Who, Who, Who’s Got the Button!

Altered Pages Design Team

has joined the

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog

Design Team for Challenge #14

Button It in a UP Blog Hop!

I love buttons and have hundreds of them. I also love birds and we won’t go there. I did make my project in memorial to a bird that was so beautiful. I got a call in the middle of the night about an Owl that had been struck by a car. I have been involved with pet bird rescue for years and can’t seem to get people to understand that I don’t do wild bird rescue but heck sometimes you just have to do what is right. So off I went.

He didn’t make it but I was so taken by his beauty that I made my button project to celebrate his beauty. My creation is not to made to be a copy but only a reminder of the beauty which is wild and free.

Crafters of every type can be button hoarders! Buttons are pretty, inexpensive, and extremely versatile. If you are a card maker, quilter, layout artist, or anything in between, you probably have a button hoard! Buttons come in many sizes, styles, shapes, and colors, plus they are easy to store...usually in cute containers! Pull out those bins of buttons and use some of them for your challenge project!  You can participate in the Craft Hoarders Challenge and win a prize from the blog sponsor... Altered Pages!

Leaving comments during the AlteredPages and Craft Hoarders blog hop allows you to be entered into a random drawing for an AlteredPages Blog Gift - a Set of Japanese Oil Pastels and a huge Ephemera package.

these are the AlteredPages Design Team members and their take on buttons!

Robin Horasanian 

Danie  May

Roni Johnson

Tonya Trantham

Trisha Too

Stephanie Siatta

Barbara Rankin

YOU ARE HERE: Debi Tullier

Lyneen Jesse

 

We have joined the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Design Team to find the links to their posts visit Craft Hoarders blog http://gloriadesignschallenge.blogspot.com/ !

Amber Milone
http://pinkchicpaperdesign.blogspot.com/2014/08/craft-hoarders-and-altered-pages-blog.html
Christy Butters
http://creatingwiththegirls.blogspot.com/2014/08/craft-hoarders-anonymous-challenge.html
Debbie Seyer
http://www.debbieseyer.com/my_weblog/2014/08/craft-hoarders-anonymous-challenge-14.html
Donna Idlet
http://myblogidlet.blogspot.com/2014/08/craft-hoarders-annoymous-challenge-14.html
Ginny Nemchak
http://pollyspaper.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/craft-hoarders-anonymous-and-altered-pages-blog-hop/
Glenda Brooks
http://glendabrooks.blogspot.com/2014/08/craft-hoarders-anonymous-challenge.html
Gloria Stengel
http://www.gloriascraps.blogspot.com/2014/08/craft-hoarders-anonymous-challenge-14.html
Jan Marie Ennenga
http://re-creations4him.blogspot.com/2014/08/in-its-time.html
Karen Zueger
http://lostcoastscrapper.blogspot.com/2014/08/craft-hoarders-anonymous-challenge-blog.html
Kathy Clement
http://www.kathybydesign.com/craft-hoarders-altered-pages-blog-hop/
Pam Bray
http://www.pammejoscrapbookflair.com/2014/08/challenge-14-button-it-up-with-craft.html
Tammi Bennett
http://www.tjsmemoriesblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/blog-hop-time.html

To participate in the challenge and to find out more about the rules and to enter your project go to the following:

My Who Who Who has the Button was created with buttons and several items available from AlteredPages.com .

Supplies:

Paper Towel Roll

Scissors

Buttons for eyes and feet

Markers to color white buttons

Craftwell eBrush

handmade paper for chest feathers

baby ball trim available from AlteredPages

Wooden disc for stand

woven plastic from dog food bag

Glue

Glitter from AlteredPages

Doily Paper for eye rings from AlteredPages

Gold foil for beak

I had many of the items I used on hand but was so delighted that I had received the beautiful paper that had a doily design on it from AlteredPages. It made my project come to life!

First I cut a paper towel roll to make a pillow case out of one end.

I completed the “owl” body with another piece of roll cut down the middle and shaped into wings.

Next I used my eBrush to spray brown marker over the surface of the paper roll.

If you don’ t have an eBrush don’t worry just take your marker and lightly color it.

I selected several buttons to use to construct my “Owl”. Those that need to be in a specific color I used my on hand markers to tint them.

I love the design of doilies on this paper from AlteredPages for my Owl’s eye rings. They really do bring it all together!

I used the Baby Ball Trim from AlteredPages to really add some cool texture to my project. I also used an adhesive spray to cover the trim with the beautiful glitter from AlteredPages.

I had on hand some handmade papers that  I used to make the feathers on his chest. I am so happy with my outcome. I hope you enjoy my project and I am looking forward to seeing yours too!

Best of Luck with the Crafter Hoaders Challenge!