I made this tree to display my butterflies at the art show...I used a glass vase upside down so the base is large and wont tip over. I hot glued two floral Styrofoam bricks together and then to the bottom of the vase. I decoupaged blue tool to the outside of the vase wrapped a garland of leaves around it. added silver ribbon to the place where the bricks and glass meet. I added a bow to the base and a flower to the top! The best part was stocking it with 100 hand made butterflies, dragon flies and fairy flies!
I enjoyed making these but let me warn you they take a lot of time. Clean your glass and decide on your design then begin laying the sequins. Once dry add a coat of clear spray or modge podge!
My beautiful butterflies are made out of heavy plastic #1 . I outline a butterfly and cut it out. Using permanent markers I color them in on both sides and pain a thin coating of mod podge . when it dries I color in the butterfly again. repeat the steps of color, mod podge, dry as many times as needed (3 or 4) works best.
this bottle was a bit more difficult. I Painted the bottle white then in pencil drew my Santa on the bottle. I ten painted the red on the bottle. The hair and beard is unraveled cotton balls and modge podge. as is the nose and then painted. I used a piece of black ribbon and foil for the belt and buckle. I used white glitter over the fur of his coat. The hair and beard has hardened and it appears ceramic... After I painted his hands and face on I modge podged the entire bottle to encase it all and make it shiny and pretty! Hope you make one of your own!.
My son (23) and his friends save me bottles for my arts and crafts. I made the altered bottle with the bat on top and castle blocks (in pic to right ) for him as a thank you! He recently brought me a Royal Crown bottle. The bottle is really beautiful and I want to use the natural beauty of what ever I use in my art or as my art. As always when I am not sure of what to do I leave it in site of my day and at some point within a few days I figure it out.....Sure enough I did with this bottle too! The crazy part is that I used perminant markers to create the fuax colored or stained glass. I used modge podge but you must use sparringly and do one color at time. I left the lable spot open to see the beauty of the glass and color. I made another one that looks like glass balls...also one could use a dry erase marker to right what booze goes into it...as each of my decanters are functional art!
This is my main craft desk. and this is the first part i made of this set. I used glue and just made a collage of bling and buttons and jewlery and shells...whateve i found and wanted in it i glued to it!
I did this part on a frame with a peice of wood in it insread of glass. I attached it to the book case door by first putting two eye hooks into the book case door just to the sides of the frame and then held the frame in place whils screwing in an eye hook through the first eye hook into the frame on both sides...it allows it to swing a bit but mainly I can remove it easily and the eye hook holes could be fixed easily as well.
Just a box that i painted white and then made to match.
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