Pushing Our Buttons

We were so impressed with all of your creative uses of buttons, brads & eyelets.  Here are a few that really pushed our creative buttons:

Eveline of Ditjes en datjes

used an ornament die cut and buttons in classic holiday hues
to create this amazing holiday card design ... the combination
of patterned papers was wonderful too ...
she also made two more awesome cards here & here.

Lorraine of Paper Vernissage

used perfectly placed white buttons to embellish her swirly tree ...
and the stamping around the edge of the card 
created the perfect elegant frame ... magical.
You can see Lorraine's adorable button wreath card here.

Danielle of EcoScrapbook

added lots of fun little buttons to

bring new life to an up-cycled holiday card ... 

love the vertical design.

A huge thank you to *EVERYONE* who played along with us this week.

If you've not done so yet we strongly encourage you to scroll down to the thumbnails post and spend a bit of time seeing your fellow ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ in action! then come on back at midnight when the NEW prompt goes live!

We'll have lots of lovely guest stars & a super sponsor to inspire our creativity.

Button, Button, Who's Got the Button

We're still playing with buttons (or eyelets or brads) at Jingle Belles this week.  You have until Wednesday, February 22nd at 6pm EST to link-up your cards in the post below this one.

Here's the second set of holiday cards that we created.

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "these doodlebug christmas buttons are older than at least one of my nieces, and had never even been opened! it's not that i don't ♥LOVE♥ them, i'm just slightly "button impaired" i guess, lol! this prompt was just the push i needed to break those out and use them on a card, and i am pretty pleased with the result!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stef says, "I decided to go a bit more minimal and elegant with my design this week.
I started with a glittery copper snowflake border 
and punched out the centers of each larger snowflake
to add a copper brad for a bit of dimension and texture.
I added an EAD Designs Rub-on Sentiment to copper metallic cardstock, attached
my border with dimensional tape, and a quick & easy holiday card was done."

We can't wait to see what you create.

All Buttoned-Up

We decided that in the midst of winter (at least where Lauren & I are) was a good time get "All Buttoned-Up" for the holidays.  


We're asking you to incorporate buttons (or brads or eyelets) into your holiday card design. 


Here's what we did to get All Buttoned-Up.

Stephanie's Card

Stef says, "The inspiration for my card was this lovely button tree by Shari Carroll.  I fully intended to back clear buttons with designer paper like she did ... but then managed to somehow *misplace* my entire clear button stash ... so I did what any good creative soul does ... improvise.  I used a package of Fancy Pants buttons that were on my craft table and added blue & champagne pearls to complete my tree.  

Background & sentiment stamps are Hero Arts."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "i found a button card with these three fun purple vintage babies in my crafty stash, and i have NO IDEA where they came from, but they inspired my whole card! i'd cut these purple poinsettias and the fancy musical label shape in december for something else and not used them;  the transparency was one of my many lovely xmas goodies from miss stephanie! this was a very fast--and fun--card to pull together. gotta love *THAT* right?!"  :)

So pull out those buttons, brads & eyelets and show us how you Get Buttoned-Up for the holidays.  


If you're worried about mailing "lumpy"cards, eyelets would be the way to go ... and we know you've got a big stash of them somewhere (at least WE do).  Another option is to do what Lauren & I do ... mail the lumpy cards inside boxes with gifts.


You have until Wednesday, February 22nd  at 6pm (EST) to link up your creation ... keyword for galleries or our flickr group is JB12-04.