Handmade is best!

Hi all! Hope you're all enjoying your week. I made this card a while ago for my aunt's birthday (which is today!) but was waiting for the right challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey so I could enter it!! Now wasn't it a coincidence that the challenge during my aunt's birthday is "needle and thread"?!!

Anyway so here it is... a non-cute card from me!

This card is basically pretty much all PTI using the Button Boutique stamp set and matching dies. The handmade display card that the buttons are on was made using the stamp set stamped with SU ink and then die cut using the button card dies which include the cute little hanging bit die at the top. I then die cut the background piece of paper which the buttons are sitting on using another die. The buttons are also cut using a PTI die and PTI coasters (to make them more 3d) and then I die cut papers to glue on top and added hand stitching. Both the sentiments are from the stamp set too. Papers are by MME. I then added some paper lace in the background and material lace with a pearl pin.

I'd like to enter this into:

A Passion for Papertrey- needle and thread

Love to Create- add stitching

Stamps & fun = creativity- non cute

Crazy Challenges- anything goes

Victorine Originals- lace

Sentimental Sundays- lace and pearls

Allsorts- anything goes

Dies to die for- anything goes

Crafty Catz- b is for... buttons!

Little Miss Muffet Challenges- Fancy or lacy

Moving ALong With the Times- layers

Sarah Hurley Challenges- die cuts

Crafty stash used: Stamps (PTI); Inks (SU); Papers (MME); Coasters; Dies- button card, buttons, button background (PTI); Lace (local haberdashery); Paper lace (?); Pearls (K&Co); Pearl pin (JoAnns); Thread

Thanks for stopping by today, I'll be back on Saturday with another Sketch Saturday post! xxx