Thursday 6 April 2017

Mums Are Like Buttons Box Frame with Buttons - Mother's Day Gift


I've been seeing the phrase 'mums are like buttons' everywhere recently - or at least in the run up to Mothers' Day, which in the UK was March 26 this year (it falls later in the year in other countries including the US).

The whole of that phrase is 'Mums are like buttons - they hold everything together'. I thought that sounded lovely and wanted to make my mum a Mothers' Day card with it on. In fact it started out as a card and turned into a gift!

I tracked down a rubber stamp with that exact sentiment which I stamped onto a square white card blank, and using glue dots stuck buttons in various shades of red and pink around it. I realised afterwards the quote was slightly off centre which was a shame but I'm sure my mum didn't mind too much.

The card looked too heavy with the buttons and I wanted it to be more of a keepsake, so I decided to make it into a framed picture instead.

The box frames sold in Hobbycraft are brilliant for this sort of thing and they are often in half price sales where you can get the smallest size for as little as 2 pounds, so I tend to stock up on a couple every now and then.

The frame made the perfect setting for my Mothers' Day gift.


I'm sharing this with the Addicted to Stamps challenge and Fab Funky Challenges

4 comments:

  1. It looks lovely hung above the t.v.

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  2. Great gift for Mother's Day - such a lovely sentiment and the buttons in a heart around it are perfect. Thank you for joining us at Fab'n Funky.
    Alison x

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  3. Fantastic project and awesome idea for gift...thank you for joining us at ATSM challenge this week
    Zeljka DTxx

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  4. such a sweet project - thanks for sharing your project at Addicted to Stamps and More

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