How To: DIY Custom Buttons

If you're at all like me, you love sewing notions of all kinds, especially BUTTONS!

Sometimes, it may be difficult to add a regular sewing button as an embellishment to crafting projects as these can be too heavy and/or too thick, especially for snail mail gifts. So I came up with a new solution very recently when I was making a gift for a friend named Lisa Conway at Lisa my Eclectic life. She has a YouTube channel as well as a Facebook Group. She and I both love to collect buttons and other sewing notions. 

These Directions will hopefully show you a new way of making customized buttons for your creative projects and even for gift wrapping or other projects. This all began with another project that I'll possibly be posting about here in time for the weekly WOYWW Blog Hop (that I miss most weeks) the first week in October.

NOTE: I used a colored Sharpie to color the insides of the holes prior to finishing the Button's circular edge. And I often used a desktop style Magnifier in order to see details better.

The top layers of all buttons shown here are of 140 lb cold press watercolor paper decorated with several layers of acrylic paint, but any heftier weight water media or mixed media art paper will no doubt work well enough. I painted an entire sheet first, then used 2 paper punches, one ATCoin sized (2.5") and, for the other, 1". Using acrylic media on watercolor paper makes the paper a bit more rugged, a tad bit like leather, as those of you who were interested in my ATC Treasure Box Project last year may have already noticed.

If you have any questions about this project, please feel free to leave a comment below.

I really enjoyed this process as it's a lot of fun. I plan to make many more buttons like these of different shapes and sizes in future. Won't you join me?
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WOYWW #461 : Gelli Experiments

I had wanted to do this for a very long time. I really like circles in random patterns. What I came up with was a new way of using circles on my gel plate for a different effect than a stencil could provide.

As of this writing, the left eye's been achy for hours, so sorry, but I can make no promises about either commenting or responding come Wednesday.
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For those who are interested, the WOYWW fun starts with our ever intrepid leader, Ms Julia Dunnit. Please follow this link HERE for the details.

I will let the photo captions tell this story.
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Happy WOYWW everyone!

Wonky Altered Box for Paper Storage

This project took me a while to finish, about 10 days. It still isn't quite how I wanted it to be.

I will let the photos for it tell the story this time.

WOYWW #435: More Messy One-eyed Art

Welcome, fellow deskers! Not many words this time around. It's still difficult for me to read for very long, and this includes most typing too. My apologies in advance for not being able to either read or comment very much today. I'll try and visit as many places as I am able to, yet probably won't do much beyond viewing some photos there. Thank you for understanding about comments here as well, where only short answers will be offered.

For more WOYWW fun, please visit our reigning and creative Queen of the Deskers, Ms Julia Dunnit, by going HERE.

I've finished adding to the page behind last week's 2 pager.

The pain was at its post-operative worst when I began this newest 2 pager, below. It is improving now, thank goodness. Sorry for the gore. The DIY texture paste which frames the gory image transfer (onto Deli paper) is a mixture of unused coffee + Liquitex Heavy Matte Gel Medium + a dab of Mod Podge and a  small amount of water. Everything else is self explanatory.

Here is this week's.

Apologies on going so anatomical.

More medical appointments soon, with a test or two. Will try and join weekly here, regardless. It gives me something nice to think about, knowing I'll be able to visit a few of my fellow deskers, even when I cannot visit all of you each week or write to much in comments.

~Rose

WOYWW #430: Junk Journal Flip-Through

Happy WOYWW #430 and Welcome to the Flip-Through of my August Challenge Junk Journal.

If you'd like to find out more about Julia Dunnit's fun weekly Wednesday blog hop, please visit her excellent blog HERE. I may get behind in responding to comments as well as visiting the whole list early enough. Please forgive any lateness. I should be able to manage it eventually, even if I get behind. I am an irregular, sporadic desker, so you may not see me for a few weeks.

So what is on my particular workdesk this time around? A finished Junk Journal. I'm offering a "tour" of its many pages here. My guests are welcome to view as few or as many as they wish. I actually did not think that there would be enough time to finish it, but once I'd rediscovered the ease and quickness of wrap style bookbinding, I knew that I'd soon have the whole thing done and ready to be played with. This is a long post, so I will leave the rest to the photo "slide show" below. For more on the earliest stages of this project, guests may wish to follow the link HERE.

I can hardly wait to see what my fellow deskers are up to this week!