Flowers.Buttons,Rhinestones...HORRAY!!

So my next project is very easy, very fast, and very affordable.  First of all I would like to say I am a closet craft store shopper.  When I have had a hard day at work I do one of three things....

1) drink 

2) eat

3) walk around thrift and craft stores

So as you can see the third option is the healthiest and most fun, so I often spend 12-20 minutes browsing a store on my way home.  While I was browsing last week I stumbled upon a cute pair of buttons and thought wow I really wish these were earrings.  I made one ring in my high school art class about 13 years ago, so I have very little experience with jewelry.  I bought the buttons for a little under 2 dollars and held on to them.  This weekend there was a packet of rhinestones that were in Hobby Lobby's clearance section so I bought them as well.  The only thing I was missing was earring studs and backs, which are conveniently cheap too!

 

So basically I took...

*a packet of earring studs/backs

*a packet of rhinestones/pearls  

*a pair of buttons
*a file....which is not the best option(you will read this later)

*E6000 glue

 Once you have supplies the rest is really easy.  All you have to do is open packets, find pairs, glue to earring studs and wait 24 hours! 

The white flowers above were a little harder because they are the buttons that I had found.  Luckily these buttons were plastic and my husband has a lot of tools...haha!  First I cut the loop off the back with a scissors as close to the smooth back as I could and then I got a heavy duty file and shaved the rest of the backs down, this took a LONG time.  The day after I had finally filed down the backs I found a 5 dollar button back cutter at Jo-Ann Fabrics OF COURSE!  So i think that it would be well worth the investment if you want to make buttons with loop back into earrings!

Here are my earrings when all done...nothing special, but very easy!