Gathered Clutch

I came across this tutorial for a gathered clutch on the Noodlehead blog and thought I have to try it.  The hardest part of making this was picking out the fabric.  I have a habit of going into Fabricland, looking around at all the fabric I want, then leaving empty handed.  After doing this a few times I finally told myself I was not allowed to leave the store until I had all the stuff I needed to make this clutch.  The next hardest part was finding time to make it.  Well last night I decided would be the perfect time to put this all together.  It turns out it was not hard at all, and I had a lot of fun doing it.  This is the very first project I have done with a zipper and a lining and I think it turned out really well.  I added an extra set of card holders inside of the clutch as I have a lot of cards I like to carry around.

Front of Clutch

Back of Clutch (Love the birds!)

Inside of Clutch

Crobots - Bopbot

The next crobot in the book is Bopbot.  It took me a bit to finish as I had to find some sequins and a retractable ballpoint pen for the spring inside.  Also, I was also supposed to get a screw top jewelry fastener for the headphones, but I finally decided to just finish it without.  If I come across one that I already have I will add it to Bopbot in then, but for now I think it's just fine.

Bopbot

Bopbot chilling with Phoebe

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Butterfly Specimen case

I was browsing on some blogs when I came upon this post on homemade by jill on paper punch art with butterflies.  I loved it and just had to make it.  So I went to the local MCC thrift shop and found a really cheap picture frame that had glass in it for $6.00.  It was not pretty so I needed to spruce it up so I sanded it down a bit and spray painted it.

Front of Frame

Back of frame (Weird)

Taken apart ready to paint

When the frame was all painted I was ready to put the glass back inside.  However, I broke the glass that came with the frame which was so frustrating.  So I had to go back to the store and buy another frame with glass, another $8.00, which was cheaper then buying just the glass at a craft store.

The spray paint I used and the glazier points used to keep the glass in place

 After I had the glass in place I needed to start on the picture.  I bought the Martha Stewart classic butterfly punch and started punching out butterflies from old magazines.  I tried to find different patterns to punch out so each butterfly would be different.  In total I had to punch out 378 butterflies!  It was now time to lay them out.  I bought a sheet of mat paper and used that as the background.  To give the butterflies some depth I used foam circles to give them some height.  I used the samster Mommy blog for instructions on how to lay out the butterflies.

When all the butterflies were attached I was ready to attach the picture to the frame.  I just used masking tape and some thumb tacks.  Then I re- attached the hanger and it was ready to hang!

Back of picture

I absolutely love the final picture.  It turned out just like I wanted it to!!!!

The final picture