The Country Chic Cottage is all about DIY home decor on a budget! Follow me as I craft, transform, and knock off the latest trends! Full of tutorials so you can do it yourself in your home! All with a country farmhouse feel! When I am not on my blog you can find me at The Home Depot, Pottery Barn, Hobby Lobby, or the thrift store scouting my latest project!
You can make a fall tray with buttons with this craft tutorial. I am in love with this tray. It is sturdy and gorgeous which is the perfect combination. Yep it is a thrift store makeover as well so it didn’t cost me much to make. Grab your button stash and lets make a great fall tray with them.
I am off to SNAP! Conference this weekend but I have scheduled a few fun posts for you while I am gone. The first is my DIY business card holder. This will make my cards look great while giving them away this weekend. Don’t fret I will be back next week with a recap of my fun times at SNAP! plus some more projects that are related to the trip.
Can you believe that graduation time is approaching once again? I have a handmade gift card holder for graduates today that you can whip up quickly. The perfect gift for any loved one that is taking the big walk this spring. Personalize the front of this gift card holder depending on your recipient. Plus what graduate does not want a gift card for a gift? They all do right? This tutorial was originally posted over at Buttons Galore and More last year but the idea is great for this year as well.
My next quick craft for Teacher Appreciation Week is this duck tape fabric gift card pouch. Did someone say duck tape fabric? Yep! They made adhesive fabric on a roll now and it is awesome. It is perfect for quick crafts y’all. Before we get started if you have missed any of the quick crafts for Teacher Appreciation Week, be sure to check out the round ups from day 1 , day 2, day 3, and day 4. Also if you want a chance to be featured here this week, link up your quick teacher appreciation craft to our Craft Lightning linky party. Now lets get crafty with some Duck Tape Fabric!
The rim of this particular clock kit is just perfect for laying in buttons. Layout your buttons and numbers until you are happy with the results. Pick up each button and hot glue to the surface. Once complete, use tacky glue to put your numbers into place. Allow the glue to dry completely.
Add the clock movement to the center of the clock. Adjust hands as needed so they do not hit your numbers.
Paint both sides of the chipboard mason jar with 2 -3 light coats of paint. Allow to dry completely in between coats.
Allow your mason jar to dry completely. Then wrap the top with baker’s twine. Tie and leave your ends loose as shown below for now.
Lay out a heart like shape with the buttons as shown below. Use hot glue to secure the buttons in place when you are happy with the placement.
Add a second layer of buttons on top of the first as shown below. Write on your tag with the sharpie then punch a hole and tie into place with the twine. Add a rhinestone to the center of the bow as shown with hot glue. Trim away any excess baker’s twine with scissors.
Once the buttons were sorted by color, I already felt better about my button “collection”. Okay I might just be a button hoarder. You be the judge. I then cut white card stock to the size of the mason jar lids. I stamped the colors in each jar on the top of the lid.
Wrap your cone with red felt. I had to play with the felt for a while to get complete coverage from one sheet but it is possible. Cut off any excess and use hot glue to secure.
Start adding pom pom trim to the bottom of your felt covering up where the lid meets the felt.
I then added a second row of pom pom fringe as well as the woven ribbon around the lid itself.
Cut tan felt to an “elf ear” like shape.
The variety pack of buttons from Buttons Galore and More have a wide variety of button shapes and sizes. There was a green one in my package that had two large holes. These were just right for threading through the ivory woven ribbon. Yep. It looks just like a belt buckle. I wrapped the entire thing around my jar and secured with hot glue. I also added a fun Christmas tree button to my elf’s hat. I liked just the one button sort of like a “pin” in his hat.
Who will you give your elf mason jar gift to? Make these quick and easy mason jar crafts for that hard to buy for person on your list. It is sure to put a smile on their face.
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Form a carrot like shape with your Sculpey clay. I added a few lines for interest on the sides as well.
Roll out the red clay until thin and cut a “hat” like shape the size of your canning lid.
Flip over the hat as shown below.
Lift the flap and add some texture across the bottom. I used a wheel from the Sculpey Essential Tool Kit. Flip your flap back over and bake both clay pieces for the recommended amount of time on the package.
Add all of your embellishments to your canning lid using hot glue. Add a ribbon to the back for hanging and your canning lid snowman ornament is ready for your tree.
Be sure to click around in the linky party below for tons of crafty ornament inspiration.
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Start on one end of your floral wire and bend it over with your pliers. I would recommend a 16 gauge wire so your candy cane will hold its shape.
Once your candy cane looks full enough for you, hold the buttons really tight and bend over your wire as shown below.
Cut off the excess.
Bend it over to hold everything in place.
You will have a tree full of button candy canes in no time y’all! Those were easy right? Y’all can make these! Trust me!
See the top below. Make the ribbon fit into each section. Use hot glue at the top and the bottom as well to secure.
When you are done with the burlap ribbon your pumpkin will be looking a little like the below. WOW! What a hot mess!
Never fear! Jute twine is here! Use hot glue and just twine wrapped in circles to cover up around your stem area. Looking better already!
I then grabbed some brown and white buttons to make a stem. The stem on these little pumpkins is just not substantial enough for me and most of it was covered by the burlap. I just stacked up the buttons on top (alternating colors) and used hot glue to secure.
You are left with a burlap pumpkin that is still slightly orange (but not the day glow effect of the original). Plus you can do all of this in just a few minutes. I call that a win win.
My burlap pumpkin ended up on my mantle with my fall jar luminary and sweater pumpkins. Make your own burlap pumpkin today y’all….you will love it!
Portions of the supplies for this tutorial were supplied to me by the companies linked. However, all opinions and projects are my own.
I actually painted my box to get it white. I painted the outside only so food is still okay on the inside. I used about 4 light coats to get coverage. Then just stick on the “B” sticker, add on buttons and google eyes with hot glue, and tie on some fun baker’s twine. Super simple and a slightly elegant touch to your Halloween party.
Now lets make those ugly witch’s fingers. Just grab some green candy melts in the crafty food section of your store. Then coat your pretzel rods with the melted candy and add a sliced almond finger nail. Perfectly easy, gross, and spooky…..that is the perfect Halloween treat!
The witch’s fingers stand perfectly in the popcorn box for a freakishly fun display at your Halloween party. I hope you will try my witch’s fingers Halloween recipe for yourself.
Then literally you just push them into the pumpkin. If you don’t know what a brad is you can see that it has a nail like appearance in the photograph above. However brads are not sharp and can be used when crafting with kids. So they are perfect! I pressed them into fake pumpkins here but they will work on real ones as well. They are so easy to push in it is almost not like a craft at all! No glue is even required y’all.
You can spell fall with these antique ABC brads like the picture above. Or grab some fabric and glitter covered brads for some pumpkins like the picture below.
Maybe you don’t like the brads all in a line? Just used them as dots all around your pumpkin. Below I used a combination of tiny jewel rounds and jewel flowers.
You can even get a little funky with your brads and use them to create a fun pumpkin face. What a fun way to “carve” a pumpkin without ever getting out a knife. The best part? I created all of these in less than 15 minutes. Such a quick and easy craft that there is no reason NOT to do it!
I am displaying mine in a bowl along with my baker’s twine pumpkins. What a fun addition to your fall decor and all in just a few minutes time.
Once my tote was dyed and completely dry, I grabbed a variety of orange buttons and some fabric glue.
I traced a letter stencil onto my tote with a pencil.
I then glued the buttons into the letter shape.
Just let your glue dry and you are ready for school.
Your tote bag is ready for gift giving or carrying your books. Maybe you don’t like the monogram idea? Add an apple or any other shape in buttons! Let you imagination run wild.
Materials needed for candle wrap wedding decorations: (Some items were provided to me from Buttons Galore and More however all projects and opinions are my own.)
Cut a sheet of paper so that it fits your candle. Punch out a pattern of windows in your scrapbook paper with the Fiskars Everywhere Punch.
Cut a sheet of tissue paper slightly smaller than your paper and tape to the back.
Use various stamps to decorate each window of your candle wrap.
Wrap the candle and secure with tape in the back. The candles I am using are wax sleeves that accept battery power tea lights. There is no threat of fire when using these types of candles. Add random buttons from the Something New button pack around your candle wrap. Use hot glue to secure your buttons.
Add a collection of these to your reception tables. Make them in various sizes for a stunning display. Your guests will marvel at your skills once you make these great DIY wedding candle wraps. Grab your buttons and get started today.
4) Use decoupage medium to adhere the fabric to the star as shown below. Trim away any excess fabric.
5) Cover the outer edge with ribbon and use a decoupage medium once again to adhere it to your star.
6) Twist your red, white, and blue embroidery thread together to form one string. Add your stars and buttons to the string using hot glue. I assembled this garland right on my mantle.
All that is left is to step back and enjoy your creation. A wonderful addition to your 4th of July decor. This buttons and stars garland will be the hit of your Americana decorations this year.
I added this garland to my 4th of July summer mantel decor. I love having a touch of red, white, and blue in my home in the summer. What about you? Have you been adding Americana decorations to your home?
Wrap a small clay pot in tissue paper and adhere with Mod Podge. I used two sheets of tissue paper on my pot.
Insert foam ball into clay pot. Press down to get an indention on your ball.
Use a Styrocutter or other cutting tool to cut the ball along that line.
Your ball will now fit into your pot.
Wrap some short dowel rids with washi tape.
Insert washi covered dowels into ball in three different locations.
Add some ribbon randomly onto your ball with hot glue. We are going to cover this entire area with buttons in a few minutes. The ribbon is only for those areas that may be visible in between the buttons. I also wrapped the upper portion of my pot with some blue embroidery thread.
To make the fabric flowers, apply fabric to both sides of the Phoomph sheet then cut into a rough circle.
Cut that circle into a spiral as shown.
Starting in the middle use hot glue to form your spiral into a flower. Add buttons to the center of each flower.
I then used glue dots to put the circles on the side of my “shirt” gift bag like a button. Then unfold your bag and it is ready to add a gift to the inside.
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