Made Marian: Oozing Crafty Goodness

Browsing through The Guardian’s Life and Style section is one of my favourite things to do at the weekend, they always have great articles about fashion, food and crafts.  I logged on this morning and found exactly the inspiration I was looking for in these hand made Christmas cards.  I’m particularly fond of the one on the bottom row with the tree made completely out of buttons.  It’s a new spin on my usual trick of using the buttons as decorations.  I’ll definitely be trying this out today.

Update:

I tried out the button card…..

I started by drawing out a light guideline for the triangle and then sticking the buttons down within my guidelines.

Then I stamped on the greeting and drew on the star, easy peasy.  Here’s the finished product…