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Button Wall Art Beautify your walls with buttons. From "B. Original" episode DBOR-313

Create this playful button canvas.

The circle is one of the most powerful graphic images, and this fun geometric art project from Michele Beschen lets you play with as many circles as you like – in the form of colorful buttons. The B. Original host raids the button jar yet again to create this contemporary piece of wall art on a homemade canvas. It's a fresh way to B. Original with buttons, and an excellent technique for adding some 3-D art to your walls.

Scroll down for Michele Beschen's how-to, and get ready to button up some art.

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Button Wall Art

Materials:

inexpensive picture frame
duck cloth
scissors
staple gun
paint
buttons
plastic cup
thin wire

	Figure A
	Figure B
	Figure C
	Figure D

• Make your own artist-style canvas by stretching a piece of inexpensive duck cloth over a wooden picture frame.

• To stretch the canvas, wrap the cloth over one side of the frame and staple in place. Straighten the cloth, pull it taut and staple it on the opposite sides, then repeat for the other two sides (figure A).

• Work back and forth, stretching and stapling the cloth at opposite sides of the frame until it is secured all the way around. Fold the corners neatly, staple and trim any excess.

• Paint the canvas, if desired, or leave it natural.

• Once the base coat, if any, is dry, paint a grid on the canvas in a contrasting color. Make sure to extend the grid lines around the sides of the canvas.

• Use a plastic cup or similar object to stamp circles inside the grid squares (figure B). Use both the top and the bottom of the cup for two different circle sizes (figure C).

• Arrange the buttons on the canvas. Use a variety of colors and sizes, layering or stacking the buttons as desired.

• "Stitch" the buttons onto the canvas with wire. To do this, bend one piece of wire and poke it through two of the button holes and into the canvas. Twist the two ends of the wire together behind the canvas and trim the ends. Repeat with another piece of wire for the other two button holes (figure D).

• Hang your creation and show off the your creativity with the humble button.