Collect Beautiful Moments and a 28 Lilac Lane Blog Hop...

Hello friends!

If you're looking for some beautiful inspiration for this weekend, then you have come to the right place as today, we are having a 28 Lilac Lane blog hop! If you love buttons and embellishments then you will adore May Flaum's beautiful range and I am so proud to be a part of this hop sharing my love for my favourite kit!

At the end of this hop Buttons Galore and More will be giving away some 28 Lilac Lane kits. Each blogger participating today is picking a favourite kit to work with and to giveaway, and one winner per blog will be selected. To be entered for your chance to win, leave a comment by July 11th and for more chance to win be sure to leave comments on all the blogs of the talented ladies participating toad. A list of winners will be posted to May's blog on July 12th with instructions on how to claim your prize! So what are you waiting for...let's start hopping!!

Order of blog hop:

May Flaum

Chari Moss

Ashli Oliver

Audrey Pettit

Nina-Marie Trapani

Emma Williams (that's me and you're already here!!)

So, for my project I chose to create a project with the beautiful Minty Fresh Embellishment Bottle Kit. I absolutely adore the colour palette of this kit and the quality of these buttons, pearls, sequins and beads are just stunning...you can't beat them! I hope you love the panel I've created and enjoy the hop...

I started this project with a piece of watercolour card and because I was using Tim Holtz's Tea Time die, I wanted to create a background that would look like a cup of tea had been spilt all over it. I began by spritzing the card with Antique Linen and Tea Dye Distress Spray Stains and just letting the colour run to create drips and spills.

Once happy with my background, I added some randomly torn strips of Tissue Tape and some texture paste using the Tim Holtz Tile Layering Stencil and the Splatters stencil. Another spritz of Tea Dye over the top, before adding a touch of colour using Picked Raspberry Distress Crayon.

To complete the background, I added some ink around the edge, some gold foil highlights and a few paint flicked and scratched lines before matting and layering the background onto copper metallic card stock, followed by a layer of black card.

The teacups are die cut from chipboard and painted with various shades of pink Distress Paints. I then flicked some Picket Fence Distress Paint over the top and shaded the edges with the Black Soot Distress Crayon. Once the teacups were stacked, I then die cut some gold metallic kraft core card using the Shattered die from the Mixed Media 3 Thinlit set , attached the die cut to the background before and mounting the cups over the top. Now, I can start adding those gorgeous Minty Fresh embellishments.

I began by adding a small piece of cheesecloth, tucking it into the top section of the teacup and then added and stuck each individual button, sequin, pearl and bead over the top, using Tim's Collage Medium to attach them.

I kept going until I had this wonderful cascade of buttons, pouring out of the teacup!

I also attached one of Tim Holtz's spoons from the Silverware Adornments set and added a few beads and pearls to it, again using the Collage Medium to attach them. The Figures stamp I used next to this is by Tim Holtz.

As a finishing touch, I dyed some Crinkle Ribbon with Spun Sugar and Victorian Velvet Distress Spray Stains and tied the ribbon into a scruffy bow. I attached this to a strip of the ribbon across my panel and placed a button and heart charm from the Attic Findings kit onto the centre of the bow.

 Finally, I added a Small Talk Sticker to complete the panel.

I really hope you love this project and adore the 28 Lilac Lane embellishments as much as I do...they are perfect for using on cards, scrapbook pages or home decor and all come in the most beautiful colour palettes!

28 Lilac Lane is available in stores now, including Simon Says Stamp and also, directly from www.buttonsgaloreandmore.com.

Thank you so much for stopping by today and hope you enjoyed the hop!

Have a great weekend...love Emma x