We have many creative people here in our Blumenthal Lansing Co. office and many of our desks have a Sharpie marker somewhere! So I went through our collections of buttons to find ones that could easily be doodled on with Sharpies! I asked each of our creative-thinkers to doodle something… anything they wanted with Sharpies! […] Read more…
Button Basket Giveaway
Here at Blumenthal Lansing Co. we’re so excited about reaching 2,000 friends on Facebook that we decided to have a button basket giveaway! Who wouldn’t love a basket of new buttons to sew and craft with? We included buttons from our La Mode and Favorite Findings line along with many crafty items such as Photo […] Read more…
New Favorite Findings Packaging
If you haven’t seen it in stores already you will soon! Our new Favorite Findings packaging is set to be in stores in the next few months. We wanted to tell you about this because we are very excited to launch our new look, but our buttons haven’t changed! Still the same great selection of […] Read more…
Last Minute Mother’s Day Button Card!
QUICK need to make a card for Mom? Grab some color markers, color paper, buttons and glue! I borrowed some scrapbook paper from Helen 🙂 DIY Mother’s Day Button Card I cut the paper to the size I wanted (about 4 x 6 inches) and laid the buttons out first to see what design I […] Read more…
Create a Decoden Case using Buttons!
There has been a lot of cell phone embellishing going on – many you may have seen it those “decoden” phone cases that seem as though they were made at bakery! Others are using jewels, paints, beads and a lot of Hello Kitty. These inspired me to put together some ideas that you can make […] Read more…
Tattoo a Button
Around here we think a lot about buttons… and a lot of different ways they can be used! I remembered last year I purchased some temporary tattoos from Tattly and I still had some left over (yes I went on a spree, they are addicting). I knew we had an handful of wood buttons and […] Read more…
Decorate Your Own iPhone Case
While everyone was at CHA last week I decided to experiment with some of our buttons to embellish an iPhone 4 case! I started out with a clear plastic iphone case. I chose a variety of buttons and removed the shanks with our shank remover tool. The buttons I chose were: Favorite Findings “A Step […] Read more…
Mona Lisa Buttons Portrait
Greetings! I’m Cricket and I am joining Helen here at the ButtonLovers.com Blog to bring you the best in button art, creative ideas and more. I hope you enjoy my entries just as much as I will enjoy writing them for you! November 16, 2012 was National Button Day and Joann Fabrics celebrated by recreating […] Read more…