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Hello, my name is Dionne and I have been crafting for a very long time. As a very young child my mother tried to teach me to knit, it was a disaster. However, it must have sparked an interest in making things and, partly to prove that I was not totally useless and partly because I really wanted to make things, I taught myself to crochet. Over the years I have developed a love of cross stitch and all types of paper craft ..... I eventually even taught myself to knit.


I am married to a very understanding man, thank goodness, because I spend all my time either crafting, thinking about crafting or talking about crafting. I am hopeless at housework and dinner is often late!


Thank you for visiting my blog.


Dionne

Monday, 23 May 2016

Beautiful Butterflies

We have a brand new challenge starting at Crafty Boots today, for the next two weeks the challenge theme is 'Butterflies and/or Bees'.

I recently treated myself to a number of silicon moulds which I have been itching to try out and, as one of these is a butterfly I have found an excuse the get them out.  Unfortunately I do not have any clay yet, but I have heard that you can use hot glue instead.  So out with the glue gun and I lined up the moulds, some worked better than others but, luckily, the butterfly was the most successful (can you spot which one it is?)


My project today is an altered notebook cover.  I created a second cover out of heavy card and coated it with gesso.  I then stenciled Liquitex through two separate masks - a script one and a dot one.  Once it was dry I painted it blue use acrylic paint.  (Unfortunately you cannot really see the textured surface!)  I also ran some card through my Big Shot using a wood effect folder and a tree one, I highlighted the tree design with a couple of grey Copics.  

I have quite a long shopping list today - the flowers and leaves are from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The delicate lace and the smaller butterfly dies are from Stampin' Up.  The other butterfly die is a Marianne Creatable and the moulded butterfly is a Martha Stuart one.  The word dies are from Sizzix and the lace flower is also Wild Orchid Crafts.

The rest of the Design Team have been very busy, make sure you take a look at their work when you are on the Crafty Boots blog entering your Butterfly and Bee  projects.

Good luck.


Dionne



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4 comments:

  1. Mrs Beez23 May 2016 at 12:39

    What a stunning makeover. Your butterflies look fabulous, I need to try this technique out. Happy to see my favourite lace in there too! xx

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    1. Dee's Craft Room24 May 2016 at 01:58

      Thank you so much, it took a lot longer than I thought it would, I just could not get it looking how I wanted. I was a bit disappointed with my hot glue experiment and have now ordered myself some clay.

      Dionne xx

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  2. CdeBaca Crafts Gallery23 May 2016 at 21:58

    Oh my goodness, such a stunning notebook cover! I love the big butterfly in the middle. Is it metal?

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    1. Dee's Craft Room24 May 2016 at 02:02

      Thank you, you are too kind. The big butterfly is made from silver mirri card. I love the look you card achieve with both gold and silver mirri and fine dies.

      Dionne x

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