Buttons!

I have been busy this week working on some commissions so I can't post pictures just yet. However this week I received some more buttons to refill my button collections!

Yummy Red

Christmas selection

and I wanted some blues to liven up my mixed selection of coloured buttons. All these buttons are from www.Bloomingfelt.co.uk if you like me feel the need for more buttons (you can never have enough)

Another project I am working on requires some felt balls, so I have 1.5cm balls from Bloomingfelt and 2cm balls from www.Lovepaperfish.com 

You might be able to guess what the theme is from the colours I have ;)

Christmas Cake Earrings

I made two slices of Christmas cake last year to go on my charm bracelet but I never had time to make earrings from them, but this year I have! So now I have 5 different pairs of Christmas earrings to wear in the run up to Christmas!

Yay Cake!

These are listed on both my Folksy and Etsy

Just for fun I wanted to see if this idea of making a Christmas card with buttons would work and I am quite pleased nice and simple but effective I think :)

Button Wreath Tutorial

This is my first ever tutorial! I had far too much fun making this and i hope you will have fun too.

The Supplies:
1 Polystyrene wreath, mine measures 18cm
Green felt, any colour of your choice
Pva glue and something to spread it
Glue gun or any type of strong glue like UHU
Various size buttons in Christmas colours (or not, up to you)
Ribbon
and some tools to cut the felt

Time: About 3 hours

Cut your felt into strips about 2cm wide roughly, my felt here is 45cm long and i cut 7 strips and that was enough to cover my wreath.

Next pour some pva into a suitable container and then start spreading the glue down a strip of felt.

Then start wrapping your wreath, here i have already put two strips on. It doesn't matter too much about neat ends as we are going to cover it all with buttons!

Once the wreath is covered with felt its time to heat up the glue gun! Start gluing the buttons on, i put at least two blobs of glue either side of the holes. Bigger buttons i covered the whole of the back as i want them to be secure.

I organised my buttons so i could easily see all the designs and sizes and that way my wreath has a good variety of buttons.

All the buttons are now glued on, make sure to keep wiping away any glue spider web things. I have only put buttons on the front as the back won't be seen and will be a waste of buttons.

Next attach your ribbon or string and make sure to test how it hangs before you commit to gluing it on. My ribbon is quite thick so i wrapped it around the wreath once and then made a loop and glued it into place so that it will always face forward.

Yum buttons!











I hope I explained everything ok, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask!

Buttons

As I have been making many things involving buttons I had to replenish my stock:

 I love buttons!!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Recent goings on..

So with a holiday and lots of working i haven't blogged here in over a month :( so i have gathered some photos to show what has happened in the last 2 days:

First off some supplies arrived yesterday can you guess what i will be working on? lol

My cushion cover from my previous post has been worked on today with some hand embroidery, so far French knots and back stitch.

Also discovered that this glass paint is also used as a Faux enamel, so tried it on a bit of scrap fimo to see what it looks like.

not sure whether its the colour but it doesn't really look enamel like to me, but i think this requires some more investigation.

and finally Go Team GB!

Sunshine

Makes me happy. I am loving the weather here in the UK, just wish i had more time to enjoy it and wasn't working so much :( 

Today was meant to be productive but nothing worked, so i found some things i made a few months ago but never posted about them:

These are yummy Cornetto earrings made from fimo, i don't think i was happy with the end result but after about 2 months i put some ear hooks on them and am currently wearing them as its suitable for the weather :)

I made this before i went on holiday and was going to add more charms to it but i haven't had time to make them and as the Diamond Jubilee is only a 9 days away I've left it as it is and have been wearing it lots.

An update

So to start off: I finally made the other two angry birds to complete my collection (and no i am not including the irritating green boomerang bird, i refuse to acknowledge its existence lol) i like how the black bird turned out, and the white one i was pleased with until i put its eye liner on and its waaaaaay too dark now, also hes quite a bit smaller then he should be.

Some more love hearts were made yesterday (50 to be exact) so after they have the backs varnished they will be ready to assemble into more bracelets.

And look what the postman brought me! yummy buttons and ribbon from LovePaperFish on Etsy

So i can now start planning some bracelets and decorations in time for the Jubilee and Olympics.


Right this isn't getting my Love hearts varnished is it?

Busy busy..

Where to start? I have a Pinterest now http://pinterest.com/dragonsdust/ and its so much fun! new addiction methinks :)

And just for fun here is a bowl of yummy buttons, i luff buttons, nom nom nom.

Busy busy

First of I've made some Christmas pudding decorations from felt.

Then some hearts!

Then ordered some more buttons from Blooming Felt and LovePaperfish. I love Buttons!

And then ready to wear at work I have made some Christmas Pudding earrings out of fimo! also have a few more that will go on my Christmas Charm bracelet.

Today I plan on making more felt hearts with my new buttons and hopefully make a start on this Robin lino cut that I want to do for my Christmas cards.

Buttons!

Got home from work on Friday and my buttons from Lovepaperfish had arrived!


London Red button bag and Mixed Brights button bag (both mixed together in this photo)








Then Saturday my order from BloomingFelt arrived!

May day parade button bag and Lovely lilac button bag, yum yum yum is all i can say!

So now i have all the buttons mixed together in two glass jars and sat on my desk looking beautiful!