Easter Egg Button Art

*This post is dedicated to my blog friend Patty over at Pip Stitch (
http://pipstitch.blogspot.com
) because she shares my incredible love of buttons.

I’ve been seeing button art popping up all over the place lately.  I dragged my heels on trying it because it looked like it would be a pain in the neck.  But it really wasn’t.  Here is my pink and purple button art.

I didn’t spend a lot of time laying out each and every button.  I laid out some big ones to make sure I had enough.  Then it was just a matter of gluing them all down.

This is a 5×7 canvas.  I used my Cricut to cut a 5″ egg (because I cannot draw), I traced around the template onto the canvas and then just started gluing buttons!  I started with large buttons and then used smaller ones to fill in.  I finished off the piece by gluing some grosgrain ribbon around the edge.  Because I love grosgrain – especially since I learned the proper way to pronounce it!

I also did one in green and pink.  With green grosgrain ribbon to finish it off.

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 - go check out Show and Tell Saturdays, I promise you will find some great stuff.

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http://www.marybt.etsy.com
as I will be donating 75% of my proceeds in 2011 to my church’s mission trip to Haiti.

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Adult-ish Altered Canvas.

Oh, yes, it’s another altered canvas.  You know how I love making them!  This one is for my bedroom.  (*Please note: this is not to be construed as an open invitation to all my blog readers.)

It’s 8×10.  I made the heart banner with a paper punch, bakers’ twine, and some scrap paper.  The lettering is just regular Scrabble tiles.

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Altered Canvasses. Part 1,326,209.

Obviously, I love making altered cavasses!  This is one that I made for my mom for Mother’s Day.  I cut the ladies off the package of a dress pattern from 1954.  Then I mounted them on cardstock and used foam board to make them stand out from the canvas.  I love the trendy art of smart aleck vintage ladies.  I made a similar one for myself but it didn’t turn out well, so I’ll have to redo it.

This is another one I did for myself.  It’s very simple – but I’m a simple kind of girl.  (Not really, but I’d like to be.)

 

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Altered Canvas – Glittered Pumpkins.

Martha Stewart has a project on her site wherein she printed out a picture and did like a paint-by-number with glitter kind of thing.  I would love to provide you the link, but I can’t find it.  The project was on the front page of MarthaStewart.com for days, so I’m sure it’s there somewhere, but I can’t find it.  I thought it looked really cool, but it was far too ambitious for me.

However, being me, I figured there was a way to twist it up and Mary-ize it a bit.  So I used the pumpkin picture that I posted a couple days ago, picked 5 pumpkins, and glittered both pumpkin and stem.  The result was so cool, that I decided I needed to do something with it.  That’s where the altered canvas comes in.  I told you I love glitter.  If you look closely, you can see the black glitter spider web on the right.

I think this turned out really great!

On a related note, I really wish the sun would come out one day.  Not only do I have the “haven’t-seen-sun-in-days-blahs”, but the lighting is terrible for taking blog pictures.

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Altered Canvas – I Love Cupcakes!

With Shelby’s birthday being over and a couple more weeks before I need to start on Christmas gifts, I decided to make something just for me.  In case you don’t know already, I love altered canvasses.  Here’s my latest creation (it’s 8×8). 

There’s a little bit of an air bubble, but it isn’t nearly as obvious in person as it is in this picture.

Isn’t that little girl darling?  I got it (along with a couple others) from this Etsy seller:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5956238
  Not only is Rita super-talented, but she’s easy to work with and very sweet.  The background paper and the cupcake circles are from the DCWV Sweet Stack.  I just used a punch for the cupcakes.  I put a pop dot between each layer of the circles.  I usually don’t buy stacks but I had a weak moment.  It was on sale for $9.99 plus I had another 10% off coupon plus there was glitter.  How could I resist?  The ribbon is just plain old grosgrain from Michael’s.

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Altered Canvasses with Vintage Sewing Patterns.

I like to find vintage stuff at thrift stores and then alter it beyond all reasonable recognition.  I fully expect one day to witness my daughter on Antiques Roadshow in a conversation much like this:

Shelby:  Today I brought in this vintage item that my mom found at a thrift store.

Antiques Dealer:  Your mother is really into the Mod Podge, huh?

Shelby:  Oh yes!  My mom loves Mod Podge!

Antiques Dealer:  Well that is a very nice piece.  Or it was.  Your mother has Mod Podged all over it which makes it worth about $26.  In it’s original state, with no Mod Podge, it would bring upwards of $400,000 at auction.

Shelby:  MMOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!  [insert wailing and gnashing of teeth]

I’m sure it will be very dramatic.

Anyway, on to the good stuff.  I found a package of vintage sewing patterns for baby clothes at a thrift store.  They were giving the patterns away for free!  Woohoo!  Sadly, I forgot to take a before picture.  I tore the patterns and Mod Podged the pieces (overlapping) onto some artists’ canvasses.  The large one is 4×6 and the two small ones are 2×4.  Then I cut out one of the pictures, backed it with cardstock and Mod Podged it on top.  And aren’t those starburst brads awesome?  I got them at my local scrapbook store; they are Karen Foster.

I want to put ribbon around the edges to finish them and put a ribbon hanger on them.  Considering the fact that I have, literally, 4 billion yards of varied and sundry ribbon, you would think that wouldn’t be a problem.  Problem.  None of that ribbon matches.  So I’ll “have” to make a trip to Hobby Lobby this week I suppose.  Darn.

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Altered Canvasses

I made a set of 3 altered canvasses for my mother for Mother’s Day.  I used one 7×9 stretched artists’ canvas turned horizontally in the middle and a 5×7 turned vertically on each end.  I mod-podged patterned paper to each canvas.  (If you don’t know how to mod-podge by now, it’s because you have not been reading my blog religiously and you should be very ashamed of yourself.)

After that, I added my pictures, mats, and small embellishments.  I finished the edges by using Aleene’s Tacky Glue to adhere ribbon all the way around.

These altered canvasses are great for home decor and make even better gifts.  They can be hung on the wall or displayed on a small easel or plate hanger.  Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Products used: K&Co. Smitten Pink Paisley Flat Paper, Masterpiece Studios Chic Stripes, Paper Studio Border Punch, Bazzill Collection Polished Pebbles in Lip Gloss, Paper Studio Gemstones, Prima Say It In Crystals.

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