Home.

Running late but I overdid it gardening 

and had to have a couple of days resting up.

Here is my finished project for the 2nd week

of  #61 Butterflies + L is for letters and/or Lavender.

to hopefully inspire you.

I picked this plaque up from the local charity shop

some time ago for £1. The E had a piece broken off

that had been roughly glued back in place but as I knew

I would be covering it up it wasn't a problem.

The only problem I did have was that I started

altering it without taking a before photo.

The Doc alerted me to this fact so I quickly put 

it all back together again for a photo shoot. 

I'm the last of the big spenders here as I used toilet 

roll tissue torn up and then glued using pva paste.

I happen to like the pattern of this particular roll

which has roses on it and it helps to not see

the  torn joins when stuck together.

Here is a close up of  the last two letters.

Other toilet roll makes and patterns are equally as good!

It took a couple of days to complete and leave to dry thoroughly.

Once dry I gave the letters a couple of coats of

 paint using a sample poster pot in lavender.

(I find these little pots of sample paint colours from 

the DIY shop are ideal for covering my craft projects).

Then came the fun part of decorating. 

I found everything in my stash. I painted a piece of 

corrugated cardboard with a deeper purple colour and then 

tore it up into rough pieces to randomly adhere to the letters.

I replaced the glass and cut a circle of paper to fit.

The paper design is my own as I tried my hand at 

making marbled paper using  the shaving foam technique.

I did that out in the garden as it can be quite messy

but I had  fun. I made several sheets up using different 

coloured reinkers. The papers all have a lovely shaving foam

smell to them but it did make me sneeze when I was

die cutting the butterflies from it! 

Here is a close up of the marbled paper.

I used Lyndon,Whidley and Theo Poppy Stamp dies

plus Pippa  and Isabella Memory box dies on the butterflies.

Entering into the following challenges:

Altered Electics #Anything goes.

Creative Artiste #18 Anything Mixed media goes.

Love To Craft #2 Anything goes.

Rhedd's Creative Spirit # Anything goes.

Craft Your Passion #329 Anything goes.

Love To Scrap #85 Flower power.

Cuttlebug Mania # Anything goes with die cuts.

Crafty Creations #324 For the home.

Inspiration Destination #103 Anything goes.

Creative Fingers #116 Anything goes.

Really Reasonable Ribbons #149 Things with wings +ribbon or twine.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #246  Use up your snippets (Loads on here).