Saturday, August 11, 2012

Altered Art 2


 The next project I worked on was butterfly shaped chipboard pieces. When I purchased the pieces they were sold as a little "book", but I decided to take the book apart and use each butterfly separately. I took old text from books and used Modge Podge to glue onto the butterfly shapes. After they dried I used some new pastel colored acrylic paints I bought at Joann's to paint on both sides of the butterfly. I was going to make 4 or 5 butterflies into one big banner to hang up but it was too difficult to punch holes in the butterflies to tie ribbon on without ripping a hole. I decided then to make each butterfly it's own little piece. They can be used as wall hangings, cards or gift tags. To decorate them I used paper flowers, stickers, paper squares,  colored images, letter tiles etc. Then with the hot glue gun I glued ribbon onto the back of each one so that they can be hung up if wanted.

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