LPS Release Preview {Butterflies}

Finally, I made a relatively quick project!
This long low & lean box came together in a jiffy.

• Preview of the new LPS set {Butterflies}
• Making a beaded flower strip
  

This box is embellished with the brand new Little Paper Shop set {Butterflies}. If I was forced to pick one single fave from the new LPS releases, this set would be it. That flower is pure perfection in my book. I've never loved a flower stamp more. Its five petals snuggle in nicely with each other in a strip:

The simplicity of the petal shapes means it was a piece of cake to cut too (and shape into those 3D flowers up there.) It's the sweetest size not too small so it's no fuss to cut, but little enough to use as frames or on cards, boxes, or pages. I wanna make a gazillion wee primas with it! :O) (Oh and the butterfly too, of course!) ;o)...

Sticking this flourished little butterfly on a wire seemed like
a speedy way to do something kinda snifty.

make a speedy beaded flower strip
(and stitched garden) ;O)

• Flower stamp
• Watercolour paper
• Embossing ink & Clear embossing powder
• Seed beads
• Glitter
• Paper piercer
• Needle & thread
• Double-sided tape

To make the box:

(measures 3.5 inches tall by 8 inches)

1) Take a piece of standard cardstock (8.5 x 11 inches)
2) While paper is horizontal (short), score at 1.5 and 9.5
3) Turn so paper is vertical (tall), score at 3.5 and 4.5
4) Snip 4 little spots to make the flaps & adhere



Step 1) Emboss a strip of flowers (acrylic lets you see to stamp em close together)



Step 2) Cut them out. No need to be precise (it can be shabby chic, hehehe)



Step 3) Add a bit of Crystal Lacquer to the centers



Step 4) Sprinkle beads on the lacquer



Step 5) Add extra beads if needed



Step 6) Move beads into center with any tool to even out placement

to make the stitched garden...



Step 7) Stamp & cut separate flowers. Adhere them where you'd like them & pierce stems



Step 8) Stitch stems.....and.....Step 9) Put it altogether

For beaded wire handle tutorial,
please see this post:

Hope your crafting is a blast,

P.S. You can win this {Butterflies} set
on the Little Paper Shop Blog!!! here:





(today the ol' blog should be called: LPS Flower Power!)