Over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, Craft Critique is promoting a Butterfly Project. This is in support of the drive that the Holocaust Museum of Houston is sponsoring to collect 1.5 million hand-made butterflies, representing children whose live's were taken during the Holocaust. Check out Craft Critique for the details, and send them some butterflies for the museum's collection.
I thought it might be fun to make a butterfly mask- and I started with a butterfly image from Stamp Zia. (Uh oh- I just realized it is actually the Luna Moth!!) ANYWAY- I stamped the image and enlarged it about 225% to create a size that would fit your face. I added the eyeholes to the design.
I made it easy for you to copy, too. Just click here to download a PDF file with the full-sized image. You can print it out on cardstock, and color it in. Or, you can print it on copy paper, and use good old-fashioned carbon paper to transfer the image to decorative paper.
I chose the latter approach, and traced the image using carbon paper onto some watercolor paper that I had already made using Stamp Zia's chroma sprays and technique. Call me fickle, but I decided at this point to leave out the eyeholes, and not make a mask.
The next step was to go over the lines with a black Prismacolor Premier marker. (Copic would work well, too.)
I traced the body again on a darker portion of the paper, and I cut everything out along the black outline. I mounted the body with two layers of Stampin' Dimensionals adhesive, and then mounted the whole butterfly on Whisper White cardstock and cut out again, leaving about a 1/8" border.
Finally, I decided to treat this as art, and mounted it on a piece of 12" X 12" decorative paper. I'm going to get a shadowbox-type frame made for scrapbook pages to frame the whole piece.
If you decided to use this image, the butterfly itself is within the 8" X 10" limits that the Holocaust Museum requested. Obviously my version does not fit that criteria. Oh darn, I guess I 'll have to keep it!
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