Teri Anderson
I’ve said it before and I will say it again.
I am a do-it-yourself kinda gal.
I get the biggest kick out of tinkering around with my craft supplies and trying to come up with unique, one-of-a-kind embellishments.
The other day I was looking at my vat of buttons and brads and thought it would be fun to try to mix them together. After a bit of messing around, I came up with something I like to call: Button brads.
Button brads are way cute and really easy to make. All you need is: floss; buttons (small and large); brads (preferably big ones, but small ones will work); a hot glue gun and scissors.
Start by using floss to tie two buttons together. (Note: Nevermind said Go-to Gal’s bandage in the picture. Paper trimming incident. But I digress.)
Bring floss through the back side of your buttons and knot it. Snip off the excess floss.
Squeeze a glob of hot glue onto the back side of the stacked button. Press a brad into the glue. Let the brad sit until the glue cools.
The end result?
Cute, adorable button brads!
They make fun accents for any card!
Here I placed two button brads on my card. Then, I wrapped a piece of string around them.
They also make great flower centers like on the teal Storytellers journaling card from Ormolu.
Cute, huh?
Ready to make some button brads of your own?
Leave a comment for me by Thursday at 5 PM MDT, and I’ll pick one of you to win some brads and buttons from the Paper Crafts magazine prize vault.
Yours in crafting fun,
Teri Anderson
Paper Crafts Go-to Gal
Clever idea. You can really personalize a project without a lot of searching for the matching items.
great idea. tfs.
what a great, creative idea!
LOVE it! Off to make a million of these!
I love buttons and these turned out so cute and an easy way to add them to a card then.
That’s a great idea. Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant idea for using those brads and buttons! Mahalo for sharing.
Buttons add such an adorable little look to a card!
Wow Teri! These button brads (and those cards) are a super idea! Thanks for sharing.
I love Buttons + I love Brads = I LOVE Button Brads!
Awesome card as usual! Love the button brads!!!
very cool idea and thx for sharing.
OHHH–Teri is amazing! I LOVE her style and these button brads are just TOOOOO cute:) LOVE!
Teri, love your new creation using buttons, brads & embroidery floss. These make adorable embellishments alone or as flower centers. How fun and thanks for the tips and for offering the giveaway!
A fun way to embellish! Thanks for the idea!
Love it! Thanks for sharing!
i love this! thanks
Terri
Thanks for sharing another awesome idea!!!! God Bless
Those are just so adorable!!
I love brads!! Great idea!
Great cards, Teri, and I love your button/brad idea. You are such a cleaver and creative lady. Thanks for sharing.
Great idea! Love your two cards! Especially love the flower center! Looks great. Thanks for sharing.
Katie B.
love your button brads they look so lovely…what pretty color combo the one with the flower center just stole my heart…gorgeous!!
I have been crafting with buttons lately – on cards and on a canvas.
Thanks for the tutorial and giveaway!
Totally love this idea! I’m a serious fan of creating my own embellies as well – cool tutorial, thanks!!!
Oh What a kewl Idea thanks for this love using brads
You are so creative. I love your style, Teri! Thanks for sharing a very cool embellishment.
What a great idea!! Thanks!
Believe it or not, my stash of buttons and brads are getting low. I would love to win some to complete my stash.
Thanks for a chance to win.
Teri, you are so clever! I’m going to add this to my list of “Why didn’t I think of that!”
Very clever! Great way to use up some buttons too. Thanks for the inspiration!
So, SO CUTE!!! I love your “hi” card with the phonebook background!
Such a great idea, Teri. Thanks. Such lovely cards…I love the colors/layout/delicateness of the “hi” card.
Teri – as always, you come up with fun, funky, simple, elegant, colorful ideas! I love that you always share ideas and help inspire our creativity. YOU are awesome! Thanks for this idea
What a great idea! One I will have to use!
Such an adorable idea!
super idea…putting 2 of my favorite kinds of embellies together…genius!
What a great idea. Thanks for sharing:)
Very cute embellie. Thanks for the great idea!
Wow It’s very great idea! Love your creation, love your cute-bright-retro-vintage buttons!
I love those button brads! I have so many buttons at home; this would be a great way to use them up.
Great idea as usual Teri. Who couldn’t use more buttons and brads for their stash?!?
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Great idea. Was just looking for a way to add some punch to my cards…
Great idea, Terri!!
You are a very talented, creative lady! Love everything you make!
Fabulous idea! I am always amazed at your creativity – But how come there isn’t an embellishment on that plain ole bandage? Love you
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I LOVE this idea! Your cards with button brads are so cute!
Thanks for sharing your great tutorial!
What a clever way to use up some of my many many buttons lol!!
Fun idea!!!! Love how they look and I always have trouble with attaching my buttons to a card. Fabulous!