Butterfly Bliss

Hi bloggers

Today I am sharing my entry for the CD Sunday Challenge Blog

The theme for this week is Butterflies!

What a fab theme to work with...
I had so many ideas buzzing around in my head and even knew just the cd I was going to use!

For my project I used Blissful Butterflies by Hinny Bop...it has the most beautiful backing papers so worth buying just for those...

I didn't do a card this week but decided to do a wall hanging – I suppose its a version of a dream catcher design

So I printed the sheet of shakers in the pretty lilac design, cut out the centres of the top pieces to create the aperture, then used a good weight acetate to cover the aperture.

Normally when I do shakers I use double sided sticky pads but they always leak somewhere no matter how careful I am

So this time I used Pinflare gel – a nice even layer onto the edge of the acetate then the confetti bits – I use a tiny spoon for my glitters and confetti – they used to be in cafés as stirrers but most places these days use either wood of a strip of plastic. So just a flat spoon is the ideal amount for the top two shakers and it was reduced to about half a spoon for the small one – and the last shaker had glamour dust added – but I did remember to swipe the anti static bag over the acetate first so the glitter didn't stick to it!

I set the 4 shakers to one side to set for around 4 hours

Once they had set and I checked I didn't have any leaks I cut a long length of narrow lilac ribbon, formed a loop to act as a hanger then stuck the ribbon along the backs of the shakers using double sided tape.

I left a long piece of ribbon on both sides for now...then covered the shaker back with pretty backing paper from the Blissful Butterflies cd – this also covered the ribbon at the back of each shaker.

With the lengths of ribbon I simply added some small coloured glittery pony beads with knots between each set of 5 beads and finished these off with a lovely butterfly Tibetan charm.

It was then down to adding a small colourful butterfly to each of the shakers and a small lilac bow to finish.

This is such a pretty gift so could be given as a card and gift all in one...simply by adding a verse to the reverse of the top shaker and a sentiment to the front of one of the shakers.

I hope you like this as much as I do – sorry about the photographs, it was difficult knowing the best way to display the hanging...but I think they look ok and you can get the idea...

See you tomorrow – not sure what number view we are up to just now but we really must be nearing that 20,000 now

Bye and thanks for dropping by and supporting me

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