Framed Button Heart

Do you have favorite shapes? I do.  And one of my favorite shapes is the heart shape, making Valentine's day one of my favorite holidays. Today I want to share a heart shaped project I made.

Image 1: Silver and Gold Heart Project in vintage frame

This gold vintage frame called out to my heart - it needed something small, dimensional, and fancy to showcase.  I created the heart inside simply because I loved this old style frame with domed glass.

Image 2: Heart collage from Silver and Gold buttons

To make the heart, I glued silver and gold colored metal hearts to create the larger heart shape.  I used vintage clip earrings with rhinestones, metal heart pins, metal buttons, and even a locket.

Happy Valentines Day! 

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Valentine Love Vignette

I love the colors of Valentines day, where one can joyfully decorate with both pink and red.   During February I can add accents of these colors that don't typically exist in my decorating scheme. 

Valentine Love Vignette

Today I want to share this small Valentine Love vignette consisting of a shelf with vintage glass and a Love sign. 
 

Red Button Repurposed Love Sign

I created the Button Love sign from a rummage sale find.  The sign had some phrase on the border (under the buttons), about grandparents, I think.  

Red Button Repurposed Love Sign

The sentiment didn't apply to me, but covered with buttons, the sign becomes a colorful multi-seasonal, multi-use sign.  I put my button Love sign out for both Christmas and Valentines Day.

Another thing I

 is Glass.

Vintage Glass in Valentine Colors

I arranged some small pink, cranberry, red and white glass from my growing collection with some candlesticks.  (I can't resist vintage glassware when I see it at a great price.)

 

Spread the

Love on

Valentines Day! 

OK, the cutesy playing with letters is silly, 

but it's like many valentines.  

Silly yet Fun.

  I hope you enjoy Valentine's Day, 

this is my Valentine to you.

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Button Pumpkin

Button Pumpkin view 1

This year I decorated an artifical pumpkin with repurposed old metal buttons to create a unique fall decoration.

Button Pumpkin view 2

Although the project took a lot longer to create than I expected it to, I'm happy with the result.  (Don't you find many "quick and easy" projects take much more time than you expected them to?)

Button Pumpkin view 3

One of the best aspects of the project was sorting through hundreds of old buttons and finding the "cool ones" that called to me.  

Metal Buttons close-up - Save for free screen saver

The buttons above with the rooster and the boat stood out from the eagles, shields and anchor buttons.  Can you find the clock face button above?

Metal Buttons Closeup - Save for Free Screen saver

There were more men's faces than women's faces, and lion faces were scarce.  Can you find the button above featuring an old style car? 

Autumn Button Pumpkin view 4

Happy Halloween!  I hope you enjoy the autumn season, Halloween and Thanksgiving!   


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Spring Paper Tag Project

Framed tag holder with Spring tags

While waiting for spring to appear in Wisconsin, I recently started and completed the "framed paper tag holder" project above.  It was a fast and fun project that allowed me to play with and combine many of my loves - a vintage frame find, vintage linens, buttons, photography, and scrap booking papers and supplies. 

My Spring Tag Collection featuring my photography

I started with a fantastic frame purchased at an estate sale that I have been wanting to use for a long time.  I used a section of a stained vintage tablecloth for background fabric, and attached vintage clam shell buttons in rows as shown.  (I had purchased the bag of shell buttons some time ago and had never used even one of the buttons.)

The Framed tag holder without tags

Then came the fun part.  Creating a spring set of paper tags with my stash of scrap booking supplies, buttons and vintage linens and lace. 

Playing with supplies while creating tags

I wanted my paper tags to use my photographs, since I take many photos and can't display most of them.  Using small bits of existing photos reminds me of some of my favorites. 

Spring tags

Using the bright colored photography in the tags definitely makes the tags seem contemporary, so I interspersed the tags with lace, buttons and stitchery.

Spring tag details

The great thing about this project is that I can create so many seasonal sets of tags and change them out throughout the year.  I am already envisioning a set of beach tags, birthday tags, autumn tags, and of course Christmas and Valentines tag sets.  I also want to create sets of travel tags from France and other places I have been.  A set of family tags for Thanksgiving might also be lovely, and could feature vintage black and white photos as well.

Alternate tag ideas

The different tag sets and colors will result in a changing work of art throughout the year.


I hope you enjoyed the results of my project.  If you have made one of these holders, link it in the comments section below to share it with others.  

I was inspired by Rebecca Sower's project and her tag sets.  She gave instructions for her tag holder here in June 2008.  She posted her fantastic Christmas tag collection from December 2014 here, and an Autumn tag collection from September 2011 is shown here.  An ancestors tag collection from February 2007 is shown here.  I am inspired by her designs and indebted to her for her inspiration.  Some day I hope to meet her.




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