Design Team Work - December - Project

I decided to do a project that stemmed from all the odd bugs I had outside my house a couple of months ago.  Here is the scrapbook / Crate Paper version of the classic junior high bug collection.

Behold, Cratecious Papericus!

I found a $1 - 3 dollar wood frame at my second favorite local craft store.  This would serve as the basis for my project / butterfly mount.

Using 'Faded Denim' Distress Stain from Ranger I stained the 'white' frame blue to match my paper.  I used just the one coat and heat set it. 

Using Crate Paper Random's 'Denim' page, I cut the background - later sanding the edges.

Next I used 'wallpaper' as a contrasting border between the blue denim outside and yellow inside under the butterfly.  Later I sanded the edges.

For the 'centerfold' I used the flip-side of the 'textile' page.  This page served as a background to set off the butterfly from the 'stand outs' page.

I added some gunmetal stickles to the stick pins in the butterfly's wings as well as the rhinestones in the center of the butterfly's thorax (I knew my college Zoology classes would pay off at some point) and abdomen.

I think if you click the pic, you can see the close up even closer....




I used the flip-side of 'curtains' to serve as the background for the 'phrase stickers' I used as the title.  The alphabet letters I used were from - glitz design - tiny (or teeny) alpha white type. 

Thanks for looking - please stay tuned for next month's entries.