Friday 4 April 2014

Buttons and balls

Buttons have great versatility - and the colours are amazing across the whole spectrum.  Karen was experimenting with 2 inch polystyrene balls, hot glue (love it!) and different colours and came up with these.....
She continued to layer the buttons, and then extended the colours - here are the others....








I had some 3 inch balls, so created three of my own.  When my cat would let me....

Very few pins, mostly to secure sequins.  I buy my pearlheaded pins on eBay in batches of 480 - they are as cheap as chips, and not of the sort of quality one would have for sewing, but for sticking into polystyrene balls they are ideal.  As pomanders or kissing balls, or whatever you would like to call them, they make lovely gifts.




This one has a light spring theme - don't you like the butterfly?! Craft punch - wonderful things!  I particularly like the Martha Stewart range - can be a bit pricy but they are of such good quality that I think it's money well spent.