Button Decorated Keepsake Trinket Jewellery Boxes – Perfect for little treasures!!

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Buttons! Buttons!! AND, more Buttons!!! Routing around my vast collection has kept me quiet of late…now you know why 🙂 Creating little buttoned wonders! Sheer Bliss!!! To anyone, who shares the same passion as me for buttons, they will definitely understand! I’m sure the cost of the buttons far outweighs its sale value should they be carefully removed, even melted down, LOL!…though the pleasure of making them can’t ever have a true price tag! 😉

Making it special inside and out! A little rich red cotton fabric to line the oval wooden box! Sets thing off perfectly, I think! Just in case you missed how many delicious button were on this box……

An aerial view 🙂

Tomorrow is a special day for me ! Though, I think we should always think of TOMORROW as a SPECIAL DAY!!!! —Who knows what’s around the corner?!? Firstly, I would like to point people in the direction of a very special and extremely talented artist, called Ray Ferrer- he’s an extraordinary talented artist who’s just had a traumatic diagnosis http://wp.me/p2pdfM-nD  please visit! Then I have an extremely talented couple, who have a site on WordPress called Iarxiv – wonderful illustrations and series of stories – tomorrow marks the start of their new ‘Blublets’ series    http://iarxiv.com/2015/02/09/introducing-the-blublets/  – do please check it out!! I’m sure if past things are to go by, it will be wonderful 🙂 What is special tomorrow for me?…Well, it’s my five years of extra life…………. five years since I had a heart attack at the age of 43 (not over weight, no cholesterol, just hereditary, I’m led to understand) …..Making and creating, as well as gaining many new friends here on WordPress has given/kept me ticking along, for which I am so thankful 🙂 But, when I wake tomorrow, the next tomorrow will be one of the proudest days of my life, our daughter will officially graduate as Dr. Jen! Cap, gown and the works! – she’s worked so hard all her academic life and we love her to bits xx! I wish to congratulate her on her hard and dedicated path!!!!!!!!!!!

And then,  couple more!

The hot glue gun and a million more buttons……..so,

More unique little treasure chests 🙂

……….enjoy your every tomorrow!!!!

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Petit Pillow Pals/Cute cushion character creations – Who knows?

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Have I lost the plot??? I just can’t stop making things and adding buttons!!!

 

I have more scraps of fabric than I know what to do with, so, I started making little cute fun fabric ‘pillow pals’/’cute character (mini) cushions’. These are what happened after a day of supposedly tidying up!

It gave an new outlet to the many million buttons I need to give a new home to. Oh well, never mind to the new mess I made as well, I suppose 🙂

Button craft – ”Button Buddy” OWLS and other cute creations in button craft

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”Button Buddy” Owls

 

I really do seem to be feeding my button-fest mood at the moment, every shop I go into which sells buttons has my custom almost guaranteed !!! Along with the thousands of vintage buttons I have in my collection I have been adding many new ones too. I just love to create and what better than with the odd button or two…or three…or four and more… and other bits and pieces (most people would throw away) too! :-).

My ”Button Buddies” range started a few years ago, when I went to a button flower craft workshop, everyone was making button flowers – except me- I wanted to create something much more exciting and individual, so I set about making little characters instead. At the end of the class, people sat with their creations in front of them. Needless to say, mine were not anything to do with the class and entirely unique! Yay!!! Since then I have been incorporating each and every indivdual unique button character creation into many different things, these deep box framed wall plaques are another in my range

Recycled buttons and bells as Christmas decorations

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Recycling old buttons

As ever I am looking for inspiration, a couple of little bells and a few old  buttons provided the answer to a creative day. I have produced a set of button tree decorations which can be used year after year and unless blown up probably will not fall apart, unless purposely decommissioned.

Sadly, you might think, but happily to me I sat a whole day sorting through old buttons to  colour match and create a range of thirty two button decorations for an up coming craft fair which I have organised into sets of two and displayed on a little card. Just in case anyone might be interested in having a unique Christmas decoration for years to come I have put a set of six on My Etsy shop -Caren’s canvas and craft – at a reduced cost. Next week I am planning on adding a set of original artwork to my shop which some of you may have seen displayed earlier on WordPress.

That concludes how I have spent my last two weeks since making seasonal greetings card and the abolishment from my system of gingerbread guys!

Button Craft – Recycling Old Buttons – Trinket Box Button Craft

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Recycling Old Buttons

Having acquired probably thousands of old buttons over the years, my main idea is to give them all, at some point, a second chance. Recycling them, usually not in the way they were designed to be used, as fasteners on clothing, but as decorative and creative pieces of artwork. Also in this section, of Button Craft, you will see my original idea of creating little character “Button Craft – ‘Button Buddy’ Brooches – Recycling Old Buttons ” as Brooches and on Button Craft – My ‘Button Buddy’ Characters. This little wooden box has been covered with what we now consider to be out of fashion old brass and pewter buttons. On their own they seem worthless, not so, now arranged as decorative and beautiful on this little trinket box!

Below are other little trinket boxes covered in Recycled Old Buttons

Button Craft – Decorative Wreaths

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Button Craft – Decorative Wreaths

These little wreaths (Approx 9″ diameter) made from natural twigs were decorated simply by recycling old bits and bobs out of my eclectic array of what some might call ‘junk’. I have many tubs of old buttons, bits of jewellery – most of which are broken or incomplete pieces and miles of ribbons – which are all in little bits too!

Firstly I wrapped around several different, coordinating, varying width ribbons. I then spent a few happy hours routing in my tins until I had found just the old buttons and bits to match up with the ribbon decorated wreaths. Next I attached all the decorative bits using florists wire. As a finishing touch I twisted a long length of embroidery silk to make a twisted hanging loop!

Button Craft – ‘Button Buddy’ Brooches – Recycling Old Buttons

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A selection of My ‘Button Buddies’

Breathing new life into old buttons! Required; Lots of imagination, some ‘bits and bobs’ a glue gun and off I went – like a mad woman creating little ‘Button Buddy’ Characters. Without realising how many I had made I decided to name them all with a name beginning with ‘B’. eg, Barney, Boris, Bertha etc, etc. I very soon ran out of names beginning with ‘B’ so had to reuse names. HOWEVER no two ‘Button Buddies’ were ever made the same, ALL totally unique!!! To illiterate even further, i put brooch pins on them and made them into ‘Button Buddy Brooches’. To this day I have never seen anything similar when looking at button craft pages! I was really pleased with my new creation!