As this week is a bank holiday and for some half term i thought i would make this week a bit different on the blog...
I am going to be your host for the week this week...i have several different projects to show you...so pop back every day to see whats happening.
One of the things that i love the most in this hobby is finding something normal and turing it into something pretty...
I found this picture frame at Sainsburies for £5...so cheap so i decided to buy it and alter it...here is how i did that...
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I took it apart so i could just work with the inside cardboard frame...
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I then cut out a rectangle to adhere to the back so you can see it though the middle of the frame. The size i cut out was 16cm by 28cm.
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I inked the edges of the inside of the frame before adhereing the pattern paper...the paper i used for this was the Basic Grey Basics called Docket.
First off the butterfly...
I used the butterfly from the embellishment pack from Jenni Bowlin... ( i have to apologise for the quality of the photos..i didnt realise they where bad until i had actually put the frame together!!! Iused this as a template...
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I cut out the butterfly from the pattern paper called Cabbage Rose from the Girls Paperie line.
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I then cut out the edges of the wings from the pattern paper called Vintage Patch work and adhered them to the edges of the butterfly.
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i then added some faux stitching with a white pen to the edge.
Before adhereing the butterfly to the frame i placed a doily down...
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I then went on to do the centre of the butterfly...i cut out some script paper ( i use a hard back book that i bought from a charity shop for my text paper) using these
cuttlebug die.
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I put the big flower down first on top of the butterfly...
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I then cut out a smaller butterfly from Transparency and ran it though the cuttlebug embossing folder called swiss dots...
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I then added the other two on top of the butterfly...before adhereing them down i used a Basic Grey brad to keep them together.
I used some small gems in a pattern on the edge of the butterfly...
And i added a small pin with some beads on...
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Now onto the top butterfly...The basics of this are the same as before...
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I used the pattern paper calledgreen brocade and paisley from the girls paperie line.
And again i cut out the newspaper flowers...
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I made the middle section of the butterfly but rolling up a triangle... and then layered them onto the butterfly like below...
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I then added another pin...
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and some gems...
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and then the bottom butterfly...
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this one is made out of the pattern paper called cabbage road and an OCtober afternoon paper called Picnic Table...and repeated the same steps as the previous butterfly...
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the little words that i have put across the butterflies are from Making Memories..find them
here.
And then the whole thing put together...
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Supplies used:
Girls Paperie Pattern paperBig Gemslittle gemspinsvintage findings shredded wordsBradCuttlebug flower diesCome back 2m for another project!!!!