Upcycling: Button Art Canvases

Fri, 22 Jul 2011|

Green decorating expert Danny Seo creates recycled crafts in his book Upcycling. Here, he makes art canvases with button art.

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Automatically Generated Transcript (may not be 100% accurate)

and -- TO author of the book out cycling and today -- initially had a chance form a collection of extra buttons. Something maybe you have and -- juncture at home -- great big -- than you found at a flea market or restore it to something less fashionable and into something more artistic. These silhouette artwork pieces. This milk shake in the hamburger and French -- behind me they might look familiar to you readers of every day with Rachel -- they're featured and -- likely story I did for them and they've also been projects they've -- the most. Questions about through you know so what you wanna start where it is a pre stressed. Canvas and you can find a great selection of campuses and any Michael's store this the nice that's a -- for this project but you can go really really. Extra acres supersize -- project wearing a really really extra small we're very intricate smaller size one I find the -- of the cameras is usually dictated by the number of buttons that you pass a lot of buttons great big artwork not a lot. -- This purple collar kind of reminds me of the starry night sky. I'm gonna put in stars.

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And what you see is just a very slight scratch and cameras doesn't hurt the cameras at all and it gives you a Garland where to put but. The next step is really really simple because I'm doing all these white silhouettes -- stick with white buttons you just take your buttons. That a little wait Kraft who -- behind this. And and you filled the entire inside -- the -- And you had to mix and match would ever -- exercises that she winds obviously the more -- tell us. Design says the smaller the buttons. Will be more helpful news. Once you've filled and all your buttons right here you wanna make sure that it dries completely overnight 24 hours if you can craft who is a great if he's that but it's not a super fast -- one but once it's -- these buttons we'll definitely be stuck under canvas. To take your collection of buttons right now in appraisers canvas painted a wonderful color and make yourself than buttons below --

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