DIY: Button Art / Hairbow Holder

     I am generally not a very crafty person, but I wanted to share a little project I did for the nursery a few weeks ago. I took several things I saw and wanted to buy from Etsy, and tried to save some money by doing them myself. Although it didn't turn out quite as beautiful or cute as my inspiration products, I think it turned out cute, and it was a lot of fun! :)

Here are my "inspiration" pics:

      I fell in love when I saw this beautiful button monogram, which this seller creates by hand sewing each individual button by hand onto silk.

     I also knew I wanted to have a place to display, hang, and organize all of baby girl's hair clips, like this one:

         

   Because I don't have a lot of wall space in the nursery (thanks to all the OTHER things I am planning on doing), I decided it would be good to combine the two using a canvas I had laying around the house and the metallic paint I was planning on using for some of the letters on the ABC wall. 

     Then I used a wooden letter "M" that I bought at Micheal's to trace the shape of the letter and hot glue the buttons on the canvas (I WISH I could sew them all on - but that just wasn't going to happen!

(Sorry the lighting is so terrible - taken with my camera phone!)


















     Next, I picked up some matching ribbon to hot glue around the edges of the canvas, to use to hold the canvas to the wall, and to hang the hair clips from.

     Finally, it was ready to hang! I think it turned out pretty cute - and it was way less expensive than buying the individual pieces through someone else! I really like the idea that I made a few little pieces to put in baby's nursery as well. 

     Now it's all ready for her little hair bows and clips....let's hope she has a little hair! :)