Lookin' Sharp - A Flair for Buttons

Moikka! Today I'm sharing my last project for A Flair for Buttons as a part of the design team. It's a strange feeling as I've been a part of the design team over three years as I started in September 2015. Boy what a ride it has been! I hope you have been inspired by the projects I've done! 

A long the years I've done mixed media projects using the beautiful flair, I've done cards and layouts, but I guess these last cacti cards are the most clean ones I've done! But they are all about the flairs! Just a few other elements to support the fun buttons. All the flairs are from the "Cacti Love" set.

I started the cards by inserting my card bases into my typing machine and typed the greetings on them. I love using my mom's old typewriter! I usually try to add some "errors" into the mix so that the look is less like printed, more like actually typed. Then I added some watercolor and ink to the opposite corner, added a touch of stamping and finally layered the die cuts, stickers and twine underneath the focal point, the flair. 

With these cards I want to thank Shelley for this wonderful time here and all the inspiration her fantastic flairs have given me along the years and still continue to give! Big hugs to you all!

Sets used: 

Cacti Love

Materials: A Flair for Buttons, Sizzix, 7 Dots Studio, Ranger, Prima Marketing

Easter cards - A Flair for Buttons

Hi there! Today to share my first April project for A Flair for Buttons. It's also my second last one as a design team member for this team as I'm stepping down from the team after April. It's been a wonderful time and I certainly am going to use the buttons still in my makes as they are so lovely!

It's soon Easter time so I thought to make some cards using the lovely vintage Easter flairs I had. They are from "Vintage Chicks and Bunnies" set. I chose a cute little chick to the other card and a white hare to the other. To compliment the Easter flairs, I added one other to each of the cards. The chick I paired with a green heart flair from the "Two Tone Heart" set and the hare with a beautiful flourish patterned flair from the "Sweet" set. 

I wanted the cards to be fresh looking and mirror the spring time. I chose to go with yellows and greens and added flowers to both, too, to get that fresh look. Even though the dried fruit slice might be more autumn like, I thought that the yellow colors fitted the theme well and the slices created a great setting for the flairs.

If you want to see how I created the chipboard flowers in the background, please check in a bit later this month as I have a video tutorial coming up! 

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a peaceful Easter time!

Sets used:

  

Vintage Chicks and Bunnies ; Two Tone Heart ; Sweet

Materials: A Flair for Buttons, 7 Dots Studio, Sizzix, Wow Embossing Powder, Prima Marketing, Sinelli

Ateneum - A Flair for Buttons

Moikka! Today I'm sharing my second A Flair for Buttons creation for March! I decided to create another layout using some new papers I got while attending CreativeWorld. These beauties are from Piatek Trzynastego (link). I'm also so happy that I'm guesting for the brand during this year!

The topic of the layout is Ateneum, the Finnish National Gallery, or rather all the galleries we have visited. We've been taking the kids to galleries and exhibitions from an early age. Both my husband and me are nowadays owners of "museum card", with which you can visit a number of museums around Finland for a yearly fee. As usually kids are free, it's then really easy to visit different art museums and exhibitions together. The photo in the layout is taken in Ateneum, thus the title of the page.

I used five different flairs in the page. I chose them mostly because of the colors so that they matched the rich palette of the papers I used. There's the chevron one from Linen Chevron and the toadstool from the Animal Tea Party that echo the reds of the flowers. Then there's Encouraging Words 1 one to match the lovely blues and hint of blues are also found in the camera flair from Capture Life 2. The wood patterned one from Texture 2 some how fitted the rich tones - maybe because the tone and the look of the flair remind me of mahogany hardwood floor!

Thank you for your visit today! Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday! 

Sets used: 

  

 

Animal Tea Party ; Texture 2 ; Linen Chevron ; Capture Life 2 ; Encouraging Words 1

Materials: A Flair for Buttons, Piatek Trzynastego, Prima Marketing 

Fly fly - A Flair for Buttons

Hi there! Today I'm sharing a travel themed layout. I got these new vintage map patterned papers while in Frankfurt and just had to do a page using one of them!

The topic of the page is where my two girls have been traveling so far. We've only been around Europe, but they have been on board a plane several times now. Their first flight was to Berlin, then we traveled to London and next flight will be to Copenhagen. 

To embellish the travel themed page I used four different flairs. The fan of the So Retro 3 set transformed into the propeller of the plane as I hid the base behind the photo. Well, at least it resembles a propeller! The vintage map print I used as the background required something similar on top, so I added the map printed flair from the France set. I also added a crackled white one from Texture 2 and the phrase "This Day" from Smash Words 1.

Thank you for stopping by today! Enjoy your day!

Sets used: 

   

So Retro 3 ; France ; Texture 2 ; Smash Words 1

Materials: A Flair for Buttons, Sra Granger, Paper Garden, Sizzix, American Crafts, 7 Dots Studio

Hello love heart love - A Flair for Buttons

Moikka everyone! As February is the month of the Valentine's Day, I decided to do both of my A Flair for Buttons projects connected to that theme of love and caring. My first one was the vintage inspired Valentines (link) and this time I'm sharing a layout about my husband and me.

Where as my Valentines had a vintage vibe with neutrals and hint of pink, this layout I wanted to be full of colors. I chose vibrant colors that reminded me about spring, too. Want to know the source of inspiration to the colors? The flairs I picked for the page! I didn't use all the ones I originally picked for the layout, but on the other hand, I rarely do. It's more like a thought process for me, a jumping off point.

I recorded a video while working on the page, so if you want to see how I made it, please see above!

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you liked the video! 

Sets used: 

   

Hey Cupcake ; Two Tone Heart ; Retro Little Girl ; Daily Words

Materials: A Flair for Buttons, 7 Dots Studio, Sizzix, Prima Marketing, American Crafts, Ranger

Splashy Valentines - A Flair for Buttons

Hi there friends! Valentine's Day theme continues! Today I'm sharing some splashy Valentines which I did for A Flair for Buttons!

I don't send that many Valentines anymore but back in the day when I was in school, I used to give those cards out. I still enjoy making Valentine cards each year! I might not send them out on the specific Valentine's Day, but I think that you can and should remember friends and loved ones on other days, too. 

I did these cards inspired by the Vintage Valentine flairs (link). That also effected my choice of colors. So even though pink is the first color you probably think when you read Valentine, I didn't use much pink in my cards. I played with different neutral tones and textures in the background and gave the cards also some 'light' by adding a lot of white in them. I used an old book page, some corrugated cardboard, some vintage looking alpha cards and some craft cardboard in the background. I added also some washi tape and masking tape in there to have different neutral tones and interest. 

  

To add some pink to the cards I added some pink and red watercolor to the background. I also splashed same colors the stems I cut out of white cardboard. Last but not least I used pink patterned paper to mount my cards onto. 

I hope these cards inspire you! Thank you for stopping by today!

Sets used:

Vintage Valentines

Materials: A Flair for Buttons, Sizzix, Prima Marketing