Spring Fling Button Garland

By Admin1 on March 21, 2012 in Holidays, Spring

Spring Garland button art by Laura Bray

Has Spring arrived where you live? If not, why not whip-up a few Spring Fling Button Garlands to drape around the house until the real thing makes its appearance? Or use the garlands for your Spring holiday decor.

Spring Button Garland by Laura Bray

This project is versatile as you can be completely in charge of how you make it based on your skill level and materials available. It’s all about the flowers. The most important thing to remember is that this garland looks best with felt flowers and button embellishments, but you can create the flowers however you want. I used my die cut machine to create the felt flowers and layered a couple of different sizes and colors together. My color inspiration came from Buttons Galore & More’s Citrus Button Jar. I just pulled some buttons out of the bag that inspired me and then matched my felt accordingly. You can also just buy some felt flowers and then bring them up a notch with buttons. Because buttons make everything cuter!

Supplies:

Felt flowers
Buttons Galore & More’s Citrus Button Jar
Craft glue
Felt leaves
50″ Ric Rac

Instructions:

Make or buy felt flowers. To make a 50″ garland, you will need 3 large (3.5″) flowers, 4 small (2″ ) flowers and some felt flowers shapes or circles for the backs of each flower.
Glue buttons to center of felt flowers. Add embroidery to felt leaves and flowers if you desire.
Fold ric rac in half and lightly mark center line. Lay the ric rac flat on your work table. Now, we want to center a large flower over the halfway mark on the ric rac. Take the felt backing piece (a flower shape in the same size or a slightly smaller circle shape) and apply glue and lay it under the ric rac as shown in the photo below.
Now take your top flower piece and attach to the felt backing, with the ric rac running through the middle.

5. Using the same technique, attach a smaller flower to the right of the large flower. Space the flowers approximately 3″ apart. Make sure you glue all the flower fronts to the same side of the ric rac!

6. Continue attaching flowers, to either side of the large, middle flower until you reach the ends of the garland. Remember the pattern is to keep alternating large and small flowers.

Hang your garland and enjoy!

Project Designed by Laura Bray.