Caterpillar Time!

Last week I spent some nice time at our local Butterfly Park with my daughter.  We found all kinds of beautiful monarchs caterpillers livin' it up on all the milk weed.  Here's some of what we found.

Hello, so happy to find you here!

family jewels

this one is chowing down on this leaf

pretties everywhere

just hatched baby caterpillar

walking the line

My daughter's winter boots.  She rocks these pretty much every day!

dinner time

My daughter took this one of me leaving.

Craft 52 week 15: 3D Butterfly Art

Craft 52

week 15

3D Butterfly Art

When people ask how I am and what have I been up too, I say stuff like, "well to today I cut out 100's of little butterflies."
A couple of weeks ago I started this project and had no idea how it would end up.  It takes a lot of time to do a project like this.  But it's my time and I'm lucky enough to have lots of time on my hands so I guess it's cool.  I get lost in stuff like this, it takes me to my happy place.

I got these canvas at Target in the $2 bins. 

I had the black paint out to touch up french doors, so I swiped some back paint on both.

Super quick and easy.

I had an idea to make these huge 3D butterflies that I spied on Martha Stewart a while back. I started to print out the templates and quickly ran out of ink. Bummer. I had a few good butterflies the printed out nicely.  After I cut out the butterflies,  I glued them onto to black card stock with spray mount.

Here I am sticking the butterfly into place on the card stock.

After they dried, I cut the butterflies out again.  This project required a  lot of cutting. 

I had picked up a couple sheets of scrapbook paper that were covered with butterflies, so I cut those up too.  Because the I had 2 sheets, now I had 2 of each butterfly.  This is how I get the 3D effect. 

I used foam dots to adhere the butterflies to the black canvas. 

Randomly, I placed the butterflies on the canvas.  To get the 3D effect, I just placed two on top of each other, using the foam dots in the center of the body.  Then , I bent the wings up on the top butterfly.

Here's the finished project.  A little whimsy to add to our lives.