You will have a lot of fun making-button-jewelry!
Buttons are normally made for clothes. If you go to flea markets for example, you can find amazing, beautiful vintage buttons used to embellish particular type of clothes.
Buttons with their colors or motives is a great source of inspiration for jewelry crafters!
Look at a haberdashery and you will find horn, bone, wood covered, plastic, ceramic, metal, rhinestone… not to mention mother of pearl, shell, that we use a lot.
For example, you can see how to use these amazing
lace mother of pearl.
We made earrings but you can imagine a long or short chain or cord necklace space out with these buttons.
We propose also flat beaded flowers made with buttons: the center piece of the flower is a small round button. The beaded bead is glued on a bigger button and is used as a support.
More informations in our e-book:"My Ring Making".
Here is another flower design made with only round buttons.
They are quick and simple to make, less than one hour!
As simple as 1-2-3 with a fun and creative spirit!
All these flat flowers can be glued also on a pendant, donut and can be used for brooches, clip on earrings and of course rings!
Vitamin lemon, tangerine, turquoise and pink and fuchsia, colors close to honeysuckle color of this year or classic earth-tone shades, your choice!
They are inexpensive and you can find them in many of different colors, and you can make a jewelry using current color trends.
More ideas?
Celebrate a baby shower with pink or blue,
Celebrate love for valentine with red and pink buttons,
Celebrate happiness for a western wedding with white, off white buttons,
Celebrate christmas with red and green,
celebrate a birthday, a party, spring with multi color flowers and spread them on a tablecloth for example!
Lets see how to make them!
Flowers
Super energetic beaded flowers!
A flower ring.
Il you prefer earthtone shades…
How-To
You will need plastic buttons like the one in the picture, a cutter and beading wire (gauge 32).
To cover the back of the button-flower, you will need craft wire ( 20 to 22 gauge).
Cut a comfortable length of beading wire and string the buttons. Pass the tail back through the first button. Refer to the right angle weave technique.
Pass through the beads 3 times to strengthen the work.
Pass the wire around the buttons.
Now string the center-button and again wrap around the beads.
The work is completed. Click here to see how to cover neatly the back of the flower; look at how to make a spiral.
