Hi! It’s Monique with
a fun
Springtime Home Decor tutorial!
People who know me,
know I love buttons! And Doodlebug has buttons …. LOTS of buttons! In all
shapes & sizes & colors! To avoid hoarding them (that’s what I do when
I love something really bad) I decided to create a tutorial around them. So,
here’s what I made: a button heart frame!
Here’s how I did it:
1. Gather your
supplies: lots and lots of those fun, brightly colored Doodlebug buttons, a
piece of fabric, an embroidery ring, a heart shaped template, a pencil and a
photo frame.
2. Place your fabric
between the two embroidery rings (using an embroidery ring ensures that the
fabric stays even and flat and won’t pull to one side because you sew on it).
Make sure you leave enough fabric on all the sides, because you’ll need enough
fabric later, to fold around the insert of the photo frame.
3. Take your heart
shaped template, place it on the fabric and use a (fabric) pencil to draw
around (or on the inside of) the template.
4. Start sewing you
buttons on the fabric. I used short threads to adhere only 3 or 4 buttons with
one thread, so if ever the thread breaks not ALL buttons will fall off!
5. Once you’re done sewing all the buttons on your
fabric, remove the embroidery ring, place the fabric upside down on your work
area and place the insert of the photo frame on the back. Fold the excess
fabric over back of the insert, add glue to make sure the fabric won’t shift and
place inside the frame.
6. Turn the frame
around to add a title. I used Doodlebug’s Shin-Dig alpha stickers, which adhere
perfectly to the fabric. To decide where to place the title, I stuck the letter
stickers on my see-through ruler, which I then held over my work to see how it
looked.
7. And this is how the
frame looks in my living room!
Hope you like it! If
you have any questions, please feel free to ask!
Thanks for stopping by
Doodlebug’s blog today!
Monique
