button Usage

These are some of the items I've seen that are decorated with buttons. Such imagination! Enjoy.

Button Curtain by Barbara Barrans
Beaded Ornaments with buttons by Karen L. Cohen
Earring storage while traveling - using buttons!
Helene Plank does button and bead mosaics. She has a lot of Karen Buttons and uses them in various colors and sizes. And at least the Portrait has the Susan Button (my sister).
Here are some other mosaics made with buttons and other found objects
Table trims by my friend Peri: Table 1, Table 2
Deborah Sielski creates beautiful wall art from recycled cooking tools and buttons (she doesn't destroy the shanks, but used them to hold the button on the piece).
Costume at the Museum of London. This is from an organized charitable tradition where pearl buttons are used to decorate clothing - the Pearly Kings and Queens.
Keychains "dolls"
Beautiful large doll, named Anastacia, with button eyes and joints by Anne Schroeder (see other work: her site and her etsy site.
Ornament or hangiing decoration Heart
Greeting Card with Button Snowman
Creative Mountings...
- by Marlen Hudson
- Lisa Schulz owner of Christmas Tree and Shell Basket