Painters drop cloth and thrift store buttons were all I needed to make this button heart pillow. I love the vintage touch that the various shades of buttons gives the pillow. And using drop cloth is an easy way of giving something an old world look without a lot of expense. Total cost for the pillow? Less than $7!You can either use a store bought pillow cover or make your own from sturdy fabric like painters drop cloth. Here I just sewed around the edges, stuffed it and frayed the borders to give it a casual look. Total time to make the pillow itself was less than 30 minutes.
Draw a heart in pencil onto the pillow fabric. For demonstration purposes, I actually used a bit of pen to show the outline. Otherwise you wouldn't have seen it on the photo.
Then it was on to gluing all the buttons I had saved. I used simple white craft glue and it seems to have worked really well.
Start by gluing bigger buttons on first and building and filling with smaller buttons. I found the flat buttons worked best, but you can use what you want. Layering some smaller buttons on top of larger ones gives the pillow some more dimension.
It took me about half an hour to fill in the heart shape which is about 10" at it's widest. I honestly couldn't tell you how many buttons it took, but I'm guessing it's over 100. If you buy them at the thrift store, you can get a huge bag of various colours for about $2 and weed out the white ones.
Let it dry overnight. Fluff it and place it on a favourite chair or add to the pile of pillows on your bed for Valentines Day.
Original article and pictures take http://www.hometalk.com/13605234/button-heart-pillow-for-valentines-day site
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