Robin's Birdhouse: Craft Hoarders Anonymous

Altered Pages Design Team

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Design Team for Challenge #14

Hello and welcome to my stop on the Craft Hoarders Anonymous blog hop. Crafters of every stripe are 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!

I am proud to be a member of the Altered Pages design team. My project today features gold shank buttons and one of the lovely ladies on the Feeling Mysterious collage sheet from Altered Pages. I enlarged the photo to 4x6 to fit the canvas and printed it in sepia tones instead of the standard black and white.

I began by spreading a layer of Vintage Photo Creative Medium on a 5x7 canvas board with a craft sponge. After tearing the edges all around the photo it was glued to the canvas with gel medium. Once it was dry two more layers of the Creative Medium were sponged onto the canvas and photo to deepen the golden color. Brown acrylic paint was added to the outer borders to pull it all together.

I found a button cover in my stash of gold buttons that goes so well with the headpiece this lovely lady is wearing that I knew it had to be included on the project. It looked like a mini picture frame so that's what I did with it. I found a small collage image on the Beauty in Red sheet and after it was coated with Creative Medium it was cut down to fit the frame. Then came the fun of adding the buttons! I was very lucky to have my husband cut the shanks off for me before the start of my project.

The buttons give this canvas just the right amount of shine to really enhance the photo. I love how it turned out and I hope you like it, too! Below is a list with links for the rest of the hops along the way and see all the wonderful ideas we have for how you can use your own button hoard!

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Thanks for visiting with me. I hope you'll visit the rest of the hops along the way. Everyone has such different projects...something for every taste!! Leaving comments during the Altered Pages and Craft Hoarders Blog Hop allows you to be entered into a random drawing for an Altered Pages Blog Gift - a Set of Japanese Oil Pastels and a huge Ephemera package.

Robin Horasanian (You are here)

We have joined the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Design Team to find the links to their posts visit Craft Hoarders blog ! (Psst...they have a prize to give away, too!)

Donna Idlet