Butterfly Garden Sun Catcher by Becky Chabot

1. Mix 1/4 cup white stencil paste with 5 drops of red liquid colorant and 3 drops of blue. Add more red or blue until you get the desired shade of lavender for your paste. (Another option: purchase Delta tinted paste) Fill a Krafty Lady AM168 - Butterfly Plate Art Mould with the colored paste and let dry completely (24-72 hours).

2. Dust the butterfly with Copper Perfect Pearls® and the background with Turquoise Perfect Pearls® (Ranger), spritz with water to set.

3. Use markers to color the vines in the molded shape green, flowers blue and butterfly body black. Add silver glitter glue to the wings and turquoise glitter glue over the navy blue flowers. Set aside to dry.

4. Use an 8-1/2" square photo mat board and then cut out the center leaving a 3/4" frame. The color of the mat board will remain solid on the backside.

5. On the white side of the mat board, apply Adirondack Eggplant ink directly from the inkpad. Do not completely cover the mat board with ink; leave a few white areas. Let dry or heat set.

6. Cover the inked side of the mat board with embossing medium and dust the surface with Turquoise and Sunflower Perfect Pearls®. Mist with water to set. Let dry.

7. Melt clear Embossing Enamel or powder; add drops of blue and red colorant until you achieve the desired shade of purple.

8. Pour the melted purple translucent enamel into the two largest fragments from Krafty Lady AM187 - 3 Fragments Art Mould. While the melted enamel is still warm, poke a hole at the top and bottom with a metal piercing tool. Repeat this process until you have 8 completed fragments.

9. Use a heat tool to carefully reheat the surface of the fragment that was in the mould to bring the shine back. Check that the holes still go through.

10. With a 1/16 hand punch, punch five holes along the inner top and bottom edge of the mat board. Measurements are 1" from each end, 1-1/4" from that hold and the center falls at 3-3/8".

11. Use about 12" of 26-gauge wire for each row. Attach one end of the wire to the mat board, then string green beads, add the purple fragment then string turquoise beads to wrap around the fragment and put the wire through the hole in the other end of the fragment then continue to bead with green beads as shown. The first row will have two fragments, and then next row will have one fragment and continue to alternate the rows. End each row by attaching the wire through the punched hole in the mat board and twisting it around itself. Trim excess wire.

12. Stamp a fern images using clear embossing pigment onto the photo mat board and emboss with green metallic embossing powder.

13. Glue the decorated butterfly plate to the top of the sun catcher.

14. Hang with wire or fishing line.

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