I remember when I was a little girl my grandma O’Dell let me sort through her button tin often. I was mesmerized by the tiny little gems. It kept me occupied many a rainy afternoon.

I‘ve been teaching a couple of classes lately making jewelry out of buttons. I have a TON of buttons. So I decided to use up some of them in this project.

Supply list:

• Beauty Bloom, Originals Die #655455 by Brenda
• Felt –National Non-Wovens
• Buttons- Buttons Galore and More
• Scrapbook Paper- your choice
• Cardstock – Bazzill Basics
• Ribbon – your choice
• Mod Podge
• Paper Mache Box
• Hot glue gun
• Zip Dry Adhesive
• ColorBox Ink- your choice of color
• Brad

I’m afraid I don’t have step by step photos for you today. I’ve been fighting the flu and I made my button box in between naps, not even thinking to take pictures. But don’t worry, it’s really easy.

First I adhered the paper to the paper mache box with Mod Podge -I just did the side of the box and the side of the lid- the top will be covered with buttons and I wanted to make sure the buttons stuck to the box so I didn’t want a layer of paper between the buttons and the box lid. Does that make sense?

Then beginning with the outside edge I glued buttons onto the box top with hot glue. Layer them until the box top is covered.

Cut small bits of ribbon and hot glue them in place. Some I let lie flat and others I folded in half.

Put a band of ribbon around the box bottom and top.

For the flower I mixed cardstock and felt and held all the layers together with Zip Dry glue.

I used a yellow ColorBox ink just darker than the paper and felt to ink the edges and then a brighter pink ink over that. The yellow goes in deeper into the flower and the pink is just at the edges.

I loved the way the ink looked on the felt, all soft and feathery. I poked a hole through the center of the flower with an awl and added a pink brad to hold it all together and to add more pink to the center of the flower. Then I just glued the whole flower to the top of the box.

Now I can either use this to store buttons or the jewelry I make WITH buttons!

I hope you enjoyed this project and that my fever induced directions made sense. 🙂  Please use the button at the top right of my blog to hop around and see what the other designers have done with Brenda Pinnicks FABULOUS flower die.