Button, Button...Who's Giving Away The Button

I am that's who. I should say buttons...thanks to my blogging friend Carol who gave me a ton of buttons that were given to her from a friend. I have a little give away at the end of this post, but first I've made something else with my collection. In the past, I've made button thumb tacks and button magnets for the refrigerator or the magnetic board and now I've made a button frame!!
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I just took any one of the frames that I know we all have tucked away in a box. I painted this wooden frame black so the wood wouldn't show through all the black buttons.
spaceI started hot gluing them in the corner in no certain order. Then I kept on layering all the way around.
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Keep going until it looks like this.
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Here are a couple close ups...
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I have a hot glue tip for you too. I use a silicone pot holder or hot pad to rest my glue gun on when I'm using it. You don't have to worry about your work surface burning and...

all those glue blobs just slide right off. See that mess off to the right? Now the pad is clean as a whistle.

This is a great project to use up all those button in the button box. It would also look cute with multi colored buttons too or all shades of pink and white or blue and white for a frame in a little boy or girl's room. The caption under the picture could say "I'm cute as a button"

GIVE AWAY IS CLOSED...Now it's time for a little give away. Carol was gracious enough to give me so many buttons, I would like to share some with you. Just leave a comment here and I'll pick a winner next Sunday. I'll try and squeeze in enough buttons to fill a small flat rate box or envelope. Sorry for the flat rate, but those little buttons are heavy when you put them all together.
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Have a great day,

~Karen~