Who doesn’t remember visiting grandmother or elderly relatives and being given a box full of buttons to play with? Today this idea has extended to craft and there is a whole bunch of uses for the humble button. Collecting or buying wooden buttons for crafts gives you many possibilities to create beautiful, and useful objects and can be a fulfilling and relaxing hobby as well. Wooden buttons can jazz up furnishings and clothes giving them a cool craft look and a whole new lease of life!
How to Use Wooden Buttons
Wooden buttons can add texture to artwork. How about fixing wooden buttons to signs or boxes? Whether it is grandmother’s garden room or a special treasure box for children, the addition of wooden buttons makes the whole effect more special and real for the recipient.
Wooden buttons for crafts can look fantastic on knitted objects such as handbags or jumpers. Adding some beautiful wooden buttons can transform the most ordinary of knitwear into a designer piece. A cool scarf with some classy wooden buttons not only fixes the scarf in place, it looks good too.
Using wooden buttons to liven up household furnishings such as cushions is simple to do and is surprisingly effective. Just stitch on some large size wooden buttons to your furniture pieces, and you will be amazed at how classy these now look.
You can buy wooden buttons for crafts, and there are a stunning array of designs available. They are so attractive, they can be displayed as an original piece of art. Alternatively wooden buttons can make attractive jewelry pieces, which are fun to make and great to wear. Choose brightly coloured wooden buttons to make your own button bracelet. You can add colors to make a special matching bracelet for an outfit or go for general multi-colored style.
More on Wooden Buttons
Although we tend to think of buttons as being round, you do have a wide range of shapes and styles to choose from. Go wild! We have seen wooden buttons in the shape of the statue of liberty, butterflies, flowers, hearts, and anything else you can think of.
Buttons can be beautiful, and you can use them to create pictures and collages and signs. Because wooden buttons are so varied, creating a mosaic effect from buttons is a great way to create a fabulous piece of artwork without the hassle of cutting tiles. All you need is a support for your artwork, such as a piece of board, a supply of buttons, and a glue gun. Armed with this and your own imagination, you and your friends will be amazed at results.
Wooden buttons for crafts are on sale from any major retailer such as Amazon or specialist hobby shop. You can also use buttons from old clothes or buy button collections from thrift shops. Creating artwork from buttons is an extremely satisfying hobby that does not cost you the Earth to start and requires no special skill either, apart from your imagination.