Butterfly Trio

It was time to add some color to our world... but the budget was zero.

So, I assembled some things from around the house:

• 3 black frames, they've formerly been the toile trio, and the heart art trio
• Paper from my stash of papers, I'm rather addicted to paper
• 3M dimensional mounting squares
• scissors

 First, I simply removed the toile fabric from the frames. Then I found a paper that I wanted to work with, keeping spring colors in mind.

As luck would, have it, the reverse of this paper was a fun lilac pattern, put the two together and I knew exactly what I was going to do.

Cut 3 squares of the lilac paper to fit the frames.

Cut out the butterflies and then silhouette them.

Next, put the lilac paper into the frames, I decided to apply the butterflies to the paper once they were in the frames so that the butterflies could overlap the edges of the frames.

And to help the 8 squares of foam mounting pieces I had, I cut each of them into quarters.

I simply applied the squares to the backs of the butterflies, sometimes stacking them so that the various butterflies would be at different depths.

And here is the finished butterfly trio:

This is the 3rd life for these little frames, not bad for $7.50... and this project, using supplies I already had on hand, cost me nothing!