Butterfly pick

My daughter is expecting her second child and I am so excited for that event.  I am in charge of her baby shower and I wanted to make it special and use my own creations instead of buying them.  Today I am going to show you the first of a few things I am making.  Her theme for baby Alexis is butterflies and fairies and today I am showing you what I did for the butterflies.


I had a stamp of a butterfly that I absolutely love and decided I wanted to see if I could make a mold of it and make it as beautiful as the stamp is.  I then pressed my Creative Paperclay® into the mold and since I tend to let my clay's stay in the mold and dry overnight the underside was still a bit wet when I took it out of the mold.  I took it out of the mold gently and just let it dry to it's fullest.  The reason I leave my clay in the molds to dry is so I won't distort the clay before it has had time to dry at least a bit.  After it has completely dried I took my dremel tool with a sanding bit and shaped all the rough edges and try to get as much detail as possible.  You can use sandpaper or even an emery board as I used to until hubby bought the dremel for me.  This cuts down on time for me.

Then I painted the piece.  I used plum acrylic paint and I filled the crevices

with dimension medium and sprinkled pink glitter on top of that for glitz.

(I wish the picture were better because

it really is gorgeous in real life)

Using my dremel again I bored a hole into the back of the

butterfly and hot glued a bamboo skewer into it.

This was so easy to make and I can decorate them

in any color to match any decor.