Embellishing FiligreeCreatively Sam's

I’ve been on a new kick lately (so what else is new?) It all started with watching entirely too much YouTube. On my latest shopping haul, I showed you some packages of Butterfly filigree that I got at Walmart. You can find that here. Well, this is what I did with them:

They started off pretty, but plain.

When I took them off of the card, the larger butterflies came apart in two pieces. I love the largest one.

So I gathered my supplies, AB Rhinestones, E-6000, a toothpick (to apply the glue), a plastic lid (to put the glue on) and the butterflies. I used tweezers to place the rhinestones.

Warning!

(Use the E-6000 in a well ventilated area! The fumes from it can be overwhelming!)

I put a drop of the E-6000 onto the plastic lid, and using the toothpick, I put the glue onto the filigree where I wanted to put the rhinestones.

The little butterfly needed an antennae. I took a head pin from my jewelry stash & clipped off the head of the pin. Then I bent the remaining wire in half.

Using round nose jewelry pliers, I made a loop at the either end of the wire. Once I got the ends of the wire formed into loops, I turned the butterfly over & used the E-6000 to glue the wire antennae to the butterfly.

What am I going to do with the finished pieces? I’m still not sure. I thought that I could always glue it to a stick pin. Or maybe I could glue a pin back to it. Or maybe I’ll find a way to add it to a tablescape. (now that could really be pretty) Or use in a centerpiece? I can already tell that I’m going to have a ball with these!

I must warn you, though, once you start to play around with this, it can be very addictive. I had an angel zipper pull, that was just hanging around, so I had to add some crystals to her, too.