Butterfly and Blossom by Tracey Fairgrieve

Dear Creative Friends,

Sadly this will be my final That's Crafty! blog post.

I've been privileged to be part of an amazing Design Team for the past 14 months 

who deliver non stop inspiration, working tirelessly to keep you all updated.

I feel truly blessed that Laura scouted me out all those months ago, giving me 

fabulous opportunities, I have loved every step of my crafty journey.

At this time I need to make room in my busy life which sadly means making sacrifices.

So today I bid you farewell and leave you with a piece some may be familiar with.

Back in February Laura asked me if I would showcase some of the That's Crafty! 

products for publication in Craft Stamper Magazine's  June Edition. 

Here's that piece and how it all came to be...

Onto an 8x8 MDF Chunkie I first painted in teal then a coat of Antique Gold 

scratching and sanding back some of the areas to reveal the colour underneath.

Onto the greyboard flowers I sketched in the details adding spots of 

multipurpose adhesive to give dimension to those stamens 

and painted the flowers to resemble Cherry Blossom.

Rough sketching detail onto a large greyboard Butterfly I followed 

those lines using the multipurpose glue pen, adding interest 

as well as dimension to paint upon.

Dyed strips of cotton fabric are glued, twisted and held together 

with clips until dry. These will form the tree branches upon the chunkie.

Stamps from the textures set 1 and 2 are embossed using 

frantage adding texture to those exposed Chunkie areas.

Applying Crackle Glaze to the painted greyboard

really enhances the design when its repainted over.

Wire antenna are added to the hand painted Peacock Butterfly 

before the blossom and Butterfly are glued into place.

My Butterfly and Blossom Chunkie is complete.

Thank you all very much for your kindness and support

and a BIG Thank you to Laura & Graham for the exceptional 

That's Crafty Brand.

Crafty & Creative Hugs

Tracey xx

Crafty Supplies:

That's Crafty! Surfaces MDF 8x8 Chunkie

That's Crafty! Surfaces Bits & Pieces Greyboard - Christmas Florals

That's Crafty! Surfaces Bits & Pieces Greyboard - Large Butterflies

That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints

That's Crafty! Multi Purpose Adhesive Pen

That's Crafty! Stamps: Textures Set 1 - Set 2

That's Crafty! Crackle Glaze

Embossing Powder: Frantage

We are very sorry that you are leaving our blogging team Tracey but absolutely delighted that you are staying on our DT for TV samples. :-)