Button Art – Pink Ribbon Love Plaque

Pink Ribbon Button Art Love Plaque by Jen Goode

I have been loving all of the button collage and plaque art I’ve seen lately so I decided I wanted to try to make one myself.  The pink ribbon push in October is very important to me and my family, so I thought this would be a great direction to go with my project this month. I’m not a pink girl, but for support and family love, I will surround myself in it proudly!

Pink Ribbon Button Art Love Plaque by Jen Goode

Supplies:

• Button Bonanza in Pink
• Button Bonanza in Bubblegum
• Aleens’s® Original Tacky glue
• Pink felt
• Stiff bristle paint brush
• Foundation piece (wood, foam board, etc.)
• Pink paint
• Pink ribbon

Pink button assortment of Button Bonanza packs

Pink Ribbon Button Art Love Plaque by Jen Goode

How to make your own Pink Ribbon Love Plaque:

Now let me start by saying, I was in a hurry to get started on this piece so I put mine together a little differently than I would recommend. I made my piece on foam core that I then glued to a piece of wood. However, I recommend you just use a base of wood and skip the foam core all together. Mine works fine, but it’s an unnecessary layer. So let’s get started!

Either print out words on your computer using white letters on a pink printed background, or hand draw letters on to your board.If you print your word, adhere the printed paper to the board using glue or Mod Podge that you brush on for full coverage as if you were decoupaging the paper in place.

print your word out and glue to your board

Glue buttons on the negative space of the board, meaning the area around the letters. I brushed the glue on for more coverage and less globbing of the glue.

Glue buttons on to the negative space of the art

Finish the edges of the board with paint and glue on the ribbon.

Finish edges with paint and ribbon

You could optionally add eye screws to the top of the board and a ribbon so you could hang your plaque. I chose to set mine on the mantel.

Finally, make a pink ribbon and adhere it in the center of the O. I used a small piece of pink felt to make my ribbon and then added two pink buttons in the center.

Pink Ribbon button art by Jen Goode

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Jen Goode

Jen Goode is the owner and “doodler in charge” of JGoode Designs, a Denver based art and design studio. She has been a creative professional since 1996, developing art for a variety of uses in an array of mediums from handmade crafts to Graphic design and illustration. Jen, a designer member of CHA, is a tech savvy, work-at-home mom of 3 who shares her creative inspirations with other moms through her sites Projects for Preschoolers and 100 Directions and as a featured contributor on various sites throughout the web. Jen's motto is "Inspiring Smiles Every Day".

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