I'm more often than not a starving artist - which means I generally can't afford all the really awesome stuff I'd buy for people if I had more money than I knew what to do with.
The thing with gifts is, I'd rather not get someone anything at all if I can't get them something meaningful. And if the most significant or meaningful thing I can think of for them is out of my budget it means I don't get them anything...
But sometimes I realise I can make them something just as fabulous - if not more so - purely for the joy of it.
This is one of those things.
A work colleague celebrated their first full year at work and it sort of slipped by because so much as been going on in the office. But then I thought of just the thing that would bring her joy and be a very suitable gift.
Wings!
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| I sketched these out based on a Monarch Butterfly wing. |
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| The cutting is really the most challenging part. The three layers of card are so difficult to cut through that my hand just ends up aching by the end. I recommend wearing a glove! |
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| Glued down to the cellophane. I left them overnight with books piled on top to really flatten them out and let the glue harden. |
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| Cut them out the next day! |
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| And then glued the wings together using some scrap bits of the card stock and put looped elastics through to make them wearable. |
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| A bit of animal testing to make sure they work... |
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| One happy fairy!!! |
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