Button Boutique Fun

I absolutely LOVE Button Boutique by PTI! I spent ages experimenting with it and loved every minute. You’ve already seen one of them as I used it on my easel card this past Saturday. Here is a photo of all 4 I made that day.

Aren’t they so pretty! They each use different stamps with no overlap (I think).

This one uses the new dies with the hearts in the center. I also bought the hearts die and added the smallest heart to the center of the larger one. Then I sewed down the center; this is the only way they are attached, no adhesive, so the wings and edges of the heart lift up!

For this one, I used the pinked square die to create a fabric look background for the buttons but it’s only patterned paper. Sorry it looks a bit washed out, the focus wasn’t great. {{sigh}} The stamped buttons on this one were just raised on foam dots to make them look 3-D.

This one started with the green banner at the top and the 25c panel to the left. after that, it looked so masculine, I decided to go with dark brown buttons. The larger ones are cut with a circle Nesties out of Craft-a-Board with a stamped cardstock circle layered over top. before adhering, I rolled the edges of the CaB in ink. The smaller ones are punched with a 1/2” circle and match perfectly; the large CaB circles are a bit too small, there is no perfect Nesties match for the stamped buttons. But they still look pretty good to me. This is the only one where I used the hang hole. I’m not sure how much I like it. It is hard to line up perfectly and when I used a glue dot to adhere the hole die to the main card die, it embossed very deeply including the small flaw on the outer edge I had hoped wouldn’t show. So I may not use that one much.

This one doesn’t photograph all that well. The peachy button is pink IRL and matches much better. This is the one I used on Saturday’s card. There are more details there. One detail you must notice though is the little embroidered flower within the button’s holes. Cute right?

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps: Button Boutique-PTI
Ink: Baja, cocoa, pale plum, perfect plum, bashful blue, bordering blue, chocolate, cranberry, pink pirouette-SU!
Paper: natural white-PTI
Accessories: Button Card dies, Love Lives Here die, Heart prints die, buttons-SU!, PTI, white twine-PTI, striped twine-Etsy, foam dots-Jody Morrow, Circle Nesties, 1/2” circle punch-SU!., Japanese screw punch-Lee Valley Tools, sewing thread sewing machine