Button Heart

Today's craft was unusual for me - jewellery making, well, kind of anyway.  It was a heart made of buttons:

I had got a book out of the library called 'The Homemade Home' - 50 Thrifty and Chic Handmade Projects by Sania Pell and I was looking in it for something to make.  As I was going through I kept finding sewing projects so I was thinking, 'no, no, no...no..' and then I spotted this.  It's jewellery making but the kind thats so easy peasy that even I could do it!

You just cut off a length of wire and thread the buttons onto it.  Tie or twist knots at both ends of the wire and bend it into the heart shape.  To make a hanger tie an additional piece of wire to the back.  

I've done this craft late at night thinking I've picked out all the white buttons, (the top picture makes them look grey which they are not and this picture above is a Picnik cheat!) I'll look at it in the daylight tomorrow and they'll be pale beige, pink, cream..

Never mind, it looks the part! :-)

Thanks for looking and for any comments you may leave,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave

Buttons, Buttons & More Buttons!

I love buttons! Fortunately for me, they are still quite 'in fashion' in the crafting world and if I could, I'd add them to almost everything!  Today I was delighted to find two jars of buttons in my local charity shop to add to my ever expanding collection:

I would like to get some more brightly coloured buttons to add to my collection but these will be ideal for my vintage themed scrapbook pages and cards.

There were also some packets of buttons in the jars:

 

You can see how old these are, the prices are in shillings and pence!

These were 'unusual':

Pink grapes!  I wonder what outfit they came from..?

This is an idea I've seen online somewhere, adding buttons to the front of notebooks:

I haven't stuck them down yet but I think they work better on the hardback notebook.

The vintage cotton reel label also came in the jar with the buttons.

OOh, what else can I find that could do with some 'button treatment?'.....

Thanks for reading,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave