Today was one of those rare days when both my littles took a nap at the same time. Smile, I just love days like today, I soaked up the quiet and decided to have a little mommy time! So, what did I do with my two hours... why I got crafty of course :)
I made a button elephant on canvas for the little man's room a couple of weeks ago and fell in love with button art. So today I decided to add some painting to my buttons. I followed this tutorial from Busted Button. I got out my canvas, paint and brushes and got to work.
I started by making a light spot in one corner with the white paint and slowly adding purple to make it darker going toward the far corner.

Then when my purple background was dry I painted on my tree silhouette. I added branches until I had the look I was going for. I loved it just like this but my buttons were calling out to me...
I just love my new storage for my growing button collection. Before the move I had my buttons all mixed together in a baby wipes box, making it a pain to find just the right button. So now in the new office I have them displayed in cute glass vases on a high shelf out of reach of little hands. They look so pretty up there and they are just calling to be used!

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o I picked out some lime greens and purples to make "leaves" for my tree. I hot glued them on and tada a button tree was born all in the space of one little nap!
Love it! you did an awesome job!!! Thanks for the link <3
ReplyDeleteThat looks awesome! I wish I could paint like that.
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