Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Fluttering Butterfly Pins

Today for Retro Cafe Art, we will have Mary Lou model some little butterfly floral pins I created. There seem to be so many butterflies here in South Carolina in the fall, I just love watching them.

To make these little beauties I started with some patterned and solid paper flowers  that I just had hanging around. I tried to layer coordinating  colors for interest. I sewed in some crocheted colored floral centers for texture all the way through to a pin back. The next part was to paint and use Stickles, they come in such lovely colors, to detail the  tiny cutout butterflies from the butterfly ATC Frame centers. I wrapped some pretty twine around to create the body and the antennae. They were glued to the edge, as if they just stopped by for a sip of nectar.


Hope you will flutter by a pretty flower this week.
take care, gerri






7 comments:

  1. these brooches are gorgeous Gerri...so feminine and pretty!

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  2. These would look great in an altered journal too

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  3. Gerri, these are just fabulous! Love your stacked flowers and the b'flies too!

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  4. Hi Gerri! These turned out great! I like how you positioned the butterflies on the flowers. This is the first year I've had a ton of butterflies on one of my bushes. Now if only I could remember the name of that bush to buy another. LoL

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