{A Flair for Buttons}

Halloween Treats

Happy Halloween everyone! I love Halloween and I had a lot fun creating some Halloween projects with the Halloween Fun Flair set.

I recently made a couple treat containers and used the Halloween Fun Flair for my focal point.

The first is a treat cone adorned with vintage fringe trim and the Happy Halloween flair.

Hang this on a friend's door and you're sure to make their day!

Next up are these insulated drink tumblers. If you look closely at the bottom you can see that they light up! :)

These were easy to make. I simply filled them up with candy, cut out the Halloween tags with my Cameo and added a piece of flair to each one! I love how they turned out and I can't wait for they kids to find these at the table in the morning!

You can see all the amazing flair that Shelley offers in the {a flair for buttons} shop!

Thanks for visiting!

Are you ready for some football?

In Texas...football is BIG! I must admit I love it too, especially high school football games, school spirit, the band, and homecoming! It is my favorite time of year so I must celebrate those great memories with scrapbook pages, of course!

This was the first game of the season and it was an unexpected surprise to see my son called out as one of the JV team Captains for the coin toss. :)

I used the Football Flair and Here and Now Flair to embellish my page.

Football would not be complete without Homecoming! From the parade, to the mums, the football game and community team spirit...I love it!

I also used the Football Flair on this layout.  This set and so many more can be found in the {a flair for buttons} shop!

Thanks for coming by...have a great week!

Halloween Flair

Flair is the perfect embellishment to complete a fun vintage style Halloween card!

Western Mudd Rush

Hi, it's Dayna here popping in to show you a layout I did this week using {A Flair For Buttons} which is a little on the dirty side ;-)

Back in August, I participated in an event here in Perth, Western Australia called the Western Mudd Rush. If you've heard of Tough Mudder, well it's a little like that, but not quite as hard core. It was 8km's of mud and obstacles and a whole lot of fun. I participated in a team with three other friends, but the event isn't about finishing fastest, it's about helping as many people as possible to make it to the end and get as dirty as possible in the process.

Here is my layout with a couple of photos of me being helped over the final obstacle, a 3 meter wall...

and a close up of the journaling...

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look.

Dayna xxx

Happy Halloween flair

Hello Michelle here!

I made this page a few weeks ago for a True Xoxo Girls challenge and was SO EXCITED to finally use my American Crafts Nightfall paper and some Martha Stewart paper I've had stashed away since 2009.

Too bad the challenge is to scrap a Halloween page using non-traditional colors.

DOH!

American Crafts "Nightfall" is one of my favorite lines ever. I also love the chalkboard and Remarks stickers. The pinked edges come from an old EK Success border punch I got on clearance at TJ Maxx- my FAVORITE place to snap up random scrap tools.

 

I submitted a different page to the challenge and decided to share this with you. 

Shelley's Halloween flair is super duper fun.

Check out the set I used here.

If you're looking for something a bit brighter check this set here.

 

That witch illustration in both the Vintage Halloween sets is perfect! I got the date stamp from Joann's- wish they had a whole alpha set in that font.

 

Given the history of extremely cold Halloween nights here in NYC, we decided to celebrate by attending the Halloween walk at the Museum of Natural History last year.

As you can imagine, a Museum full of costumed candy fueled kids under the ages of 12 was complete and utter madness.

I got no photos.

Correction- I got many photos.

All blurry. If she appeared in the shot at all- she moves faster than my auto focus setting.

So these photos were take in November during a freakishly warm and sunny day.

 

My two favorite shots both feature the huge "candy corn" sombrero. 

 

Lola was so excited to be away from the apartment and out of her coat she spent the entire time running.

I got ZERO posed shots.

But that's ok because I realized- this shot captures Lola, age two, perfectly.

Have a great Halloween!

Michelle.

Reindeer Approved!

Hi all! Danielle here.

I know, I know. It might be a smidge early for holiday cards, but I am so determined not to be scrambling last minute this year! I've been brainstorming for a week or so, and decided to start testing them out. Thought I'd share one with you!

I paired up some of my favorite flair, linen chevron flair with the cutie Hero Arts reindeer, and "reindeer approved" sentiment from Neat and Tangled.  I so love the reindeer, but I really think the flair and twine make it stand out! While this card is a little too involved to really mass produce, it will make a great card for someone special! I might make a few more using different colored sweater and embellishments :)

Hope you have a great week!

Do you want to win some flair?

The wonderful girls at Ella Publishing have invited me to be there sponsor for the current challenge "October Take Twelve".  The prize is three sets of flair of your choice! Head on over to the blog to get the details of this photo challenge. You have until the 18th to enter your layout and the winner will be announced on the 19Th! Good luck!

Winner of the Blog Hop!

The winner of the flair for the National Card Making Day is #9 commenter Sherry Gardner!!! Thank you everyone who joined in our blog hop! I hope you were inspired to use your flair in fun and unique ways! Have a great week!

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I have never thought of using magnets on cards...great idea to be able to reuse your flair...:)

Posted by: sherry gardner | 10/06/2012 at 09:13 AM

Halloween Treat Bags

I'm so glad Shelley released some Halloween Flair this year!  The kids in my son's class *love* the fun things I put together for their class parties and I use {flair} whenever I can.

I filled the treat bags with everything but candy.  Pencils, erasers, rubber skeletons, mandarin oranges with pumpkins faces drawn on them, tattoos, Halloween bags of pretzels and more.

I raided the Holloween aisle at Target and then wrapped it all up using some Halloween twine, paper from Echo Park and {flair}. 

Grb a set of the Halloween flair today.

New Flair is in!

Thanks everyone for making our card hop such a success!! We enjoyed sharing our card ideas with you! Don't forget you have until Midnight tonight to qualify for a set of flair from each of the designer's blogs! Oh yeah....there is new flair in the shop! :)

 

Welcome to our National Card Making Day Blog Hop!

 

 

We are so excited to bring you our first blog hop! Today we are celebrating National Card Making Day here at {a flair for buttons}.  Flair is an awesome way to add some "umph" to your layouts but today we are all going to share with you some ideas on how to use flair on your handmade cards!

Your blog hop starts here at {a flair for buttons}: Then please "hop" on over to the next designers blog! Each DT member and our two very special guest bloggers Danielle Flanders and Melissa Phillips are each going to give away one set of flair to a lucky winner. They have chosen their favorite flair and you can win them! All you have to do is leave a comment on each designers blog for your chance to win. Please leave your comment by Midnight CST Monday, October 8.

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I love projects that have multiple uses so I came up with this Halloween card that has a magnetic flair on it. What makes this unique is that my flair are detachable so you can use the flair after the card has been opened and enjoyed! There is a magnet on the back of the skull die cut as well as the flair button. Once the card is read and enjoyed...remove the flair and you have an adorable magnet for your fridge! You could also do two or more magnets if you wanted to!

There are so many fun uses for flair! Now please head on over to the other designers to see what how they used their flair.

A Flair for Buttons--You are here!

Tessa Buys

Jennifer Chapin

Michelle Hernandez

Danielle Flanders

Dayna Howard

Megan Klauer

Melissa Phillips

Diane Payne

Danielle Walls

Erica Weinstock

I will be giving away the "In the News 1" flair set!

Have a Happy National Card Making Day and don't forget your flair! :)

Pausing to listen and reflect

Good morning every one!

Michelle here with a new page using A Flair For Buttons pins and the wonderful "Ready, Set, Go!" line from Amy Tangerine for American Crafts.

I've had a whirlwind of a September. When I finally looked up and noticed what was going on around me, the month was done!

Being a working Mom means missing things.

A story.

I took my three year old and very "active" daughter, Lola, to the park across the street.

I was carying the buckets, the kite, the bookbag with spare clothes, the camera, talking to Lola's Uncle and making plans with The Husband for the next day.

I was not paying attention.

Lola was chasing the Canada Geese (and ignoring their 6 foot long wing span- a human trait American's Funniest Home Video has based 22 seasons on)

She was "playing tag" with other kids- they were not in on the fun.

She was throwing rocks. At everyone. She doesn't miss. Ever.

My daughter was THE TERROR OF THE PLAYGROUND.

I used the following flair packs for this project: Woodgrain Days of the week and Triangles Kraft and Color Flair

So I put Miss Thang on "time out".

Time Out is new to Lola who is used to being the ruler of the roost but I had visions of a 13 year-old Lola pulling tricks like kicking Geese and bulling younger children.

Oh. Hot and ugly place, NO.

Not on MY watch.

I guess it's not really time-out if you sit with the child and talk to her... forgive me- I'm a first timer.

Lola's uncle took this photo using his brand new telephoto lens and panoramic setting.

At the time I was telling her not to rip up the clover because bees needed it for making honey.  Yeah, I'm one of those parents.

Lola was studiously looking anywhere but me.

I was getting frustrated.

Then, a few days later,  I saw this photo and realized- she WAS listening.

Could she be immitating me?

Am I overly enthusiastic, roung and tumble, inquisitive and well, Tigger-ish? (Bounce BOUNCE! BOUNCE!!!!)

So my lesson this week was- be still.

Smile more.

Focus on the moment.

And for goodness' sake- remember she's only THREE. YEESH!

Have a great rest of the week!

Michelle

Sweet Summertime

I pulled these photos out of my big stack and matched them up to some Echo Park papers.  The 'Summertime' button went perfect with this one and finishes off my title.

 

Grab your Summer flair here.