Welcome to our weekly column where readers share their craft projects. If you’ve made something easy, yet original and fabulous, send us a list of materials, a note of your steps and two or three finished product shots (at least 2oB in size, if digital) and you could win a prize pack of products from Stampin’ Up, valued at $100. Don’t forget to include a few words about yourself too!
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Project by Sally Bethwyn Randell
You’ll need:
A button blank – whatever size you like (from craft stores)
oaterial – satin or cotton
Scissors, cotton, needle,
Fabric or acrylic paints, fine paintbrush, water to rinse brush, paper and pencil, or pen to sketch out your picture first
Extras – feathers or sequins, glue, jewellery findings – brooch pin or earring hooks.
Instructions:
- Cut material to circle size as per button blank instructions.
- Follow the button blank instructions to tack and then stitch the material to the button blank.
- Transfer your picture from your sketch to the material on the finished covered button with pencil or pen.
- Paint your picture.
- once paint is dry, glue on extras.
- If making a brooch, either use a small safety pin for the back or snip off the plastic buttonhole part and glue on a brooch pin. If making earrings, snip off the plastic buttonhole part and glue the jewellery findings on the back.
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