Vintage Button Heart Tutorial
As I’ve had some inquiries as to how I made my vintage button heart, I wanted to walk you through it step by step. Hope you have lots of fun making your own. 
First, gather all of the buttons you want to use and lay them out in a heart shape. You will need some 18 guage wire ( I purchased mine at a hobby store), and measure out a piece that will hold all of the buttons when strung on it. Leave 5-6″ extra to give you some working room. 
Starting with the button at the very bottom of your heart, start stringing them onto your wire. This guage of wire was a little tricky at times to get through some of the buttons, but I found with the thinner wires, that they weren’t quite strong enough to hold the weight of all the buttons, and they ended up being quite flimsy. 
Continue stringing the buttons on your wire working clockwise around your heart pattern. 
When all of your buttons are strung on the wire, straighten it out. 
Find the button that makes the top center point of your heart and bend the wire on both sides up to make a V. 
Now bend the ends around to make your basic heart shape. 
Cross the end wires over each other. 
Twist the wires together. 
Wrap the ends up and around some of the other wire on the heart. If you have too much wire at the end, just clip some off until you have about 1 1/2″. 
Finish shaping your heart and then you are all done.
Edited to Add:
Sometimes it can be a little tricky working with the thicker wire and these buttons, but I really did find it better than using thinner wire as they were just to flimsy to hold their shape without extra strengthening. When putting your button on the wire, slide it all the way over and shove it right up against the other button, so that it is actually overlapping the previous button somewhat. When you pull the wire very slowly (if you go too quickly I found that it just mangled right up, for some reason it doesn’t do this when going slowly) it will loosen up a bit and the button will end up right next to your previous button with no gap. I hope this helps for those who have been having a few issues. Please feel free to e-mail me if you need further help.
