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Christmas present from lovely friend in LA - vintage buttons attached to an old library catalogue card for Darwin!
press and click buttons have been replaced with touch screen buttons.
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buttons and you know what? my buyers are ringing up for more because I sent them catalogues, I'm not complaining this is a good problem to have.
it took me some time to find these beauties, but it was worth the effort!
a-line jacket from "runway knits"
lana grossa ultra from my stash
vintage buttons from trumperies on etsy
I love using buttons as a design element. For this swap the buttons works as a way of tying together different garments in my wardrobe. The striped blue and white buttons on the sailor pants picks up the white in my tops. And the black and white buttons on the polo shirt connects to my darker bottoms.
The black and white buttons on the gray dress matches the black and white leaf print on the hem of the dress.
This card features two idea that I've admired on other people's cards on Flickr.
The first one is to use a rubber stamp to make an overall background design and the
other one is using buttons. I really like the look of cards with buttons. The stamps I've
used here are from the Hero Arts Quatros set LL063 Pinwheels. I hand stitched the buttons on to the card. I like the way that the shapes, sizes and colours of the buttons
echo the stamped background.
Found in a Russian round wooden box at the Salvation Army. They appear old and have a grain, like they are some type of horn. The holes are very large and some have traces of black inside. Any one who knows anything about them please comment.
My brother went back home (ontario, canada) for a wedding, but he also stopped in to see relatives and our grandmother gave him a whole bunch of buttons to pass on to me. Most of the 5-10 pounds or so of buttons are mother of pearl, and a select few like seen here are colored mother of pearl. Nice stuff. Not sure what I'm going to do with them yet. :)
This is a closer photo and you can see the different patterns.
The smallest buttons are only 1cm wide and the largest ones are 1 and 3/4 cms wide.
The two apricot ones are beautiful.
The plain white one in front of the apricot ones is all fabric.
They were very stained by age and I have soaked them gently in mild soap and they do look a lot better.
Several of them did not survive the half hour soak but this allowed me to see how they were made.I don't think they would survive on my WISP white piece that I am supposed to be working on but I may include some in a pocket for Susan.