Vintage Button Card Creations, Episode II

Back at Christmastime, I wrote about my design epiphany with some vintage button cards I had.

Well, since I loved them so much, I thought it would be fun to create some for year-round gift-giving, and not just Christmas. So, I hit the Ebay trail, and amassed a small hoard of vintage button cards to play with. I've seen a lot of digital downloads of images of them, but nothing beats the real thing with me, with all their wrinkles, creases, and price tags, making each one unique.

And is usually the case, I couldn't stop there. I also ordered some beautiful seam binding tape and velvet, in a variety of colors, millinery flowers, and stamen. Thank God for Etsy. You can't just walk around the corner to find a millinery supply store. I already had many colors of crepe paper and rick rack just waiting for a new creation. Vintage rick rack is another gem, since it's usually cotton, allowing me to dye or bleach it.

So, without further ado, hear are my first creations of the year............

As I've said before, Aqua makes Everything better.

I loved that this card still had the old Woolworth's

price tag on it, so I made it part of the design.

Thought I'd play with the crepe paper on this one, instead of rick rack..

After using dictionary paper on the Christmas ones,

I think it's officially one of my trademarks to

use it on all of them. On this one, I really made it

one of the focal points, wrapping it on multiple stems.

My Bingo markers always seem to sneak into my designs.

Definitely a different look for me, as I usually require more color.

However, I like this aged look,

imagining the flowers' color fading to brown, 

and the crepe that was once whiter.

Thanks to alcohol ink, I could easily create that effect.

The abalone buttons coordinated perfectly with the 

embossed silver graphics. I ordered some charcoal

seam binding, that couldn't have matched better.

The seam binding and velvet I ordered were all beautiful,

but I really wanted everything to look more vintage

like the button cards. So I soaked and scrunched them up 

with that ever-useful alcohol ink, and it gave them

the aged warmth I was looking for.

More button cards are waiting, so back to crafting I go!

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