Sometimes, random is good. There's no particular rhyme or reason to the vintage project I've picked this week. I just opened a couple of files, pulled up the image and decided to go with it. And you thought I couldn't do spontaneous.
This little set - a trio of buttons on a backing card and a button-topped key tag - was one of several I made for an online swap a few years ago. It was a fun project to put together, and I liked the end result so much I made an extra set to keep back for myself after the others were mailed out.
The trees were stamped onto shrink plastic (or Shrinky Dinks, if you're bilingual), and then I cut them out, leaving plenty of white space around the edges. A pair of holes punched out in the centre of each one before shrinking turns them very easily into tiny, tree-shaped buttons once they're heated. By punching just a single hole near the top edge, you can create pendants in much the same way. Sadly, it looks like Hero Arts have discontinued this particular set of tree stamps, but they do have plenty of other options if you want to have a shot at something similarly arboreal. Far more happily (because I love it), 'a fun time was had by all' - which is also a stamp - is still available from River City Rubber Works. x
