Ah…those glorious, curious, tremendous Vintage Buttons from Papertrey Ink.  Come let’s take a little jaunt down project lane to show you my top 3 ways to adhere and use these wonderful fasteners of life! 

#1 TUFT THEM!

 Ah the joy of tufting!  A sublime pucker which lends itself to sheer design beauty!  Here is a head pin tin I made using some muslin, dark t-shirt transfers, and this beautiful Tags for Spring stamp cut out with a marvy scalloped circle punch.

How to:

1)  Cut two circular pieces of muslin about 3/4 of an inch larger than the top of your tin

2) Iron both pieces.  Stamp your image onto dark t-shirt transfers, punch out and iron on to one of the circles (as explained in the transfer directions.)

3) Face circles RIGHT side together, stitch (I used a backstitch) around the circles until you are 3/4 of the awy finished.  Turn inside out (which will now be the correct sides) and stuff with fiberfill or even cotton balls!  No need to buy fiberfill when the project is this small. 

4) finish stitching.  Take a needle and a heavy guage thread and go through both sides of your button.  It will take a sharp and larger needle to go through the muslin.  Pull.  Pull very hard until you get the desired tuft you want.  You may need an extra hand to help you tie it off.   Attach the now tufted circle to the top of the tin with a couple of large Glue dots add stitched grosgrain ribbon (I use red-lined tape for this) around the sides of the lid of the tin, making sure it comes up just above the lip of the muslin.  This will give you a nice “European muffin wrapper” look to your finished project.

GLUE DOT THEM!

This was a 100% NO-SEW project! 

How to:

#1: Using dark t-shirt transfers again, stamp and cut out all of your stems and sentiment.  Arrange on pre-ironed muslin.  Iron on.

#2: Tie some linen thread through your chosen button and tie in a bow.

3#: Add to your muslin with a large glue dot.  Glue dots come in varying sizes from mini to large.  They are the main way I adhere my buttons to projects.  I just used a glue dot, because I knew my buttons would have some pressure from the glass of the frame, so they will hold just fine and there is no need to sew them at all!

WIRE THEM!

This is the most dramatic way I have used my button on a project before.  The first time you may remember was on a tea tin I made HERE.  This time using the same regular light guage craft wire you find in many colors at your craft store, I “sewed” my button through, and thought I would show you how I adhere them to my special egg tin today!

How To:

First “sew” your button on using the craft wire as your “thread”.  Two holes, four holes, it doesn’t matter.  When you are finished, take your already decorated and papered tin and punch a hole using your cropadile.  At this point, you can chose to give your tin a more tailored look by placing a meatl eyelet in the punch hole to give it a really nice finished look.  I did this in my tea tin, but not this tin, because I knew a button would be hiding the hole anyways.  So…thread your wire through the punched hole:

  Then…add another button from the inside:

 thread through BOTH holes and the twist a couple of times.  Then cut remaining extra wire.  Then add a large glue dot behind the button where it will meet the tin.  It will give you a solid hold.

Here is the egg I made to go inside of my tin:

 I stamped on the nestability die with one of the small decorative stamps from “Simply Stationery”.  I then used that same stamp to stamp on the button itself and heat it with a heat gun to set it.  (Note: This may change the hue of your button.  The heat may make it lighter.)  And the finished tin:

 Using mini glue-dots and the smallest buttons was a fun way to finish the outside lid.  The Marvy scalloped oval punch lent itself perfectly for framing the egg in the tin!  I used large glue dots and a paper insert to help secure the egg.  The REAL help though is when the button touches the windowed lid as it closes.  This makes the egg perfectly secure in an upright position.

 

Now if you would be so kind to go and check out what the other Senior Team members have done, I think you will be inspired!  Maggie Homes our Papertrey Distinguished Guest Designer is playing along as well!

Maggie Holmes

Michelle Wooderson

Lisa Johnson

Lauren Meader

Heather Nichols

Tufting Project:

Stamps: Rustic Branches, Tags for Spring

Paper: Kraft, Bitty Dot Basics pp,  Dark T-shirt transfers

Ink: True Black

Ribbon: True Black Stitched Grosgrain

Other: Vintage Buttons (true Black), 4 oz Round Clear Top Tin, Marvy Scalloped Circle Punch

No Sew Frame Project:

Stamps: Rustic Branches, Borders and Corners Rectangle, Out on a Limb Sentiments

Paper: Dark T-Shirt Transfers

Ink: Ripe Avocado, Melon Berry

Other:  Vintage Buttons (melon Berry, Cream/White) Frame found at Kohls, Large Glue Dots, Linen Thread SU!

Wire Handle Egg Tin Project:

Stamps: Guide Lines Two, Simply Stationery, Tags for Spring

Paper: Melon Berry, Vintage Cream

Ink: Melon Berry, Vintage Cream

Ribbon: Vintage Cream Twill

Other: Vintage Buttons, 8 oz Square clear top tin, Nestability Tags, Marvy Oval Punch

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