With paper and a little Dimensional Magic, you can have fun and fashionable DIY belt buckles to wear with your favorite pair of jeans.
I can’t stop with the Dimensional Magic – you know I made rings and then also a scrapbook frame I used it on (amongst many other projects). I love this stuff!
So the other day I made some DIY belt buckles with Dimensional Magic, and they turned out so great that I had to share.
Let me tell you, it was totally touch-and-go there for a moment, using Dimensional Magic on such a large area. But it worked out. DM is perfect for fashion crafts. Here’s how I made these!
DIY Belt Buckles
Gather These Supplies
- Belt buckles – I got mine from Etsy (search for “belt buckle blank“)
- Mod Podge Dimensional Magic
- Mod Podge Gloss
- Scraps of scrapbook paper
- Embellishments – stickers, brads, rhinestones, glitter . . . whatever you have in your stash. The cool flowers are Maya Road Resin Blossoms in Red
- Vellum
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Tape
This is a super easy tutorial with only a few steps.
First, use a piece of vellum (or another scrap of paper) as a template – trace the inside of the belt buckle with your pencil. I did a rubbing of the edge and it worked well.
Tape the template on your paper and cut it out (with scissors or a craft knife).
Mod Podge the paper into the belt buckle blank and let it dry for about 15 – 20 minutes.
Add embellishments (you can’t see them under my hand in this photo, ha!) and then add Dimensional Magic. Here’s the whole trick to doing the DIY belt buckles. THREE layers.
I did one layer and allowed to dry in a warm place (to prevent cracking). I did a second layer and allowed to dry again. THEN I did a third layer and added the scrapbooking brad embellishments so that they would be “dimensional” on the top of the Dimensional Magic.
What do you think? Are you ready to sport a DM belt buckle? I so dare you.
One more thing – I had everything on hand except for the belt buckles, so this project was budget friendly! I’d love to hear what you think about this project in the comments.
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What a great idea!! Thanks for sharing! I am visiting from TT&J and I hope you have a great weekend! Michelle
http://www.delicateconstruction.blogspot.com
p.s. I am having a giveaway this weekend, you should come check it out!
Wow, this is awesome! I think I’m going to start working with Dimensional Magic. Thanks for the push I needed. 🙂
You’re more than welcome to link up at the Sunburnt Cow link party.
Cheers,
Tracy All Thumbs Crafts
This is SOOO fun and creative! I love it and totally want to make some… : )
This is oh so cute! We are going to give this a try!
This is a great idea, I think we could do this with the kids and make matching buckles for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.
Stopping by from Show-Me-How linky party
this totally RAWK!
I would luv for you to join our celebration party by adding your project into our linking post.
Have a great week,
Maggie
https://www.passionatelyartistic.com/
Really, really cute!! I would love it if you would link this up to my Marvelous Mess party….each week I pick one project to feature on my sidebar!! Here’s the link: http://www.marvelouslymessy.com/2011/04/marvelous-mess-10.html
Those are totally fabulous!
If I could rock a belt I would so make one of these. 😛
It’s so hard for me to find crafts to do with my tween nieces- this is PERFECT! Thanks so much, I’ll be linking.