Butterfly Fridge Magnets

Hello there

Well it's been a while since I did any posting  (I really must learn some discipline for this!).   At the last craft and coffee at Heighley gate, we made small photobooks out of dishwasher tablet boxes.  I was quite pleased with mine, but if you want to see what you can really do with them, I recommend that you go to , +Margie. When I've decided what I'm going to put in mine, I'll post it on here.  Our 'mingle' (it's a kind of challenge, but we exchange what we've made) for last Sunday was an anything goes with a bees, butterflies or insects theme. I decided to go with butterflies and made a set of fridge magnets. I hope you like them.


Butterfly Trio


First of all I used my butterfly spellbinder dies and cut one of each size into sticky backed magnetic sheets; I did the same with some card.  Before sticking the card to the magnetic sheet (I learnt the hard way!) I coloured the biggest one in using Promarkers and Spectrum  Noir pens in a freehand design. Once coloured I thought that the central section was a bit bland. To overcome this, I hunted out a Spellbinder Christmas bauble die cut and used it as a stencil to make sure that the design on both sides was the same. After that I lightly tipped around the edge and the cut out sections with gold gilding wax; folded the design in half and did the same along the centre of the body. Once the colouring was done, I stamped all over with a clear Versamark pad and heat embossed with clear powder.  This intensified all of the colours and protected the surface.  For the antennae I found some gold wire (taken from a very fancy bottle of wine we were given at Christmas) and curled the ends.  I took the backing from the magnetic sheet and stuck the wires in place before carefully matching up the paper die cut to the magnetic one. I finished off with some strategically placed 'jewels'.
The middle butterfly is done in the same way, but the pattern is a stamp from +claritystamp design club (It's a cat but you wouldn't know it); again I coloured in with alcohol pens; tipped with gold gilding wax and heat embossed before mounting the card onto the magnetic die cut. and putting some gems on. The tiny one is self coloured with gilding wax before being heat embossed.
Stay well and enjoy your crafting

Lesley X