Handmade with buttons - a detailed description of how to create beautiful crafts

A familiar situation: inherited from my mother and grandmother box with buttons. And throw away sorry, and store in this form is not necessary. This is for most of the buttons unnecessary trash, but for the select few can be a treasure. After all, from the buttons of different colors can be done so much needed in the economy, useful and beautiful things.

It will take a creative outlook on life, the ability to see the unusual in the simple and the small. And something else.

What you might need

In addition to buttons, the usual handmade tools and materials will come in handy. It will be not only sewing accessories. So, even if you do not have any sewing skills, you can work with buttons. Therefore, as a material, they are suitable even for button crafts for children, of course, under the supervision of adults.

Tools and materials

thread;
needles;
scissors;
glue gun, PVA, glue "Moment";
wire;
fishing line;
spray paint;
crochet hook;
yarn.

You may also need boxes of all kinds of shapes, photo frames, different fabrics and more.

Tip: It is better to sort the buttons in advance by color, by size, by type of fastening. So you will save time for work. But you can also make a lot of fun things out of motley and multicolored placer.

Paintings, applique from buttons

There are expert designers and even entire schools on creating decorative panels, highly artistic paintings, installations from the buttons. Such works are as worthy as real works of art. Anyone with the desire and taste can come close to the heights of craftsmanship.

Decorations, accessories

In the creative hands blooms any little thing. Various ideas and just pictures for inspiration you will find on our website https://master.bigbadmole.com/en/. The use of epoxy resin, polymer plastic increases the variability of crafts at times. So you can start creating masterpieces, increasing your skill time after time.

Charms

Just a few large, unusual buttons and metal rings are needed to create personal key chains for everyone in the family. Now the keys will not get tangled and lost.

By the way, this is a good idea for gifts for themed parties, as souvenirs for the holidays for colleagues and friends.

Hairclips

The little fashionista will always be on trend with button hairclips. On any hairpin, comb, headband, or hair band you can glue or sew on beautiful buttons in the tone of the main dress, which will successfully complement the image.

Clothing, shoes

Buttons in clothing are used not only for their traditional purpose. Although if you look back centuries ago, they have always had a decorative and even semantic meaning: they showed wealth and status of the owner.

Nowadays they embroider collars, cuffs, pockets, trims and other elements of the suit. But there are also belts and bags. Even shoes, especially summer ballerinas, flip-flops are not forbidden, and even welcome to decorate with buttons. With such accessories and beach cheerful button bag you will shine in the fashionable companies of the holiday season.

Decor

Bright, colorful crafts from buttons, made with their own hands, will decorate the house and lift your spirits. Occupation with buttons will not take much time, and the result will be visible at once.

Decorations for flowers

Even non-flowering potted plants may one day be covered in buds. You make them out of several buttons stacked in descending order of size from larger to smaller and fastened together with a wire. All you have to do is stick the loose end of the wire into the soil, and already your centenarian or ficus has bloomed.

For storage space

Unwanted buttons are good for home inlays. You can use them:

Tape a box, turning it into a storage box for handmade treasures.
Decorate any plastic jar to become a vase.
Update a favorite pencil case, makeup bag, or eyewear case.
Furbish containers for bulk products in the kitchen.
Ornament flower pots with an ethno-inspired look.
Build a unique pencil case, organizer for stationery.

All these things can be spray-painted in any color from silver and white to neon-acid.

The second life of things

Beautiful interior items in the vintage style will be made of old, cracked sugar bowl, teapot, chipped cup, which can no longer be used for its intended purpose, but it is a pity to part with dear memories.

Give them a second life by decorating them with button applique. You will get an author's kitchen decor or unusual fireplace decorations.

Buttons and knitting

If you know how to crochet, you can include buttons trim model, involving them in knitting. There are different crochet patterns that can be used to make patterned borders, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, brooches and decorative doilies.

Creativity with children

Button crafts with their own hands for kindergarten must be firmly fixed, so that the kids can not unscrew, bite and swallow a button, put it in the ear or nose. Otherwise, the requirements to work with them is quite democratic. Products made of buttons can even be washed and washed.

The easiest way for children to create is with applique. On a cardboard or thick sheet of paper is applied outline drawing. It can be different animals, flowers, fruits. Then glued to the drawing buttons of desired colors.

So you get a lamb with curls of white wool, pearl, gray, black buttons, a butterfly peacock eye, caterpillar on an apple, a bunch of daisies or lilacs, bunch of grapes, a basket of berries and mushrooms.

Buttons can be played as a construction set or a mosaic. Tactile sensations are very pleasant, they develop fine motor skills, and have a calming effect. You can make fantasy bouquets from different buttons or line up plot pictures with characters and objects of the world around.

Funny together make decorations from buttons for the holidays - the New Year, Easter, to make gifts for moms and grandmothers for Women's Day, Valentine's Day, birthday cards.

Buttons are a durable material. It will not fade, crumble, or crumple. Children's crafts can be kept as a memento, and then shown to a grown-up child or even his children. The effect will be amazing.