Fimo buttons

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I find vintage images to be so inspiring! Like for example these little cards that Bill found somewhere. Aren't they cute? I just wanted to share them with you today :) I also wanted to show you the buttons that...

Learn to make your own very simple, quick, & easy polymer clay buttons.

A little over a year ago I took a button-making class with my good friend Carolyn Barnett. Her buttons are amazing. I will never make buttons with such technical precision and ingenuity. That said, I'm pretty pleased with the custom buttons I've made for two versions of my new Audrey Coat (publication probably by the end of this week). If you read this blog, you've already seen these buttons, made to go with my dark grey coat. Today I focused on getting buttons done for Isabel's plum coat…

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On a recent trip to Hobby Craft I came across Fimo which is a polymer clay. I have never used this product before but after studying ceramics at art college I thought I'd give it ago. For this tutorial I have decided to make some nautical anchor buttons for my navy cardigan. I've always…

Here are some photos of the owl buttons I have been making for my shop on Not on the high street.com since last year, I have started making them in batches like these, so I can keep better hold on how many I have. These are the buttons that have just been made so they are still soft at this stage. Once fired I coat half of them in the teal glaze or the moss green glaze you see below. The white buttons are left unglazed, the others either have a teal glaze or a moss green colour fired onto…

Don't you love how fun ideas always come to you late at night? It was a couple of months ago when I was testing the Firefly Dress fro...