Plastic Bottle Butterflies

Hello everyone :-) we are going to make a classic crafty thing from plastic bottles. I was in the mood for pretty things.

 

First cut a bottle in sections, choose a smooth part of the bottle and cut it in half. 

Then fold the section in half so that it looks like an open book, against the curve not with the curve of the bottle.

You get your mid section, the fold and line it up with a clip art butterfly picture (I just got these from Word) and trace it with a sharpie. 

Then you get your old gluggy nail polish and dab it onto your design. To get a good opaque (not see through) covering you may need to coat parts several times. In the case of a black you will want to colour in underneath the black with a sharpie to get it blackest black. 

Layer on your colours, experiment with colour combos!

Add some bling with stick on jewels.

All that is left to do is stick on some feelers (I used slivers of plastic bottles coloured black with a sharpie and hot glue gunned on, but you could use beading wire and beads too) and then a magnet on the back. I used a hot glue gun. Tadaa you have made bling butterfly magnets :D

Eraser Drawing

Last week my craft student had bought herself some new erasers, hard, medium, soft and a black one. She asked me how she could use them so I decided to show her how to build a picture with erasing.

She said she couldn't draw so I made this activity to lure her into it with relative security of success.

You need:
cartridge paper
2B lead/graphite pencil
erasers soft, kneadable and hard
stencils

Start by creating a patch of pencil shaded paper.

Then choose a stencil of your choice and lay it over the patch, erase through the stencil.

Now trace around the white bits. I didn't do all the lines inside the shape, I just went with what I thought looked good. 

Then add some shading around the shape, if you stick to one side only you get a shadow effect. 

I added some shading inside the leaf shape too.

Here are some examples we did in the craft lesson. 

I used various stencils here and with more shading you can get some realistic and surreal effects.