Showing posts with label buttons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buttons. 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…..
Singing Flowers
I had some fun this afternoon making some musical paper flowers for Wonder Woman's birthday. She likes a quiet, understated birthday, and I thought these might fit the bill. She loves music!
- off white card stock
- an old hymnal
- a round, scalloped paper punch
- hot glue gun and glue
- small shank buttons
- craft wire (mine is green, but use what you have)
Leave the cardstock punch outs flat. Fold the paper circles in half and then as you see above.
Take your 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 Giveaway Earrings
My first failure was due to the silver wire I tried to string them on. The buttons are thin and fragile (that is what makes them so pretty), and I broke a button. So disappointing!
My second failure was due to the Soft Flex wire I tried next. The buttons would not lie flat. Fine.
My third failure was due to the beading thread I tried next. The earring was just limp and held no semblance of a circle.
I was close to shelving the whole thing when I wondered about putting them on a hoop earring. Success...kind of. Not exactly the flat circle I was looking for, but the buttons still show nicely. I used Silamide to tie them on to the hoop. I pulled the thread tightly after each stitch through the buttonholes. It helped anchor the button to the skinny little earring bar. You can see I added some pearls to the button centers. I wrecked a couple beading needles pulling on the thread, but that happens, right?
Thanks again CIndy. I still have the larger buttons you sent and am thinking about how to use them next.
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!
Button Swap
A lot of great button lovers/button artists are participating in the swap and blog hop. Grab a cup of tea and peruse some of these blogs.
Happy Mother's Day!
Use your Vitamin B(utton)
Kim Roberts and Partner unable to participate at this time.
* Pam Ferarri and Stefanie Teufel (will share their reveal on a later date)
* Stefanie Teufel and Pam Ferarri (will share their reveal on a later date)
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