The Crafty Little Butterfly: 2012

Monday 16 July 2012

Rubik Cube tissue box cover.

I had seen this on Big Bang Theory around their house quiet a few times.
I found the pattern for sale on Ebay from a wonderful lady called Rochelle Roseman Frisby

It took me 10 hours to complete but I think its well worth the effort.

The pattern says to use Worst weight wool,which for Australia is 4 ply,but 4 ply is too thin so I used 8 ply instead.The material I used for the framework is called Plastic canvas,this particular one is 7 count. There are 8 different colours to this cube.
I got all of my wool from Big W,I think it was only abou $2.50 a ball which is pretty good.
I have enough wool left over to knit an elephant a jumper.

It does look very cool indeed.

Thanks Rochelle.

Pieces finished.

Sewn together.

The finished project.

Sunday 3 June 2012

Crayon Canvas

This was a fun project to do. I am going to do a bigger one for my friends daughter for her birthday.

I bought a box of crayons from Kmart $2, bargain,a canvas from Hot Dollar.

All I did was hot glue the crayons onto the canvas then melt them with a heatgun.

Nothing could be simpler.

Next time I do this I will use a longer canvas so the melted crayon has somewhere more to go.

$2 box of crayons from Kmart.

Crayons glued onto white canvas.

Finished project.

This canvas is a much bigger one than the first one I did,you can see in photos below the size difference.

Ok,this one was a bigger canvas, it cost me a total of $8.50 + the crayons $2

Across the top I glued the crayons,different from the smaller canvas I did originally.

This is the 2 canvases together.You can see the colours are on the canvas differently.

I think having a longer canvas worked better than the smaller as the wax had more places to run.

This is the finished canvas done for Roslyn Cameron for her Birthday.

Wednesday 23 May 2012

Daniel Montgomery

Daniel Montgomery ( Papa Smurf )

1973-2011

http://lymphomafundraising.org.au/karen_montgomery

This was a special project I did for a friend who sadly lost her brother Daniel to Lymphoma last year. He was only 38 years old.

This is a bit of a background on how this project came about.

Karen's brother loved smurfs, he was collecting the kinder surprise smurfs.

I did a mock up on the computer of a photo of Daniel ( the middle frame ) ,all of a sudden it snowballed into this wonderful project, the only problem was that we had to try and find the smurfs, as you can see from the photos there are 8 in total. I did a total of 6 of these frames which meant 48 smurfs, boy that was fun.

Karen,myself and I'm sure a few others went into a frenzy trying to find these kinder surprise eggs anywhere we could. Mad sms's saying we had found an elusive one, you can just imagine.
We finally had them all, off I go to collect the little bag of 48 smurfs.

I did 3 of the last frame.

All the smurfs are in different positions in each frame.

The frames were given out by Karen and Cassie to their family as christmas presents.

I am sure Daniel is watching over them and drinking champagne.

I was happy to have been a part of this project for a special family.

These frames are a limited edition of 6 frames done specially for Karen and her family.

Silk Painting

My Butterfly Silk Painting

This is a silk painting I did after going to my neice Maiya's birthday party.

She was given a present with this beautiful wrapping paper on it.

I got my sister to save the paper, I took it home, traced it onto some tracing paper, which I then covered in clear contact ( to save the pattern) then design onto the silk.

The colours have come up really well and nice and bright.

I used the rock salt technique which I had never used before and its one of my favourites now.

The orgininal wrapping paper,I think its 50c a sheet from Hot Dollar.

I traced the pattern onto some tracing paper then covered it with clear contact to protect it.I have used paper pattens before and wrecked the pattern .

A close up of the butterflies with just the outlines, no detail.I thought I would make them look like little people.

A close up of the butterflies with more detail in the wings. For the outlines I used Black Gutta for the bodies and Gold Gutta for the wings.
Gutta is a resist medium.
This means wherever you put the Gutta the silk paint shouldn't bleed outside the outlines.I did use a bit of gold on the flowers but only around the middle.
The flowers I have used a clear Gutta instead,as the butterflies are the main focus of this piece.
Gutta resist is used as a technique for silk similar to wax being used for Batik.

Butterflies everywhere.

Some of the silk has been painted here and the silk paint is still wet,while wet I applies rock salt to the silk and waited for the paint to dry.

The whole silk now painted and rock salt applied.

A closeup of the effect the rock salt gives,I love this technique.

Rock salt complete,the butterflies arent painted yet.

Butterflies are now painted,I love blue and green together.

The finished canvas.

Thanks for stopping by to have a look at my blog, I appreciate it.
I hope that this might have inspired you to try something new.
You never know where it might take you.