It's Thrifty Chicks Wednesday, woot! woot!!!

This month we have two new members to our little thrifty group, please welcome Sheila from Audrey Would Vintage and Linda from Itsy Bits and Pieces!

The Thrifty Chicks challenges happen on the second Wednesday of each month. We pick an upcycling theme or item and then we each post our upcycling projects!

This month our challenge is buttons!

Button Easter Egg

Be sure to check out the other ladies' posts at the end to see what they came up with using buttons!


Since Easter is right around the corner I thought it would be fun to come up with a new piece to add to my Easter decor!

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


I used a piece of plain white scrapbook paper for my background but you could totally use a color or pattern instead!

To draw my egg shape I traced around the bottom half of a canning jar on the bottom of the paper...


...and then I traced around the top half of the lid for the jar at the top of the paper.


Then sketch in the sides and you 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.

Tips: Paint the frame before you create your button egg in it or you'll have a heck of a time getting it back out to paint the frame at the end... ask me how I know 😒

Be sure to erase the egg shape as you add buttons or you'll be left with areas where the buttons don't cover the lines... ask me how I know this too 😠 (such a simple project, so many errors!! I need a little face-palm emoji!)


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


I love that little flower button!


That cute little pipe cleaner lamb is available in my Etsy shop, Little Boho Cottage!








Now check out the other ladies' button projects!