Button Jewelry...Creating Fashion... Just the way you want!!! Part 4

Button Jewelry is fast and easy to make. Jewelry findings can be attached to buttons to make earrings, pins, tie tacks and stick pins. Use button pins to adorn garments, embellish purses and belts, and hold scarves in place. Button jewelry can be made inexpensively using extra buttons from sewing projects. Or showcase unusual or antique buttons by turning them into one of a kind jewelry pieces.

Old buttons offer unusual details and craftsmanship; combining one or two with new buttons can make jewelry pieces unique. Look for old buttons at flea markets, antique shops and thrift shops. When designing button jewelry, include buttons that vary in color, or texture using special buttons as focal point. Keep earrings and pins light in weight if you intend to use them on light weight fabrics. Design the button jewelry so the finished piece has a flat base to which you can secure the jewelry findings.

Button jewelry can be assembled using hot glue or jewelry glue. Buttons can be glued together, using larger buttons to form the foundation. Or glue the buttons to a decorative base such as a shell or a decorative belt buckle.

You will need:

Variety of buttons

Jewelry findings such as pin back, earring backs or stick pin

Hot glue gun and glue sticks or jewelry glue

How to make:

1. First, remove shanks from buttons, if necessary using a wire cutter. File the back of the button smooth.
2. Then glue buttons, working from the bottom layer to the top, allowing the glue to dry thoroughly between layers. Glue jewelry finding back.

Tips for designing button jewelry

• Use sewing notions such as snaps or hooks and eyes to add an interesting accent and to fill small spaces. 

• Conceal holes in buttons with beads or rhinestones; secure, using glue and tweezers. 

• Combine parts of old jewelry with buttons to create one of a kind pieces. 

• Stack and glue buttons in graduated sizes to a large button base. 

• Add dangles from old jewelry or create your own dangles using decorative threads or leather strips; add beads if desired. Glue dangles to back of jewelry. 

• Glue decorative trim such as ruched ribbon, to the back of large button. 

• Cut a backing circle from leather and glue to button back; secure jewelry finding.

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