Button painting tutorial

7/11/2012

Hummingbird button giveaway

Last week there was a giveaway on Button Floozies of one of my hand painted robin buttons.  The winner was Tee.  I admit I had great fun reading all the comments and wished everyone could have one.....so here's another chance.

Just leave a comment on this post and I will pick a winner July 18!  I've added a lot of buttons to my Etsy site and am busy painting bluebirds and goldfinches...

106 comments:

  1. That is so generous of you. I marvel at your ability to paint on such a small object and have them come out so beautiful.

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  2. That is BEAUTIFUL!!! My husband and I both have a love of hummingbirds! Hope I win!

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  3. These are gorgeous. Summer has kept me from keeping up with everyone's creations.

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  4. Oh pick ME pick ME!!!
    I love hummingbirds and love buttons!!
    Your work is exquisite Gerry!
    I'm having a giveaway too if you would like to stop by and take a peek!!
    Enjoy a creative day!
    Lynn

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  5. Your buttons are so beautiful! I would love to win one. Thanks for the oopportunity, Jane in MO

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  6. How could I possibly resist one of your hand painted buttons!

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  7. Your buttons are beautiful...
    Thank you for a chance to win this one...
    xoxo
    ((((hugs))))
    Maggie

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  8. The hummingbird is just the most delightful and beautiful miniature that I have ever seen. To hold it in my hand would be a joy too hard to describe.

    It would be loved and treasured forever and handed down as am heirloom to my son.

    You are so talented and how you manage to create such wonderous miniatures is beyond me - and a truly special gift.

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  9. Thank you for giving us all a chance to win another beautiful button!! Lovely work. Linda in NM

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  10. I'd love to win this button. Your class was great, but my little bird still looks to me like it has a bad comb over.
    Marci
    marcih@kc.rr.com

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  11. I've just read through your button painting tutoiral, it made me feel I could actually do it. I know my daughter would love to give it a go, she's been bedridden for four years, but has started having me buy things for her to start crafting again when she's recovered. If I won your lovely button I'd give it to her. Thanks for the chance to win your artwork. Hugs lin

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  12. Your blog is like a treasure trove of ideas and inspirations. I truly enjoy peeking at all of your fine work. Thank you for sharing with us!

    As for your button give-away, I simply could not resist. Your hummingbird is lovely. (Win or not, I think I see a green and pink crazy quilt square somewhere in the future. Your colors are so pretty together.)

    Renee
    http://monkeyandmutt.blogspot.com/

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  13. I own one of your beautiful buttons and it is beautiful! Too pretty to use....that is unless it is something for myself!
    Deb

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  14. they are very beautiful, I love your details. please count me in too.

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  15. What a very sweet button!! It's so beautiful. Thanks for giving another chance :-)

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  16. Oh, I missed the giveaway, I have been off home. I love the hummingbird and have that stitched one on the lovely block you made for me. I hope the luck at this time!
    Hugs!
    Ritva

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  17. Ohhhh Gerry I just LOVE your painted buttons and this hummingbird is a hum dinger too! Hope I'm lucky. Thank you too!

    Rose Anne

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  18. What a beautiful button, I love your buttons and would truly love to win one! I hope I am the lucky one, lol! Thank You for the second chance!

    Bri.

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  19. I missed your last giveaway as I was on holiday so thanks for a second chance!

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  20. What a precious wee birdie! You do wonderfully detailed work. :)

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  21. OMG! count me in! I would soo love to win one of your buttons!
    you do such beautiful work Gerry, they are so hard to choose from I want to buy them all!

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  22. All of the hummingbirds that come to my feeders would be happy to know that I have one of your hummingbird buttons to keep me company during the winter.

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  23. It's so sweet of you to want to do another giveaway, I'd love to enter!

    Your buttons are beautiful, I am always astounded by your ability to create a piece of art on something so small. You have a real skill :)

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  24. You are so generous with your time and knowledge and now a button giveaway too. You rock!

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  25. You are so generous with your time and knowledge and now a button giveaway too. You rock!

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  26. Thank you for your generosity! Your buttons are wonderful and I would love to win this one. You always seem to do the perfect subjects and backgrounds.

    Kathy aka The Mad Stitcher

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  27. I love your buttons. It's nice to know I can buy one if I don't win. Please enter me. It is so nice of you to do this give-away

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  28. Oh what a beautiful centerpiece this would be on a CQ block. You're so talented and generous! Carol in Clermont, FL

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  29. Your buttons are little treasures.I adore birds- we have wild doves which trust us and feed from our hands.Makes your heart melt!
    I would love to win one of your buttons.Thank You.

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  30. Throw my name in that hat! I love your buttons!

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  31. Lovely!
    Thank you for the second chance, I love your work!!

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  32. Please put me in for a button. I love your buttons and your needlework.
    Thanks!

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  33. Gerry I love your blog and all your treasures here that you share with us. I have gotten into the habit of coming to visit pretty much daily now lol. Thank you so much for all you do and sharing and teaching us.
    I am beginning to wonder if there is any thing that you can't do lol.

    Hug's
    Crystal (from Ohio)

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  34. I cherish the button you made me of my kitty "Brat" and thank you every time I see it. Please add my name into the drawing - when it comes to hand painted buttons - you Rock!

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  35. wow...sign me up please...id love to win this beauty! :)

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  36. What utter gorgeousness! Love your work.

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  37. I would love to win one of your vintage MOP hummingbird buttons. They are so pretty.

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  38. you are so very kind to share with us... love the lil hummingbird button.. thanks for the chance...love it.

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  39. Your button are just wonderful, I would love to win one. Love all your work.
    Hugs, Pat

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  40. Oh! Gerry, Over here (across the pond) in the UK, A Hummingbird is just what we need to cheer us up and take our minds of all this rain. I love your blog and all that you do.I've just done one of your Blue Tits and am about to cut him out. A hummingbird button would look so cute on my block.
    Many thanks for this.
    Pam
    Hampshire UK

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  41. Oh that little hummingbird's so sweet and I think she wants to live with me!!!Maire

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  42. Thank you for the chance to win. I do love to watch my little ruby throated hummers in the summer :)

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  43. Hi Gerry

    I was just looking at your thatched roof cottage button the other day. It is going on my new quilt and it would be great to win another. Hugs to Morris.

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  44. I always adore your buttons! Crossing my fingers! ;-)

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  45. Gerry! The little hummingbird would be right at home with me!!! Just darling. Maire

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  46. What a fabulous button! I would take extra good care of it.

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  47. Your work is so pretty ! thanks for the chance to win this!

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  48. How beautiful! I'd love to win this button.

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  49. You are so very talent. I would love to win this button. I watch hummingbirds at the feeder in front of my kitchen window. They are so tiny and fast. I have 4 different kinds of bird feeders that I can see from my kitchen window.

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  50. Such lovely beauty! :)

    Linda

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  51. That would be absolutely awesome to win your humming bird button. Your paintings on buttons are a marvel to behold. Hugs Mrs A.

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  52. Lovely hummingbird! July 18 is my mother's birthday, so maybe lucky. Enjoyed doing the Fool's Gold DYB with you. Still have lots of gold left!

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  53. That is BEAUTIFUL!!!

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  54. Simply Beautiful! :)
    Valerie
    jeffnval@hotmail.com

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  55. This is soooo precious!! Funny my mother in law too was born on july 18th, What a coincidence to Barbara's mom :) But what you create here is a work of art!

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  56. You do such beautiful work. The hummingbird is lovely. Hope I win it.

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  57. What a beautiful button. You are very talented. It would be lovely to win.

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  58. As soon as I saw your hummingbird button, I thought of my Mum-in-law, who collects hummingbirds and paints (although not on as small of scale). If I was the winner of this luminous little button, I would gift it to her.

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  59. oh my goodness....you do the most beautiful work and with such a small medium....I would love to have one of your creations !!
    Mary

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  60. You do such wonderful work. thank you for sharing with less talented beings....I would love to have this treasure in my posession....such a beauty....
    mary

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  61. That is absolutely gorgeous! I would love to use this button on a project.

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  62. This is so unique and incredibly lovely! I'm glad you had this giveaway (raising my arms wildly to be chosen!) because it introduced me to your Etsy site. I can't wait to see the bluebirds!

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  63. Oh my! How lovely! Love to have this beauty!
    Shari
    gritsngreens@comcast.net

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  64. Hummingbirds are simply my favorite bird! Your buttons are exquisite and I would really love to own one.
    Thanks for the chance.
    Nettie

    nettiecrain@live.com

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  65. Such a lovely button. Hummingbirds are one of my fave birds! Thanks so much for giving me the chance to win one of your lovely creations! :)

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  66. This beautiful little hummingbird button would be the perfect finishing touch on a gift I am knitting.
    Thank you for sharing your talent

    Kboehlert@earthlink.net

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  67. Lovely. I love hummingbirds. I recently moved to the desert and have two hummingbirds (at least 2) that drink nectar from plants outside of my bathroom window. I can view them upclose. Would love to win this delightful button.

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  68. I love hummingbirds. I feed those flying around my yard everyday. I give them a bit of extra sugar in their nectar so they keep coming back. I would love to win your beautiful button..............Thank you from Cheryl in San Diego.

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  69. Wow, beautiful work. Love all your buttons. Eveyone should just at least take a look!

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  70. I commented but it did not come up. Here it is again

    Wow, you do beautiful work. Everyone should at least look at all your buttons. They are wonderful. How you do such small work is amazing!

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  71. I just found your site and love it. Please put my name in the hat.

    Sandi
    leon9801@gmail.com

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  72. how absolutely lovely! & I didn't even read the other posts...re just noticed above 'Anonymous' has typed basically the same thing. But, well, 'again' may I say, your buttons are lovely! Miniture (even if not spelled correctly) works of art. Please keep making them & beautify the world!
    poodleloverdlj
    jordiana1015@att.net : I'd love 1!!!!!

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  73. Your buttons are so delightful. I am awed at your talent.

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  74. Wow, so beautiful! It sets my brain to churning, think up ideas to use it and show it off

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  75. I love Hummingbirds, so I would really love to win this button. It is so pretty and dainty. Thanks for this giveaway, I hope I can win it.

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  76. Wold love to be the winner of this little Hummingbird to hang around my neck.So pretty and now its on to your Esty site. Pat

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  77. Those buttons are stunning!! My fingers are crossed as of now......

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  78. I have never seen anything like this before. I am enthralled!
    tonilea
    jiffy1212@aol.com

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  79. Beautiful! Such wonderful talent. Love this happy little hummingbird button.

    Deborah
    homemakerhoney @gmail .com

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  80. I love your buttons. Maybe I will win one and maybe I won't.

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  81. OH MY!! So beautiful! Hoping to win this tiny art!!

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  82. I also make buttons, but I have a real obssessive thing about collection them too. This one would take a honor position in the collectio for sure.

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  83. Ilove hummingbirds! I would love to in this button. It is wonderful! Thank you for this oppotunity. Sarah

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  84. So beautiful! Do you ever do blue jays? I'm going to go look at your Etsy site now!

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  85. Now that I am retired, I installed a hummingbird feeder in my garden, but so far, no hummingbirds! So maybe a hummingbird button would be the next best thing?

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  86. Such lovely birds and such a beautiful button. The winner is sure to enjoy that button.

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  87. Such a beautiful button! I love hummingbirds! So little and dainty looking, yet don't mess with their territory or family! They can be ever so feisty! :)

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  88. I have several feeders outside my livingroom window and love the watch these beautiful litle birds. Your button is a beautiful piece.

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  89. Such beautiful and delicate work. Would love to own this button...off to your ETSY shop. Thanks

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  90. Wow, what a stunning work! And hummingbird is one of my favourite birds!

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  91. Love that you share your talent with others
    tammyhoffa at gmail dot com

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  92. Loved all your arts! If I win, will keep the button as a jewel!!!Thanks

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  93. Loved all your arts! Will keep the button as a jewell if I win (I hope so....) Thanks

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  94. So delicate and beautiful. It has great details. It would make a great focal point as a piece of jewelry.

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  95. What a beautiful button! I feed hummingbirds and you've captured one perfectly! Thank you for the chance to win this treasure.
    Linda Harbin
    MidwestieLady on Etsy

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  96. Thanks for the chance!:)
    andri_chama(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  97. I love it! You are a great artist, thank you for the chance to win this, I am very happy just for coment.

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  98. Beautiful button! I'd love to win it!

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  99. This is beautiful,my mom passed away recently and my love of hummingbirds came from her,we would spend hours sitting out with them when I was younger now I do the same thing at my house.Thank-you so much for this particular give away chance.Becky
    derry04@yahoo.com

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  100. Such a beautiful design! I would love to win this for my mother - she would go crazy over it!

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  101. I can't tell if my entry posted so am going to try once more. My mother passed nearly 3 years ago and there isn't a day when I don't think of her. She LOVED these tiny beauties and if I won, I would wear it as a pin or a necklace in her honor. Thank you for sharing your wonderful skills!!!

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  102. Your hummmingbird is so sweet; thanks for the chance.

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  103. Your hummingbird is so sweet; thank you very much for the chance!

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  104. Your buttons are fabulous. I wish I had the talent to paint things so small. I love to watch the hummingbirds at our feeder in the back yard. They are so tiny and beautiful. Thanks for letting me enter.

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