Easy Peasy Button Holders

I decided my sewing / craft room was too messy to work in Saturday morning, so I spent some time cleaning up and organizing. Here's a little tutorial of what I decided to do with all those prescription bottles I'd been saving.  If you read my blog on a regular basis, you may remember this little project:

At the time I made it, I mail ordered a pound of buttons.  Well, the project did take quite a few buttons, but it sure didn't take a pound! So... I have a bunch left over, in addition to all my other random buttons I had stored together in a plastic leftover container. Every time I needed a button, I was pawing around in that plastic container, never finding what I needed. Today, necessity was the mother of invention. Here's the supplies I started with:

Using my paper cutter to keep my lines straight, I cut different pieces of scrapbook paper the height of the prescription bottle, by the length around it. Mine measured 2 7/8 inches tall, by 4 1/2 inches around. Then I used a glue stick to stick the paper around the bottle. Once I had that done, I used the lid as a pattern to trace:

Once again, I used the glue stick to stick the paper on top of the lid. For the next step, I used a glue gun, but any kind of glue would probably work. After sorting buttons, I glued a button on top of each bottle so I could see at a glance what was in each bottle:

How cute is that!?

Here's the rest of them - an even dozen. Now I smile each time I see these cute little containers and know that next time I need a button, it will only take a second to find the one I need! 

Buttons, buttons!

With inspiration from Pinterest, and my granddaughter's birthday in less than a month, I just finished my first button project. I found buttons by the pound here, and have enough left over for several future projects. The rest of the supplies were purchased at Joann Fabrics. I'm pleased with the end product. Hope you like it too!



After seeing how many repins this got on Pinterest, I thought I had better post a picture from my camera instead of my phone so the detail would show better.  Since I don't have a tutorial, the least I could do is post a decent enough picture so you can see what I did.