In which I make things!
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pen_gruntI spent a fairly large part of time today making "SWAPS" for my niece's Girl Scout day camp. "SWAPS" is an acronym for something, but I'm not sure I really care about looking it up at the moment. They're small craft-stuffs that you pin to your vest/sash and the girls, apparently, trade them. This is my first year, so I'm kind of unfamiliar with how the official process works, but whatever.
I started out kinda like this:
Piles of buttons and some of the "bases" are glued together.
These are the backs:
And eventually it all came out like this:
And it doesn't look like crap!*
All it took was: Buttons of various sizes. Metal pins. Felt. Bead/glass glue (for the buttons and the pins). Hot glue (for the felt to cover the base of the pins).
Slightly time consuming, but ultimately rewarding. I left dozens of hair strands in the bead glue/buttons and scalded skin on the hot-glued felt. Some of these are cute enough that I'm tempted to keep a few back for myself.
*I know I'm ridiculously proud of myself when I manage not to screw something up really badly...but if you knew how often I screwed things up really badly, you'd understand.
I started out kinda like this:
Piles of buttons and some of the "bases" are glued together.
These are the backs:
And eventually it all came out like this:
And it doesn't look like crap!*
All it took was: Buttons of various sizes. Metal pins. Felt. Bead/glass glue (for the buttons and the pins). Hot glue (for the felt to cover the base of the pins).
Slightly time consuming, but ultimately rewarding. I left dozens of hair strands in the bead glue/buttons and scalded skin on the hot-glued felt. Some of these are cute enough that I'm tempted to keep a few back for myself.
*I know I'm ridiculously proud of myself when I manage not to screw something up really badly...but if you knew how often I screwed things up really badly, you'd understand.
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Date: 2012-07-30 05:16 pm (UTC)but aren't they supposed to make these things themselves?
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Date: 2012-07-30 11:47 pm (UTC)SWAP
Date: 2012-10-17 06:01 am (UTC)scouts
Date: 2013-01-26 04:36 am (UTC)Button Flowers
Date: 2013-02-20 05:34 pm (UTC)thank you for the craft idea
Re: scouts
Date: 2013-02-20 05:36 pm (UTC)So they're little pins that you bring in mass-quantity and swap with other girl scouts for their pins.
Please don't do that.
Date: 2013-03-17 07:00 pm (UTC)SWAP
Date: 2013-04-07 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-17 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-03 06:24 am (UTC)thanx
Date: 2013-10-03 06:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-02 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-04 10:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-09 09:25 pm (UTC)Fabulous!!
Date: 2014-04-01 12:45 pm (UTC)Love the button flowers, with one question
Date: 2014-05-04 10:45 pm (UTC)Re: Love the button flowers, with one question
Date: 2014-05-05 05:49 am (UTC)Buttons
Date: 2014-08-07 02:27 am (UTC)Jina
Re: Buttons
Date: 2014-08-07 03:11 pm (UTC)Re: Buttons
Date: 2014-08-07 04:05 pm (UTC)Love them so cute!!
Date: 2014-08-19 04:06 am (UTC)SWAPS
Date: 2014-10-23 10:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-05 12:46 am (UTC)These are absolutely precious!
Date: 2015-01-22 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-23 09:02 pm (UTC)