No really…. even if you send me something as small as a button–if it’s a cool Polka Dot Creations button–I’m going to have to make a purse based on it. The brown purse is from a thriftshop, great leather, clean inside (except there was a sample vial of perfume in one of the pockets). Before:
Brown purse, BEFORE
AFTER
The button is attached with thread, after I got Peter to drill holes in the leather. There’s a lot of gesso, acrylic paints, sharpies, modpodge, krylon. (See my altered purse tutorial here.) And that button.
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Tags: altering, art, crafting, purses, thriftshopping
Pennamite 
April 8, 2009 at 1:27 am |
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May 18, 2009 at 12:24 am |
Wonderful job. I’m glad you were tempted. Now I need to find myself a thrifted purse so I can be likewise tempted. Good luck in the button challenge.