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Decorate Your Home Inside or Out with This Fun Fall Wreath!
Hi everyone! It’s Lorrie here with a fall wreath featuring autumn-themed buttons from Buttons Galore & More! This fall wreath will look great on your front door to greet visitors, or on the wall inside your home to add some seasonal flair.
To make this easy fall wreath, I started with a grapevine wreath and a plain burlap bow that I picked up at my local craft store. I decorated the wreath itself with some plastic leaves that I painted in beautiful autumn colors. But the real fun starts with the bow! Continue Reading →
Easy DIY Thanksgiving Napkin Rings for your Table
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I’ve been thinking about how to dress up my holiday table a little bit more this year. I’ve never actually used napkin rings before, and I thought it might be a fun addition to my Thanksgiving table. These easy Thanksgiving napkin rings only take about 10 minutes to make. Thanksgiving table decor couldn’t get any easier! I love the fun fall vibe they add to the table. And the buttons from our super adorable Fall Friends button collection were so perfect for the project! Continue Reading →
DIY Falling Leaves Home Décor
Hello Everyone! This is Katie from the Buttons Galore & More Design Team and today I will be showing you how you can decorate a new product available from Buttons Galore and More!
If you haven’t noticed, Buttons Galore & More has a new area on their website which is dedicated to home décor. This home décor is a new line of wooden products which are super easy to embellish and decorate. The nice thing about the new line is that you have tons of options for different holidays, themes, or seasons. Continue Reading →
Embroider a DIY Fall Tea Towel with Buttons
We’ve had so many crisp mornings lately, I have gotten so eager for fall! So bring on the pumpkins, acorns, orange and brown! Today’s project is a super quick embroidery project to add to your fall decor. Even the most beginner of embroiderers can easily stitch up this DIY fall tea towel. Continue Reading →
How to Make DIY Pom Pom Pumpkins with 28 Lilac Lane
The weather here has started to cool down this week and so I’ve decided it’s time to bring out those pretty autumn colors. Pumpkins are my favorite seasonal decoration in the fall – I love using both fresh pumpkins and artificial pumpkins in my decor. Yarn pom poms are such a fast and easy craft to make. They can add a bit of whimsy to any decor. I wanted to make some DIY pom pom pumpkins to add to my fall decorations, and the beautiful Autumn Afternoon Embellishment Kit from the 28 Lilac Lane collection was the perfect addition to finish off these cute little poms! Continue Reading →
Create Fall Wood Coaster Wall Decor with 28 Lilac Lane
If you’re like me, you just can’t wait for the temperatures to drop. Now is the perfect time to get started on some fun and simple projects for fall. Today, I’m going to show you how to use the Autumn Afternoon embellishment kit by 28 Lilac Lane to create an awesome fall wood coaster wall decor piece for your home.
Supplies needed to create Fall Wood Coaster Wall Decor:
- 28 Lilac Lane “Autumn Afternoon” Embellishment Kit
- round wood coaster
- stamp & Ink
- fabric scrap
- hemp cord
- clear drying glue
- hot glue gun
- tweezers (optional)
Instructions to create Fall Wood Coaster Wall Decor:
The first thing you need for this project is a wood surface. I’m using a 4 1/2″ round wood coaster that is about 1/2″ thick. Next, you will need to find a stamp with a word or phrase that expresses the perfect sentiment. I have selected a “smile” stamp. Smiles are always in season! You can of course go with something specifically related to fall. Most importantly, ensure that anything you choose will fit nicely onto your coaster.
I have drilled a hole in the top in order to attach a string, but you may be able to find one that is pre-drilled for crafting. On a scrap piece of duck cloth I have stamped the word “smile” in black ink and then glued the fabric to the coaster’s surface. Then I used a clear-drying glue to begin adding pearls and sequins.
Don’t forget to leave room for buttons! Using a glue gun, I arranged the buttons closely together near the bottom edge and stack a few for extra dimension.
The kit includes leaf and feather pendants in bronze that look great hanging and add just the right touch for the season. I looped the cord through the wood coaster and each pendant. I used a 7″ length of hemp cord. After I attached the pendants, I just tied a knot in the cord to finish it off.
For the last step, I applied a few seed beads using the tiniest dab of glue. Using tweezers will assist in applying the beads exactly where you want them. As we all know, glue can at times get messy!
And its just that easy! Your newly embellished fall wood coaster wall decor is complete.
How To Make A DIY Button Pumpkin Wall Hanging
Hello Everyone! This is Katie from the Buttons Galore & More Design Team, and today I have a fun button pumpkin wall hanging project to get you in the mood for fall decorating!
This project is perfect to make if you are looking for an easy and inexpensive way to spice up your home décor for fall, halloween, and thanksgiving. I got the idea for this project when I saw a felt wall hanging designed for the 4th of July. However, instead of a pumpkin, the original wall hanging had a heart shaped flag made from felt and a few buttons. Personally, I thought the idea was cute but could be recreated in a simpler way. In today’s project, the whole DIY is only 3 steps and does not involve any sewing tools!
To decorate my button pumpkin wall hanging, I used two button sets for a majority of the project. Those two button sets were the 28 Lilac Lane ”Pumpkin Spice” Embellishment Bottle and the Buttons Galore Autumn Value Pack. Both of these button sets provided a wide variety of harvest/fall style buttons and worked really well together. My personal favorite out of both of these sets was definitely the 28 Lilac Lane ‘”Pumpkin Spice” Embellishment Bottle because you received a ton of beautiful orange colored buttons.
So, to find out how to make your own pumpkin button wall hanging, keep reading below!
Supplies for Making Button Pumpkin Wall Hanging:
- 28 Lilac Lane ”Pumpkin Spice” Embellishment Bottle
- 28 Lilac Lane ”Paws and Pets” Embellishment Kit
- Buttons Galore Autumn Value Pack
- 2 pieces of felt (in the same color)
- 1 piece of burlap
- dowel rod or wooden stick
- ruler
- scissors
- pen
- hot glue gun + glue sticks
How to Make a Button Pumpkin Wall Hanging
Step 1: Cut one piece of felt that measures 9 inches by 10 inches and two smaller pieces of felt that measure 2 inches by 3 ½ inches. Then cut out one piece of burlap that measures 6 ½ inches by 8 inches and two smaller pieces that measure 1 inch by 3 ½ inches.
Step 2: Layer the larger piece of burlap centered onto the larger piece of your felt and glue it into place with your hot glue gun. Then layer the smaller pieces of burlap centered onto your smaller pieces of felt and glue them into place. Finally, create loops for your wall hanging by folding over the smaller pieces of felt/burlap and glue them in the corners of your larger felt piece.
Step 3: Now take your pen and draw the outline of a pumpkin onto your burlap. Then begin gluing on your buttons around the outside of your pumpkin to create an outline and then fill in the middle with more buttons. For my pumpkin, I decided to go from dark to light buttons and then use shimmering half pearl flat backs for the stem. Finally, use the rest of your normal buttons and decorative buttons to decorate the rest of your wall hanging.
For my button pumpkin wall hanging I used the following:
- Buttons and Shimmering Half Pearl Flat Backs from 28 Lilac Lane ”Pumpkin Spice” Embellishment Bottle
- Shimmering Half Pearl Flat Backs from 28 Lilac Lane ”Paws and Pets” Embellishment Kit (this was used for the pumpkin stem)
- Decorative buttons (like the green leaf) from Buttons Galore Autumn Value Pack
Once you are happy with how your button pumpkin wall hanging looks, you are ready to hang it on the wall by sliding a dowel rod or wooden stick through the two loops!
I loved how this pumpkin button wall hanging turned out and I think it would look so cute as part of a gallery wall!
While creating this project, I did free hand the design of the pumpkin. However, if you are not comfortable drawing your own pumpkin (in step 3), you can always google ”pumpkin template” and print out a template to trace around. With that being said, if pumpkins are not your thing, you could always change the main image to be something else. For example, I think a leaf created from the 28 Lilac Lane “Toasted Graham” Embellishment Bottle would look really pretty.
If you made this pumpkin button wall hanging, what 28 Lilac Lane items would you use?
Celebrate Fall with Button Vase Fall Canvas Wall Art
Autumn is one of my very favorite seasons. I love the cooler (but not cold) temperatures and the gorgeous bright colors that appear in nature. This Button Vase Fall Canvas wall art is the perfect project when you’re short on table space but want to add those beautiful fall colors to your home.
Supplies needed to make a Button Vase Fall Canvas Wall Art:
- Buttons Galore “Harvest” Button Bonanza
- Buttons Galore “Fall Festival” Button Basics
- 16×20 Stretched Canvas
- Silk Florals or Leaf Stems
- Hot Glue Gun and Hot Glue Sticks
- Pencil
- Sharp Craft Knife
How to make a Button Vase Fall Canvas Wall Art:
Step one:
Use a pencil to draw (or trace) a simple vase shape to the bottom half of your blank 16×20 canvas.
It doesn’t need to be perfect, just a rough outline so that you know where to place the buttons for the button vase. The buttons will cover up any pencil marks. I drew a round vase, but you can make it any shape you want. Whichever shape you use, make sure to keep it on one end of the canvas.
Step two:
Glue buttons to the outlined vase you drew on the canvas. I used a hot glue gun to attach the buttons.
Because I was using Silk Autumn Leaves in my vase with beautiful red and orange colors, I made my vase Yellow to complement them. I used every yellow button in the Harvest and Fall Festival button sets to fill my round yellow vase. I liked that the shades of yellow in these two sets were in line with the yellow you’d actually see on fall leaves.
Don’t glue buttons inside the mouth part of the vase at the top but fill the rest of the vase.
Step three:
Use a sharp craft knife to cut a line in the canvas just above the buttons in the mouth of the vase.
Step four:
Insert your Autumn Silk Florals or Leaves through the hole in the canvas. Arrange them however you like. I find that the canvas vase looks best when it’s full. I used four Silk Leaf stems to fill my vase.
Step five:
Turn your canvas over, and use hot glue to secure the stems in place for added stability. I used an entire small glue stick to fix my stems in place.
Step six:
Use single leaves to fill in any blank spaces or gaps at the base of the stems. Secure them in place with hot glue.
If you have some unruly leaves on the stems that aren’t laying quite right, a dot of hot glue can help secure them to the canvas in a more pleasing way.
Hang your canvas on the wall, or prop it up on a table for a beautiful bright pop of autumn colors! I think that I will take a slightly smaller canvas and use the red buttons in the Fall Festival and Harvest button packs to make a smaller red vase with some pretty silk sunflowers! The pair will look great together with my fall decor. The possibilities are endless if you just change the color of the buttons for your vase to complement the flowers or leaves you have! Happy Fall Crafting!
Celebrate Fall with Painted Leaves on Slate!
School is starting in many parts of the country, and that means that cooler temperatures – and changing leaves – can’t be far behind! Today’s project is a piece of slate wall decor with painted leaves that will bring fall colors inside so you can enjoy them where it is warm!
Supplies:
- Buttons Galore “Argyle” Button Tote
- 5×7 Slate Wall Plaque
- Tim Holtz idea-ology Jute String
- Acrylic Paint in various colors
- Folkart “Leaf Variety” Stencil
(For my paint selections, I used Delta Ceramcoat “Ranchero”, Delta Ceramcoat Select “Light Foliage Green”, Folkart “Cardinal Red” and “Daffodil Yellow”, and Martha Stewart Crafts Metallic Acrylic in “Rust”. But the exact shades aren’t as important as getting a light green, a red, an orange, a yellow, and a metallic.)
The paint effect looks complex, but the technique is actually really simple. The secret to it is using disposable make-up sponges to apply the paint with a “dabbing” motion, instead of a brush. It’s so simple that even young children can do it!
Taping down the stencil, and using tape to cover all of the nearby open areas that I don’t want to paint, helped to ensure that I got a perfect impression from my stencil.
I started with the light green color of paint, using one of the cosmetic sponges. I dabbed one of the end edges of the sponge into the paint, and then dabbed most of the paint off on the palette that I was using. I then used the damp sponge to dab blotches of color onto the stencil. I repeated this process with each color (except the metallic), filling in the whole stencil area.
Then I used the metallic color and dabbed it heavily over the top of the stencil, but not filling in quite completely. I wanted small areas to peek out from underneath. Then I repeated a layer of the light green paint, but not quite as heavily as the metallic.
Sometimes when applying new paint over paint that is still wet your colors might mix and blend a bit. As long as the sponges aren’t too wet, the colors shouldn’t shift too much.
The finished effect will look something like this – a mix of metallic and green with hints of other colors like red and yellow peeking through. Just like with leaves in nature, no two painted leaves will come out the same!
The painted leaves are pretty on their own, but the slate doesn’t really look finished without some dimension on it. I wrapped jute string around the bottom of the slate and secured it on the back with hot glue. The string provides “ground” that the leaves are falling to. Then I made a bow by twisting some string and attached it with some hot glue. I attached a button to hide the hot glue making the bow. Buttons are great concealers for glue and seams! Then, finally, in the bottom corner, I attached three more buttons. I like the repetition of the three leaves as three buttons for balance, and it provides a visual anchor for the other end of the string.
The buttons I used are from our “Argyle” Button Tote. With deep reds and greens, trendy navy, and neutral cream and black, the Argyle mix is a great selection to have in your creative toolbox for the holidays in the last part of the year! What will you use Argyle for?
Fall Button Serving Tray
My fall button serving tray is one of my favorite buttons projects I have ever made. Plus it is easy to make which is a win win right? Grab your buttons and a thrift store tray to get started making your own version. Don’t need a serving tray for fall? Maybe use this same idea with a button ornament in the center for Christmas? Or a heart in the center for Valentine’s Day? I can think of all sorts of different tray designs for all seasons of the year.
I started with a tray from the thrift store for 99 cents and a bottle of Americana gloss enamels in Antique Gold.
I painted my entire tray with 2 coats of the paint then grabbed some fall themed buttons from Buttons Galore and More.
I laid the buttons out on my tray until I was happy with the arrangement. I then used my 3 in 1 Beacon adhesive to glue them directly to the tray.
Once the glue was completely dry, I mixed a two coat epoxy to make my tray nice and smooth. Don’t be afraid of epoxy! Just mix and pour according to the package directions. I spent quite a bit of time using a flame to pop bubbles that come up from the epoxy itself and the buttons. Yes my finished project still has a few bubbles but overall it looks amazing. The buttons seem to create more bubbles than is normal with an epoxy project.
Allow your epoxy to dry for a nice long time before you touch it (don’t be tempted to touch!!). You will be left with a glossy flat serving tray with buttons in it! Now some of my buttons stick up just slightly out of the epoxy (there is a slight hump in the epoxy). This can easily be fixed with a second epoxy pour however the bumps do not really bother me for my needs so I am leaving them. You could also be extra careful when choosing buttons for your design and choose only the flattest buttons to include.
Just so you can see my entire button fall scene here is a picture of the entire tray.
It is so darn cute I could eat it up. Speaking of eat it up, use your fall tray to serve snacks to the kids or for a wonderful addition to your Thanksgiving and fall themed parties. Want more buttons on your Thanksgiving table? Be sure to check out my rustic burlap napkin rings as well.
Will you be adding buttons to a tray anytime soon? Don’t let that epoxy pour scare ya! My fall button serving tray will make an appearance at our Thanksgiving meal and many snacks in the meantime.
Button Pumpkin
How about a Button Pumpkin for your door? This will be fun to do with the kids.
I used Hot Glue, but the kids could easily use a Craft Glue or Glue Dots.
Supplies for Making Button Pumpkin:
- Buttons – Tangerine Tango, Outrageous Orange, Hand Dyed Buttons
- Cardstock – Ponderosa Pine, Autumn Terracotta
- Adhesive – Adtech Hot Glue and Glue Sticks, Dimensional Foam Tape (3M)
- SVG – Fall Bear (enlarged to 300%)
- Copic Marker (for shading on leaf and stem)
Instructions:
- Cut paper pieces for pumpkin. Lightly trace center of pumpkin as a guideline.
- Place buttons on bottom half – the outer edges, and glue into place. Add small buttons on top of other buttons for added interest and to hide some of the paper.
- Create the center panel. Adhere buttons. Attach to pumpkin using dimensional foam tape – you may need a few layers.
- Add stem and leaf. Draw “veins” on leaf and shade to add interest.
Project Note:
If you do use hot glue and you have a lot of strands of glue and messy areas, just hit them with a hair dryer or heat embossing tool – they’ll melt away – easy peasy. If you do not have an electronic cutter, print one offline onto cardstock or trace, or be brave and draw one by hand.
Enjoy. Happy Fall Y’all!
Ribbon Wreath with Button Accents a DIY that is easy to make
Ribbon Wreaths are trendy right now, with photos appearing on blogs and Pinterest. This tied ribbon version with button accents is a great way to get autumn colors and textures in a wreath that is easy to create.
Directions to make a Ribbon Wreath:
Making a ribbon wreath is a straightforward process that begins with a simple wreath form. For this wreath, I used a STYROFOAM Brand Foam wreath form approximately 8″ in diameter. I painted the front of the wreath using a foam brush and orange acrylic paint to camouflage the form in case it happened to peek through the ribbons.
While the painted wreath form is drying, I gathered my ribbons and cut several lengths of each. My form required around 50 pieces, each 10″ long. Widths ranged from 1/2 to 1″.
Once the form was dry and the ribbons cut, I tied the pieces around the form. I began with the wider ribbons, and filled in the spaces with the narrower pieces, adjusting the location of the knots as necessary.
Once all the ribbons were tied around the wreath form, the whole project looked pretty scary. It resembled a big autumn-colored ribbon Medusa.
But once all the ribbon ends had been trimmed to approximately 1.5 inches long (use sharp fabric scissors for clean edges), scary Medusa transformed into a pretty tied ribbon wreath ready for embellishing.
I added thick marbled dark brown buttons from the Natural Grab Bag tied with orange embroidery floss, and a large aged metal leaf as an accent. Three additional buttons from the Autumn Grab Bag tied with cream floss top the leaf for additional coordinating color and texture.
With no time or labor-intensive techniques to deal with, this tied ribbon wreath can be assembled quickly and easily. Dive into your ribbon stash and make one today!
Thanks for stopping by!
Carla