looking for a craft idea using buttons

GREAT ideas in the link above. If you make it in the shape of a heart, you can leave it out all year ! I'm thinking of making one with my mother's and aunt's old pins.

Buy or make a thick chipboard letter for your first or last name initial. Paint it with acrylic paint in the color of your choice. Glue buttons all over it until the front is totally covered. Hang it on your wall.

Someone here had linked up the cutest button flowers a long time ago. The buttons are threaded onto wire stems and become the blossom part of the flower. Put several in a small vase.

Sew them onto the front of a decorative pillow.

String them onto embroidery floss or heavy pearl cotton string and make them into garlands for your Christmas tree.

Cover the entire top of a small accent table with them, then pour resin over the whole top of the table to completely seal them to it.

Do a search for button crafts on Pinterest, you'll get more results than you'll know what to do with!

A button bracelet?

Someone gave me a super cool bee button with peridot looking eyes. It's very pretty. It was a shank button, so I cut the shank off and sanded it and attached it to a ring base. I love it! I get compliments every time I wear it.

You could also make a brooch. If there are tiny buttons. Something like the button heart posted above on a tiny scale that she could wear on her coat, much as her grandmother would have back in the day.

That's a lovely idea! I shall squirrel that away for possible future use if you don't mind.