Hi everyone,
This week I have challenged myself with a golf theme. Yep golf ! My father in law plays golf 3-4 days a week and has so many buckets of balls in his shed, so I thought okay what can I do ?
I have seen very creative crafty people create snakes, snails and lady bugs out of golf balls, but I have 2 grand daughters, so I was thinking pink and girly.
So this is what I created "Ball Butterflies"
To start with I have coloured the stark white balls with some pretty pink, blue and purple alcohol inks. And while the inks were tacky I have rubbed on some gold foil. Just to bling them up a bit.
I then needed to securely glue the balls together so I used my trusty 450 glue, always gives a secure stick. Glueing 2 balls together was fine the tricky one was the 3 balls. I did add a few layers of glue to the balls to securely attach them to each other.
I have used a butterfly clip for the wings by dismantling this pictured butterfly and getting 3 sets of wings
To hide the glueing seam I tied some black tulle around the join and then used my 450 again to glue on strips of flat back black pearls.
Finally finishing off my butterflies by attaching the wings with a large gem, again with my 450. Love this glue !
This project was fun but took 2 days to create allowing sufficient time for the glue to dry securely between each layer, before moving on to the next step.
So what do you think of my pretty Ball Butterflies ?
