February's Craft: Button Monograms

Once again this particular craft was inspired by Pinterest... who woulda thought? The link to that is right here.

I changed it up a little and here's how you can do it too.

What you will need:

Canvas

Paint and paint brush

Buttons

Glue

Embroidery Floss, A needle, and scissors

Step 1: Paint your canvas and let dry fully.

I wanted the pink one's textrue to resemble cake frosting. and thankfully, I managed to get just that!

As you can see, I started this craft back in January (note the unfinished cork birdhouse). But that is because I was using oil paints and if you know oil paints, you know they take a while to dry.

For the Blue I went with a technique I've used a lot in the past, but stil love. (I painted this one the weekend ater the pink, to allow for ample setting time before I hung the pink up to finish drying.)

And there it is, drying over my abysmally disorganized desk.

2. Lay out your letter (or if you want to do a different design, that's cool too) and glue buttons in place.

It was like a strange sort of puzzle.

The first attempt at a layout for the B did not work at all. It's got button issues as well as being too far down.

The glue is important if - like me you don't plan to sew all of the buttons on.

Step 3 - Sew buttons on. (You can do a little or a lottle, or all.) I did a few here and there.

I'm not sure why this ended up being so grainy.