Beautiful Buttons = Flowers

One of my favorite types of buttons to use are ones shaped like flowers. I think they look really cool and give it a flower feel amongst a whole bunch of round buttons. Here are a few of my favorites that I have used in bouquets before.
The bow is great as well in this bouquet but I love the two flowers used on the stem below it.

These boutonnieres and corsages have a ton of flower buttons on them!



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Inspiration

I love when I see something and it translates into a bouquet. I saw a group of paint samples the other day and just had to make a bouquet. The colors were called Paradise Valley, Seashore, Lilac Rose and Cottage Orchid. It turned out to be beautiful. Reminds me of a garden, so I named it The Secret Garden Bouquet.
The original paint chips I found.

Close up of the bouquet. I think I was able to match the buttons pretty well. Took awhile but it was worth it in the end.



Where do you get inspiration from?
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Buttons – The Good, The Bad and The Down right Ugly

So, as most of you know…I love buttons. I have so many and in all shapes, sizes and colors. In my studio, I have quite a few pounds (I don’t even have a guess at how many pounds it is, lets just say too many!)
Over the past year I have come across some really pretty buttons as well as some that are very ugly. There have also been some “misfits” that must have struggled during creation.
I thought I would create a new blog series about my finds in the button world. Feel free to comment and tell me if you think these are good, bad or ugly. Beautiful or what were they thinking!
Have some buttons of your own that you think would fit into these categories? Send me an email and I can put up some pictures on my blog. rbkcreations@gmail.com
In a variety box of buttons I received I founds some HUGE buttons. They made me laugh so I created one stem of them. I like to call them buttons on steroids!

They ended up being some good colors to put together. It is a nice addition to the studio decor.

The stem on the left is the big buttons while the one on the right is the average size button stem to show the difference. It makes the other stems look so tiny.

And this is the big button stem next to a 30 stemmed bouquet. It is about 1/3 of the whole bouquet!

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Adventures with Felt

I don’t usually make felt bouquets. In fact before July 1st, I didn’t even know how to do the fancy embroidery stitches. I had a customer email me and ask if I could create these for her.

She contacted me on July 1st and her wedding is on July 24th…in the United Kingdom. So that meant I had to teach myself (fast) how to do the stitches and get going on this order. With caffeine in hand, I was able to do all the stitching and get them done! We tried to do a cascade on the bride’s bouquet, after four attempts it just wasn’t working.

We decided that it would be best to keep the bride’s bouquet in the original round shape, like the bridesmaids. The professional pictures will turn out better and it will just look better in general.

The order consisted of one bride bouquet, four bridesmaid bouquets, one groom boutonniere (Button Hole), six additional boutonnieres and three pin on corsages. The color scheme is cream and a dark navy blue.

Enjoy the pictures! :)

One of the Button Holes
Close up of the Bridesmaid Bouquet
1 of 4 Bridesmaid Bouquets


Closeup of the Bride’s Bouquet


The bride’s bouquet, without the cascade.

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Black and Champagne Custom Bridal Order Completed!

This was a custom order for a bride who is having her wedding in a garden. She wanted something suble yet stunning. She figured she couldn’t do real flowers since she was surrounded by such great flowers in the garden.

The Bride’s side of the wedding party will have white, ivory and black arrangements while the groom’s side will have some yellow splashed in (his favorite color).

Boutonnieres
Flower Girl Bouquet

Bridesmaid’s Bouquets

The Bride’s Bouquet

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