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Ladybug Button Card

By Admin on May 1, 2015 in Card Making, Paper Crafts

Yay for Fifteen MINUTE Friday! The weeks just go by so quickly. Katie from A Sweet Berry’s Blog created this adorable springtime Ladybug Button Card. She is one of my best friends and super creative and fun.

It looks like creating this masterpiece was a lot of fun!

If you want more information about how she created this card, you can hop over to her blog here and find out.

The ladybug buttons are super cute to use while paper crafting and also adorable when sewn on to projects. You can buy there HERE or by clicking on the photo below.

Happy Springtime and Happy Crafting,

Laura

Button Up a Decorative Pinwheel

By Admin1 on March 6, 2015 in Occasions, Paper Crafts, Party Planning

Pinwheels are so much fun for adding pizzazz and energy to decorating for parties and events. Here are the directions to make them using just a few simple materials. You will need the following:

Decorative Paper Squares (6 inches)
Scissors
Brads
Paper Straws
Aleene’s Always Ready Fast Grab Tacky Glue
Laura Kelly BUTTONS for Buttons Galore and More

The first step is to cut from the four corners in towards the centers, stopping to leave a one inch square center that is uncut. Then using your brad fold the first point of each corner in poking a hole through them as you go then through the center and securing with the brad in the back.

Add your straw to the back and buttons to the front with the tacky glue. The Fast Grab is great because is holds them right away. Then allow time to dry before using them.

They are so bright and cheery and simply fun.

Cheers,

Laura

Advent Calendar with BUTTONS – Fifteen MINUTE Friday

By Admin on December 5, 2014 in Christmas, Holidays

How adorable is this advent calendar? It was created in a matter of minutes using buttons from my Holiday Collection!

For the free printable and the tutorial, visit the full post on my blog here. To order the buttons, click on the image below!

There are lots of great ideas, activities, crafts and ways to celebrate the holiday season with kids. Here are lots of great ones for you to try out by fabulous bloggers!

An InLinkz Link-up

And you can enter a contest too to win buttons and a crafty stash along with a $50 VISA card! That rocks! a Rafflecopter giveaway
Cheers,
Laura

Fifteen MINUTE Friday – Scrap Ribbon Trees

By Admin on November 14, 2014 in Holidays

Check out these adorable Christmas tree ornaments made from scraps of green ribbon and Laura Kelly buttons in Radical Red and Passionate Pinks (and one yellow)!

So cute, so easy and so much fun! The Aleene’s Quick Dry formula in the Always Ready bottle (available at Joanne’s) makes crafting things like this easy peasy. I am in love with the stuff!

Here are the simple directions:

Tie green ribbon scraps around a stick from a tree.
Trim the ribbon to shape a tree.
Add buttons and a hanger with Aleene’s Quick Dry Adhesive.
Ta Da!

This is a great craft for kids. Here are lots of other DIY ideas for celebrating the season with kids too!

An InLinkz Link-up

And you can enter to win a fabulous contest too!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Happy Creating for the Holidays,

Laura

Halloween Popcorn Box Pumpkin 2014

By Admin on October 25, 2014 in Halloween, Holidays

A whole year has gone by! Wow. It seems like yesterday when I was making this spider for the 2013 Halloween Popcorn Box Blog Hop!

Well, it’s here again and I am loving this little box that I created as a pumpkin filled with….BUTTONS!

There are LOTS Of great creative inspiring projects this year!

An InLinkz Link-up

And you can enter to win a fabulous prize too! a Rafflecopter giveaway

Buttons Make Everything Funner,

Laura

Little Pumpkin Button Cards for Fifteen MINUTE Friday

By Admin on October 10, 2014 in Paper Crafts

Halloween is absolutely one of my FAVORITE holidays and to celebrate I pulled together the creative minds of some of my talented blogging friends to bring you over 110 fabulous Halloween ideas! From costumes to parties, crafts and home decor, recipes and free printables, we have so many fun ideas to share! I guarantee you’ll find a project (or 10!) that you would love to incorporate into your Halloween festivities. All week (Monday through Saturday) myself and my blogging friends will be sharing our fun creations with all of you. Each day will include approximately 20 Halloween projects and you can “hop” from one blog to another to check them all out.

It’s Friday and day 5 of our Halloween Bash blog hop! Glad you could join us on this fabulous Friday for more Halloween ideas from me and my talented blogging friends!

These are so super cute and easy peasy to create!

You will need just a few things…paper, Outrageous Orange buttons and Aleene’s Tacky Glue.

Cut out your decorative paper and attach it to your card with Aleene’s then add a BIG orange button for a pumpkin. I added a little brown button for a stem and green ribbon for the vine.

TA DA! So adorable and simple and fun!

But the fun ideas don’t stop here! Continue checking out the creative Halloween projects my blogging friends have created for our blog hop by clicking on each of the links below, for the Halloween projects you’d like to see in more detail and it’ll take you right to that post with additional information and photos on how to create it. Have fun and pin away!

1. Happy Halloween Treat Bucket
2. Beware of the Bam-BOO
3. Halloween Beeswax Candles
4. Caramel Apple Cupcakes
5. Halloween Treat Bag Tags – Free Printable
6. Halloween Cookie Pops ~ Nutter Butter Bats & Mummies
7. Halloween Photo Booth Props
8. Halloween Candle Jars
9. Ghost Candles
10. Dollar Store Spider Halloween Wreath
11. Healthy Halloween Class Treat
12. Little Pumpkin Button Cards
13. Pumpkin Playdough Mats
14. Craft for Kids: Finger Puppet Monsters
15. Creepy Halloween Jar Labels
16. Halloween Party Favor and Printable
17. Kids Halloween Lanterns
18. Candy Box Head Skeletons
19. Sweet & Salty Halloween Treat

Follow our Fabulous Halloween Ideas Pinterest board for even more inspiration!

Follow Design Dazzle’s board Fabulous Halloween Ideas on Pinterest.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for another 20 awesome Halloween ideas!

Thanks to all 110+ fabulous bloggers participating! We’d love for you to visit their blogs and see what else they’re up to!

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Happy Crafting,

Laura

Button Up and Dye a Flower Towel

By Admin1 on July 18, 2014 in Home Decor

Cute right? You can buttons up this flower towel to dye for at your house to. The towel is super cute and really easy to make. It takes about 15 minutes of creating, but allow for a break in between dyeing and rinsing that is much longer, as in 6-8 hours.

First, dye a white 100% cotton hand towel with Tulip One Step Tie Dye like so. I put a glass jar down over the area that I wanted to stay clean for the pink dye to create the flower when I did the green and blue.

Then I added the pink.

Follow the process to set the dye and rinse the towel then stitch on the buttons and stitch a stem with buttons from my Laura Kelly collection and embroidery floss from Coats and Clark.

Ta Da!

It matches the bathroom decor I created for Z. Check out the shower curtain on my blog.

It used the same process and has buttons on it too. It just takes MUCH longer! I painted the canvases to match and that project is on my blog too, with buttons of course! Check out the flower canvas tutorial here!

Happy Creating,

Laura

Patriotic Pail for USA Fun

By Admin1 on May 23, 2014 in Holidays, Patriotic

Here is a festive, fun and simple to make PATRIOTIC PICNIC PAIL, great for holding snacks, silverware, candles, etc. and totally useable for Memorial Day, 4th of July and Veterans’ Day too!

I gathered the products and materials I would need first. You can get my patriotic mix of buttons from Buttons Galore and save yourself from having to buy all of the colors individually.

I painted the tin pail with blue paint, applying three coats to get it bright and covered completely. Then I added polka dots with white, applying two coats. To complete the painting, I added polka dots inside the white ones with red, again applying two coats. I also painted inside of the bucket.

When the paint was totally dry, I used decopauge to add a few “I Love the USA” additions. I printed them out on the computer and cut them first. My favorite choice here is Matte Collage Pauge from I Love to Create.

To decorate the handle, I added buttons from my Patriotic Mix from Buttons Galore by threading them onto red wire and twisting in onto the handle as I went from one end to the other. I added a few ribbons tied in knots.

Then I added my favorite red, white and blue packaged snack to complete the project and turn it into a great hostess gift!

Happy Celebrating the USA and Creating with BUTTONS,

Laura

Button Up Some Springtime Ornaments

By Admin on May 16, 2014 in Holidays, Spring

How beautiful are these ornaments for springtime?

To create them you simply need a foam ball in the size you would like, buttons and ball-end pins. The longer pins can go through multiple buttons which is something to keep in mind when choosing materials. Attach the buttons to the ball by pushing the pins through the button holes into the ball. Cover the ball entirely then attach a ribbon for a hanger either with the pins or your favorite adhesive.

They are fun to put together for decorating.

They look great outdoors for a breath of fresh brightness.

Happy Springtime,

Laura

Upcyled Denim Pocket Purse

By Admin on March 17, 2014 in Purses & Totes, Wearable

Buttons Galore was invited to join the Rainbow Blog Hop 2014 (aka RainbowHop14) with the color indigo. To become a piece of the colorful rainbow party, I took an old pocked from a pair of kid jeans and turned it into a mini purse, Welcome to the party!

Here are the supplies I started with.

I cut the pocket out first.

Then I stitched on some buttons in the colors from my Laura Kelly collection that worked best (Robin Egg Blue and

It is perfect to hold important things in a bigger bag (ie: gym bag, backpack, pocketbook, etc.)!

Check out the projects in all of the colors of the rainbow. Lots of them use buttons!

An InLinkz Link-up

And you can enter to win a prize too!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Happy St. Patrick’s Day and Rainbows of Creative Love,

Laura

Stitch Up an Adorable 2014 Banner

By Admin on December 27, 2013 in Holidays, New Year

I dyed these adorable little pennant pieces from Canvas Corp with Rit Dye…with intentions of making a holiday banner. Little did I know that they would end up being for the holiday of New Year’s when I dyed them Cherry Red. I am so glad I “forgot” to complete that project because they were perfect for this week’s blog post showing you how to stitch up an adorable banner to bring in 2014.

I sorted from my Laura Kelly collection of assorted buttons and found 6 large ones in different colors from the red.

Then I matched up double colors of embroidery floss from Coats and Clark to do the stitching for each of the 6 pennant pieces. I set it all out to make sure it was going to be “just right” and balanced.

To stitch on the numbers and add the buttons (stitched through the front and tied in knots), I used two colors, doubled up.

Then I set it all out to decide where it should be hung. I love my Westcott brand scissors almost enough to hang them too.

I decided that the perfect place was on my craft shelves. I think it looks great there and love the way the little pieces all hang with the mini clothespins (also from Canvas Corp). And now…to create new projects with all of the Laura Kelly bright, bold and amazing colors of buttons for 2014! It is going to be great!

Happy New Year,

Laura

Adorable Little Ornament – Fifteen MINUTE Friday

By Admin on November 29, 2013 in Christmas, Holidays, Kids Crafts

Welcome to the Black Friday Cyber Sale, and to the Linky Party organized by our designer Laura Kelly using Sculpey Polymer Clay products and her line of our buttons to create “Adorable Little Ornaments”.

For today’s project, I am sharing as a part of a linky party featuring adorable little ornaments made from clay and buttons. Lots of designers and bloggers were sent Sculpey products and Laura Kelly’s buttons to create these adorable little ornaments.

How to make the button ornament

I used Sculpey clay in red and white to form a stocking, molding with my fingers. When I was done stuck then end of an 8 inch long piece of wire into the top in two places to create holes that I would later need. While the stocking was baking (following the directions in the packaging) I twisted the wire up and added a few Radical Red and Apple Green buttons along with my signature ribbon (black with white polka dots).

When the stocking was out of the oven and cooled, I added the wire using a tad bit of super glue on each end into the holes. Wah-lah…an adorable little ornament.

There are lots of ornaments being shared in the party. Check them out.

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…and enter to win some clay and buttons of your own!

Happy Creating,

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Button Up Ornaments to “Dye” For

By Admin on November 8, 2013 in Christmas, Holidays

Creating Christmas ornaments that are handmade and created with a personal touch have never been easier. With the pre-cut shapes that are available in all of the craft stores and buttons, here are ornaments you can make quickly that are to dye for – as in dye with Rit Dye that is.

It is so incredible simple that you can make them in fifteen minutes or less. To do it, paint the wood with dye directly from the bottle. If you want it darker, heat it up first. It dries pretty quickly but if you are in a hurry, you can stick it in the microwave for 30 seconds to speed it up.

Then you add your buttons and embellishments to make it into something special. I used an Laura Kelly Candy Apple Green button on this ornament. Before I added it with hot glue, I went over the snowflake with a white paint pen a little bit.

Here are some that were created with a group of fabulous attendees at a crafting event last week. I had a blast leading the workshop and am amazed at how awesome their ornaments turned out.

Happy Getting Ready For the Holidays,

Laura

Take a Doodle Picnic and Create Some Button Fun Cards

By Admin on June 7, 2013 in Paper Crafts

It summertime…a great time to picnic…creative style. I packed up my bag and headed to the nearby creek to create. This is what I came up with.

I doodles a few flowers and the framed them in and colored them with my Tombow markers and cut them out.I used Power Adhesive Tabs to mount them to pre-cut note cards with envelopes then added buttons from the Laura Kelly collection of bright colors to make them “pop”!

If you want to know what goes in a Doodle Picnic Bag to ensure the most successful outing, visit Laura’s blog for those details!

Happy SUMMER!

Embellished lamp shade-15 MINUTE Friday

By Admin on March 22, 2013 in Home Decor

Make an embellished lamp shade and light up your room. This craft is so easy, so quick and creates such a bright and happy addition to your studio decor or any home decor. I think it would make a great addition to a tween room. Especially for the girl that is into DIY and wants to express her favorite colors.

Materials needed to make a embellished lamp shade:

The only things you will need are a lampshade, Laura Kelly’s bright colored buttons and HOT glue. You could kick it up one notch further and add a ribbon to the edges. If I were doing it I would use a polka dot ribbon as they are my personal favorite.

How to make an embellished lamp shade:

Make two layered button stacks in whatever colors will best accent the space your shade will go. Use the hot glue to adhere them together. Allow the glue to cool.

Carefully glue them to the lampshade with the hot glue, space the button stacks as desired.