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Craft a Button Collage Heart to Send Valentine’s Wishes!

By Nancy Nally on January 9, 2017 in Card Making, Paper Crafts, Valentine’s Day

I love making button collages on small items – you may remember my button collage apple on my teacher tag awhile back. Collaged die cuts are a fun and simple way to add some dimension and detail to a design. Today, I’m falling in love with a button collage heart for Valentine’s day!

Supplies Needed:

Buttons Galore Strawberry Cheesecake Color Blends (online store, Amazon)
28 Lilac Lane Pretty Princess embellishment bottle (online store)
PPA Matte Adhesive (online store)
Simple Stories “Love & Adore” 6×6 paper pad
white cardstock
white card base
Cricut Explore machine
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Picked Raspberry
Crate Paper “Heart Day” stamps

I started this card by cutting my 3″ high heart out of plain white cardstock on my Cricut Explore using the software’s basic shape tool. Then, starting in the upper right corner, I gradually spread white liquid adhesive (PPA Matte) over small areas and filled them in with the Strawberry Cheesecake buttons.

While my glue was drying on my button collage heart, I cut my background paper to the size of the card front and adhered it. Then I stamped the sentiment on a strip of the white cardstock. Once the ink was dry, I snipped the ends to create a banner look for the sentiment strip.

The button collage had white spaces showing through between the buttons after the glue was dry. To fill these in, I dropped spots of glue on them, and pushed seed beads from the Pretty Princess bottle down into them. Some of the white edges also weren’t entirely covered, so I ran beads of glue along those areas and pressed beads into there as well.

After all the glue was dry, I simply attached my heart and my sentiment strip to the front of the card. This simple design has a lot of “pop” from the color contrast and the button detail. I can’t wait to share it with someone special!

Make a Geo Heart Valentine Card for Someone Special!

By Nancy Nally on December 26, 2016 in Card Making, Holidays, Valentine’s Day

Are you feeling the love? It’s time to start thinking Valentine’s Day! This geo heart valentine card is trendy, fun, and best of all…oh so easy to make!

Supplies:

28 Lilac Lane “Love Story” embellishment kit
Simple Stories “Love & Adore” 6×6 paper pad
white smooth cardstock
white card base
Neat & Tangled “Heart of Gold” stamp set
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Black Soot & Embossing
Ranger Super Fine Detail Gold Embossing Powder
embroidery floss
foam adhesive

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to use our 28 Lilac Lane embellishment kit called “Love Story”. This kit is packed full of beautiful rose and white buttons and seed beads, along with gold and rose pearls and sequins. For those extra-special greetings, there’s even a few charms and some ribbon, too. Love Story will make loads of valentines for the ones you love!

One of my favorite things to do with my 28 Lilac Lane embellishments is to customize my stamps with them. I love stamps, but it can be difficult to create different looks using the same image repeatedly to get value out of it. Adding buttons, sequins, pearls, or beads over an image can help make it look like an entirely new design!

This clean and simple geo heart valentine card design is very quick and easy to make with only a few basic supplies. It truly is only a ten minute project! Or it can turn into twenty minutes if your cat gets up on your work table and knocks over your entire container of beautiful “Love Story” embellishments so you have to clean them up. (Let’s not talk about how I know that…)

How to make a geo heart valentine card:

To make this geo heart valentine card, I cut my floral paper to the size of the card front. Then I glued it down to the blank white card base. I cut the heart print paper a half inch smaller each direction, and glued it centered on top of the floral paper. To finish preparing the card base, I stamped the sentiment in black ink on the center of the bottom of the card front.

I stamped the geo heart design on white paper with embossing ink, and then heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. I used fine pointed scissors to cut out the heart. Don’t worry if your hand cutting skills aren’t the best! Since this heart doesn’t have super smooth curves, it’s quite easy to hand cut.

To embellish the heart, I glued a few gold sequins at the intersections of lines in the geo heart. Then I chose a nice big rose button for a big pop of color, and then tied it off with matching embroidery floss before gluing it down. Finally, I used foam dot adhesive to attach the heart to the card front.

Make an Ombre Heart with Buttons!

By Nancy Nally on January 22, 2016 in Holidays, Valentine’s Day

Now that the CHA Mega Show is over, we can start sharing with you a closer look at the projects that were designed for our booth, like this ombre heart!

I designed this ombre heart wall art by combining several of our button assortments that contain great shades of pink that work together to make the ombre shift.

This project is surprisingly easy. The biggest challenge is the first step working with the buttons, which is simple but can be tedious. This is a great project to do with kids, to help teach color distinction!

Step 1: Paint the wood heart base with chalk or acrylic paint.

Step 2: Sort the pink buttons into five gradual color shades.

Step 3: Measure the heart from top to bottom. Divide that amount by six to get the width of each color band in the ombre heart. Mark off the divide between each color.

Step 4: Begin to apply the buttons. Apply a thick coat of glue in the first color band, and begin filling with the color for that band.

Step 5: While the first color dries, turn the heart around and work from the other end. Repeat until you meet in the middle and finish the final color.

Step 6: Allow the glue to dry.

Step 7: Use hot glue to attach a loop of ribbon to the rear side on the top of the ombre heart to allow for hanging.

Supplies:

Bubblegum Button Bonanza
Vacation Button Box
Love Button Box
White Button Bonanza
White chalk paint
Wooden heart
White ribbon
White glue that dries clear (I used ArtQuest PPA Matte)
Hot glue gun

Also…don’t miss our winter sale! We’ve got great deals now through January 31st on Christmas, Winter, and Valentine’s Day themed buttons!

Sweetheart Message Board

By Admin1 on February 2, 2015 in Holidays, Valentine’s Day

Here’s a sweet little Valentine’s Day project for you! A Sweetheart Message Board, created with dry erase paper and buttons. Leave a new, loving message to your sweetheart every day!

Supplies:

Wood, heart-shaped plaque
Paint
Buttons
Dry erase paper
Felt flowers
Craft glue

Instructions:

Paint the wood plaque. Allow to dry completely.
Once the paint is dry, trace the heart shape onto a piece of dry erase paper and glue it onto the front of the plaque.
Embellish the plaque with felt flowers with button centers.
Hang the plaque with a ribbon and leave messages of love for your sweetheart.

Whip up a Valentines Day Pillow

By Admin1 on January 23, 2015 in Holidays, Valentine’s Day

I made these pillow and they literally took less than fifteen minutes each. The buttons stitched on to the hearts really make them adorable and special.

The radical red buttons are one of my favorite colors in my line of buttons with Buttons Galore.

I love the way that they come in so many sizes and shapes within each pack.

Ta Da!

To find out how I made this, hop over to my blog and check it out. You can do that here!

Happy Friday,

Laura

Embellished Hand Towels home decor

By Admin1 on February 26, 2013 in Holidays, Home Decor, Valentine’s Day

Embellished hand towels are one of my favorite home decor crafts. I think little holiday touches, throughout the house, make everyone smile and turns an ordinary day into something special. Today, I have a DIY project for an embellished Hand Towel. It’s simply a matter of embellishing a store-bought hand towel with ribbons and buttons. You’ll be amazed by how easy the project is and how cute your guest bathroom will look when you hang this cute, embellished hand towel in it!

Supplies for the embellished hand towel:

Pink hand towel (red or white would work too!)
Ribbons and lace trim
Buttons-I used Buttons Galore and More’s Brilliant Pink and Granny’s Button Box Stitched Buttons
Basic sewing supplies

Instructions for the embellished hand towel:

1. Lay the hand towel flat on your work surface. Measure out your ribbons and lace to span the width of the front of the towel. Pin in place and sew them onto the towel.

2. Fold the towel in half in order to establish the center mark of the towel. Place a button on top of the ribbon at the center mark and stitch in place.

3. Sew buttons on either side of the center button.

It’s best to gently hand wash the towel once it has been decorated. Alternately, go ahead and drive your family crazy by telling them the towel is only for decoration and not to be used.

Romantic Embellishments for Card Making

By Admin on June 6, 2012 in Card Making, Paper Crafts

Good morning, Pinky here again,

I love making cards and scrapbooking but sometimes they just need a special embellishment to make them POP.

The cards I am sharing today really shine with the beautiful soft Buttons Galore & More buttons.

On this card I used the beautiful Buttons Galore & More Ribbon Heart buttons

First cover white cardstock 6X9″ with patterned paper.

Use alternating colored cardstock to matte dress die cut and patterned paper.

Adhere matted patterned paper as shown.

Using thick pop dots, pop up dress die cut as shown in photo.

Pop up sentiment die cut using foam pop dots.

Using hot glue gun adhere 3 Buttons Galore & More Ribbon Heart buttons as shown above.

For this card:

First cover white cardstock 6X9″ with patterned paper.

Use alternating colored cardstock to matte dress die cut and sentiment.

Using thick pop dots, pop up dress die cut as shown in photo.

Tuck sentiment underneath dress die cut.

Using hot glue gun, adhere Buttons Galore & More Classic Circle buttons as shown.

2 beautiful cards in just 30 minutes!

Pinky: Buttons Galore & More Design Team

Novelty Heart Button Love Notes

By Allie Gower on March 14, 2012 in Home Decor, Valentine’s Day

Handmade love notes are not just for Valentine’s Day. I’m sharing a little trash to treasure project with you using heart buttons and a paper box. The box hada little accident. I have several other boxes like it that I’ve decorated with my favorite Authentique papers, and this was my last box, so I wanted to use it for something special.

I took pictures along with way. A little love, a lot of tape, some heart buttons (of course) and other Doo-Dahs, and I think it outshines all my other boxes. There is a funny little story about embellishments below too.

Do you love, love, love Clearance? When my kids were little, they thought Clearance was a person. We regularly visit Uncle Clarence to see what he’s got for us. [insert chuckle here]

Anyway, I got the beautiful chunky glitter encrusted flower on clearance. It’s from Prima. The bad news, if it was on clearance, maybe they don’t make them any more? Sorry! Any gorgeous flower will do, and you could always add your own glitter.

Do you love those crocheted flowers? My friend Linda Weber makes them. I make things or send her stuff I don’t need, and she sends me hand made flowers. It’s a sweet barter system.

I added a small leaf underneath the rose, it’s from Creative Impressions. To the centers of the handmade flowers I added yes, a favored heart button, and a button from my Buttons Galore and More stash and used Beacon’s to glue it all down.

Supplies:

Heart Shaped Buttons

Beacon’s 3-1 Glue

Additional Supplies

Additional Buttons – from my stash
Papers – Authentique
Embellishments (Knob, Trinket Pin, Crystals and Pearls, Key Hole and Key, Feet, Corners) and Tissue Tape – Tim Holtz for Advantus, the Ideaology line
Rose – Prima
Crocheted Flowers – handmade by my good friend Linda Weber,
Bling – Nestabling from Want2Scrap
Ink – Black Ink from Close To My Heart

: Buttons Item Number 4127

: Crushed Blackboard Box

: Use tape to assemble box

: Assemble box

: Apply tape to seams. Sand rough edges.

: Pre-cut pieces, ink them to match, adhere going the same direction.

: Don’t forget to cover the bottom

: Beacon’s 3-1. It’s goopy, it’s stringy, but it HOLDS! It also dries amazingly fast.

: Rubber Bands hold it while drying.

: Buttons in All the Pretty Flowers

: It’s not right til we add tons of pretties, right?

: Peek at the keyhole. Note the patterned paper inside. Paste a small leftover piece

: Buttons on the side… Oooh, Aaah.

: Nestabling adds a sweet little touch.

: additional view inside box

: Inside the paper covered box

: There’s the bling

: Love Notes box Thanks for Looking!

Thanks for looking today! Allie G.

Button Bon Bons for Valentine’s Day

By Admin1 on February 3, 2012 in Holidays, Valentine’s Day

Button Bon Bons by Laura Bray

I love Valentine’s Day, but my hips don’t. If you give me a box of chocolates, I will eat it! So I whipped-up some calorie-free, faux chocolates. Tucked into an old chocolate box (of which I have more than a few, ahem), they make a darling Valentine vignette. Or pack up a few as party favors. Here’s the recipe:

Button Bon Bons

Ingredients:

Brown felt, cut into 3″ circles. I just traced the bottom of a can to get my circle. Use light and dark brown colored felts for milk and dark chocolates! White works too.
Needle & thread
Stuffing
Buttons. The colors in Buttons Galore & More Confection Button Jar are perfect!
Mini-cupcake wrappers
Craft glue
Candy box

Instructions:

Sew a running stitch around the outside of the felt circle. Pull ends like you are making a yo yo. Before tying them, stuff the bon bon .
Sew buttons onto top of felt bon bon. Get creative! Stack them up!
Apply some glue to the bottom of a mini-cupcake wrapper, and place the felt bon bon into the wrapper.
Arrange the bon bons in a candy box.
Enjoy them, guilt-free!

Button Bon Bons for Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day Countdown Calendar

By Admin1 on January 30, 2012 in Holidays, Valentine’s Day

If your little one is anything like mine, you pretty much start looking forward to Valentine’s Day right after Christmas. I created this felt and button Valentine’s Day Countdown Calendar to channel some of my daughter’s excitement.

Supplies:

White felt
Red felt
Pink felt
Wave rotary cutter
Sewing machine
Buttons-I used Buttons Galore and More’s Raspberry Bulk Pack, because you can never have too many pink buttons!
Embroidery floss & Needle
Ink jet, printable fabric
13″ wood dowel
Red & white bakery twine

Instructions:

Cut a piece of white felt into a 17″ x 11″ rectangle.
Fold one short side over 1″ then sew to create a pocket to put your dowel through later.
Trim other short end using a wave rotary cutter or pinking shears.
Cut a 7″ x 3″ rectangle from the pink felt.
Using your printable fabric and word processing software, create a sign for the top of your calendar. Mine says “Be My Valentine”.
Cut the printable fabric into a 6.5″ x 2.25″ rectangle.
Place pink felt triangle, centered and about 1″ inch down from top of white piece of felt. Remember, the top of your calendar will be where you stitched a pocket for the dowel. Pin and sew.
Center your printable fabric on the pink rectangle. Pin and sew.
Cut 14 2″ x 2″ squares from your red felt.
Sew one pink button into the center of each red felt square. I found the middle by folding the square in half, finger pressing, then folding it the other direction and finger pressing. Attach you button where the lines cross. Easy!
Cut fourteen hearts from your white felt. To get evenly sized hearts, I cut 2″ x 2″ squares from the white felt, folded them in half and cut half hearts.
Carefully cut a small slit into the center of each heart.
Measure down 1/2″ from the pink felt and 1/2″ in from edge of white felt. Place your first red square there and pin. Measure 1/2″ over to the right and pin. Continue pinning on red squares, making sure you line them up evenly. Sew the squares onto the fabric. You can use your sewing machines to do this (just be careful not to run over the buttons) or attach them using a cute embroidery stitch.
Cut a 5″ x 3″ rectangle from the pink felt. Using your wave rotary cutters or pinking shears, cut a decorate edge along one of the long sides.
Cut a 5″ x 1.5″ rectangle from the red felt. Using your wave rotary cutters or pinking shears, cut a decorate edge along one of the long sides. If you want to add a decorative ribbon, sew it on now.
Place the red felt rectangle onto the pink felt rectangle, lining up the straight, long edge. Sew three sides together, leaving the long, decorate edge of the red rectangle open. You now have a pocket for your extra hearts.
Sew the pocket onto the white base, 1/2″ down from the last row of red squares, 1/2″ from the right side of the white base.
Cut out additional felt hearts in pink, red, and white and sew onto the calendar randomly. Use cute embroidery stitches to attach them.
Slide dowel through the top pocket of your calendar. Tie baker’s twine to end of dowels and hang.

You are done! Store your white hearts in the pocket. As each day dawns, allow your child to button a heart onto one of the red squares. When the all the squares are full, it’s Valentine’s Day! Use the now empty pocket to store a few Valentine’s and enjoy your calendar for a couple of extra days after the holiday.

Valentine Countdown Calendar by Laura Bray

I know this calendar is a lot of work, but I was able to get mine done in about 3 hours total. I think it’s worth the work-after all it’s a heirloom item.

Valentine Theme Keepsake Book

By Elise Durenberger on January 25, 2012 in Paper Crafts

Supplies from Buttons Galore & More:

Oh, the wonderful things we can do with buttons! This blog is choc FULL of ideas! And thanks to the bountiful assortment from Buttons Galore and More – we keep comin’ up with NEW ways, to make amazing crafts with buttons…

Recently, while doodling on my desk blotter, I created some fun characters by sketching around some colorful buttons. Like seeing circus animals in the clouds, and messages in coffee froth – THIS little book idea, and the characters within, were born.

I was so taken with the characters, I decided to showcase them by creating a keepsake story, from a re-purposed children’s book. For YOUR creative consideration, I’m sharing some ideas on how to take your doodles and buttons from desktop to KEEPSAKE – it’s a fun and crafty ride, so I hope you enjoy!

Steps 1 – 4

1.) Select buttons that inspire you.

2.) Doodle or sketch as desired. When satisfied, re-create artwork onto good quality card stock.

3.) Plan for button holes with a paper piercer, poked through holes and into cards stock.

4.) Color and ink drawing as desired.

Steps 5 – 8

5.) Check button placement, then color the rest of the drawing or scene to your liking. Secure artwork to card board page with adhesive.

6.) Drill holes to correspond with pierced marks, through cardstock and cardboard.

7.) From opposite side, using clear thread and needle with a small knot, and secured with tape, push threaded needle to the front side of the artwork.

8.) Thread button and pull tight to secure the button into place. Tie off and tape down excess thread on the back side of the card board.

Take a MOMENT to enjoy the adorableness of your creations and then CARRY on!

The opposite side of the board, where thread is secured, can be covered with more cardstock and the copy for the story telling, if desired. This could also be made into a darling scrapbook or memorabilia holder – let your imagination and button characters take you on an adventure and then write about it!

That’s how these creatures came to be!

The scene: the BARNYARD.

The characters: unlikely friends who are moved to acts of generosity and sharing as a magical mood is created, by mysterious sweet treats…

The most unlikely of friends become the most UNLIKELY VALENTINES, as they share and bond on Valentine’s day.

And a darling, button filled lesson that life can be so much sweeter, when you share!

Just ask Mr. Piggles and Chick-a-deedee!

The MOST unlikely of Valentines!

Super fun! Super BUTTONS! The very best store: Buttons Galore and More!

Haberdashery Heart

By Admin1 on January 20, 2012 in Holidays, Mixed Media

Haberdashery Button Heart by Laura Bray

I love, love, love the Haberdashery Trim Collage Kits by Buttons Galore and More. Just the word “haberdashery” makes me feel all happy & old-fashioned. And the goodies included in the kit? Well, once I started brainstorming for a Valentine project, I couldn’t stop myself. There are a million ways to use this kit. You could even buy a few, invite your friends over for a Valentine tea, and make these hearts. They’ll make great Valentine’s Day gifts, but would also be sweet in a baby’s nursery.

Haberdashery Hearts

Supplies:

3.5″ x 3.5″ Wood, heart-shaped plaque
Light green and light pink craft paints
Buttons Galore & More Trim Collage Kit: Spring Garden
Craft Glue
Heart Plaque by Laura Bray

Instructions:

Paint the wood heart with pink and green paint. Allow to dry for one hour.
Glue buttons and embellishments from the Trim Collage Kit onto the wood heart.
Glue a length of ribbon to the back of the heart for a hanger.

Fleece, Yo-Yo's and Buttons on a Valentine's Day Wreath

By Admin on January 18, 2012 in Valentine’s Day

Isn’t this a sweet, simple decoration for Valentine’s Day? Or a baby girls’ room?

It’s a little time consuming but not very hard to make. Let me show you how…

First off you’ll need a 14 inch extruded foam wreath, some fleece and Fabri-Tac from Beacon Adhesives.

Cut the fleece in a long strip wide enough to wrap around the foam wreath and to meet at the edge. Glue the fleece around the wreath as shown. Scrunch the fleece together to make it kind of wrinkly.

TIP: When I’m using Fabri-Tac to “sew” I often use pinch clothes pins to hold the fabric together while the glue dries!

Next grab yourself some yo yo makers from Clover. I used a large circle, large heart and medium circle.

I made about 24 yo-yos with four different fabrics. I have to say, that I love the yo yo makers. They made it really easy!

This part of the project is perfect for crafting while watching television!

Then sew buttons in the center of the yo yos. The Button Bonanza in Bubblegum is PERFECT for this!

Next, lay the yo yos out on the wreath in a pleasing pattern and then take small pins and pin them in place.

I used a bone folder to tuck the pins down in deep so that you can’t see them in the finished wreath.

You can either fill in the whole wreath or only fill in a portion of it like I did. And of course, it doesn’t have to be in pinks.. it can be any colors you choose! :)

Easy Button Valentines

By Jen Goode on January 16, 2012 in Holidays

Cute Button and Ribbon Valentine by Jen Goode

You can make pretty little button Valentines for your true love, or with the kids for their class using buttons and felt. I created these three pieces using scraps of felt and ribbon and a bit of glue, that’s it! You could use fabric scraps, paper or cardstock. You could even paint a background and use the buttons to access the art.

This is a great Valentine’s Day project to do with the kids. Cut shapes for the little ones and let them glue everything together.Easy peazy, right? Tip: lay out everything before adding glue. Then put glue in the shape where buttons will be placed, example: I make a heart outline using glue and then placed all the buttons on the glue.

Supplies you need:

Button Bonanza in Pink
Button Bonanza in Bubblegum
Felt assortment
Ribbon assortment
Craft glue
Scissors

Button Valentines by Jen Goode

Mix and match your supplies with different layouts to create a wide selection of Valentines using your buttons. If you have a little frame, you could even turn these pieces into pretty Valentine’s Day art. Gotta love the buttons!

A Valentine's Day Gift for Teacher

By Elise Durenberger on January 6, 2012 in Holidays

In case you didn’t get enough wrapping, tags and holiday goodness, last month… It’s onward and FORWARD: Valentine’s Day is just around the corner!

Good thing Buttons Galore & More has SUCH a wide assortment of buttons and lovely bits to get the imagination and crafty thoughts flowing.

With some simple supplies and a splash of colorful fun, a button embellished Valentine’s candle seems is the perfect project for a little post-Christmas togetherness time. Gather a willing, crafty kid, and LOVELY buttons from Buttons Galore & More. The wee-child in your life might just be heading back to school with some Valentine’s teacher gifts “in the can”, as it were. Move to the head of the class… AND have fun!

With satisfying crafty abandon, have the child pin buttons to the outside of a pillar candle, using half inch stick pins.

We had A LOT of fun with the pins! Use as many or as few as desired – you MAY want to remove them when decorating is complete.

Once button layout is complete, prepare 3 – 4 feet of wax paper, folded in half. Fold in half, again, and insert candle.

On a hard surface, with a heat resistant mat, heat the candle with heat gun, through the wax paper, until very hot. {This is where “parent” supervision kicks into high gear – I recommend a good heat glove for the first go-round} Going “horizontal” sections at a time, heat until the wax is visibly melting beneath the sheet of wax paper. Firmly roll and press the candle so that the warmest, meltiest section is then pressed, firmly, onto the hard surface. Repeat this step until entire candle has been well heated/melted and then remove wax paper. Buttons should appear sunken, and possibly covered with wax. When satisfied, pins can be removed, if desired.