I love buttons probably not quite as much as my sister eco Heidi who is passionate about buttons I love all of the different colors and shapes and sizes and designs but what if you only have white buttons in your button stash I saw I had his white buttons so what I want to do is show you how I take the white buttons and I transform them with alcohol ink you could also use acrylic paint for this project but I had my inks on the table and I grabbed them and I thought it was really cool that you could create these little stands that hold some special messages so let me show you how this is done these white buttons are from bloomingdale lansing and they have some really intriguing textures and designs on them which work perfect for this technique so I just put a couple of drops of my alcohol ink into these plastic cups and then I cut down my cosmetic sponges you know you can take one large one and cut it down into smaller pieces and I like these buttons that have the design that go over the entire surface rather than just on the edge they'll both work but I like these that are a little bit more intricate so I'm going to dab into my alcohol ink so that has literally just sucked off all of that ink right out of that container and then you just start dabbing doesn't take much and use a light touch so that it only puts that color right on top of the buttons now you come can come back and get different effects if you press a little bit harder let's try it with our aqua here with a little bit different design it's really a very very very light touch so you're just getting that raised surface and that cool how easily you can custom color your own buttons you want to let this ink dry completely and then what I did is I glued them on to a close pin now I use the exact same ink and just brush it right on to my clothes pin and then i use my lean super thick tacky glue to glue my buttons on place once everything is glued down you let it dry completely then you take the gloss spray and you spray right over the top of these on this particular clothes pin can you see that I have put the magnetic strip on the back so this you can put of course on the refrigerator anything magnetic what I did on my other stands is I created this from cold cast where I poured into a mold and added just a skewer and then I cut these to size depending on how tall that I want my design because this is cool to cast I use that same ink to color the bottom of my stand so when you take a close look at these you can see that they all blend together because the alcohol ink is used on the base on the skewer on the buttons and on the clothes pin so this is a really fun and easy way to decorate and play with buttons I'm Tiffany Windsor and I think it's cool to craft you