Hi dear friends,
this week we're sharing new techniques that we tried out. I was a bit lost at first, because I already tried out so many different things that I couldn't immediately think of something new.
After a lot of thinking, I got the idea of making origami pieces. I made origami stars once when I saw a layout that Paige created making those stars, but I never tried butterflies. So I looked up origami butterflies on YouTube and tried them. They turned out really cute!
So I made some butterflies in three different sizes, using the Pick-me-up collection. But I wanted them to have more detail, so I stitched them through the middle and also on the white part (the backside of the paper). My stitching machine gave up when I still had 2 or 3 butterflies to stitch, so a few of them aren't stitched. I don't mind though, it gives the page a bit of diversity. I placed one or a few sequins, from the Auburn Lane collection, on each butterfly.
I placed the butterflies on my page, that I had already trimmed the edges off and adhered to a patterned paper from the collection, creating a boarder.
Then I matted the photo on some pieces of paper and placed it on the bottom right side of the page.
As a title I used two chipboard stickers saying: 'grateful together'. I used some flowers from the ephemera pack to decorate around the photo. and in some corners of the layout.
I splattered gold, blue and pink color spray all around the page and finished it off by scattering the little rub-on crosses on the page.
When I took the first pictures of the layout and edited them on my phone, I saw that the white part of the butterflies where too white and getting lost in the background. So I took my watercolors and put some color on all the butterflies. It turned out a lot better. :)
Thank you so much for stopping by
Lisa
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