Red, White and Cream

Melissa Phillips has more inspiration for us today from A Creative Mint. Look at this photo below, isn't it divine? I love all of the vintage buttons, twine, clothespins, labels and old letters. Very inspiring, indeed.I knew I had a lot of red, white and cream goodness in my collections, so I decided to gather all my goodies into one spot. There's Papertrey ribbons, vintage ribbons, vintage buttons, glitter, twine, old sheet music, paper doilies, ric racs and more.I decided to use some tags to make Valentines that will be inserted into Papertrey medium glassine bags. First, I distressed all my tags and a sheet of PTI Stamper's Select White cardstock with Ranger Distress ink in Antique Linen and my handy dandy brayer.

Next, I picked out a bunch of punches and a bunch of Papertrey stamps. I stamped the images onto my distress cardstock with Pure Poppy ink and punched them out with various punches.
I also distressed some heart paper doilies I found at Walmart in the Valentine aisle. I punched out circles from the doilies. Love that!
After I had all my stamped images punched out, I arranged them and then adhered them to my distress tag. There is no overlapping of the punched images on the tag. Instead I let those pieces hang over the edge of the tag and then I trimmed them off with scissors. Cool, yes?
Then I dug into my stash of PTi Vintage Buttons and found these neglected buttons that were somewhat bulky for a card and had shanks on the back. Voila...perfecto for my tags, just what I was looking for. To get the buttons on the tag, I threaded PTI Pure Poppy Luxe Satin ribbon through the buttons, brought the ends to the front, wrapped around the button and tied a ribbon.
And here are my beautiful tags. Oh how I love them, let me count the ways. Zoom in to get a better look at the details.
Oh, I also tied some red and white baker's twine from Martha Stewart around the buttons, so pretty. I love that stuff!
I slapped on some chipboard heart stickers that were leftover from a sheet of K & Company stickers onto my glassine bags. The tags slip right in. Source of tags is unknown, they were loose in my stash. I'm planning on tucking in some chocolate bars behind the tags and mailing these off to some special gals.
Now. You have to check this out. I didn't notice this until I was sewing on the buttons, I swear. It wasn't planned. Two of the hearts I punched from the sheet music have some interesting phrases that totally suit me....*Dance of the Butt* and *Clown Pranks*. What a hoot that was when I saw those on my tags!
Well, that's it for today. I must make a dent in a big project list. Hope you're enjoying the Papertrey festivities. And thanks for the challenge Melissa! Be sure to visit her blog, I think a few more PTI girls are playing along with her challenge.

Note: Some of the stamps I used from Papertrey are Giga Guidelines, TAke Note, Simple Valentine, Say It With Style, and Borders and Corners Circles.