Hi Everyone. Happy Saturday!
This week the fabulous Nance has a GREAT challenge for us.
The minute I saw this challenge I knew exactly what I was going to do! The funny thing is…. several of the design team had similar ideas and we didn't know that until we went to load our cards. You really need to go check it out! Rach…you especially!
I really wanted to go clean on the layout and make the focus all about the sentiment. There is a wonderful sentiment in the Papertrey Ink Happy Trails set and you have seen me use it before. I decided that my button treatment would be all about that sentiment!
Here's what I came up with
I know you can't see it – but the top layer is actually textured Whisper White card stock. The textured background added just the right amount of …well… texture! against the smoothness of the buttons.
I was really happy with the card and it took almost no time to come together.
Card recipe:
- Card stock: Whisper White plain and textured card stock
- Accessories: Stampin' Up! buttons – Rich Regals, Bold Brights
- Sentiment: Happy Trails, Papertrey Ink
- Ink: Night of Navy
We hope that you will play along with us this week. The Paper Players can't wait to see what creative ways YOU come up with of using buttons on a clean and simple card.
On a personal note:
Happy St. Patrick's day. St Patty's day holds a lot of personal memories for me and helps to bring me closer to my Irish roots. Although, it isn't a day I drink green beer :-) it's a day I think of my father and all of my paternal ancestors. Remembering how amazing it was – 5 years ago – when I stood in County Louth and realized that my family had been in that same spot since the 11th century. It gave me a feeling of connectedness and continuity that is really hard to explain.
May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
~Irish Blessing
Hugs
Jaydee
17 Responses
Absolutely adorable, Jaydee! You are sooo creative! Someday I would love to visit Ireland and stand where my ancestors stood…but I still have so much more research to do. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you, too!
Your card is beautiful, Jaydee!
Jaydee, love your clean and simple card with all those bright buttons. Makes me want to buy more buttons than I already have.
Hi Jaydee! I love your rainbow!! So simple and striking. Perfect! Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you as well.
La La La Laaaaaaaaa!!!! Can you hear that?? That’s my heart singing with joy over this card!!!! Oh how I ADORE it!! I shall be CASEing this one for sure!
Happy Sunday and Hugs!
Thank You for the Irish Blessing. I loved it!! And I love your card. A friend and I was just talking about what to do with all our buttons–you answered that question!! Thanks!!!
Love this one, Jaydee. Anything that resembles a rainbow is always so cheery!
Gorgeous use of rainbow buttons!!
Wonderful card: so bright and cheerful and perfect with the buttons. Love it!
Sweet sweet sweet!
so VERY pretty, but see I know myself, and I could just never part with this many pretty buttons at a time! (now if someone gave me the buttons to do it, yes!)
I REALLY DIG this card! Great CAS card 🙂
Susan
Jeydee what a cute card! Your little rainbow buttons look like they are SMILING! Really… I see little Happy Faces… don’t you? Hugs.
Gorgeous card, Jaydee! I love this rainbow of buttons!
I have a blessing that I like, supposedly it is Scandinavian but I have my doubts!
May the light always find you on a dreary day
When you need to be home may you find the way
May you always have courage to take a chance
And never find frogs in your underpants!
How stinkin’ cute is this and how clever are you?! Love it, Jaydee. The arched placement of the buttons is spectacular and I love how they frame the sentiment. Stellar CAS card, my friend. (hugs)
What could b better then a button rainbow? This is such a cheerful card, Jaydee! You alwys know how to pack a punch with your CAS_tastic style, my friend. Hope you enjoyed your weekend and Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you! 🙂
Oh,Jaydee! What’s not to love about this card?! The simplicity of the rainbow screams beauty and I just love the perfect sentiment to compliment the card design. Such a wonderful inspiration for this week’s button challenge! Have a blessed weekend!