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Polymer Clay Cookie Buttons

Make your own delicious looking buttons and add them to all of your favorite wearables. Polymer Clay Cookie Buttons from Candace Jedrowicz look good enough to eat and add a fun touch to everyday items. Button craft ideas don't get much cuter than this.

Polymer Clay Cookie Buttons
 

Materials:

  • Aleene’s Paper Glaze
  • Brown acrylic paint
  • Polymer clay – white, brown, gold metallic, yellow and orange
  • 20 Gauge wire
  • Round nose pliers
  • Chain nose pliers
  • Wire cutters
  • Needle tool or tooth pick

Instructions:

  1. I used a mold making medium to make a mold , but you can just as easily make a simple rounded form.The advantage to using a mold is that you can add the shank while the clay is in the mold, so it maintains it’s shape.

    Polymer Clay Cookie Buttons
     
  2. Spritz the mold with water. Condition a small amount of clay.

    Polymer Clay Cookie Buttons
     
  3. Press the clay into the mold.

    Polymer Clay Cookie Buttons
     
  4. To create a shank, bend a 1″ piece of 20 gauge wire in half, leaving  the bend rounded.

    Polymer Clay Cookie Button
     
  5. Close the loop of the shank and bend the wire ends out.

    Polymer Clay Cookie Buttons
     
  6. Push the shank down into the back of the button and small bits of clay over the gap in the clay and smooth.

    Polymer Clay Cookie Button
     
  7. Push the back of the mold to remove the button. Bake according to the directions.

    Polymer Clay Cookie Buttons
     
  8. I mixed a little brown acrylic paint into a bottle of Aleene’s Paper Glaze to make chocolate chips, but you can mix a small amount of both and apply dots with a toothpick.

    Chocolate Chip Cookie Buttons
     
  9. It you want to make a holed button, don’t add the shank, remove the clay from the mold and make holes before baking.

    Polymer Clay Cookie Buttons

 

For a comprehensive video tutorial of this project, check out How to Make Chocolate Chip Cookie Buttons.

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