If you have accumulated buttons, make paintings, panels, ornaments for clothes out of them with your own hands. The zealous housewives, redoing old things, do not throw away the buttons, but they strip and fold them. Someone has accumulated such good over the years. Turn accessories into wonderful items for your home, ornaments.
Making pictures from buttons with your own hands
There are many ideas. They will help create artistic masterpieces for children and adults. For it use:
- buttons of different colors;
- glue;
- thick cardboard or thin plywood;
- simple pencil.
Paint the plywood or cardboard in the desired color, let the canvas dry. Redraw the outlines of the future masterpiece on it. As you can see, the vase is lined with bronze buttons. Small pieces of accessories are used to frame it, there are larger ones inside.
Place the funky colored buttons on the canvas to form flowers. Arrange the stems and leaves in greens. If you have a lot of white buttons, decorate the background with them. This will help the painting become more voluminous and original.
Even if you have a few buttons, it doesn't hurt to make a panel.
This idea will certainly appeal to children. But first, prepare with them:
- white cardboard;
- paints;
- buttons;
- glue;
- brush;
- a bath of water;
- white paper.
Draw a tree trunk on the cardboard. Glue the buttons to the crown location. Now you need to paint each one with green paint. To make the tree even more cheerful, draw petals around the buttons.
Have the child fold a strip of white paper in half and draw the right side of the butterfly on it. When he unfolds the leaf, you get a white-winged insect. It remains to paint the body of the insect with black paint with a thin brush, apply a drawing on the wings and, after the paint dries, glue the butterfly to the flowering tree.
Using buttons, you can create another tree with your own hands.
To reproduce such an idea, take:
- buttons in brown, red and yellow;
- blue, white and yellow watercolors;
- glue;
- a sheet of cardboard;
- photo frame;
- pencil.
Manufacturing instruction:
- First, the cardboard is covered with watercolors. Paint the sky blue, for this add a little blue to white, mix with a brush. The location of the ground can be green if grass grows there, and if there is sand, then make this part of the background yellow.
- After the paint has completely dried, draw the outlines of the tree on the canvas with a pencil.
- Fill the trunk with brown, black buttons. Attach red and yellow to the crown. Other tones can be used.
- Place the picture in a frame and you can hang the masterpiece on the wall.
If you use buttons for decorating a tree, children's pictures can be like that.
After drawing the background with paints, you need to allow time for them to dry. Draw the crown of a tree on blue or green colored paper, glue it to the canvas. On the back of black or brown paper, draw its trunk, which also needs to be glued in place.
Now let the children give free rein to their imagination by gluing buttons of different colors to the crown.
Hang a picture like this in your living room with large, medium and small buttons.
First draw the sea, it is bordered by a coastline made of sand. So make it yellow. Further there is a darker coastal spit, in the background it is green.
Now you need to glue white buttons on the sea so that they add extra shine to the water. Seashells on the sand can be either light or darker tones.
The following button pattern will also help you relax after a hard day.
First, a blue background of the sky and green, which will become the stems of flowers, are drawn in gouache. Buttons are glued above them. If those are on legs, then you need to sew them to the cardboard with a thread and a needle.
It will be easy for children under the guidance of adults to make such a basket with flowers.
To make a panel in the form of an owl, take:
- a wooden plank;
- two metal hinges;
- rope;
- buttons;
- twig.
Draw the outline of the bird onto the board. Lay out the buttons of brown color around the eyes, body and wings, and make the tummy, the outline around the pupils from white buttons, pupils from black. Attach a red beak instead of a beak.
Glue a wooden stick down the panel. Attach the owl's paws to and around it.
Interesting crafts from buttons
These accessories will help to embody the most daring ideas. To make a Christmas tree for the New Year, take:
- buttons of green, light green shades of different sizes, brown;
- green thread;
- a needle with a large eye;
- scissors.
Thread the needle and tie a knot. We will sew in two threads. Put 4 brown buttons on them first, then the largest green one. Decorate the Christmas tree so that the buttons are evenly distributed, the smallest is at the top.
A star can be made from fittings of this shape or cut out of cardboard, also stitching with a needle and thread. We hang our Christmas tree and admire the beautiful creation.
If you want to make flowers from buttons, take:
- buttons;
- thin wire;
- scissors;
- vase.
Place the buttons on the wire so that the smallest one is in the center. First pass the wire through the first hole, then into the second. Twist this little tip with the main wire on the back. When you make flowers, weave their bending stems, put them in a vase.
Interesting crafts made from buttons are both a clock and a wall calendar. For him, you need to cut out circles from cardboard, draw a number on them and glue them to the center of the buttons.
These blanks are sewn or glued to the base and hang the original calendar on the wall or put on the table next to it.
If you have a lot of such accessories, you can use it to decorate a mirror, a wall in the bathroom, and even a toilet cistern.
But first, the surface must be washed and wiped dry. After that, it is degreased and the fittings are glued in two rows, closing the gaps between the buttons so that the decorated surface does not show through.
If you liked making a Christmas tree, see what other crafts for the New Year can be made from buttons.
Degrease the surface of the ball, glue the buttons to it to match. If you celebrate the New Year outdoors in the country, there are no toys there, then make them from the same sewing accessories.
Do not hold back your imagination, if you wish, place the buttons on the height or large in the middle, small on the edges. The color scheme can also be varied.
From what they just do not make New Year's snowflakes, from: napkins; yarn; paper. And the fact that they can be created even from buttons is known to few.
To do this, take:
- white buttons;
- Super glue;
- rope;
- metal hangers;
- pliers.
Using pliers, separate from the hangers 6 pieces of 10 cm and four pieces of 7 cm. Glue them in a star shape onto one large button.
On the face, this blank will look like this.
Glue the remaining buttons to the metal wire.
Such New Year's snowflakes can be hung on a Christmas tree, on a wall. To do this, glue a string to the end of the snowflake, tie a loop. Here's another idea for how to make a button-down Christmas tree.
String the green ones on the wire, thread both ends through two large buttons that will become the leg of the product and give it strength. For the second tree, you need to make a cone out of cardboard, glue it with buttons. Such accessories will help you to make Christmas wreaths as well.
If you want to make a napkin ring to serve a festive table in this way, take:
- flexible transparent plastic kitchen board;
- buttons;
- glue;
- scissors.
Determine the size of the future ring, cut it off. Join the edges of the board by gluing them together. Glue the buttons in rows as well.
A sewing accessory flower also looks great. And you will make original candles from old shoes or those that are small for a child. Glue the buttons on the shoes, tie new laces, put fireproof glass jars inside the shoes, in which you place the candles.
See what buttons are great helpers in terms of room decor. Sew them onto the pillow by making a pattern or creating the first letter of the name of the person you want to give it to.
Embroider with buttons on a dark bag and it will be unique.
Decorate the curtains with these accessories by sewing them here. Remember the fancy bamboo curtains used to be? Someone made similar paper clips and beads from wrapped with pieces of postcards. You will make these from fittings.
To do this, you will need:
- buttons;
- fishing line;
- needle;
- rail;
- scissors.
Quite simply, string the buttons on the fishing line. Attach the resulting blanks to a wooden rail, placing them parallel and at the same distance.
In this technique, you can make not only curtains for the doorway, but also an analogue of blinds for windows.
DIY button jewelry: photo and description
You will be making them from the same material. See what an unusual button belt you get. It goes well with jeans. You will need a strong thread for it so that it does not break during wear. You can replace it with a thin white rubber band.
Thread the needle into the needle and tie both ends with a knot. Slide it a little to the side, twist the thread in this place, making a loop. String the first button, then the second and all the rest.
Fasten such a belt with a button, throwing it over the loop that you did at the beginning.
If you have a shirt of a man's type, add some femininity to it, sew beautiful buttons on the collar.
They will help create your unique image. Craft a rainbow bracelet by looking at the step-by-step photos. This is how wonderful it will turn out.
To make an ornament on your hand, take:
- buttons;
- threads;
- a needle;
- scissors.
Disassemble the buttons by color, see how the range of the future product will look like.
For work, you need flat buttons with four holes. Take a needle with an eyelet that fits well into them. Pass the needle and thread through the two opposite holes of one button on the wrong side. On the face, taking the needle out of the second hole, thread it into the first depression of the second button. Return the needle to the second hole on the first wrong button. On the face, thread the needle again into the second hole.
After creating the first row, complete the second while connecting these rows at the same time. Do the same for the third one.
Twist the loose ends of the threads with a pigtail. Cut off the excess.
Tie a loop from the pigtail, which you will put on the button and so fasten the bracelet.
If you have metal buttons on the leg, make a bracelet like this. You can attach them to the chain using wire or metal rings.
Lovers of voluminous jewelry can also be advised another necklace. The fittings are fastened with metal rings or ordinary paper clips.
If you want to make tiered button beads, then pay attention to the following idea. The main thing is to take a very strong thread or fishing line so that at the most inopportune moment they do not break off and the beads do not crumble.
If you have a broken automatic hair clip, and the mechanism is still good, update the item. To do this, take:
- three flat buttons;
- Super glue;
- two beads;
- cord;
- scissors.
Put the cord through the hole of one button, put beads on its ends, tie knots here to fix the structure.
Attach the buttons with super glue.
Lubricate the surface of the metal hairpin well with glue, attach a structure of buttons and beads here. Then you need to let the accessory dry and you can try on a new accessory.
You can make a hair clip with your own hands from buttons in another way. See the airiness that lace gives it.
To make such a hairpin, take:
- invisibility;
- white lace in a ribbon;
- Super glue;
- a piece of felt;
- scissors.
Cut 2 identical circles from the felt. Grease one of them with glue, starting from the outer circle, attach the lace.
Glue the button in the center, and glue the second circle of felt to the hairpin.
Attach a blank with lace to it, after which you will get an amazing handmade hair clip.
If you glue three buttons on ordinary black invisible hairpins, see how the hairpins will immediately transform.
If you have a tonal elastic band and button, you can transform them into a new hair accessory in 2 minutes. To do this, the edge of the elastic should be slipped under the leg of the buttons, passed the free end under it, and tied with a knot.
Crafts from buttons for yourself are not only jewelry, hairpins, but also decorating shoes in an unusual way. Beach slippers will be transformed in half an hour if you sew bright buttons to them.
If you want the decorated surface to increase, then first sew the buttons to the two triangles of the fabric, and then attach them to the slippers.
Buttons will transform other shoes too. If your favorite shoes are frayed, hide them behind these accessories and everyone will think you buy another pair of shoes.
The same applies to sports shoes - slippers, sneakers, sneakers. Why buy new ones if you can transform old ones in an hour?
Even if there are only 6 buttons, they will allow you to decorate your shoes. Sew them onto ballerinas to add a twist.
Attach buttons to leggings and a hat to create your original and naughty look.
As you can see, button crafts can be very diverse and unexpected. With the help of them, you will add new interesting shades to your home, create accessories, update your shoes and be fashionable, self-confident.
And to better remember what you can make of buttons and get charged with new ideas, watch 2 informative videos.
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