Treasury - Buttons!!!

It's Treasury Tuesday!  Today's treasury was inspired by something I saw in the Etsy Finds email.

Did you see this giant button from Lupin Handmade??  It is magnificent!

It's not a secret that I love buttons.  I have written at least a couple of blog posts all about the wonderfulness of them here on my blog and they are a main feature in many of my own craft projects.  Today after I saw this button I found myself searching Etsy for more buttons.  These are just a few of the fun buttons I found.

Click an item to be directed to the listing on Etsy.

Button/Paper Flower... SewColorfulDes... $2.75	SANTAS WORKSHOP But... chocolatecupca... $8.50	Four Hole Rimmed Bu... MoldMuse $6.50	6 pcs, Fabric Cover... cozzymom $2.00
Wood Buttons - Six ... TimberGreenWoo... $3.95	Flower Fabric Butto... AbbyIris $4.70	Ooooo Baby 15 Vinta... AddVintage $5.00	20 Painted Wood But... BohemianFindin... $8.95
Recycled Skateboard... sevenply $12.00	1 x Giant 8cm / 3i... lupin $5.00	Crochet Flower Ring... MakingsofShann... $79.50	Oval glass buttons,... SunnyButtons $6.50
1 Inch Fabric Cover... katejdthee $12.00	Antique China Butto... AnAntiqueAffai... $14.99	Sewing Buttons - Co... SweeterLemon $5.00	Lot of 25 Natural W... ButtonsNDesign... $7.75

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

Now I need your honest opinion.  I love to make buttons.  That's why I make button jewelry.  Ever since I opened my shop this year I have considered not only selling button jewelry but also making sets of buttons to sell as supplies at Dreaming in Craft.  I just can't decide if that's too different from the finished product items I sell.  Do you have any thoughts on this?  In your opinion, is it okay to sell supplies and finish products together?  Just curious.  :-)

Fabric Button Hair Pins

I applied for a holiday craft show and I needed to have a new idea for a gift to put in the goodie bags if I was accepted.  My friend Bridget from Love Peace Family suggested making some fabric button hair pins to go along with the fabric button jewelry I already made.  Great idea!  

I made one sample for the application.

I took the sample with me to meet with Sanctuary and she liked them so I made a few more to take to the store.

I'm ordering supplies to make more for Atown and I'm considering adding a couple pairs to my shop, too.  :-)

Have you been working on any new projects lately? 

Sanctuary Sneak Peek - Buttons

This week's Sanctuary Sneak Peek is all about the button jewelry!

Necklaces

I tried to pick bright, fun colors to fit in with such a bright, fun store.

 

Of course I have some rings, too.

Small

Large

Did you see the new packaging in the ring pictures?  I love it!

So much cute stuff...but that's not all!  Check back this afternoon so you can see the brand new item that I have available at Sanctuary!

Jellyfish Rings (aka Button Rings)

Remember my fabric buttons?

I finished my project on Monday and I finally had time to take pictures to show you what I made!  I made fabric button rings!!!

I made 25 3/4" rings

and 25 7/8" rings.

I know it's not the most original idea in the world but I have been wanting to make them since I started my little crafty adventure in February and never got around to it.  When I decided that I was finally ready to start selling my crafts I thought these would be a perfect little item to have.  I am completely in love with each and every one of them and wish I could keep them all for myself.  I guess I can share.  ;-)  I really enjoyed making these.  It was a simple project but it was so nice to work on.  I can't wait to make more.  I made 50 for now and then I'll work on more in other sizes later.  I want to make some with regular buttons, too.  They are so cute!

Are you wondering why I called this blog Jellyfish Rings?  Why?  It makes total sense to me!  ;-)  I took this Hipstamatic picture to post on facebook when I finished the rings because I was so excited to show my friends. 

I couldn't flip them over to show the button part until the glue dried.  My friend thought they looked like tiny jellyfish so I decided to call them jellyfish rings.  It makes me smile even if no one else gets it.  :-)

Sneak Peek - Fabric Buttons

Fabric and buttons.  When you put them together I am one happy crafty girl.  :-)  I made a bunch of fabric buttons this weekend for a project I'm trying out.

I used all scrap fabric.  I try to keep all of the scraps that are big enough to cut small pieces out of for projects like this.  I'm so glad I do.  I love these!  In this set I have pieces from both of my quilts, a One Yard Wonders project, my co-worker Christmas gifts and fabric from a bag of really cute scraps I bought at Craft Riot.

I have so many ideas for things I want to make with fabric buttons, but I'm starting with just one for now and I'll slowly add to the collection as I have time and money for supplies.  My thumbs are killing me from pressing them.  I made 33 size 30 buttons and 33 size 36 buttons.  It was so fun!!!

I got the rest of my supplies in the mail and finished the project last night!  I'm pretty happy with it.  I've been wanting to try fabric button projects since I started this blog but never got around to doing it.  I'm so glad I finally did!  I'll share the finished product later this week.

Buttons & Blogs

Look what I got this week!  Lots and lots of buttons!  And the best part is that they were all free!!!  Aren't they pretty? 

I realized after I put all the buttons away that even after I spent about fifteen minutes sorting them and setting them up all pretty for this picture, one of the buttons is upside down!  I didn't really feel like taking them all out again so I left it.  Can you spot the upside down button?  ;-)

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Okay, go read this post at My Milk Toof.  It's really cute!

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I finished a plushie last night and I can't wait to share it with you on Saturday.  I would post it earlier but I won't have time to photograph it before Friday.  I'm so excited to show you!  In the meantime, I'll be back tomorrow 365 Project.  :-)

Stay tuned!

The Sweetest Thing

Look what Katja from Maedchenmitherz sent me! 

Aren't these the loveliest buttons you have ever seen??

When I got home today and opened the mail box to find this, my not-so-great Monday turned into a magical day!  Thank you so much Katja! 

This made me smile!  :-)

Push da Button

I finally made my blog button!!  I can't believe I figured it out!  Well, technically someone else figured it out and I followed their tutorial, but I'm still pretty proud of myself.  :-)  I would like to make the scroll box with the code a little smaller at some point because it's a little bit bigger than the actual button.  I'm not really sure how to do that so for now I'm happy with it the way it is.

I followed a tutorial on ehow to make the button.  It's the same tutorial I used to make my 365 Project button.  Then I followed a tutorial from Jessica at A Few of My Favorite Things to make the scroll box.  She is so great!  I love to read her blog and sometimes she leaves me really sweet comments on my blog.  She has a lot of great tutorials about how to do things for your blog.  This is nice for someone like me who has no idea what they're doing. 

Here's the button!!

Go ahead...push it!

It'll take you...well, it'll bring you right back here!  That's what it's supposed to do!!!

It's a really simple button.  Ther'es nothing fancy for flashy about it.  The picture isn't anything special.  I just thought I would use this picture because I love buttons!  I intend to play around with some other pictures as I learn to do more with picture editing.  I just wanted to make a button to see if I could. 

I can!

Since we're talking about buttons I thought I would share a picture of the lovely gift my friend Noemi gave me this week.  She went to an estate sale and found these amazing little white vintage buttons and this super cute handkerchief for me.  Wasn't that sweet?  I have to come up with something extra special to make with these buttons.  Any suggestions?  I'm going to keep the card they are on when I'm done because it is so cute!

I used the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone to take this picture. 

I downloaded it last week and I am in love!

Today my mom and I went shopping in San Marcos and I saw this necklace.  I couldn't buy it today because I bought myself a new outfit this week so I couldn't justify another treat for myself.  I will definitely go back as soon as I get paid to see if it's still there.

That's all I have for now.  I have a couple things planned for the next couple weeks so hopefully I will have some fun posts to share with you.  It's been a crazy week for me so I haven't had any time to work on craft projects.  Sad face!  I hope to finish a project tomorrow or Monday.  Wish me luck!  :-)