LTSCB Challenge 49: Buttons and Bows

Hello and welcome to another great challenge over at the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog. This time around the theme is Buttons and Bows. To participate in this challenge you must use some kind of stamped image, at least one button, and at least one bow. We have 3 sponsors so you have 3 chances to win some great prizes. Our sponsors are:

A Day For Daisies

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Bugaboo Digi Stamps

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Limited Runs Stamps

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My DT team got to work with images from Limited Run Stamps. I chose the Art Deco Flower. She has different Art Deco images and when I saw them I immediately thought of stained glass. I decided to do a technique that I learned a few years ago when I worked for PK Glitz at the Creating Memories Scrapbook Expo in Columbus Ohio. That Expo will be coming up again soon and is full of great vendors, products, and classes. It is a lot of fun. If you live anywhere near Columbus you should check it out. They have a website where you can preregister but right now I don’t know what it is. Anyway, back to my project. This technique involves printing on the backside of a transparency, applying a sheet of double-sided adhesive over the image,  a lot of light cutting with a craft knife, and covering the image with different colors of glitter. When I learned the technique, we did a butterfly. We cut it out and just glittered the image. For this project however, I used my new Marianne design die to cut the image. This gave me a decorative border around the image. When it is finished, it really does look like stained glass:

The back of the image:

The front  (not sure why it rotated):

One thing to remember (that I forgot) is to print a mirror image since you are printing on the back of the transparency. I forgot to do that, so my image is actually backward. It doesn’t matter for this image, but would if your image had any kind of wording on it. After I got all that finished I glued it down to a piece of textured mirror paper from Michaels. I had to use Liquid Glass  and lay something heavy over it. It had to sit over night and dry. The glitter does not take kindly to adhesive tapes. I then fussy cut around the die. Here is my finished product:

I played with my new Bow-It-All V2 to make the bow. I had to watch a tutorial on You Tube to figure out the locking C to tie it off. I just couldn’t handle the written instructions LOL. I tried to make a double loop double bow but had to settle for just the double bow. I think I am going to have lots of fun with my new toyJ. I thought the buttons were too plain, so I covered them with Liquid Glass and dipped them in the same glitter I used on the image. The die on the inside was embossed and then inked with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink and brushed with the Wink of Stella Clear brush .

Materials:

Image:

Stamps: Creative Memories Wonderful You set (You make me smile)

Paper: Cardstock, Mirror Paper from Michaels, DP from the Paper Studio Affinity Pack

Ribbon: ½ inch Cream Satin Ribbon

Dies/Punches: Marianne Designs LR0317, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch (another new toy)

Adhesive: Wonderfilm from PK Glitz, Liquid Glass from CTMH, AGT gun

Glitters: PK Glitz Tropical Rain, Sea Mist, Sky Blue, Purple Reign, and Sunset; Recollections “Bling” 

from Michaels; Crystal Glitter Ritz “Warm Highlights”

Embellies: Tim Holtz Fragment attached w/ Tim’s Jump Ring, Buttons, Frantage (on wings), Mini Buttons from JoAnne Fabrics

Ink: Peacock Feathers Distress Ink (inside die only), StazOn Jet Black, Wink of Stella Clear brush

I’m loving my card and I hope you do too. Please pop over to the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog and check out all the DT’s great creations. I hope that you will make a project and join us in our challenge. You have two weeks to participate.

I am entering the following:
 http://craft-deebowz.blogspot.com/2015/03/march-challenge.html  Anything Goes w/ Handmade Bow
http://livelaughstamp.blogspot.com/search/label/Monday%20Morning%20Challenge Think Spring
http://scrapbookstampsocietychallengeblog.blogspot.com/ Anything Goes w/ Option of Stitching
http://papersweeties.com/blog/paper-sweeties-inspiration-challenge-29-waiting-for-spring/ Waiting for Spring
http://thepapernestdollschallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything Goes
http://www.ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk/ Add Flowers (image and paper are floral)
http://getcreativechallenges.blogspot.com/ Embossing (dry embossing on inside die)
http://stampandcreateblog.blogspot.com/ Is it Spring Yet?
http://stampedblessings.com/page/2/ Glitter
http://sparklensprinklecreativechallenges.blogspot.com/2015/03/march-2015-challenge.html
    Anything Goes with glitter/embossing powder/flocking