Friday 19 August 2011

Birthday Buttons


Our new challenge at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days is Use Buttons. This time the challenge is sponsored by Hope Jacare find her Digi stamps here.
There is also a DT call so if you would like the chance to join a design team pop over and have a look.
We had some fantastic entries in the Summer Holidays challenge and I had great fun hopping round Blog land looking at them.

 My card this time was made with someone in mind, my beautiful daughter Emma is 23 this year which I find hard to believe. She sings in a band which they describe as Indie, funk, rock so you can see where I am coming from in my design! All three images are by Cardmadfairy. I coloured the images with her two favourite colours (purple and green) and peach. When I checked my button box to see if I had anything suitable I was really pleased to find one that fitted the bill exactly. Unfortunately when I started to put all the elements together I found the button just wouldn't fit into the overall design so I will have to save it for another occasion. I have added a picture of it so you can see how well it would have fitted in, ah well.


The music in the background is some wrapping paper I bought about 15 years ago when I first started making cards, I don't remember there being any of these fantastic designer papers around then, certainly if there were I wasn't aware of them. I remember using wallpaper and all sorts! The patterned paper is Basic Grey. The ribbon is a piece of trim I bought in London at MacCulloch&Wallis, a fabulous place to find haberdashery, and the heart buttons are from my local craft shop The Art of Craft   where I spend far too much money!
I would like to enter these challenges.
http://someoddgirl.blogspot.com/ complimentary colours (violet/yellow-green)


14 comments:

  1. Hi Gillian! LOVE this card. I just says "Happy". Thanks so much for sharing it with us at PCJ for our Anything Goes challenge.

    Lisa x

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  2. Wow! Very cool! Thanks for sharing at Make It Monday!

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  3. wonderful card - i love the button heart
    Thanks for linking up to Make it Monday
    Lisa x

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  4. Very Groovey!! Thank you for joining us for the Anything Goes Challenge. Hope to see you again for our next challenge! Good Luck! Hugs Annie xXx

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  5. This is such a lovely card. Very hippy like.

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  6. I love this - such a great card, thanks for joining in with Little Miss Muffet Challenges, x

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  7. Such a beautiful card! Thanks for joining us at the Some Odd Girl Challenge!

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  8. A lovely colourful card Gillian I love the way you have managed to use more than one of Jenni's digi's.
    Carol Ann xx

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  9. Gorgeous card Gillian! Those images are fab!

    Thanks for joining us this round at Little Miss Muffet stamps!

    Arabella

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  10. An happy e groovy card, so full of a psichedelic touch... perfect!
    Thank you for joining us at SomeOddGirl for our Complimentary Color Challenge this time, hope to see you again next challenge too!

    Hugs,
    Elena

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  11. Oh this is awesome, love the fun and funky prints and the fabulouas heart of buttons
    Thank you for playing the Some Odd Girl Challenge
    love tasha xx

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  12. Beautiful card! I love the button heart. Thank you for joining us at Little Miss Muffet Challenges.

    Jen

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  13. Happy birthday to your daughter! The colors and papers are just perfect. Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments
    Hugs,
    julie

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