DIY buttoned letter gift!

Hello my lovely readers! How is everyone this weekend? 

It was my best friends birthday last weekend and for ages I was thinking about making her something as well as buying her some presents just because I thought she would love it and I wanted to put some more effort into something. I finally saw an amazing piece of crafty DIY that I knew she would love on pinterest. I choice to do buttoned letters with a twist, i mounted them onto a canvas. 

So to start off with I went out and brought all of the materials that I needed. I get most of it in hobby craft and also some of the buttons in a charity shop. 

The cardboard letters are £2 each.

Packets of buttons are £1 each.

Buttons from the charity shop were 10 for 50p.

The PVA glue was £2 for the bottle.

Paint from B&Q.

A canvas of a size that suits you.

Double sided tape.

You will also need newspaper to protect the surface you are doing the craft on and a plate and a paint brush to put the glue on. 

To start off with I laid out all of the buttons and then placed them onto the letters to see how they worked. This also helps you to change them before you stick them down.

After I was happy with how the buttons looked i took them back off and placed them onto the table to keep them in the order.

Then just add a small amount of PVA glue to a small plate so that it is easy to get to and not get too much on the paintbrush because you only need a thin layer on the letters.

Once I stuck one section of the buttons onto the letters I took more of them off and put a thin layer of glue. 

This is the finished A letter.

After I was finished the A, I did the same to the J.

This is the two letters finished after I stuck down all of the buttons. 

I painted the canvas with two layers of warm pewter paint from B&Q to match and left it over night to dry. 

I also painted the sides of the letters so that it matched with the canvas and the color flowed.

To mount the letters onto the canvas I used double sided tap.

This tape stuck the letters onto the canvas really well and worked really well because I didn't want to put glue onto the canvas because it would have left a stain. 

This is what the letters looked like once they were stuck onto the canvas. I didn't like the plainness of the canvas so I wanted to add some more buttons around the letters.

This is the finished look and it definitely looks a lot better with the buttons around the letters because it adds more detail.

I really enjoyed making this crafty DIY and it is such a lovely gift to make for friend and family. You could use any colored buttons.

Thank you very much for reading and comment below if you would like me to do anymore DIY blogs.

Love you all

Perfect and Sweet <3