bow made with Creative Impressions 1/4" Red Organdy Ribbon ( 70630) to the center of the stars.

To finish, Jo stamped "Let Freedom Ring"  (E193) with Red Ink onto a piece of white scrap cardstock.  She cut around the letters and adhered the sentiment to the lower left side of the card.

To finish, some Star Brads ( 90295 Red, White and Blue Asst) were added randomly onto the top right side of the card.  

I love this simplicity of this lovely card, don't you!  Easy to make to celebrate the Holiday!

Enjoy!

Susan

A Star-Spangled 4th!

Hello Everyone:  I continue to be amazed at how fast time flies!  Here it is June 18th and the 4th will soon be here!  To honor our independence Day, I made a card featuring a star with the Pledge of Allegiance on it as the focal point:

Nothing says Independence Day as much as bling does, especially Red, White and Blue Bling!  Right?  I decided I wanted to use our Creative Impressions stamp V155, so I stamped it on a scrap piece of white cardstock using blue ink.  I then took a ruler and pencil and drew a star around the words to the Pledge of Allegiance.  The star was cut out and adhered to a larger piece of red cardstock.  The red cardstock was cut slightly larger than the white star so that it would stand out more.  I then set it aside.

An "Exploding Star" die (also available at Creative Impressions) was placed onto the center of a piece of navy blue cardstock and die cut.  This piece was adhered to a larger piece of white glitter cardstock to  add some extra bling to the edges of the card as well as providing a "see-through" sparkly element to the die-cut stars.  Here is a close-up so hopefully you can see the glitter a bit better:

One of my favorite things to do is layer ribbons.  Two ribbons gave me this wonderful opportunity to add even more bling to the sides of the card.  I used our 1/4" Glimmer Ribbon in red on either side of the panel.  Before adding to the card back, 1/8" Braid Ribbon in Blue with Red (70705) was adhered with white liquid glue to the center of the ribbon.  Finally, the edges were wrapped to the back of the panel.

This panel was then adhered to a red panel and finally a white card.  The previously set aside large stamped star was adhered to the center of the card using foam tape.  Finally, Creative Impressions Star Bling (50540) was added in a few places.

Hope you like this card and are looking forward to creating your own 4th of July cards.  Next week I will have two more cards featured created by our very own Candie!

Enjoy!

Susan