Crafting with Buttons
The button crafts shown here are suitable all ages. By all ages, I mean that some of these craft projects are geared toward kids and others are a little more adventuresome to keep a seasoned craft digging through the button jar.
Photo of vintage buttons displayed on a printout of a vintage button card.
Photo Credit: Peggy Hazelwood
Buttons Used in Crafts
How to Make Button Jewelry
Links to DIY button crafts
- Use Shell Buttons to Make Necklaces -- Seekyt
- This link goes with the shell button necklace shown above. Shell buttons are lusterous and beautiful. One side is usually a creamy white, and often the other side is brown or black or sometimes blue showing the true quality of the shell that the button was made from.
- Handmade Jewelry: Handmade Button Jewelry - Martha Stewart
- Use new, vintage, or unused buttons of all shapes and sizes to make your own stunning jewelry.
There's no need for gold or diamond necklaces when you can craft beautiful pieces with abalone-shell or pink mother-of-pearl buttons in this craft demonstrated by Martha's niece Sophie. - The Scrap Shoppe: Button Bib Necklace & Earrings Tutorial - PART 1
- If you've been hanging around here long enough you know that button necklaces are not a new thing for me! See this turquoise button bib necklace tutorial and this pearlescent gray version.
Button Jewelry
Make some fabulous fashion with buttons
Woman Holds Mussel Shells & Pearl Buttons
Made from the shells -- Willard Culver
Buttons for Crafts
Don't Have a Button Jar? Start collecting buttons now.
Button Blogs
Button crafts across the Web
- Button Floozies
- Button Floozies is devoted to buttons and the women who love them. For many of us, button love began when played with our mothers' and grandmothers' button tins as children and has grown through the years. The Button Floozies blog is written by many contributors; they are listed below under the heading "Button Floozies".
- Bonkers About Buttons
- A wonderful blog about buttons! Great photos, crafts to make, all featuring, you guessed it... buttons!
- Tays Rocha: Button Art - Mais inspirações com botões!
- This blog is not dedicated soley to buttons but this blog entry is. I can't read it since it's written in Spanish (I think), but the photos of button crafts are amazing!
- butttons art: 10 unusual ideas of buttons in interior decoration - crafts ideas - crafts for kids
- butttons art: 10 unusual ideas of buttons in interior decoration herringbone from pearlies the real decoration of your home can be this christmas tree, which is made of white paper cone and pearl buttons.
- The Mona Lisa......in Buttons (Time Lapse Video) | Lil Blue Boo
- I finally got around to making a video of the Mona Lisa piece Boo and I did last weekend! Here it is%u2026.see if you recognize the song (from a movie) before you get to the end of the video!
Buttons can make the outfit
Craft with Buttons
Ribbet
A vintage frog (it's old) made from fabric, stuffed with beans, and button eyes.
Be sure to only use buttons on crafts that young children cannot play with.
Photo Credit: Peggy Hazelwood
Button Crafts
Projects online for you to make
- Under The Table and Dreaming: Button Covered Topiary and Egg Tutorial {Guest Post featuring Crafts 'n Coffee}
- I keep all my buttons in a large jar and love being able to see the mix of colors, shapes, and sizes through the glass - so it's no surprise how much I think these button crafts are simply the cutest.
- Easy Button Kid Crafts
- Buttons, buttons, buttons! These easy projects can be made with any kind of button, old or new.
- Button Crafts for Kids
- Kids will enjoy these button crafts, they are quick, easy and fun!
- Lines Across My Face: Cute as a Button - Amazing Button Crafts from Around the Web
- Lately I keep coming across the most adorable button crafts. I seriously want to do them all. The Freckled Nest has two fantastic button crafts that are so cute I had to share them both.
- Crafted: How to: Button headband
- Easy instructions for making a button headbands!
- Vintage Button Jewelry and Accessories by MRSButtons on Etsy
- MRS Buttons has been creating and selling vintage button jewelry and accessories for 17 years. I am proud to present to you an assortment of handmade items made in the spirit of recycle/up-cycle! Her glasses chain and red button bouquet are shown here.
- Button Hair Clips - Martha Stewart Crafts
- ou'll want to fashion lots of these pretty hair clips (enough for friends -- and a few to keep). Using heavy thread, sew a button or two to the top of a colored bobby pin (for a flower, first sew button to a felt leaf).
- Button Cards - Martha Stewart Crafts
- Button shapes resemble many seasonal things, as on these simple cards made of folded card stock.
- Button Hanger - Martha Stewart Crafts
- Padded hangers offer a wonderful way to safely store valued or delicate garments. But too often these items slip off their cushioned supports.
- Buttonpalooza Handbag @Craftzine.com blog
- Craftster member Pixeldust was inspired by a bag she saw at a museum to create this colorful, button-festooned handbag. Great job!...
- Basket Made from buttons! | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- Seen in a thrift shop today - this is a basket made entirely of buttons. Someone said it was made in Viet Nam. Please see this on black by clicking once on it on Flickr's new page style. Taken for Our Daily Challenge topic - 'Buttons'
A Kwakiutl Button Blanket, a Frontal Eagle with Spread Wings, 19th Century
Button Displays
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Display buttons on a decorative card.
Display Marbles on Buttons
Vintage buttons or even new buttons are excellent little stands to display marbles.Choose the right size button for the marble. A slight dip in the center of the button makes a perfect place for the round marble to rest. To make a small display of marbles, this trick works great.
Set the buttons on a small tray with a lip to catch the marbles if they get bumped to keep the marbles from rolling away.
Photo Credit: Peggy Hazelwood
Button Crafts for Holidays
Button ornaments: Santa, snowman, reindeer and more. See the link below. Courtesy of MarthaStewart.com.
Button Crafts for Holidays
- Button Ornaments - Martha Stewart Holiday & Seasonal Crafts
- Read Martha Stewart's Button Ornaments article. Also, browse thousands of other holiday clip-art, decorating, crafts, hand-made gifts and project ideas.
- Under The Table and Dreaming: Button Drop Ornaments featuring Melissa from Serafina and Stella {Handmade Ornament No.22}
- The wonderful idea of a handmade ornament is it can be passed down from generations to generations. Made from love, each time your loved ones unpack the box of decorations, and decorate the tree, the ornament you made with your own hands, becomes a cherished gift for years to come.
The button ornament is such a simple and easy ornament to make. With the most minimal supplies, you are able to create something really cute to give away or keep for your own tree. - a.sprinkle.of.this.and.a.dash.of.that: **Label Tulip NEWS, A Merry Ornament & Random thoughts**
- I'm so into the holiday spirit! I love making things at this time of year. I am in an ornament swap and I made 3 of these to send. Beautiful easy ornaments using styrofoam balls, pins, and buttons!
Crafting with Buttons
Candy Buttons
Use these ideas
from craft blogs for recycled crafting.
Vintage Buttons
Button Bouquets
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Button bouquet in a salt shaker vase.
Vintage Buttons for Craft Projects
Make Your Own Buttons
Use Shrinky Dink Material, Polymer Clay
Another fun medium to use when making buttons is polymer clay. Check out CraftTestDummies for a way to make glazed faux ceramic buttons.
More Vintage Buttons
Your very own button jar. And you get to choose it!
Button Labels
Store Your Buttons in Style
Cathe at the blog Just Something I Made shares a beautiful way to store your buttons. She used some button labels from The Graphics Fairy to come up with these beautiful jars and a box for storing buttons.These jars and boxes would be perfect for gift giving, too. Make up some and fill them with old buttons to hand down some of Grandma's buttons to family members.
Photo Credit: Cathe at Just Something I Made
Tools for Button Crafts
It's more than just needle and thread...
Share your button craft projects!
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ArtByLinda May 4, 2012 @ 10:34 pm | delete
- Buttons really are a lost art, they uses to be so pretty and unique and they just seem a little less enticing in this day and age. I love these button crafts. I remember playing with my moms sewing drawer full of antique buttons. Blessings to you, and May the forth be with you (May 4th, 2012)
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MelonyVaughan
Apr 29, 2012 @ 10:29 am | delete
- Unique and fun button crafts! Lovely lens.
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Tipi
Apr 24, 2012 @ 6:08 pm | delete
- You sure made me smile here with memories of when I used to enjoy going through my Mom's button box to find these wonderful pieces of art. Thank goodness so many vintage buttons were saved way back when a button was always removed for its next task when a garment was taken apart and probably made into rug. Delightfully done!...*
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DarleneN
Apr 18, 2012 @ 4:54 pm | delete
- I especially like the old buttons from mussel shells. Cool picture of the lady with the button and the shells. I love buttons! Cool lens.
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sherioz
Apr 18, 2012 @ 5:57 am | delete
- I love how buttons can change the outfit. Sometimes I'll change the buttons on some garment that I bought and it can make a big difference.
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bossypants
Apr 1, 2012 @ 11:57 am | delete
- I'm always attracted to those jars of buttons at the thrift store. Now, I may have to go back and grab one! Fun ideas in this lens. I especially like the little ornaments and the marble display idea!
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snazzify
Mar 9, 2012 @ 2:05 am | delete
- blessed by a squid angel :) <3
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JaguarJulie Feb 23, 2012 @ 6:08 pm | delete
- Oh my ... such a delightful selection of button craft projects! I've not really tried this type of craft, but you have surely piqued my interest!
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TamaraKajari
Feb 23, 2012 @ 8:49 am | delete
- My 9 year old daughter would love that frog. This lens is very tempting and although I'm not a talent I might just try this craft anyway :)
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sukkran Feb 14, 2012 @ 11:33 am | delete
- the button blanket is very attractive. nice craftsmanship.
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