I'm joining some blogging friends today for an upcycling/repurposing challenge using buttons!


It's always fun to do these kinds of projects with other bloggers to see what they come up with. I'll share my idea first and then at the end, there will be links so you can go see what the other ladies have made.

As I write this post, Easter is very close so I thought it would be fun to create something easy and fun to add to my Easter decor.

DIY Button Art for Easter

I had this old frame out in my garage hoard (so I can now check another thing off the garage cleanup list!)


To create my DIY button art, I used a piece of plain white scrapbook paper for the background so that the buttons would be the star of the show but colored or patterned papers would be cute too.

I started by sketching an egg shape onto the paper by tracing around the bottom half of a canning jar (the jar with the buttons I'm using!) on the bottom of the paper to create the bottom of the egg.


Then I traced around the top half of the smaller lid for the jar at the top of the paper to create the top of the egg.


Then I just sketched in the connecting lines and I have a perfect egg shape!

Then I started filling in with buttons!

I wanted to have stripes of pink, yellow, and blue around the center of the egg and the rest white.

If you are recreating this project, make sure that you erase the egg drawing as you add buttons or you'll be left with areas where the buttons don't cover the lines.

I put some buttons on top of others to create some dimension and fill in the holes left between the buttons.

Once I was done creating the button egg, I gave the frame a coat of bright, springy, yellow spray paint and my project was done!

I love that little flower button!

This was such an easy project and pretty much every crafter has buttons amiright?! 😁

This would be a fun project to do with kids or grandkids too!