Butterfly Clip out of Recycled cardboard

I have been saving cardboard and plastic pieces from packaging. This butterfly's body and wings are made from recycled cardboard (embellished with some fun inks and beads). I started out making a pattern for one wing. My Wing has 3 layers.  #3 is the larger base piece of the wing, #2 is a lower layer of the wing, #1 has a top and a bottom top layer of the wing. 4 total pieces to each wing. 

Once you have the pattern trace it onto more recycled cardboard. I labeled my pieces so there would be no confusion.

Cut all pieces out and lay onto newspaper or some kind of scrap paper that can get messy. Make sure you flip all pieces on the left so they match the right side.

Spray all pieces with a base color. (both sides)

now add different colors in an abstract way on the top wing pieces.

I also outlined the top wing pieces with black ink.

Putting the butterfly together

• hot glue 5 beads together to form the body of the butterfly
• glue #3 pieces of the wing to the beads
• glue #2 Pieces to the lower half of the butterfly wings
• flue #1 pieces to the top and bottom of the wings (the bottom one should overlap #2 piece.
• bend some copper wire to use for antenna and glue to the top bead
• glue a hair clip to the back of the butterfly
• Last, I hot glued some copper beads onto the middle of body and edges of wings.

Supplies I used:

• Recycled cardboard from some craft packaging
• Hot Glue Gun & Glue
• Mister Huey's Color Mists - Dark Calico
• Luminarte - Radiant Rain - Solar Gold
• Luminarte - Radiant Rain - Apple Blossom
• Apple Barrel - White 
• Spronge Brush
• 5 beads
• copper wire
• Martha Stewart luster glass microbeads - Copper
• Hair Clip

Happy Crafting

Carrie

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Masquerade Party Mask Invitations

Today I am going to share some photos of my newest invitation I recently made. They turned out so dang cute. So start off with a basic mask shape and cut it out.

Once I had the base mask, I then traced it onto a piece of copy paper.

Now because I wanted to make sure they fit the envelopes I have for them. I took measurements and then drew a box around the mask so that I would know how much room I had to work with.

Here is the fun part, the design. I first drew it out in pencil. Then when I was happy with the design I drew it in with a black marker.

Once the drawing was complete I created a die cut for it and started cutting them out. This mask had 2 layers of color. the first layer (which was done in lavender) was laid onto the base mask.

Then the 2nd layer (which was done in a dark purple) was layered on next.

Now you can go crazy or keep it simple. I took gold glitter glue around the eyes. (i know it’s hard to see this step), then added bronzed mica fragments over the right eye (this is made by stampendous) and last but not least added two rhinestones, one on each side.

Ok it wouldn’t be a real invite without a place to put all your info. So I cut out yet another piece which mirrored the base mask but bigger.

Glue your mask onto the white piece and fold over. You can now add your info to the inside.

Here is a shot of the final invitation. Isn’t it just lovely. I have had so much fun working on this one.