Wednesday 13 May 2015

Visible Image Butterfly Wreath

A late post this evening as I have been busy preparing packs & equipment for this weeks Out Of The Blue workshop on Thursday.
We are going to be using stamps from Visible Image for a Father's Day/ masculine card.
In fact, we'll be using Visible Image stamps for our June festival workshop as well as hosting a full day of card making this Sunday at the Compass Inn at Tormarton with Helen & Mark from Visible Image. Pauline Butcher from their design team will be teaching the workshop for us.
I'm really looking forward to it & the Sunday roast we'll all be enjoying as part of the day too!.

I've been using Visible Image stamps myself recently for some projects I've had in mind for a while.
One of which is my project today, a Spring Wreath using the small & large Butterfly stamps, particular favourites of mine.


The base for the wreath is a polystyrene ring I bought a few years ago that's been in my stash waiting for the right project to be used.
I stamped goodness knows how many small & large butterflies!, painted them with Cosmic Shimmer Water colour paints, cut them out, shaped them & glued them to the ring with a glue gun.
The ring had been painted first with turquoise paint in case gaps showed through the butterflies. 
To the large butterflies I added wire, curled antennae & the bodies of all the butterflies had drops of cosmic shimmer pearl PVA from the Phil Martin range.



To hang the wreath I added ribbon, a bow & another butterfly to decorate.

The overall effect of all the butterflies clustered together is very pretty & I am pleased with how this project turned out.
Although very easy to do it was quite time consuming & I was seeing butterflies in my sleep by the end!.

Thanks for stopping by, if you fancy coming along to our Visible Image workshop day this Sunday we still have a couple of spaces left. Please see the details below & get in touch.

Amy x 




6 comments:

  1. Hi Amy,
    oh my word the amount of work involved in creating this superb creation.
    The colours are amazing, and I bet you were seeing butterflies in your sleep.
    I love, love it.
    Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.

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  2. Wow this is amazing. So beautiful and so much hard work. Just love it!!!!!

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  3. Amy this is stunning love it.

    gr karin

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  4. This is beautiful Amy! Gorgeous colours.
    Love Julie xx

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  5. WOW Amy this is stunning! You can see a lot of hard work has gone into making this and I love it!
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  6. Absolutely beautiful - of course I was lucky enough to see it for real! Hugs Carole X

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