Valentine's Button Box

Here's a gift I made for a friend for this Valentine's Day.

I purchased an inexpensive box from the craft store and painted it with salmon pink acrylic paint. To give it a "whitewashed" look, I lightly brushed some off-white acrylic paint over the pink and sprayed with gloss to seal it.

I glued felt on the inside bottom and shirt buttons in a heart shape on top (my friend is cute as a button after all). :)

By Laura from Long Beach, CA

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LuvMyGingerKids

February 6, 20080 found this helpful

Here's a different angle of the button box. =D

joan pecsek
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February 6, 20080 found this helpful

A really cute idea!

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February 7, 20080 found this helpful

I love it..Thanks for sharing..

Mary Lou

February 7, 20080 found this helpful

I really like the idea of using some of my button stash. I will be tempted to put this on a mint tin or something using jewel-it glue. After sanding, I can paint the tin red or even pink before gluing on buttons for heart.

Might even fill it with conversation or cinnamon hearts too. Good idea however you use it.

By leslilli (Guest Post)

February 7, 20080 found this helpful

it is so cute! i gotta make one

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