Buttons Galore

I am fast becoming a huge button addict since discovering that I can actually make my own from polymer clay. I also did a little test to see if they were safe to wash and pleased to say that as long as they are washed on a cool (30o) wash then they are absolutely fine.

Here are the latest ones from my little crafty room

Here are some more button friends.

The very talented members of the Craft Pimp team have been know to make and use the odd button too.
Faith made these very pretty textured ones, I love the shape too.

Helen makes beautiful buttons out of glass,

Of course I couldn't leave Lesa out, she makes the most amazing wedding bouquets from buttons.

Mel makes wonderful cards and now these unique Christmas decorations using felt buttons.

Lovely Treasuries

I made a couple of treasuries...
This one is full of spooky Halloween items, check them out, there are some awesome artists out there.


This one titled Autumn Leaves speaks for itself, gorgeous autumn inspired beauties.


And I've been featured and a few treasuries lately, by some very lovely people.
Thank you :o)

Beautiful seaside inspiration


More spookiness

blog ring post for Lucinda Marchant

Lucinda Marchant aka Minerva Jewellery is a self taught jewellery designer. She likes to work with Silver, gold and gemstones, glass and polymer clay.
Lucinda makes wonderful silver jewellery incorporating gemstones and lampwork glass in her designs.
Her Stacker rings are beautiful as are all of her designs.

You can find her creations in her Etsy store
and her Folksy shop

Spotlight on Jill of Kiln Fired Art

Another very talented member of the Craft Pimp Forum is Jill Egan aka Kiln Fired Art
Jill creates some wonderful things. Her main passion is working with clay to make pendants

and decorating other ceramic items like these Doodledoo mugs, She designed the decoration herself and then fires it onto the mug, Totally unique.

Jill makes some gorgeous dichrioc glass pendants too. Aren't these amazing?

An what about her marvelous slumped bottles, what a talking point one of these would be on your coffee table.

My particular favourites of Jill's creations are her totally fabulous bangles.

Check out these other places to find Jill's work
Her Etsy
Her flat bottles website
Her Dichrioc glass

Doodle Buttons Gone Wrong

The lovely Jill of Kiln Fired Art sent me some of her amazing doodle decals as I had wondered whether they would work on polymer clay.
I decided to make some little star buttons as there was a 'Star' challenge coming up in the craft Pimp forum I belong to.
I rolled the clay and set to cutting out pieces of the decal sheet I thought would look good on the buttons, I was quite excited about how they would turn out.
The pieces took seconds to release from the backing in the warm water and I laid them onto the sheet of clay and dabbed them dry with a piece of kitchen roll.
after covering the clay with a layer of cling film I cut out the star shapes. I didn't have time to bake them right then so I left them over night. when I went back to them in the morning the top of the buttons looked all glossy, I touched one of them, it was all sticky, The decal had reacted with the polymer, I could have cried.

Well I thought, maybe they will be alright after baking, No, they were still sticky.
then i thought maybe if I cover them with 'Klear' that will seal the sticky in.
Yay! It worked. But i am not confident about them and I shall just have to put it down to a failed experiment and a lesson learned.
Here are the buttons baked and covered with Klear.