Recently, I read a great post by Martine of iMake all about buttons. She had been making buttons with shrink plastic and Fimo (oven bake clay) and if you are interested in buttons then check out her posts Button Love, First Attempt at Fimo Buttons, Making Buttons and The Gift of Buttons.
I loved the idea of making my own buttons and managed to get some Sculpey (another make of oven bake clay) from a local craft store and so set about to make some buttons and some beads. Here is how I did it!
I began by rolling out the clay using a typical kitchen rolling pin. I discovered that it is important not to roll it to thinly as it becomes bendy when baked. Thicker is better!
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I didn't have any special clay cutters and raided the kitchen drawers for suitable shaped and sized implements for cutting out my buttons. I used a icing pipe to make circular buttons, the top off a cocktail stick box to make my square buttons and cookie cutters I had in to cut out star and bunny shapes! I made the beads by rolling into shape and then sticking a cocktail stick through the middle for the whole. I had lots of fun experimenting with my implements to create texture on the buttons to.
I also experimented with mixing the 2 colours together. You can get some great swirly effects.
They look gorgeous! Well done :-)
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