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Halloween Napkin Rings

By Melony Bradley on October 14, 2013 in Autumn / Fall, Halloween, Home Decor

Looking to create some fun for this Halloween for your spooky table decor? These Halloween Napkin Rings using Novelty and various flat backed buttons from Buttons Galore and More are as much fun to make as they are to enjoy. With details such as paint, burlap and stamped sentiments, you will love the detail of these Halloween Napkin Rings.

Materials and Supplies

Buttons Galore and More Halloween Novelty Buttons

Laura Kelly Hand Dyed Buttons in colors of your choice

Various unfinished wood shapes of your choice

DecoArt Americana Acrylics in Lamp Black, Pumpkin, Olive Green, Grape Juice and Snow White

Scraps of burlap

Tiny alphabet stamps and ink

Beacon Adhesives Premium Tacky Glue

Buttons Galore and More Shank Remover

Paint brushes, sewing machine and thread, scissors

To create your own Halloween Napkin Rings, use the Button Shank Remover to remove the shank from the novelty buttons so that the novelty button lays flat on the wood. Lay out the design, layering the wood shapes and arranging the buttons on the shapes to decide on your design.

For my Halloween Napkin Rings, I used Laura Kelly hand dyed buttons in Smoke and Outrageous Orange.

Since you will be working with so many shapes and colors, it is helpful to label your shapes with the first initial so you will know what color to paint it.

Paint your shapes front and back, using two coats.

Layer your shapes and glue them together. Dry brush white paint on the bottom of the top shape. Use the alphabet stamps and ink to stamp the shapes. Glue the novelty button to the center of the shape.

I also added some 9mm acrylic rhinestones to some of the buttons.

Cut some burlap into strips and use the sewing machine, thread and a zig zag stitch to sew the edges of the strips to prevent fraying.

Glue the shapes to the center of each burlap strip and let dry.

Sew buttons onto the burlap strips. I used orange, purple, green and black from the Laura Kelly Hand Dyed Buttons collection.

Once you sew on the buttons, use the center button to sew closed the burlap strip, creating a napkin ring.

Create a set of these Halloween Napkin Rings to adorn a scary table setting using buttons!

Live Life Creatively,

DIY Sweet Treat Notecards

By Dana Gustafson on March 16, 2012 in Card Making, Occasions, Paper Crafts

Sweet treats and tea time come to mind today with this mini notecard set that highlights some adorable themed buttons from Buttons Galore and More! Perfect for quick birthday notecards, party invitations or a great giftable set for the sweet tooth in your friendship circle! A few simple ingredients and you have the makings for a sweet greeting!

Buttons Galore and More Product:

Tea Time
Cupcakes
Milk Shakes
Classic Circles (pearl)
Beacon Adhesives 3in1 Advanced Craft Glue
Stamps from Wilson Designs
Cardstock from Papertrey Ink and designer papers from Crate Paper
Ink from Stampin Up!
Paper Punch from Stampin Up!
Other Craft Supplies: Ribbon, paper doilies, wire cutters

With a few simple products from Buttons Galore and More and some other card making items, I was on my way to a stack of cute notecards.

I first paired up my buttons in the Sweet Delights Collection with some stamps that had frame options as well as sentiments if I should choose to add a simple sentiment to the inside of the card.

I stamped out eight frames with chocolate ink on white cardstock and then paired up the buttons with the frames that fit each one the best.

These are “shank” buttons, meaning there is a small loop at the back of the button for sewing/tying onto your project. In this case, I was going to need a flat back to my buttons so a simple clip of the shank with a pair of pliers was all that was needed.

First a clip just to remove a portion of the shank….

After that first clip, the button layers come apart and you can trim the shank even shorter so it will be flush with the back once reassembled.

Before re-assembling the button layers, apply a bit of craft glue to make the layers stick.

Re-assemble and pinch together so the liquid glue adheres well.

Once all of the buttons are prepared and the stamped frames are trimmed from the cardstock, adhere the buttons to the frames and start matching them with various colorful scrapbooking papers…scraps will work fine. My papers range in size but are around 3″x4″ each, give or take a slice of the paper trimmer.