Paintings from buttons. Button crafts: master class

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

A talented person is able to create from various improvised materials. Many specially go to nature to collect cones, acorns, twigs. Others use recycled materials: plastic bottles, broken light bulbs, scraps of leather, fabrics, unwanted CDs, and a whole lot more. But every needlewoman always accumulates a huge number of buttons: they are cut off from old clothes, bought or donated. Approaching the matter with imagination, many make wonderful crafts and even button paintings.

Great opportunities

Indeed, buttons are a material that has a wide range of colors, shapes, textures, and sizes. They produce a huge range of crafts. Real works of art are made together with children and independently. Often needlewomen give master classes. To make crafts from buttons, you do not need special training. It is enough to prepare the necessary tool and be patient.

Many craftswomen have learned to make pictures from buttons with their own hands, the photos of which clearly demonstrate the ease of manufacture and the beauty of products.

Button Crafts

Any button fantasy can be easily handled. All the nuances are known after several completed works. It turns out beautiful pictures from buttons, a master class of which will help beginner needlewomen.

Very soon, Valentine's Day will come, and all lovers will give gifts to each other. One of them can be a picture of buttons:

To make it you will need:

• base - thick sheet of paper or canvas;
• acrylic paints in two colors;
• brush;
• glue;
• buttons in red, different shapes and sizes. Some of them may be in the shape of a heart.

Draw a simple pencil on the base. Then shade with paints: the base is turquoise, and the heart is red.

When the workpiece dries, the decoration of the picture with buttons begins. First, the contours of the hearts are pasted over, one large button is attached at the place of their connection. So, the drawing is gradually filled - from the edge to the middle. To make the work dry quickly, you can dry it with a hair dryer. A picture intended for a gift is best placed in a frame.

Baby Button Crafts

Children need the attention of adults: after all, often parents busy with work cannot devote enough time to their child. But on weekends, you should set aside an hour and do needlework with the kids. Together, a picture can be created frombuttons with your own hands. For this you will need:

• glue;
• paint;
• lots of buttons;
• paper or canvas;
• cardboard, photo frame or chipboard.

The first thing to do is to process the base. Depending on what is being used, be it a canvas or a photo frame, it should be painted. If it is thick white paper, then a pattern of a tree with spreading branches is applied on it with brown paint. On them, in the future, "leaves" are glued and beautiful pictures of buttons are obtained, the photos of which are presented below.

When a person is not able to draw a tree on his own, he can easily use a template: using it and a simple pencil, the image is transferred to canvas or paper, painted brown. You can entrust the child with further: apply glue to the buttons and stick them to the tree.

The crown is pasted over with green, and the trunk with brown buttons. The magic tree is ready - the child is very pleased with the joint creativity. The created product can be framed, and you get a picture of buttons with your own hands.

Just a little fantasy

You can use a bird stencil: transfer them to paper, decorate and cut them out. Birds are glued to the finished "foliage" of the tree. It turns out beautiful pictures from buttons. They decorateinterior, hang in the children's room. Similar trees are also used in scrapbooking: they make postcards depicting Christmas trees with toys.

If you turn to this type of needlework and look at the work of masters, you can see a lot: these are Christmas tree decorations - snowflakes and beautiful balls, and even bowls.

Lamps are decorated with buttons, they are used to make flowers, children's toys. Outwardly, these are very attractive and interesting crafts from buttons. The master class, which is presented below, is simple and will be understandable to everyone.

Beautiful bowl

This will require:

• many buttons of different colors, shapes, sizes. Here, too, there is one caveat: large buttons do not stick well to the surface of the ball, so small and medium ones are the best option;
• need to prepare a balloon and a jar to support it;
• PVA glue;
• scissors;
• brushes.

The balloon is inflated to the size of the future bowl. It is placed on the jar, tail down. Then, half of it should be covered with glue: for convenience, it is better to take the ball in your hand, by the tail and, shaking, distribute the glue correctly.

The ball covered with glue is placed in a jar and left to dry. Next, the buttons are glued: on the second layer of glue. When the design is dry, you can cover the buttons with two more layers of glue. The bowl will dry for several hours. When it is ready, the tail of the ball is cut off, the air comes out, the ball is removed from the product. Excess glue is removedscissors. Of course, bowls are not button paintings. But they also add style and complement the interior of the dining room or kitchen.

Another decoration

Very interesting jewelry, in the form of a necklace and a headband, can be made from buttons. This product is suitable for a little girl or her doll. For manufacturing you will need: a beautiful ribbon, red or pink braid. Buttons are selected in different sizes: pink, red and white. The length of the ribbon should be sufficient so that it freely covers the girl’s neck or head, and there are long ends for tying. Pyramids are formed from the buttons: the lower one is large, then the middle one and the upper one is small.

Large button can be flower shaped. You can alternate them in the pyramids as you wish. The first of them is sewn to the very center of the braid. The rest are located on both sides of the central pyramid. Buttons are fixed in this design with thread or glue. It is advisable to sew with a strong thread, matched to the tone. Pyramids are arranged according to the principle of a cascade: in the center is a large structure, the rest are in decreasing order. They are sewn very close and even overlap each other. There are seven of them and the necklace is ready.

Shoe decoration

Needlewomen make not only crafts from buttons. The master class below will show you how to decorate summer shoes - flip flops.

This will require:

• pair of shoes;
• dense braid, 2.5 cm wide;
• glue;
• buttons;
• threads.

Two pieces of braid are cut off, which are equal in size to a flip-flop strap - this is approximately 30 cm. But for reliability, the straps should be additionally measured. The edges of the ribbon are burned with a match so that they do not bloom.

Step by step

Next, the middle of the braid is determined and folded in the form of the letter "V", secured with several stitches.

Then buttons of different colors are sewn onto the ribbons - more fun. The finished product is glued to flip flops straps with the recommended glue - Helmar 450 Quick Dry. This is a very strong, good adhesive adhesive.

From ordinary flip flops, bright, cheerful summer shoes turned out. Combinations can be very different: any set of buttons can be used.

The article gives examples of crafts that can be done using such a simple item as a button. These are unusual toys for children, decorations, interior items and even do-it-yourself paintings. The photos presented in the article do not reflect the entire range of applications of this applied art. One has only to try - and the hobby will become an interesting hobby. Especially in families with children: for every holiday, you can make wonderful postcards for relatives and friends.