Home DIY: How To Make A Button Bowl
I’ll admit it. This DIY was not as easy as I thought it would be and I definitely made a tactical error by using small buttons! Having said that, I still think the bowl looks pretty cute filled up with jewellery or whatever else you fancy popping in your bowl of buttons! Right, let’s get to it shall we?
♥ A single balloon
♥ Glue
♥ Sellotape
♥ A mug (or something to be able to secure the balloon to)
♥ Lots and lots of beautiful buttons! (the bigger the better!)
Step 1: Blow up your balloon to a suitable size
Step 2: Tape your balloon securely to the mug
Step 3: Pour a large amount of glue on to your balloon
Step 4: Quickly smother the glue over about half of the balloon and leave to dry. The idea is that this forms a layer between the balloon and your buttons.
Step 5: Start to glue your buttons onto the balloon once the original layer of glue has dried. I used a large and heavy button in the center of the balloon to weigh the bowl down.
Step 6: Continue to place the buttons all over the balloon until you are happy with the shape and size of the soon to be bowl then leave to dry.
Step 7: Remove the tape from the cup and balloon and place upside down so the bowl looks ready.
Step 8: Take a pin and pop the balloon. This is where it went completely wrong for me! First of all, I hadn’t left the glue long enough to dry and secondly, I used buttons that were way too small to be able to support a shape of the bowl, so unfortunately the whole bowl kind of folded in on itself!
Step 9: SO, I quickly placed it over a large glass to stretch out the shape again and left it to dry for a further 2 hours.
Step 10: Remove from the glass and pop on display with whatever you want to fill it with!
I would really love to know if you created a button bowl and did it successfully? I’m gonna have to try this again with larger buttons to see if the bowl holds it shape better!
Much Bespoke Love
Jess ♥
Hi !
Loved your site and your tutorials, everything here looks so pretty, and your button bowl looks classy I would love to feature your tutorial on my blog as every Sunday I post “Feature U Today” where I post other’s ideas and link it back to them, this way both bloggers viewer’s would get glimpse of both the blogging world, like the idea? it would be my pleasure to invite you to view my website https://letstrycreating.com and leave back your comment and feedback and do let me know if I can feature your post one of these Sunday’s ( happy to meet another new blogger friend)
Hope to hear back from you soon 🙂
take care,
xx (hugs)
Noor
Hi Noor!
We are more than happy for you to link back to our blog and thank you so much for asking permission, how lovely of you. I have taken a look at your blog and I have to say I love it, you have some great DIY ideas on there. I will be a regular reader I am sure 🙂
Much Bespoke Love
Emily x
Thanks a ton Emily, that’s very sweet of you to reply back soon..Once I decide on which Sunday I will be featuring you I will drop you a quick link to it so you can view it too, hope to see you more often at LTC 🙂
XX
Noor
Hello Emily,
I am back hehe 🙂 Well hope you having a great weekend!
It’s Sunday today “Feature U Today” and I have featured you today and your project, you can visit here https://letstrycreating.com/2013/09/08/feature-u-today-2/ to read more about it, and please do share it with your reader’s too, do stop by to drop in some comments & feedback..it would mean a lot to me. Thank you!
It was a pleasure knowing you and your cute little blog,
keep in touch 🙂
xx Noor
This is awesome :)..
What kind of glue did you use?