Crafts from the buttons for the New Year

Bright and different in form and sizebuttons have long been using needlewomen for their crafts. Many people like to make beads and bracelets from buttons. Such jewelry looks very unusual and stylish. But today we will do all kinds of New Year's decorations for the decor of the apartment. What could it be? How about balls and fir-trees made of buttons?

Christmas ball of buttons

Christmas ball of buttons - this is a very spectacular decoration on the Christmas tree for the New Year. Materials for such crafts made of buttons must be found at home by each owner. So, you will need:

• PVA glue


• plasticine


• paper of two colors


• silk ribbon


• acrylic paints


• buttons


• tassel


• stationery knife

From plasticine, roll the ball. The size of the ball is determined by your taste. Paper in five layers, glue a plastic ball in the papier-mache technique. Alternate the colors of the paper with each other so that you do not lose count and accurately saw where a particular layer ends. Leave the bowl ready for the night to dry. Then cut the ball with a clerical knife into two parts, remove the clay. Two formed hemispheres glue with glue, after inserting a ribbon between them, on which the ball will hang. Cut the incision on the balloon with a layer of paper. You have a base for a New Year's toy.

Now glue the toy with buttons. To make the buttons seem sewn to the ball, and notglued, several layers of threads are preliminarily passed through them. When all the buttons are in place, paint the ball with paint with a pearl ebb. Allow the paint to dry, and then your Christmas ball of buttons is ready.

Again, instead of a ball of papier-mache, you can use special beads of foam plastic. They can also be fastened with buttons and a ribbon. But in this case you have to pre-paint the ball in any color you choose with spray paint.

New Year's application of buttons

Of the buttons are very beautiful applications, for example, you can make a picture or a Christmas card. Drawing for a postcard can choose the mostdifferent, but it looks best Christmas tree with New Year gifts. Choose for yourself the size of the application that you will be making, draw a pencil outline of a Christmas tree. Now glue different in size and color buttons on paper. Note that for appliqués in the form of a Christmas tree, the dominant color should be green. Small buttons of other colors will serve as toys.

There are other ideas for New Year's appliqués. As a basis, you can take such drawings as snowmen, a twig of mistletoe and other New Year patterns. Use in your application not only buttons, but also other materials: ribbons, paper, paint, beads, snowflakes, sequins, because of the only round buttons you can not do much.

Herringbone of buttons

Still from the buttons are very beautiful trees. A tree of buttons can be made on paper in the form of an applique, but you can use the idea of ​​three-dimensional Christmas trees. To make a herringbone of buttons, you will need:

• cone made of foam plastic


• buttons


• safety pins

Making a tree of buttons is very simple. You have enough pin the buttons to the cone with safety pins. Dimensions and colors of buttons alternate as you aresuggests fantasy. Try not to leave empty spaces between the buttons. For this, small buttons can be pinned between large buttons.

If you do not have a cone made of polystyrene, its can be replaced by a cone of heavy paper. Only in this case the cone will have to be filledmounting foam. You can also tightly fill the cone with regular napkins. This is done to ensure that the cone is better kept pins. By the way, pins stick into the cone not at right angles, but with the point down.

By the way, on this idea, what can be made of buttons is far from exhausted. From the buttons you get pretty Christmas wreaths and snowflakes. These crafts are also made on the basis of cardboard or ordinary ice cream sticks. Try it and you make original hand-made articles for the New Year!