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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Button flowers

This month's Crafty Club was hosted by me.

I created and hosted the very first Crafty Club in May of 2013, so that means the club has been going strong now for ten months! Each of us seven ladies has hosted the craft + we had our Christmas get-together in December. I'm so happy that everyone has enjoyed the club and is committed to making it a success!

I'm pretty darn sick of winter and I'm ready for some sunshine, flowers and green grass. So I wanted this month's craft to reflect my anxiety for Spring. 

I looked through my gazillion Pinterest pins and found one that really shouted "spring" to me.  I pinned this one quite a while ago:


A really cool lady named Leigh-Ann created this craft, so I need to give her credit! You can check out the craft + other creative ideas on her blog here:

I went ahead and whipped up a sample the night prior to hosting the craft. I wanted to make sure I had all of the correct supplies and that it would turn out okay (you never know when you see something cool on Pinterest if it's going to work out for you). This one was definitely doable and I think it turned out pretty cool!

Here are my finished button flowers...


All of the buttons were donated to me by my mom, my grandma and my mother-in-law. Cute buttons are cool. FREE cute buttons are even better! Liam helped me separate the buttons by color into little glass bowls...


I bought a jumbo package of embroidery thread from Hobby Lobby for $6...

 I set up six little workstations for the ladies. Each with an embroidery hoop (only $1.19 per hoop at Hobby Lobby) and a piece of fine linen fabric (I bought one large sheet and cut it into pieces). 

And of course we needed brain fuel, so I made little fruit kabobs...

...and mini pudding trifles (so easy -- Oreos on the bottom, a vanilla instant Jello layer, a chocolate instant Jello layer and then some crushed Heath bars on top). 

 Oops...I forgot to take a photo of the numerous empty wine bottles. Way to go ladies!

Joy and Janine concentrating deeply...

Everyone used 8-10 buttons as the flowers and then embroidered little stems underneath each one.

Sarah's blue/turquoise theme...

 Erin used pink and raspberry colors...

Oranges and browns...

"Blingy" buttons were used on this one...

Andi's finished hoop. She glued a cute little ribbon to the hoop and I think it finished it nicely.

Here's the 2nd hoop that I started. I will finish the stems someday...

Now I have to decide where I'm going to hang these things...
I think I'll hang one in our little green bathroom and maybe give the 2nd one to someone as a gift.


Have a good Friday!

2 comments:

  1. I LOVE! this one! So cute...it's my favorite of your craft nights, so far!

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  2. Thanks Kate! I bet Maggie could totally make one of these - it's fun :)

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