GIU-Day 3: Butterfly Jewelry Frame

Hey everybody! I know that it's not quite morning when I'm typing this, but I figured with this being the day this project was posted over on Unity, early was probably a better bet than waiting until morning, besides, by the time I finish typing all of this up, it will most likely be Wednesday already. I am also getting shelves installed in my craft corner tomorrow and can finally get stuff organized (I hope).

This project was inspired by my one of my super sibling-sister-in-law. She took a canvas and cut out the inside to frame the plastic canvas for her earring holder. I wanted to do something a little bit more suited to me and went frame hunting at DI. I saw this picture and went back to it three times and walked away again before inspiration struck on how to make it look just the way I had in my head.

Seagulls on a beach are peaceful and the picture is still intact for use somewhere else, maybe.

I took the glass, picture, and backing out of the frame and cut plastic canvas to fit it.

Then I painted it a solid black.

While at Joann's last week, I scored this awesome stack on the clearance rack. I chose the pearl gemstone white paper for this project, and all it took for the whole project was one 12 x 12 paper.

I then cut strips to fit into the grooves of the frame. Don't worry about those slightly visible seams where the strips meet, they get covered up later on.

These are the butterflies I used. They were: "Dream Big", "Blossom Soup", "Just You: 03/11 KOM", and "Be You".

Then on the rest of the paper, I stamped out 4 of each of the 6 butterflies in black. One of those itty bitties was a stack of three butterflies that I cut apart.

These are my current inks. Not much, but they worked great for this project. After the black ink was dry, I cut out all of those butterflies. Then I stamped lightly over the entire butterfly with one color so the black was still very much there and the pearl showed through a little bit as well. I also didn't want the butterflies to compete too much with the earrings hanging inside it either.

Here's the lower left corner, I attached the butterflies bodies with foam squares and folded the wings up. Some of the bigger ones, I curled the wings a little bit with a pencil.

Here's the upper left corner.

Upper right corner.

Here's the finished project with the plastic canvas in place. I think that if I were to remake this one, i would probably take the white paper, stamp all the colors all over it and then stamp the black butterflies on it and cut them out. Also it would be fun to make it in certain colors to match the decor and tastes of the person receiving it. For my P-I-T, I would make it all pink and white. I'll just have to keep my eye out for a great frame.This project did take me all day to do it, what with waiting for paint to dry, but it was perfect for my on that specific day because my 3 year old was sick and kept wanting mommy to snuggle with him and I could take a few minutes to do a step and then get back to him.

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