Button Craft Project Ideas: How to Make Easy Crafts With Buttons

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Buttons are an inexpensive, fun craft material that can be used for a wide variety of art projects. With a number of options for jewelry, office supplies, and home décor, there are enough ideas here to keep you creating for many hours. Whether you are making crafts for yourself, for gifts, or to sell, there is something here that will fit your interests and needs. Many of these projects are kid friendly. Happy creating!

Please note that regardless of other glue recommendations in tutorials, I highly recommend using only E-6000 for all magnets, tacks, and button jewelry that requires gluing. You will need to use it in a well well-ventilated, but it is worth it for the extra strength it ensures. Scrapbook glue, hot glue gun glue, and Mod Podge are fine for paper projects and wall decor.

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1. Button Bracelets

One of the most popular options for button bracelets in charm bracelet style button bracelets where buttons are attached to links with jump rings. I have included several examples of other button bracelets, too. All of these designs can be completed with basic wire or bead weaving skills. Fun options for button charm bracelets include using buttons of variation sizes, experimenting with monochromatic and multicolored palettes, and added beads and/or charms.

• Inspirational Beading: How to Make Charm Bracelet Tutorials
  
• TonyaUtkina: GIY Tutorial How to make felted bracelet with buttons
  

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2. Button Earrings

Button earrings are so fun and unique. I guarantee that you will always get comments when you wear any style of button earrings. You can create simple post earrings with single buttons or double stacked buttons. I have included an example photo of double stacked dangle earrings, too, as well as a couple examples of button cluster dangle earrings.

• Trey and Lucy: button earrings oh baby!
  
• Easy Jewelry Idea on How to Make Rainbow Dangle Button Earrings - Pandahall.com
  
• How To Make Button Earrings - Crafts on Sea
  

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3. Button Necklaces

I have concentrated most of my button jewelry energy on bracelet and earring designs and have only created a handful of necklaces. You can take any of the previously featured bracelet and earring designs and transfer the concept to necklaces. Pay attention to how the buttons hang and do some "test runs" with each new design to see if the concept wears as well as it looks flat.

• TonyaUtkina: Tutorial How to make hand crocheted necklace with buttons
  
• Think Crafts: BlogCraft Ideas and Projects: CreateForLess: How to Make a Cool Button Pendant
  
• New Button Strand Necklaces
  

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4. Button Rings

I have not found a good craft store source for purchasing ring blanks. If you have one, please feel free to leave it in the comments. There are numerous resources for purchasing them online. Buttons rings are insanely fun and work up really quickly, which is good because all of your friends will want them when they see yours.

• amy is the party: Handmade for the Holidays: Easy Button Ring Tutorial
  
• The Indie Handmade Show: [Tutorial] Button ring diy
  
• How to Make Button Rings Tutorials - The Beading Gem's Journal
  

Jewelry Tutorial: Button Rings