Showing posts with label Blumenthal Lansing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blumenthal Lansing. Show all posts
Some Color for a White World
The Amazing Helen at Blumenthal Lansing sent me some new embellishment packs. I made this fabric cuff bracelet for Jo-Ann fabrics. The package had buttons in three sizes and four colors, beads, and embroidery floss. All I needed to make this bracelet was a yard of grosgrain ribbon and a needle.
Stay tuned for more info on product and package when they hit the store.
Use your Vitamin C!
Wire and Button Bangle
New color pack of buttons from Blumenthal Lansing. Sort of Southwest colors. I combined them with three colors of wire: gold, copper, brown. And added some brass heart charms. Fun to make. Lots of movement.
A little Vitamin C…..
Wire Photo Holders
They are fast and inexpensive. And the little flower button adds just the right touch.
Using round nose pliers, wrap a tight loop at one end of wire.
Adjust the long wire so it looks like a lollipop.
Using floss, or yarn, or string, or elastic cord, knot a flower button to the center loop. Just the center loop. The rest of the wire circles have to be free for the photo to slide in between.
The flower buttons are from Blumenthal Lansing. You can get them at Michaels in a value bag.
Use your Vitamin C!
Button Pendant Gives Back
Here are some other encouraging projects and artists.
- Read about Craft Hope if you don't know about it. You might want to participate in one of their projects.
- 7000 bracelets
- Everything is Ticketyboo!
- Flip flops and felt
Word of the day: encourage. Use it in a sentence today with your Vitamin C!
Christmas in March
It has been unseasonably warm here in MIchigan, quite weirdly so. To get in the Christmas mood, I worked in the basement where it was cool enough to need a sweatshirt, and watched a couple ABCFamily Christmas movies. I had a great time and the projects turned out cute.
I know that nobody else is thinking about Christmas right now, but maybe it will inspire you to start collecting buttons for a similar project....around November. Go to my friends at Blumenthal Lansing to find the buttons I used here. And later on in the year when this gets published, we will talk about how to turn them into a cute tree.
Fun to use your Vitamin C when it seems craziest!
Spring Button Bracelet
So, I used some fun, flowery Blumenthal Lansing buttons to make a button bracelet. It was super quick and easy, using a technique that requires no tools. Go here to see video instructions to make one yourself.
Use your Vitamin C!
http://www.skiptomylou.org/2012/02/20/made-by-you-monday-88/
http://housewivesofriverton.blogspot.com/2012/02/riverton-houseswives-round-up-5.html
Button Jacket Lapel
At CHA this week, I will be selling buttons, so I really wanted to sell buttons!
It was a fun project. Watching a movie while sewing buttons on was relaxing.
After a trip to the Salvation Army store, where I bought a jacket for $8, I stitched one lapel full of buttons, both antique gold and antique silver. I used shiny metallic embroidery floss (gold, black, and copper). I cannot tell a lie. That stuff made me say a few bad words inside my head. It is more prone to knotting than cotton floss. But, the little bit of shine it added was worth it. It makes me want to touch it every time I look at it. Texture and shine!
When you go to buy that shiny floss, take a coupon!
Then, I added gathered brown tulle along the entire lapel/collar. The tulle was left over from lamp tutus. It is on a roll, 8" wide. I folded the width in half and made running stitches along the fold. After I pulled the thread to gather slightly, I tacked it to the underside of the lapel/collar. It is exactly the same process I show in my lamp post, except I stitched instead of glued.
Now, I love the buttons and am unsure about the lapel tutu. What do you think?
Love that Vitamin B(uttons)!!!
http://whipperberry.com/2012/02/friday-flair-link-party-12.htmlhttp://simplydesigning.blogspot.com/2012/02/simply-link-party_10.html
No Tools Needed Button Bracelet
Lately, I have been finding some gorgeous button bracelets online. If you search through Etsy and Pinterest, you will find some nice examples. I have made button bracelets in the past, and have not been completely happy with them. It is hard to wire the buttons close enough to the links so they don't flop around when worn.
And then. It came to me. I present to you now, a super simple way to make a great button bracelet!
Part 1
Part 2
Take your Vitamin C!
Surface Design for Buttons
Use any of these on your craft projects. They will not wash very well, but you can use them on clothing. Stitch through the buttonholes with thread. Don't attach them to anything, just put thread in the holes. Knot it so it will stay. Then attach it to the garment with these pins. When you wash the garment, just un-pin them. Make a different set of buttons for a sweater or jacket for each holiday......
I hope this has sparked your Vitamin C and you have more ideas for designing your own buttons.
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Gorgeous Button Tree
When the Amazing Helen asked if I would work on this project, I hoped I could do it justice because it had the potential to be awesome. I am not sure it turned out awesomely, but it is quite striking. It is a project for Michaels. I will share with you when and how they use it for the holidays. The buttons are all from Blumenthal Lansing and can be purchased everyday at Michaels.
Start collecting buttons and take your Vitamin C!
Button Clasp Bracelet
Buttons make great jewelry clasps. Sometimes they add just the perfect element. And, in the case of this bracelet, they can also function as the focal point of the piece. This button is from the Fabric Sensations line from Blumenthal Lansing. The whole line is gorgeous.
This bracelet is a loooooong strand that wraps around my wrist three times. To make one, put together a pile of beads that coordinate with your focal button. For this bracelet, I used:
- Fabric Sensations button
- 9mm black glass disc beads
- african silver heishi beads
- size 8 seed beads, matte black
- these awesome stones, I am not sure what they are, maybe some kind of jasper, they have sparkles, I can't believe they were in my stash instead of put to beautiful use!
- 6mm round transparent gray beads
- 6mm faceted black rondelles
- beading wire
- crimp tubes
- crimping tool and flush cutters
1. Cut the wire long enough to go around your wrist 3 times plus 6". The larger the beads, the more wire you need.
2. Crimp one end of the wire to the button. Trim the short wire.
TIPS:
- Put a small bead between the button shank and the crimps. It will stabilize the wire so there is less bending and breaking against the edges of the metal crimp.
- Use two crimp tubes at each end for extra hold. There are a lot of beads on this long strand, it can't hurt!
4. Keep track of how long your strand is as you string. When you are short about 2", string on 2 crimp tubes. String enough seed beads to make a loop big enough to go around the button. Crimp and trim the wire.
Honestly, at this point, I had to string the seed beads a couple times as I adjusted the size of the loops and the length of the bracelet. It was worth it.
Take your Vitamin B(utton)!
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