Button artwork

Adding a note:
My "button garden" featured in this post was chosen as favorite DIY project at Kimba's DIY Party at A Soft Place to Land!! I am so thrilled and appreciative!
Thank you Kimba for hosting the party & also to Kelly from Purple Lemon Designs for choosing my entry. Love you gals:)
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Today I finally dipped into my button collection and made a quick, easy piece of artwork for my powder room:

I had this plaque that I picked up at a garage sale. Originally the outer frame was an awful country blue & white check. You can see the before here. I used brown spray paint on the outside frame.

This plaques are both made of *MDF* and the center one just rests inside the outer one:

You can see where I popped off the 2 blue wooden hearts that were affixed to the front:
I chose to cover the plaque with batting and this cotton fabric. No need to paint the plaque - it's getting wrapped in fabric anyway.

I hot glued batting to the face of the plaque & then wrapped the fabric around it and hot glued on the back.

Now comes the fun part - I got to dive into my buttons. Have I mentioned that I love to collect buttons??

I chose to use tones of reds, greens, & browns which would coordinate well with the powderoom.

My daughter showed up just at the fun part. We really enjoyed finding just the right buttons to use and playing around with all of the buttons to create our "flower garden". We got everything in place and how we wanted it and then hot-glued all of the buttons to the fabric.

The cream colored flower petals below are actually upside-down buttons. You can see the holes where the thread passes through. The other side that we hot-glued to the fabric is flat. I loved the texture of the upside-down look. The green center is a fabric button.

The petals below are the prettiest shade of champagne. Again, the center is a fabric-covered button.

Here is what we came up with. I just love it! I then slid the frame over the top & using a green scrapbooking pen, I drew stems & leaves onto the flowers.

Finished project hanging in the powder room. For less than $5 - I have a fun new piece of homemade artwork that my daughter and I created.

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