Buttons and Buttons

Hello everyone!

Welcome to another challenge over at Our Creative Corner

     This month Jenny (Buttons) is our Challenge Host and she is bringing us a wonderful challenge

Use the colours Blue, Brown and Purple/Plum - 

She is not allowing the use of black - so for stamping please use the stated colours. 

You are allowed to use digi stamps - but please remember to alter the colour of the lines.

     Our Sponsor this month is Nicecrane Designs

We are so pleased to have Nicecrane Designs as one of our Sponsors this year - There are so many wonderful images to choose from at the store! Please come along on the 'Sponsor Spotlight' days to see what we have made with some of those gorgeous images.
One lucky winner this month will get a $20 voucher to spend at Nicecrane Designs!

      I love Jenny's challenge! - Purple is one of my favourite colours, but for some reason the purple inks and paints are barely used and when I have tried to make purple creations they end up in the bin! I really like being pushed out of my comfort zone so was really pleased when Jenny announced her challenge to us!

    I bought some paper mache hearts before Christmas and as usual they got put in the pile of items waiting to be made with no real idea of what to do.

     I started by lightly brushing Gesso all over them, which highlighted the texture of the Paper mache. I covered the centre of the heart quite densely with Gesso and then began to dab some Fresco paints all over very lightly with a sponge, building up colour gradually. I used Pansy, Sky and Mocha Mousse paint.

I also used some Distress Inks to add some translucent colour - Faded Jeans and Gathered Twigs were dabbed lightly over the heart.

     For the stamping I used one of my favourite Tim Holtz stamp quotes in Coffee Archival ink on tissue paper and then stuck it onto the heart with matte Multi-Medium.

I used die cut flowers and covered them with Milled Lavender DS, Brushed Corduroy DI and Faded Jeans DI. The edges of the flowers were inked with Walnut Stain DI

I had to use buttons for this project! I selected several buttons in shades of brown, purple and blue and stuck them on with Glossy accents glue.

 A few twig die cuts were covered in Walnut Stain DI and attached to the heart along with the flowers.

I did quite a heavy spritzing of Perfect Pearls mist in Biscotti which gave the heart such a lovely iridescent look.

      I hope you like this - why not come over to Our Creative Corner and see what the rest of my team have made for you this month. Have a go using these gorgeous colours and you could be our winner and be featured as our Top Talent. Remember there is also the Top 3 award too and also the prize donated by our Sponsor!.....come and join the fun!