Turning Buttons Into Art

As we planned for our move this summer, I began searching online for some neat decorating ideas. I knew that we would have a lot more wall space to fill and started looking for cheap DIY art ideas. For this I turned to some of my favorite blogs. I found that some of my favs had hung their initials above their bed. I loved this idea! I decided that this was a must for our new house. I planned to make 3 pieces. An S for me... Sara, a T for Travis, and an M for our last name McChesney. I planned to print out these letters on white card stock and frame them.

You should probably know that I love monograms! One night I happened upon Etsy and came across some monogram pillows. This brilliant person glued buttons onto the pillows in the shape of letters. They were beautiful and I automatically thought of my bedroom project and decided that this would be a great way to add detail to these simple pieces.

So, I got to work printing the outline of our initials on white card stock, one per page. Then bought some black buttons and filled in the letter outlines.

Here is the S in progress.


Next, I mounted them on more card stock to make them look like they are matted, put them in their frames ($3 @ walmart), and TA-DAH... they are ready to hang. I think they turned out rather cute, if I do say so myself.




Now, here they are hanging above our bed. I'm so happy with how they turned out!


P.S. Please ignore the fact that we don't have any bedside tables yet. We're working on that. ;-)