Crafts from buttons with own hands: fresh ideas
Often the stocky housewives accumulate a lotbuttons, which take place in closets and storerooms, but this part of the garment can be used not for its intended purpose, but as a material for hand-made articles.
Buttons are great for self-made products, as they can be repainted, wrapped in fabric, thus changing their appearance.
Creating a bronze panel
For work you will need: buttons, frame, fiberboard, paper napkins, salted dough, beads, PVA, glue, acrylic paints and aerosol varnish. You will need paints of black, gold, bronze and copper. It will have a relief image of a vase with flowers in the form of buttons, which is on a table covered with a tablecloth, behind it there will be a window with curtains tucked on one side. Initially, we need to make a tablecloth, for which it is necessary to use napkins, which should be cut into strips of the same width. PVA should be diluted in water in a proportion of 1: 1. The folds for the tablecloth that hangs from the table should be formed after the napkins are softened in PVA. The paper needs to be pressed, put in the bottom part of the fiberboard and distribute the accordion of the wooden stick, forming the desired shape. The table should also be made of napkins, but in this case they should be laid out exactly in several layers. The window needs to be formed by flagella made of napkins moistened in PVA. Blind can be made in the same way as a tablecloth, folds for it can have an arbitrary appearance. Now the panel should be left for 24 hours to dry. Then you can proceed to color the picture. The whole surface must be painted with black paint first, after the frame, the tablecloth, curtain and frame of the picture can be painted with gold, using a dry brush and sponge. The wall and glass windows can be bronze. The vase can be formed from a salted dough and baked in the oven, reinforced to the painting, this part should be painted with bronze. Now you can proceed to fastening on the glue buttons, which need to be stacked in the form of chamomile. The surface of the picture in the conclusion should be covered with aerosol varnish.Nominal Present
As another gift solution, you canuse a nominal picture. For this it will be necessary to prepare 2 frames, a piece of plasterboard, paper and buttons. Paper should use two contrasting colors, and the frames should be different in size, the exterior should be carved, and the interior should be thin. To make such a gift, you should adjust the drywall to the size of a larger frame, pasting a lighter shade on its surface. The next layer will be a paper of a darker shade to the size of a smaller frame. On the top sheet you need to depict the first letter of the name of the person for whom the gift is intended, and then after the contour and inside it to paste the buttons. All elements can be strengthened with a hot pistol. In order to hang the picture on the wall, you should fasten a long ribbon to the back of the frame with a stud, which will extend beyond the upper edge of the picture and will be visible from the front side.
