Do not know what to take a sick child or school needs handicrafts? Give him your grandmother's "treasure" - a box with buttons. Children's creative imagination has no boundaries, the child will be pleased to make hand-made articles of buttons if he knows what can be done from them. It can be useful, beautiful things for yourself and at home.
What can be made of buttons: ideas
Here's what you can do from the usual buttons:
- From flat buttons of one height make a stand under the hot , sewing them to a billet, drape, felt.
- Buttons can decorate the frames . Effective frames from different in size buttons in the same color or different colors, but the same size. Of small tiny buttons, lace patterns are laid out. Such patterns, by the way, you can paint a box, and you will get a box for small things. Make them shiny and effective will help hair spray with sparkles.
- They even make whole pictures of buttons . Mosaic paintings are made from different materials and buttons, not an exception, if there are many and different colors. You can take the same white buttons, paint with nail polish or aerosol paints. A mosaic of buttons can be made both on fabric, and on cardboard, plastic, and to a tree to beat with small nails. To begin with, the child will easily make a tree, a butterfly, a flower or a dress painted by a girl. Combining buttons on the foot with flat buttons, get interesting three-dimensional pictures. Insert them into the frame.
- Flowers of buttons. Usually all the buttons are stored in one box and it's not very convenient. Flat buttons of the same size, threaded on a needle, will become stamens of a flower-needle bed. They do not need to be scattered, easy to find and quickly sew, if they are the same color with a thread wound on a needle. From the buttons of the same color of different diameters, whole bouquets of button colors are collected. On the piece of green cloth wire fastens the largest button, to it pyramid or in the form of petals stick others. The middle is covered with a yellow or black button button.
Bijouterie from buttons
Beauty is known to be a terrible force! Emphasizes and enhances the beauty of the attire costume jewelry. Exclusive, flashy decoration - beads, earrings, brooches, pendants and bracelets - can be made both from buttons alone, and in combination with different materials. There are buttons very beautiful in themselves.
- On the beads will go flat buttons with through holes, they can be assembled on a colored ribbon or cord. If you connect a few beads with a lace pattern, even in any order, we will get a beautiful necklace. For a serious woman, an ornament that will be appreciated will be beads from expensive buttons on the legs, sewn on a chain;
- Earrings are made by stringing buttons on earrings from earrings. Earrings do not have to be dismantled - buttons can be added if you pick them up in size and color to the stones;
- Bracelets and headbands are made of flat buttons. They are collected on a rubber thread or fishing line, just like beads. You can sew on a colored rubber band;
- many small buttons decorate the belt , and assorted ones - a denim bag.