{A Flair for Buttons}

Picture Perfect Moments

I'm here today with a new layout that will have you seeing double!  I decided to use Flair Buttons from two different sets, that have the same phrase in the design.  The XOXO Flair and Chalkboard Valentine's 2 Flair both include a flair button that says All You Need is Love.  I loved having the same phrase in two different looks, and they were easy to mix because both have a Black & White color scheme!

 

 

I recently picked up the new Love Always collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio, so the All You Need is Love flair fit in perfectly with it.  I wanted to use a lot of the CVS ephemera pieces to create clusters on the layouts.  I designed the clusters to include the two flair buttons I chose for the layout.

 

 

Since the flair buttons were Black & White, I was able to pull in a variety of colors from the Love Always collection.  I don't always do a lot of Mixed Media on my layouts, but I decided to add some watercolor to this layout.  I used my Tim Holtz watercolor brush to paint the word "Love" at the top of the layout, and I added spots of watercolor around the clusters on the layout.

 

 

Next time you're working with your Flair Buttons from the A Flair for Buttons Etsy store, check them out to see if you have any that repeat words/phrases or graphics.  Using a repetitive look is a fun way to add interest to your layouts or projects!

 

Born Together

Hi! Els here today. And I have a cute twins layout for you ;)

The two cuties on the picture are my twin nephews, when they were just a few months old. I had this fun picture in my photo box for a while, and wanted to add a fun twin quote to the layout. After browsing Pinterest for a bit, I chose to have this 'born together' one as my title.

I used some fun soft tropical colors for this layout. They complement the picture well. 

I used some of the Chalk Words 2 flair to finish up this page. I love the contrast of some black elements.

Have a great weekend!

Els.

SUN FUN

This summer has been nothing but fun in the sun!  

Hope you are enjoying it as much as we are.  That frog that my son is holding made me choose bright cheerful colors.  Echo Park Summer Party collection was perfect.  Matching Bright & Funky Flair, Play Flair and Sherbet Arrow 1 Flair made it all come together rather quickly.  Maybe those little tiny fish helped too:o)

 Grab these flair in the ETSY shop.

Enjoy the rest of your summer.  Ours ends in just over a week.  Boo!

Syd The New Puppy

Hello friends! It's Lee-Anne here today and I wanted to share a layout of my new puppy Syd.  

 

I designed a circular text cut file with my Silhouette Cameo and cut it out on the yellow polka dot patterned paper.  I backed the design with black cardstock so the title would stand out and then stitched around the circular title with my sewing machine.  I wanted to stay with the circle theme, so I thought flair buttons would be the perfect embellishment for my layout.  I used the Got Dog Flair, the Just Hearts 2 Flair and the Chalkboard Valentine's 2 Flair sets.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used these sets of flair buttons on my layout.

Got Dog Flair

Just Hearts 2 Flair

Chalkboard Valentines 2 Flair

I hope you enjoyed your visit today. Be sure and check out all the awesome flair buttons in the A Flair For Buttons store.    Thanks for stopping by!

Lee-Anne Thornton

Jasmine tea

Do you have a favorite drink? Mine is by far tea. Normally I'm all in for black tea without anything, but every now and then I get an urge for jasmine tea. I've had some different ones with green tea, but my husband happened to find jasmine tea with black tea! Whoa, the best there is! 

I happened to have this photo of me in a Chinese restaurant, drinking jasmine tea of course, so it was a perfect shot to be used to document my love for the drink. I used strong colors in the page, inspired by the photo and especially the cup. There's the dark brown from the bench, the red from the cup and the carpet and turquoise and yellow from the cup. 

The flair buttons mimic the color scheme but also add to the story. The heart is naturally to show my love for the drink, the camera for the documenting part and the year to show the date of the photo. Each one of them is from a different set but as they mimic the colors I used in the page, they all go swell together! 

Thank you for your visit! 

Xoxo Riikka

Sets used:

   

Stripes 1 ; Numbers and Letters 1 ; More Cameras ; Wood Words

You Are Loved

Every once in a while, I like to create a layout that uses a lot of words or phrases.  This kind of layout, can make it a little tricky for me to choose a main title, so I decided to go with a Flair Button from the Just Words 2 Flair set as the title of this layout.  I chose the You Are Loved button and placed it on a tag, that I layered over my photo, to help it stand out.

 

 

I added all of the words and phrases on the left hand side of the layout, and placed the photo on the right hand side, with fewer embellishments.  I liked the way the You Are Loved button looked layered over the photo and I wanted one other Flair Button to place on the far right hand side of the photo.  This helped add balance around the photo area.

 

 

The photo Flair Button from the Arrows and Camera Flair 2 set was perfect, because it went with the theme of the layout and had neutral colors.  I created a cluster with the Flair Button, sticker and enamel dot to add interest around the photo, since the majority of embellishments were on the left side of the layout.

 

 

If you need some fresh inspiration for titles on your layouts, then make sure you check out all of the word and phrase flair in the A Flair for Buttons shop!!

 

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Vegas Views

Hey, friends!  Missy back with you today, and I have a fun travel layout to share.  I used flair from the Hello Life, Black Marquee Lights and Summer Gold sets.  One of my favorite places to go is Las Vegas.  I love the hotels, the sights, the food...it's just a fun place!  I decided to scrap these two photos of the Strip.  I was drawn to the pretty blue sky in the top picture, so I created a watercolor background to match.  I pulled out very old Lily Bee patterned paper for my background and covered a lot of it with white acrylic paint.   I used some watercolors and Shimmerz Paints in a few blue shades and a sparkly gold color.  I also used some gold Color Shine.  These three flair were the perfect embellishments for this page!  I went minimal on embellishments since there is so much to look at in the photos themselves.  I used a few gold stickers from a MAMBI sticker book, some washi tape, a few Tim Holtz word stickers, and some green cardstock circles that I painted with watercolor.
I was inspired by this green flair button to add more green to my layout.  I painted a few punched white cardstock circles with watercolor and added in some matching green thread in a few places.  I also used a lot of shiny gold thread.  I cut "vegas" on a yellow Lily Bee patterned paper and then smudged some Heidi Swapp gold texture paste over it.  You gotta have some shiny gold on a layout about Vegas!
I added more sparkly gold with these Thickers.  This marquee LOVE flair is so perfect!  The big letters and gold "lights" remind me of all the Vegas hotel lights!  I used more gold thread and a few cut apart labels from Evalicious.  I did some machine stitching and added more MAMBI gold stickers.  I love how all of these neutral colors look against that pretty bright blue.

I have been hoarding these metallic gold flair!  I decided to use this airplane one.  I love how the shiny reminds me of the bright lights of Vegas.  I also added a bit of cheesecloth behind my photos.  It has been sitting on my desk for forever, so I decided to use it.  I layered my title right on top of my photo since the bottom photo is flat.  I added foam under the top one to add dimension.

Here's a close up of the background and title area.  I love how the watercolor looks on top of the white acrylic paint.  It gives a different feel and look than the gesso.  I like to change things up every once in a whilte :)
Here's one final close up of the top area.  I used some washi tape, a few torn pieces of some MAMBI Project Life cards and some Tim Holtz word stickers.  I topped it off with some green, gold and black stitching.

Here are the flair sets I used:

Hello Life

Summer Gold

Black Marquee Lights

I hope this inspires you to be inspired by your flair and create an awesome project!  Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a great weekend!

 

Missy Whidden

{You and Me}

Hello AFFB fans! Marinette here today to share with you a new layout using Shelley's gorgeous flair!

This is a very bold and colorful layout. I used my Felicity Jane kits ::

 

I used the Story Flair Set ::

and the Happy Flair Set ::

Thanks so much for stopping by;)

Have a lovely day. Xo

Marinette

Cool - puppet show

Morning!  

I adore this puppet my boy brought home from school at the end of the year.  It was supposed to have arms and legs.  To take a short cut, he made PacMan.  lol.  It started with the idea of a guy called TheLemonHead on You Tube.  It ended this way.  PacMan doesn't have arms nor lets, easy peasy!  

I used Crate Paper's new collection Cool Kid for my layout.  The bright flair that I used came from three different sets.  All coordinating perfectly together and with my design. Bright & Funky Pattern Flair, My Life Words 4 Flair and Just Hearts 1 Flair.  All can be purchased in the A Flair for Buttons ETSY shop.  

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  

 

Strawberry Pie

Hello friends!  I hope you are having a good weekend so far.  It's Lee-Anne here and today I am sharing this layout using some flair buttons from the Baker 2 Flair Set and the strawberry flair button from the Fresh Market Flair Set.  I love baking pies and in the summer I love to make fruit pies when the fruits are in season.  Strawberry pie is one of those pies that is easy to make and it looks so pretty.  

Quilts have inspired me lately and I recently saw a quilt with strawberries.  The quilt had fabric squares, but thought it could easily be done on patterned paper with a square paper punch. 

I looked through some of my Bella Blvd. paper collections and chose some strawberry patterned papers as well as some red and green papers and punched away.  Once I had punched out plenty of squares, I cut the squares diagonally to create triangles and created a paper strawberry.

I had some perfect flair buttons to add to the layout.  Some were from the Baker 2 Flair Set and also the Fresh Market Flair Set

I fussy cut some strawberries and a jar with strawberries and added some foam squares to give some dimension.  The title was cut with my Silhouette Cameo on black cardstock with a script cut file from Just Nick Digital Cut Files that I welded together on my Silhouette. 

To complete the layout, I added some stitching with my sewing machine and inked the white card stock background with some Ranger Spun Sugar Distress Ink to make the title pop.

I loved creating this layout and did some paper stash busting too.  It's always a good thing to find the perfect flair buttons to add to a project.

Check out the A Flair For Buttons store for these flair buttons and many more.  Have a great day!

Flair Used On Layout

Baker 2 Flair Set

Fresh Market Flair Set

 

 

Two flowering cards

Hi, Riikka here to share a couple of cards with you! The lovely vintage styled rose and bird flairs got me into a romantic mood and I made some flowery cards using them. The color scheme of the cards came from the flairs as well - I made the other in pinks and other in yellow. 

There's similar elements in both of the cards like the doily and the washi tape, but the papers and colors differ. I created the backgrounds using watercolors and also added the same colors on top of some resist canvas. Even though the flair buttons were the whole inspiration behind the cards, you can't see them so much in the finished pieces. Can you spot them?

Thank you for stopping by today! Which one of the cards is your favorite?

Sets used:

Vintage Spring Flowers