To make your homemade watercolor buttons only a liter two pieces of watercolor paper, these are just scraps I have from cutting down paper I like because it makes a nice stiff button. First scrap you're going to use and you could just paint swatches of color and I'll go over that in a moment. And then the second one you're going to use to build up and make the base for your buttons. You'll need the hole punches according to the size and shape you want. I'm just using a five eighths small round and standard hole punch that you find in the office supply section which most people have around their homes. And then to make the tiny buttons to tiny holes on top of the button.

You can either use a very small hole punch, this is one 16th or I like to use just a little pointy tool even a needle will work and then I need some quick dry glue. So first thing I'm going to do is create my swatch. So I'll take colors from my painting and make a bunch of swatches on my watercolor paper and then I'll let it completely dry. Dry once it's dry, this is what I have a bunch of swatches on my paper. From here, I'll need to start punching my holes. And so depending on what size I want to make, I use two bases for every top.

So the guy that I mean I cut in punch, two dots, blank watercolor paper for every one I want to make if I want to make one here, out of yellow, a punch this just like this, and this is the same procedure for all of them. Then I take a little this quick dry glue, put a little down on my round that's already cut out, sandwich it in with another one and then I try and line it up so that it lines up nicely to add a little more glue there for the top layer. I have my button. Now to really make it look nice, you want to line it up so it is right on top of it perfectly. after it dries if you want to color in here with some more of that paint from your palette around the edges, you can or you can leave it like this.

But what you want to do is let it dry, thoroughly dry and because it's quick dry glue, it doesn't take very long. After it's dry, we'll go in there and make the two holes on top to make it really resemble a button. To make a button in a smaller way. I'll use two, maybe three rounds. And it's the same procedure. It's just a little more tedious because it's harder to work with.

And then I'll choose the color I want for the top of my button here. And in this case, I'll just choose an orange so I have my orange here. Again, I'll add my glue, just a little dab, put it right on top and then I line it up and because it dries quickly, I want to line it up right away if I can. Just like that. I'll put a little more glue. And for the little one, I like to use three layers plus the top, so a total of four layers.

I set that down just like that. And then a little bit on top. And again, you can go around the edge when it dries with some more of that top color. Now after these are dry, you can go in there with your little hole punch on the larger buttons. And you can do this for any size or shape. It's the same procedure You layer and then you want to punch your holes.

And so you want to try and line them up. I think the hardest part is lining them up. So it gives a realistic look of a button or you can just use your little needle tool. And this one's easier especially in the smaller ones because you can see exactly where you want it to go. And I really I don't go through all the way I'm just going Enough to make my indent. So I have my buttons here.

So here we have our watercolor paper buttons.