Up-Cycled Button Container
Up-Cycled Button Container
I LOVE the buttons in the small “button containers” for around a dollar from Wal-mart and Michael’s – the ones with a plastic barrel and enormous button top – and I’ve saved all the empty containers with endless crafting possibilities in mind!
There are just so many uses for these little containers:
Decoratively store your buttons until you are ready to use them. Try displaying them in an old shadow box!
- Decoratively store your tiny crafting materials (like those googley eyes that always end up EVERYWHERE) in the same manner.
- Use every part of the button container: Use the LARGE button top as a craft accent on a “Cute as a Button” photo frame or other button craft project. Use the barrel of the container as a drawer organizer in a shallow drawer. And finally use the ribbon as an ornament hanger.
- Turning the entire container into a sewing ornament with fabric, rick-rack, lace and buttons.
- What ideas can you come up with?
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buggalcrafts a.k.a. melba
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- Assemble supplies. Gather a variety of sewing items and experiment with
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- Glue the lid on top with E6000.
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- Measure the fabric and tear a strip to fit.
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- Glue the fabric to the barrel. Secure it with a few drops of glue around the barrel so the fabric doesn’t slip.
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- Try several trims to see what designs you would use.
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- Apply a few drops of glue around the barrel and glue the lace down. You can use fabric glue for this part of the project.
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- Choose, cut, and glue rick-rack on top of the lace.
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- Glue buttons around the barrel.
buggalcrafts 
Very cute! Now I want to buy these items so I can craft with them!
Thanks! I have a bunch of them I will be making for Christmas gifts.
neat idea! thanks
Thanks for stopping by!!!
Thank you for sharing your cute ‘bucket’ craft! I will be using it to gift jewellry at Christmas…such a cutesy idea…. 😉
Thanks you for stopping in. That’s a wonderful idea! I have trouble getting the lid to stay on but u can secure it with a couple of pieces of tape and the recipient can still “open” it by breaking the seal..
really cute I had never heard of these but I will look for them now. Thanks
Thank you. I’ve found them at WalMart and Micheals. Hope u find some soon. If not a great place to find craft “leftovers” is listia.com. It’s a great site to trade craft materials with others.
I have several of those and this is a great idea. I never throw anything away. There’s always a use for it.
Thanks! Hope urs come out great. One thing I’ve done with another project is to make a “needle” out of a toothpick. Simply blunt one end with sandpaper then paint it metallic silver. Draw an “eye” on with a black marker. Then glue a short piece of embroidery thread to ur “needle”.