WT471 ~ Button It Up ~ {03/20/2014}
 

Today's challenge is an easy one, which I hope you will find fun. It's simply to use at least one button on your card.
Buttons can be real, paper, stamped, embossed....

:idea: In the interests of challenging yourself - why not try to do something a bit different to what you normally do!! I tried one of the tutorials below, which I'd never used before.
Actually - I tried both the ones that I've never used before; but evidently my shrink plastic is one that doesn't shrink evenly because I have a beautiful oval button (instead of a round one) waiting to be added to a card, so my sample is using the Pearlized Button tutorial.


We have three tutorials here on SCS:

PAPER BUTTONS

SHRINK PLASTIC BUTTONS

PEARLIZED BUTTON


If you use any of the above tutorials - remember we have a special gallery which all of them can be uploaded to, to provide more inspiration to other community members. Simply choose Technique Spotlight from the Main Gallery dropdown list, and then choose Paper Buttons from the sub-gallery dropdown.


After you've made your buttoned-up card and uploaded it, come and post a link here to make it easy for people to find and comment! Make sure to use the keyword WT471 when you are uploading.


Here is our BUTTON IT UP gallery.

Here's my Happy Dressy Birthday sample.

Need help linking your card? Follow these instructions!

1. Open 2 windows or tabs: one for your card in the gallery, and one for this thread.
2. In this thread, click on reply and type anything you want to show before the link.
3. Go to your card window. Highlight the address for your card. (It says www. splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showphoto..... and so on)
4. Click EDIT. Click COPY
5. Go back to this thread. Click PASTE.

This is a great challenge for me because I very rarely use a button on my cards even though have a ton. :D

Sabrina, thanks for a fun challenge - my cards may just have regular buttons on them, nothing too exciting, but I sure love using them!
Heres Feathery Thanks
and Coffee Love

What a great challenge, Sabrina!

Here is my card: Hummingbird Path

Thanks! Here�s mine;


WT471 Fan no.1 by Biggan - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

TFL!
Birgit

Thanks Sabrina - here's my button card!

WT471 ~ Button Birthday by sistersandie - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Sandie
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I could not resist another card - buttons on the brain now Sabrina!

WT471 ~ Baby Buttons by sistersandie - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Sandie
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This is great also!...you're really on a roll ,girlfriend! :)

WT471 Happy Birthday Kristen by GardenDiva - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Buttons are so much fun!!!

Easter button~
WT471-BUTTON! by coffeestamper - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Thanks Sabrina, Here is my card.
WT471, Buttons and Bow by Holstein - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

I'd always be up for a button challenge ;) Here's my Spring card..may it bring some warmth everyone's way.

Spring Birthday

Fun challenge! I stacked two buttons together for my creation. God of all Comfort

Thanks for the wonderful challenge, Sabrina...I don't use my buttons enough!
Here's my card:
Zinnia Buttons

Thanks for the fun challenge today, Sabrina....I love to work with buttons!!! Here is my card: Button Scene

Great challenge!~
Here's my first card :)

Hello Friend

Thanks for looking!

Fun challenge:

Buttons and More by Benzi - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

WT471 Impressed
 

Awesome challenge, I just love buttons. I have this cute stamp set from Paper Smooches that I just love using- Squeaky Clean- and I thought this was a good match for some button application. Used some sparkly trim to emphasize the iron. Here's Impressed

Thanks for the fun challenge, Sabrina! Here's my Big Bunny Loves Buttons . Thanks so much for looking!

Awesome challenge Sabrina! I had to make another before heading to work!

Make Today Wonderful

Thanks for looking!

WT471 Pig and Snail
 

Sabrina- great challenge, thanks! I do love buttons. I thought I should get out my trusty button "go to" set- Button Buddies by SU. I added a sponged background, a lacy set of borders, and some coloring- and a handwritten sentiment. Here's Pig and Snail

Here is my card :
WT471 Buttons and stars by niki1 - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
niki

I actually managed to MAKE something with my "stuff", instead of just organizing it on a nearly-constant basis: Well, Hello!

A fun challenge with buttons, since I have so many! Here's my card - New Every Morning.

Thanks, Sabrina!
Here's mine:
WT471 Think Spring! by donidoodle - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Here is a card to start with...I want to make another.
The button is a little bumble bee button that I happen to have.
WT BUSY BEES by Stamperrobin - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Thanks for looking!!

I like the look of buttons but not the bulk, so I got MFT's button die not to long ago and used it here.
The pearlized button tutorial looks like fun, Sabrina. I don't have any Perfect Pearls or anything similar, but I try it with embossing powder and see how it comes out.

So fun! I've got another button drying, but here's my card that's completed.
Always Blue

Here is my card:

Golf Anyone ? by BarbieP - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Ha! To use buttons in a different way--> I embossed them.

WT471 tulips by tessaduck - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Thanks for a fun challenge Sabrina. Vintage is not 'different' for me, but using gesso over dp is.......now I think I am addicted to it.

WT471 The Sewing Room by susie australia - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Here is another button card.
WT BUNNY by Stamperrobin - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Thanks for looking!

Thanks, Sabrina, for such a neat challenge with all those options. Here's my card.

Love this challenge to use a button, not because I like to use buttons, but because it inspired me to finish a card that had been plaguing me! Thanks for nudging my creative juices with this challenge, Sabrina. Your theme and timing couldn't have been better! :cool:

Here's my card, using a very tiny flower button:

WT471 Bunnies Hiding Eggs - Happy Easter by Boss - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Can't wait to check out all the fun cards that have been entered in this challenge! :)

I don't like it when you have an idea in your head, but then, your card comes out nothing like you thought it would. This is what I ended up with, but not what I envisioned. 3 red buttons . thanks for looking.

That's my kind of challenge. I love using buttons.

Lovely Secret Garden by Robin Lee - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Easter Lamb
 

Finally had time to join this challenge.. a little late. Great challenge loved playing with buttons.

Here's my card

WT471 Easter Lamb by Amisjag - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

TFL!

Made another using the paper button I'd made earlier: Button Better Butterfly
and another using some leftovers and a solid metal button: Color Combo For You

WT471
 

Not so creative with the buttons, Sabrina, but here is my card -

SC480 MMTPT294 WT471 Chocolate Blue Florets by sue28 - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

I've dug into my grandmother's button box for your challenge, Sabrina! it was fun...2 Cre8