Themes, layouts and inspirations
Get a variety of ideas for storing buttons, and using them in your scrapbooking. This article by Amy Kingsford on Get It Scrapped highlights different storage ideas, and shows a number of ways you can use buttons on your pages. Click here to go to the article.
Niella used the Color Me Crafty collection from Doodlebug to create this adorable crafty themed mini album. The cover and each page are shaped like giant tickets and there’s a disc binding on the edges and fun dangling charm hanging on the spine. The cover has a cute stack of Polaroids accent and a layered scalloped border with button pattern paper.
Inside she used more crafty pattern papers, embellishments, stickers, cardstock, puffy words and more to designs wonderful pages that have lots of room for crafty photos and journaling.
There’s even a pocket to tuck in mementos and ephemera. I love the color scheme of this collection, it’s so bright and cheerful! This little album project is perfect for all your memories of going to scrapbooking classes, crops, conventions, retreats, hanging out crafting with friends or pics of your craft room.
Visit the Doodlebug blog to learn more about this project and watch a flip through video.
-Heather
In 1997, I inherited a gallon glass gar of common buttons from my mother’s estate. They were from the 1920’s to 1997. I made button necklaces mostly from the larger items with some of the smaller buttons also used in the designs. It is best to make the clasp from an unusual funky button to set off the designs.