{A Flair for Buttons}

Adorkable You!

When Shelley previewed the Just Words 3 set, I had to have it.  There were so many awesome phrases in there and I've already used most of them.  Adorkable You is above (see close-ups on my personal blog), Living the Dream and Look Out World were posted during our Blog Hop last weekend and I am putting the finishing touches on one using the Once Upon a Time.... button.  To say I loved this set would be an understatement.

I also used one of the heart geotag buttons from this set.  The geotags are always a fun one to keep on hand because they can be used for anything.

Check out the store to see the many choices in flair.  Shelley is always open to suggestions too, so if you have an idea for a set, drop her a line!

Home Grown

Hi all! Els here today. I have a birthday card to share with you. I was going through my Studio Calico card kit paper pads and found a fun combo of patterned papers to work with. And I knew I had a fun green flair from the Farmer Market 1 set that would perfectly match with those papers. So I got to work.

To break up the brown background and give the card a bit more interest, I stamped some sentiments onto it with Frost White pigment ink. A couple of banners of patterned papers were sewn overtop, and then I added the embellishments and the sentiment.

All in all, this turned out to be a card with a rather male touch, and with a fun twist because of the Farmer Market flair. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Els.

This Is Forty

Do you ever create a layout and then think, that's not exactly what I was going for?  That is what happened to me on my last project.  Here is the layout.

I wanted to document my turning 40 in a small way.  So I grabbed this photo and threw together a little journaling with my favourite {aflairforbuttons} flair that I had been saving just for this project.

I had all the right products, and even the design is pretty good, showcasing my style of scatteredclusters all over the page.  I even tucked the journaling away in a tiny pocket as I usually do.

I used the last little bit of my favourite trim.

 

And this little cluster does indeed make me happy.  But overall something is just out of whack. What do you do when that happens to you?  Rip the layout apart and start over?  File it away and not share it with the world?  Or just move on?  In this case I think it's the white cardstock that is throwing it off.  I love white backgrounds, and I especially love this wood grain white cardstock. But I think I would have been better off going with a shabby chic/scripty type patterned paper on the bottom.  Oh well, I'm not usually one to rip a layout apart, or hide it.  I think it's good to allow the "real us", in my case the 40 year old "real us" to show through our work.  This is me. These are some of my favourite products on one layout to help give just a peek into who I am at 40, the kind of scrapper I am, and the happy condition of my heart.  This set of flair was just perfect to help me showcase this brief moment in time.

This set is also calling my name. 

I really want to do another layout that's a lot more detailed about this past year of my life.  It hasn't been an easy one, and some of these words and images have been exactly what I have been holding on to to make it through to my current "happy" state.

 

Have you looked through the {aflairforbuttons} Etsy shop lately? Perhaps there's a Lovely Words set calling your name too.

Winners!!!!

Here are the winners chosen at random from our blog hop! Please email me at [email protected] to let me know which set of flair you would like me to send you! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the hop! Have a great rest of the week! Shelley

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Miriam Prantner

Amy Coose

Jessica Rodarte

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Michelle

 

 

Welcome to {a flair for buttons} Spring Blog Hop 2014!

Thank you so much for joining us today for our Spring Blog Hop! Please leave a comment on this blog and the DT members blogs and you may be the winner of a flair set of your choice! Winners will be selected randomly from the comments left on all of our blogs. Comments are open until Monday at Midnight and winners will be announced on Wednesday! As an added bonus here is the coupon code to use when checking out that will give you 10% off your total order!

Here is my creation for the blog hop! I am loving that the weather is getting warmer here in the Midwest so I decided to create some Spring "flowers"! I made these flowers out of pieces of measuring tape, inserts from some old patterns, straws, and a mason jar! Flair is perfect for the center of projects like this. I used the flat backs which makes it really easy to glue to your project! For this project I used the More Lovely Words set 4!

 

 

I also offer flair with pin backs which is perfect for projects like this pin I made in honor of my son for Autism Awareness which is the entire month of April! I just folded a piece of zipper trim from Maya Road and added my flair with a pin back!

Now go check out what the rest of my Design Team created with their flair!! You will be so inspired!

 

Erica Weinstock

Michelle Hernandez

Joy Taylor

Mary Ann Maldonado

Ashli Oliver

Diane Payne

Els Brige

Sherri Funk

Daniela Dobson

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Don't forget to leave a comment and use the coupon code for your discount! Happy Easter to you and yours!

Blog Hop on April 19!!!

I hope you can join us here on Saturday for our Spring Blog Hop! There will be flair button giveaways and a coupon code for a discount on your order! Happy Spring! 

Vintage Love

Hi everyone! Diane here, sharing a little vintage love today with two layouts featuring old family photos.

For the first layout, I kept the design simple with a grid, filling the squares with little bits of embellishments, and of course, a piece of Milk Cap Flair to coordinate with the theme.

The photo features my Grandma with her Dad and their big catch of the day!

On this layout I used a looser grid design and a piece of flair from the Quatrefoil Bright Flair. Isn't that photo of my Mom in a tub on the porch adorable?!

Whether you are using vintage themed flair or a bright and colorful flair like the one on this page, they both work great for old vintage photos.

You can pick up these sets in the {a flair for buttons} shop along with lots of new sets too!

Thanks for visiting today!

Oh Happy Day

Happy Sunday! Els here today, and I brought a super fun card for you all. I had been playing with some gold embossed feathers for another project, and had one left over. Perfect to make a quick and easy card.

I sew the feather onto the piece of patterned paper and placed one of the Script Words flair on top. To repeat the gold I added a strip of double sided adhesive along the bottom, and dumped some fine gold glitter onto it.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Els.

I Love Color (and flair)!

Hello flair fans! Spring has made an appearance for me here in Texas but in case you're still experiencing a case of the winter blues I have a very bright and colorful layout to cheer you up today!

Nothing like a rainbow of flair to brighten the day! :) I paired my flair with lots of other colorful goodies from my stash.

I used the Just Hearts 2 Flair, which you can pick up in the shop along with lots of other new sets!

Thanks for stopping by everyone!