Did you win?

Shelley posted the winners of the Flair sets on the blog this week.  Check to see if you were a winner and then drop her an email.

Winners!!!!

Here are the winners chosen at random from our blog hop! Please email me at kidsmom1999@yahoo.com 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

Adorkable You!

You read that title right.  Adorkable.  I received some new flair in the mail and this one caught my eye. I really could use it for 50% of the photos I take of my son because, well, he does adorkable things.  He's always making a face or doing something silly.

So when I started sorting through photos to scrap and saw these, I knew they were perfect.  I take him to a place called Sports Clips.  This is kind of a guys only haircut place.  They do cut womens' hair but they specialize in men.  The cut, hot towel and massage package is my son's favorite.  The first time we went in, he hopped up in the chair and told the girl what he wanted.  Previously, we'd been going to Fantastic Sams and they were always shocked he liked getting his hair cut.  Most kids cried and fought their way out of the chair.  Not my son!

Plus, he's a bit of a charmer, so he's charmed the girls in this shop.

Anyway, this was the perfect flair to go with this photo AND it became my title too.

I mixed in all kinds of fun stuff from my stash.  MME papers to start.

 Freckled Fawn paper clips.  Oh how I LOVE these.  I'm also testing a Wink of Stella brush tip pen that I love.  I 'colored' in the space of the word 'love' with the glitter pen making it stand out just a little.

 And on this Dear Lizzy wood veneer heart.

 And on the stamped letters on my title.

 Since the move, I've uncovered a bunch of older supplies.  This 'I love this boy' stamp is from Cat's Life Press.  They make a bunch of really cute stamps.  This is a tiny one and I will be using it more often.  Of course, there are enamel dots.  No, I didn't make my own by melting down perler beads.  I don't have the time or patience for that.

 My little cluster of embellishments.  The 'cool' stamp is also from Cat's Life Press, the tag is from Chic Tags and the stamped 'YOU' is a stamp set from Simon Says Stamp.  Flair is from A {Flair} for Buttons Etsy Shop.

Second flair is from the same shop and the tags are from Chic Tags.  I really dug around in my stash for the supplies and tried to use some older items.

Welcome to the Spring Blog Hop with A Flair for Buttons!

(Leave a comment for a chance to win a set of {flair} from the shop.)

Its no surprise I love flair.  Shelley has been releasing new sets frequently and its so hard to pick and choose which sets to work with!  I love these metal embellishments and I think they are the perfect 'finishing touch' to my projects.

Here are a few of my latest projects using some new sets.  (Scroll down to see previous projects.)

Now check out the rest of the AFFB Design Team to see what they created!

Erica Weinstock  < < < you are here!

Michelle Hernandez

Joy Taylor 

Mary Ann Maldonado

Ashli Oliver

Diane Payne

Els Brige

Sherri Funk

Daniela Dobson

{a flair for buttons}

Don't forget to leave a comment on each blog for a chance to win a set.  In case you just can't wait to get your hands on some of these fun little buttons, here's a coupon code to get you started!  (You have until midnight of the 21st to leave a comment.  Winners will be chosen later in the week and announced here.)

Sneaks and a Blog Hop

This Saturday....join us!

We will be sharing some fun projects using {flair} from the shop!  Shelley just added tons of new sets.

Here's a teaser (or two).....

 (Why does Blogger insist on flipping my pictures?)

I've got 2 finished layouts and 2 more in the works.  Maybe a mini album.  We'll see how badly work kicks my butt this week.  ;)

Summer fun

I tried something new with this layout.  I started with a kit from my 2013 stash.  (This is either Cocoa Daisy or Citrus Twist - I didn't save any paperwork on it.....)  I always feel the kits are so thin in the way of product and you have to purchase all of the add ons to get something decent to work with.  But then, I have drawers *full* of product I've purchased and hardly ever pull out and use.

I see everyone moving to this 'sort by color' way of organizing there rooms so I tried it.  I bought these cool 5x7 plastic bins at Michaels (pictures in another post) and sorted my drawers.  I can't tell you how many unopened product baggies are sitting in there.  Packs of journaling cards, overlays, dicuts and more.  I sat one night while watching Reign and sorted.

Then I came back to this already started layout and pulled my orange and blue plastic bins out.  I've never scrapped this way before.  I stuck with ONE paper line  or ONE kit.  There was no reasoning behind the fact that I pidgeon-holed myself into ONLY using the items in the kit.  This may not be a new concept to most people but it was to me.  Not anymore.  I had so much fun pulling stuff from here and there and not caring if it was a different manufacturer, if it matched, I pulled it out.

I *LOVE* creating in this fashion.  It freed my mind a little and I threw some really cool, layered layouts together.

Here's one.  A 2 pager no less.

Some up close shots.

 The tag is from the kit and its by Amy Tan.  I pulled 3 colors of DMC floss and stitched.  I loved the way the tag looked but it was also a very large 'space'.  I added flair, paper clips and more to dress it up.

 The sticker letters on this side are from Simple Stories.  They take on a whole new look when you add a very thin layer of Glossy Accents to them.

 Dog paper clip from Studio Calico, orange envelope from Fancy Pants, Happy Things tag from Chic Tags (paper is also Chic Tags), 'love' is from Jillibean Soup.

Sequins came in the kit and are from Lawn Fawn.

I used multiple flair pieces, all from different sets.

Linen Chevron
Linen Dots
Days of the week

On a roll

So, last weekend, I finally took the time to grab some photos of the rest of the layouts I'd finished since January.   Expect lots of sharing.

 This is using a Cocoa Daisy kit from 2013.  Have I mentioned I have a scary stash of kits?  Cocoa Daisy, Citrus Twist, Studio Calico and now Scraptastic.  I no longer sub to Studio Calico or Citrus Twist.  CD and Scraptastic seem to cover all my bases and offer me product I actually use.  I struggle to use SC's kits.

 The exclusive papers in this kit were perfect.  Cloud stamp paired with Glossy Accents = perfect accent.  Flair is from the A {Flair} for buttons shop.

Another layout using that Authentique (or Carta Bella paper).  Explore Oceanside.

 This is based off a sketch on my Pinterest boards.  The explore word is from Freckled Fawn maybe?  (I really shouldn't take things out of packaging....)  I used some Tim Holtz Distress Ink to stain the veneer and then added Glossy Accents over that to create a varnished wood look.

The chevron is stitched.  I used the Chevron Mist Template from Studio Calico to punch my holes and then stitched.  I just went with one big stitch instead of little ones.

The theme for Rocky....

is playing in my head right now.  I'm on  a crafting roll. 

 This was created using remnants of a Cocoa Daisy kit.  Title was cut on my Cameo.  Bits and pieces are from the kit.  the 'documented' flair is from the A {Flair} for Buttons Etsy shop.

And this layout was created from another Cocoa Daisy kits from 2013.  This one featured some Elle's Studio papers.

 Enamel dots and Jillibean Soup letters.

Flair and May Arts ribbon.  You can pick up your own 'I *heart* my dog' flair in the shop.