Button Farm Club Kit February 2012

Last weekend I finished my latest Button Farm Kit.  The kit came with a 7 Gypsies library drawer, lots of Tim Holtz goodies and the usual excellent instructions.  I supplemented with distress inks, distress stains and glimmer mist.  I also added some manilla ATCs, some kraft ATCs and some canvas ATCs and had lots of fun playing with tecniques.

If there's interest, we could start an ATC club at Maggie's Place and play with various techiques once a month or so - let me know if you are interested!

the box

There are 4 sections in the box, so I decided to dedicate a section each to my two sons, my sweetie and the puppy

the fronts of the cards about son #1

the fronts of the cards about son #2

the puppy cards!

and last but certainly not least - my sweetie!

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From top to bottom:


- "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes" Scott Adams; 7 Gypsies Quarterdeck playing card

- "There are three kinds of people - those who can count and those who can't" Tim Holtz Stamper Anonymous Classic Collage stamp, Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder.

- "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." Krylon black webbing spray

- "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." Erma Bombeck; Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Tim Holtz Distressables Elements digital image, October Afternoon patterned paper

- "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." Groucho Marx; 7 Gypsies printed ATC, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Tim Holtz Distressables Elements digital image

- Hambly transparency

We hope you've enjoyed this peek into the world of the ATC. Thanks for joining us!

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From top to bottom:

- “Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways.”7 Gypsies printed ATC, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, October Afternoon patterned paper, Tim Holtz Distressables Elements digital image

- "If you don't die from it - it is healthy" October Afternoon patterned paper, Luxe Designs Rub-ons, Hambly transparency

- October Afternoon patterned paper, Luxe Designs Rub-ons, Tim Holtz Distressables Elements digital image

- 7 Gypsies ATC tab, brass paperclip, Renaissance Art Stamps metal charm

- "Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now." 7 Gypsies printed ATC, Tim Holtz Distress Inks

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- "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." Blaise Pascal; 7 Gypsies printed ATC, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Boxer paper clip

- Hambly transparency

- " Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." G.B. Stern; 7 Gypsies game tiles

- ""Sometimes I wake grumpy; other times i let him sleep" Tim Holtz Distress Inks, metal and embossing tools by Ten Seconds Studio

- "A child’s self-image is more like a scrapbook than a single snapshot. As the child matures, the number and variety of images in that scrapbook may be far more important than any individual picture pasted inside it." Lawrence Kutner; CTMH acrylic stamp, embossing powder

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- "2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2" Tim Holtz Distress Inks, metal and embossing tools by Ten Seconds Studio

- "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." Pablo Picasso; Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Tim Holtz Distressables Elements digital image, October Afternoon patterned paper

- Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Rhonna Farrer rub-ons

- 7 Gypsies printed ATC, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Luxe Designs Rub-on

- 7 Gypsies ATC tab, brass paperclip, Renaissance Art Stamps metal charm

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From top to bottom:

- 7 Gypsies ATC tab, brass paperclip, Renaissance Art Stamps metal charm

- Hambly transparency

- "You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever." 7 Gypsies Quarterdeck playing card (the joker of course!)

- "Alcohol and Calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive" 7 Gypsies printed ATC, Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE) in clear, with a little gold embossing powder sprinkled in on the last go-round

- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Grouch Marx; Krylon gold webbing spray

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-Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Rhonna Farrer rub-on

- " Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off." 7 Gypsies printed ATC, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, 7 Gypsies game tile

- "If you hear a voice within you say, 'you can not paint,' then by all means PAINT, and that voice will be silenced." Vincent Van Gogh; Russia Journey stamp by Dove of the East, Judikins weathered patina embossing powder

- "What is necessary for the baby and child is not always what is easiest or most convenient for teh parents." Bonnie Bedford; Krylon webbing spray

- October Afternoon patterned paper, Paper Trunk patterned paper, Fancy Pants rub-on

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- 7 Gypsies printed ATC, Hambly transparency, Tim Holtz Distress Inks

- 7 Gypsies ATC tab, brass paperclip, Renaissance Art Stamps metal charm

- Hambly transparency

- "The cruelest lies are often told in silence" Robert Louis Stevenson; Tim Holtz Distress Inks, metal and embossing tools by Ten Seconds Studio

- "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." Christopher Reeve; 7 Gypsies printed ATC, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, October Afternoon patterned paper, Tim Holtz Distressables Elements digital image

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-"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain; woven ribbon remnant

- "We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse." Tim Holtz Distress Inks

- "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln; Tim Holtz Distress Inks, metal and embossing tools by Ten Seconds Studio

- "Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." H L Mencken. 7 Gypsies printed ATC, Tim Holtz Distress Inks

- 7 Gypsies printed ATC, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Rhonna Farrer rub-on

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-Paper Trunk patterned paper , Rhonna Farrer rub-ons

- 7 Gypsies printed ATC, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Hambly transparency, twine, staple

- Paper Trunk patterned paper, Tim Holtz Distressables Elements digital image, Fancy Pants rub-ons

- 7 Gypsies ATC tab, brass paperclip, Renaissance Art Stamps metal charm

- "Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do." Friedrich Von Schlegel; 7 Gypsies printed ATC, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Tim Holtz Distressables Elements digital image