Monday, August 18, 2014

Button That Lip!

The Altered Pages Design Team has joined the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog Design Team for Challenge #14 
Button It in a UP Blog Hop!

Hello and welcome!  Today I am honored to be part of a fun blog hop with my Altered Pages Design Team as well as Craft Hoarders Anonymous.  The theme of this hop is BUTTONS!  Most of us crafters and artists have at least a few buttons in our stash...a few hundred in some cases.  So, take a look at what I have made for you and be sure to check out what at all the bloggers have created as well (listed at end of this post).  Leave a comment letting us all know you were here. We all love to hear from you...and your name might just be drawn to win an amazing stash of goodies from Altered Pages, including Japanese Oil Pastels and oodles of ephemera! 
For this project I gathered up my buttons and put my thinking cap on.  After deciding on the general idea I knew I needed a large surface because I wanted to make a big old set of lips out of buttons along with the saying "Button that lip!"  So, the large Dylusions journal would be perfect.  I love playing in my journal anyway. lol! 
In the two pictures above you can see how I started my background using the Dylusions inks letting all that drippy goodness do its thing. The next picture shows how I created the lips out of buttons.  I started with a rough sketch for the shape and then I filled it in with buttons in pale pink, fuchsia and reds, all typical lip stick colors.  I then filled it all the empty space with black and added a white outline.  

To give the background more interest I added texture by using a stencil and gel medium.  I love the result of how it gives background colors an extra pop.  I also added some stamped images and gave the entire page a border.  I added a few more buttons along the border. 

Next, I chose a vintage text page and ran it through the printer with the saying "Button that lip!" in a sassy font.  I then added a coating of clear embossing powder.  This was a very thin piece of text page and I didn't want it getting damaged.  I love the effect. 
Finally, I added a bow that I customized using white seam binding that I dyed with my Grape Crush Dylusions ink.  I also included a little scraps of pink lace and a few more buttons along the border. 
Some detail with my white Uniball pen and it was finished. 

I hope you enjoyed my nod to buttons.  
Thanks for stopping by. 
Stephanie 

Projects used:
Assorted buttons
Dylusions inks - in Funky Fuchsia, Grape Crush, Vibrant Turquoise and White

Here are links to take you right to the other Altered Pages Design Team blogs.  You are sure to see many great works.  


Make sure to stop by the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Design Team pages. To find the links to their posts visit Craft Hoarders blog http://gloriadesignschallenge.blogspot.com/

Amber Milone 
Christy Butters 
Debbie Seyer 
Donna Idlet 
Ginny Nemchak 
Glenda Brooks 
Gloria Stengel 
Jan Marie Ennenga 
Karen Zueger 
Kathy Clement 
Pam Bray
Tammi Bennett















33 comments:

  1. Your button smile makes me laugh! What a great take on buttons!!!!

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  2. Fabulously fun Steph, definitely made me smile! xx

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  3. Fun idea! I love puns anyway and the bright colors and button-y lip are perfect!

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  4. Gorjuss! I love the play on "buttons"... lol.. TFS!

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  5. What a great fun canvas Stephanie! Love your colors and use of stencils as well as those fun lips! haha

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  6. omg! too clever
    stamping sue
    http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/

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  7. Very colorful and clever play on words! Love it!!! Outstanding job!!!

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  8. Fun way to depict the saying! And of course they needed to be in the pink/red range.

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  9. So fun! Love the bright color and the giant set of lips. Thanks for hopping with us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous.

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  10. Love the concept. Fun play on words.

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  11. This is absolutely fun and colorful! Such a clever idea for button use! Never would have thought of it! TFS your playful art journal page.

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  12. So colorful! I love that saying, too. hee hee Thanks so much for hopping with the Craft Hoarders Anonymous team this week!

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  13. such a fun piece - and so many techniques! love it!

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  14. All your doodles set it off with fun words. Great thought for Valentin's.

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  15. So fun, love the button lips! Thanks for joining our team at Craft Hoarders for this hop!!

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  16. What an adorable piece. Such a fun use of your buttons! Thanks for joining our design team at Craft Hoarders Anonymous for this hop!

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  17. Too funny! A great bit of humor spiced up by all those beautiful buttons!!

    TFS!

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  18. a smiley way and colorful use of buttons

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  19. Makes me smile, thanks for joining us on the hop.

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  20. colorful, whimsical, gorgeous! xo

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  21. Very creative & unique button project! And I love love the colors!

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  22. I really laughed when I saw this one. It was both cute and CLEVER.

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  23. Very fun & whimsical! Amazing colors! Great job :)

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  24. Lovely color and a lovely project.

    Thanks for sharing.

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  25. Very clever! Love the button lips♥

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  26. How clever! And I love the bold color palette! Thanks for hopping with us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  27. Great drippy background! I'm inspired to get out my Dylusions sprays and use them. Love the play on words and of course, the use of vintage paper.

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  28. Wow, how fun! Thanks so much for joining Craft Hoarders Anonymous on this blog hop.

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  29. Sooooooooooooooooooo cute, great button smile and your colors are beautiful.

    Sue
    http://suek86401.blogspot.com/

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  30. Bahahahaha!! This just made my day!! Love your cleverness!! This is just fantastic in every detail! It was nice hopping with you (I'm just a little behind on the hop) Jan Marie, CHACB DT

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