Papers & Plums

Butterfly Art

 A few weeks ago I ran into this really great idea on Ali Edwards blog. She made this fun piece of framed art using only patterned paper and paper punches. I thought to myself, even I can do that, how fun!  =) So I filed it away as an idea to try out....soon. My walls are very bare so I've been wanting to come up with ways to decorate them by doing some of it myself. Just for the fun of it.

A couple of days ago I was again reminded of this project from this blog. Lolly Chops made a slightly different take on it and I really loved the result. She even has a picture tutorial on the process so how could I go wrong? So, last night I went to work on my own version. I think I must have punched out twice or three times more butterflies than I needed but once I got started I just couldn't stop!! The patterned paper I chose is from Basic Grey.

I proceeded to pick out the colors and sizes I wanted to use and spaced them on a white 8"x10" piece of card stock. I loved how lolly clustered hers in the collage she made, so I went with that idea. Using foam tape I then attached the butterflies one at a time. This was so easy and a lot of fun to make. I will be hanging it on one of my bare walls today. =)

 

This is what I love about blogs. There are so many great ideas out there to be inspired by. This project fulfilled a desire I had to make something for my home. So thank you Ali and Lolly for the inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sara

While I'm thinking about it...

I wanted to tell you about how I improved on my photos. Because in my humble opinion, they are much better. Seriously.

Since I started blogging I realized that I must do something about how my pictures appear in my posts pronto! Yay, for husband to the rescue. He helped me become familiar with the photo editing software fireworks. I can't say I know how to use it all that well yet, but this way I have been able to save my photos in a better size as well as add that oh-so-cool little watermark to each of my them. Pretty nice huh! =)

But that was not enough, I googled a bit to find out if there was any way to make my own light box. Better light = better pictures. I found instructions here and did my best to follow them. Here's how my photo "studio" turned out. Not much to look at, but as my photos shows, it actually works!

The only problem now is that I made the box too small!! (lol) It comfortably holds one standard sized card, but I find I have to crop my pictures a bit or the corners of the box shows. Oh, well. I only spent $3.50 on this so far so I think I can afford to buy another box!! Either way, it is making my photos much better. Plus I am having a gret time learning how to be a better photographer. I find I am highly motivated as I also want to take some great pictures of my adorable little son. =) Practice certainly makes better and perhaps evetually...perfect.

Sara

Diving In!

After being a long time reader of blogs, I'm ready to author one of my own.  Brace yourself, Blogosphere!