How to Make Button Embellishments

Turn old buttons into charming embellishments.

If you have a bag of buttons that you are not using, then turn them into crafty embellishments for your hair, shoes and lapel with a little hot glue and few craft supplies. You can mix and match buttons for a vintage, charmed look. Be creative and resourceful. If you do not have buttons, look for bags of them for sale at your local sewing notions store or flea market.

Things You'll Need

• Wax paper
• Buttons
• Hot glue sticks
• Hot glue gun
• Bobby pins
• Barrette clasps
• Brooch clasps
• Shoes

Instructions

1. Line a flat work space with wax paper.

2. Insert a glue stick into a glue gun and plug the gun into a power outlet.

3. Squeeze hot glue onto the back of a button. Immediately press the end of a bobby pin into the glue. Allow the glue to dry.

4. Line a barrette clasp with dots of glue and press buttons on top of the glue. Continue gluing buttons -- including gluing them on top of one another -- until the barrette is completely covered in buttons.

5. Squeeze glue on the back of a button and press it on top of a brooch clasp. Continue gluing buttons until the brooch forms a cluster of overlapping buttons.

6. Glue buttons directly on a pair of old ballerina flats that you have scrubbed clean. Squeeze dots of glue one at a time and press the buttons into the glue until the shoes are covered. Glue a few buttons on the toe of the shoe to resemble a rosette instead of covering the entire shoe.

References

• The Do-It-Yourself Diva: Easy Accessories