Sculpey Clay Buttons with Sprinkles

I just completed a cute cardigan made with rainbow speckled tweed yarn that I have dubbed my Fun-Fetti Sweater (more details below). When I went to add buttons, I felt like the basic buttons I had on hand weren’t adding the pizzaz I wanted and decided that the sweater needed equally fun buttons. I used what I had on hand and made these very 80s styled sculpey clay buttons.

Materials:

Sculpey Clay
Wax Paper
Aluminum Foil
Baking Sheet
Bamboo Skewer or Sculpting Tools
Button Template
Rolling Pin or Bottle

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Gather the materials. Cover your working area with wax paper and a baking sheet with aluminum foil.

Choose your base colors. I marbled grey with a bit of white.

I twisted the two colors together just enough to combine, but not enough to thoroughly mix the colors.

I rolled the combined clay into a log.

I didn’t want to use my baking rolling pin, so I found an empty bottle with a smooth surface to roll the log into a flat base. Keep the base slightly thicker than the finished button depth you would like.

I rolled a few accent colors into skinny snakes.

I broke the skinny snakes into sprinkle bits and dropped them in a random pattern onto the base.

Roll out the clay again to incorporate the sprinkles. This time roll until you have reached the button depth you would like.

Use a template, bottle cap, or cookie cutter to mark/cut out your buttons. I just used some basic buttons as a guide and traced them with the tip of the bamboo skewer. I also marked where the button holes should be placed.

Cut out the buttons.

Smooth out the edges by gently rolling your buttons.

Use a skewer to make the button holes. Be sure to go in from the backside as well to make sure that the hole goes cleanly all the way through the button.