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What can you do with buttons?

by Jummy

Buttons are so pretty and the craft industry has certainly taken buttons beyond their original purpose of fastening things together. Nowadays, buttons can be used in a number of ways:

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  • Large, antique buttons can be used to make interesting magnets, bracelets, or to decorate a bag (all courtesy of Martha Stewart’s site)

  • buttons can be glued onto a frame to make a unique frame. You can use a monochrome colour scheme with a similar type of button, or include a completely random selection of your favourite button styles and colours.

  • As eyes on crafts. Who can resist a handmade stuffed animal with brown button eyes? I can’t!

  • To embellish your creations: a button can be the wheels of a car, a frisbee or a pancake.

  • Make a necklace using unique buttons and a nice cord.

What neat things have you used buttons for?


Posted in Materials on May 30th, 2007

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3 Responses to “What can you do with buttons?”

  1. Denise Says:
    June 7th, 2007 at 4:17 am

    Hmm… there ARE some pretty interesting buttons out there. You could stick some buttons on to magnets, and have some button magnets - just stealing idea from your glass glob thing :)

  2. Denise Says:
    June 7th, 2007 at 4:20 am

    Oh gosh, sorry I’m commenting without reading everything again! Somehow I didn’t see that bit under the button picture - and missed that you mentioned magnets already! I think I’m going blind! LOL

  3. Jummy Says:
    June 9th, 2007 at 12:49 am

    Don’t you worry, Denise! Great minds think alike! :)

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