I have been playing with the new buttons and grommets from the Summer Mini. I made a Christmas easel card with both of these (keep an eye out for easel cards in the January workshops).

Stamps: Season of Joy (113023). Card/Paper: Very Vanilla (106550), Old Olive (106576), Real Red (106578). Ink: Old Olive (102277), Real Red (103133), Bashful Blue (105209). Accessories: Very Vanilla Small Grommets (114349), Very Vanilla Jumbo Grommets (114348), Real Red and Old Olive Buttons from Playground (116313), Bashful Blue Buttons from Sherbet (116312), Linen Thread (104199), 5/8" Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon (109052), Dazzling Diamonds Stampin' Glitter (102023). Tools: Large Oval Punch (107305), Scallop Oval Punch (retired), Bone Folder (102300), Mat Pack (105826), Brayer (102395), Daubers (102892), 2-way Glue Pen (100425), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430), Mini Glue Dots (103683). Techniques: Masking.

The buttons I used on this card were Bashful Blue from the Sherbet pack, also Real Red and Old Olive from the Playground pack. Playground has the colours: Tempting Turquiose, Real Red, More Mustard and Old Olive. Sherbet has: Pretty in Pink, Cetainly Celery, Bashful Blue and Pumpkin Pie.

I also used small and jumbo grommets on the Christmas easel card. Grommets are designer hardware that we haven't seen in a New Zealand catalogue before. In the Summer Mini you can get grommets in two sizes - Jumbo (approx. 2.5 cm in diametre) and Small (approx. 1.3 cm in diametre). These come in a mixture of Basic Black, Silver, Very Vanilla and Whisper White. Please note that the picture in the Summer Mini says is shows the grommets at 100%, which is incorrect. The picture of the grommets is really 65% actual size.

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Here is a small grommet:

And then there are the jumbo grommets. I have used a jumbo grommet on this stamped candle.

Stamps: Upsy Daisy (115898). Ink: Night of Navy (102977). Accessories: Whisper White Jumbo Grommets (114348), So Saffron 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon (from September's Ribbon Bundle Promotion). Tools: Heat Tool (106586).

Grommets are set by placing your card on the foam mat from the Mat Pack and pressing the prongs on the back of the grommet through the card. Then you turn the card over and use a bone folder to turn the prongs over. Very easy to do. In the case of the candle, I just gently bent the grommet to match the curve of the candle, then pressed the prongs into the wax.

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