Season 17 Auditions for "So you think you're crafty"

I am a proud participate in the auditions for Season 17 of 

"So you think you're crafty"

Come and check it out. the theme is "back to school" and there are 20 fantastic projects by 20 different bloggers. So much craftiness in one space should be illegal. Now I can't tell you which one is mine but I do want you to take 1 minute to click on the following link: http://www.soyouthinkyourecrafty.com/season-17-auditions/ , check out the projects and click on your top 5 favorites. It's that easy.

Voting will be open until Thursday, August 8, at 5 p.m. MST.

I had so much fun with my project, 

I can't wait until you find out which one is mine.

Carrie

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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Freebie Pattern - Little Owlet

Little Owlet Pattern

This month we are posting a free pattern for this cute owlet.

It can be a pin you wear on your shirt, a clip to wear in your childs hair

 or even your own :), or you can even make it into a magnet.

These are made with felt, googly eyes, feathers and whatever attachment

 you want to put on the back (hair clip, pin clip or magnet)

                                                            Owlet Pattern  click here

Hope you have fun with this little guy. 

He turned out so cute.