Butterfly, Butterfly Brusho Crystals Holder by Fliss Goodwin

I’m so excited to finally be able to share my Brusho holder with you and I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed decorating it. I’ve gone for really bright shades with my favourite Finnabair stamp set for inspiration. There are quite a lot of pics to show the process so I hope you can stick with me!

Ingredients:

That’s Crafty! Surfaces Stackable Storage Box 4 

Prima Finnabair Cling Stamp Set – Don’t Forget To Fly 

That’s Crafty! Dinky Stencils – Flight of Butterflies, Distressed Harlequin Background, Circles Background

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics – Hansa Yellow Medium, Cobalt Teal Hue, Cobalt Blue Hue, Carbon Black, Pyrrole Orange, Pyrrole Red, Yellow Green Light

White Gesso 

Archival Jet Black Ink, Black Pigment Ink, White Pigment Ink

Clear Embossing Powder 

Baby Wipes

Sponges

The first thing I did was to sponge white gesso over all the sections on both sides. I then used DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics to colour the panels. On the outside I used the yellow, blue and green paints which I applied with baby wipes. This gives a very soft look and blends the colours well.

I then decorated the bottom on the basis that being underneath it wouldn’t matter quite so much as practice makes perfect! I used the 3 stencils with black, red and white paints to add a pattern. I then stamped on a circle design from the stamp set with Archival black ink.

Having decorated the base I was a bit more confident about embarking on the rest. I decided I wanted to add some butterflies but I didn’t want to stamp them separately and stick them on. I then had a brainwave and stamped on my chosen butterflies with white ink (if this seems familiar it’s because Alison and I had exactly the same idea at the same time!). They’re a bit faint but you can just see them.

I painted the butterflies with white gesso, painting just over the outlines.

I then stamped the same butterflies over the top of the gessoed images with black pigment ink and heat embossed them with clear powder. You’ll see this gives a slight white border which makes the butterflies really pop!

I next painted the butterflies orange, as I wanted a really bright contrast. I added stencilling exactly as I had done for the base, fitting it in around the butterflies. I stamped the text and some circles on with Archival black ink to pull my design together.

I repeated this design on all four sides, adding just one butterfly on the ends. On the reverse side of all sections, I used a combination of the green, blue, orange and yellow paints which I applied in a sort of marbled pattern.

I glued all the sections together to finish and hope you like the effect.

I hope you’re enjoying all our boxes so far and there are more to come. They look absolutely fabulous stacked up too.

Have a great weekend and see you next week.

Fliss x