Oodles and oodles of buttons?

Do you have oodles and oodles of buttons? If you're like me you do! I love buttons all shapes, sizes, and colors. So what's a girl to do when she has a stockpile of buttons? Use them of course! This time I decided I'd make a cute little Rainbow Purse for Miss Avery(she's my Punky Brewster child and loves color). I really love these awesome buttons by Melody Ross

And here is the fun little purse I made with them.

These little purses are really easy to create its a couple sheets of felt, buttons, ribbon, thread, and a sewing machine. Of course I didn't take photos while I made this so I'll just give you a quick rundown of how I made it.

Cut 1 sheet of felt in half. Cut the other sheet of felt a smidge smaller then what your purse will be.Sew your buttons onto the smidge smaller felt. then using a sewing machine stitch the felt with the buttons to one half of the 1st sheet of felt. stitch your ribbon handle to the inside of the purse. layer all your pieces of felt and stitch around the 3 sides leaving the opening at the top. Viol la you now have a cute little purse to give to your sweet girl!

and a closeup of all those buttons.

Not everything that is made for scrapbook has to be put on a layout so go create something off the page!Have fun!