Needlework Monday - Brooch butterfly. Tutorial. Handmade from @elenka

Hi, Steemit!!!

Greetings dear readers! With you @elenka

I propose today, together with me, to create a beautiful tender jewelry made of polymer clay - a butterfly brooch. Such brooch will decorate any image and will cheer you up!

Tools and materials:

• polymer clay
• blade
• several needles of different sizes
• dotsy
• scalpel
• stacks for sculpting or toothpicks
• tile as a work surface
• metal base for brooches
• acrylic paints
• dry pastel
• tassels
• barb line

I painted butterfly wings on a leaf and cut out a pattern.

I mix pieces of white and coffee plastic. I knead well in my hands and roll out the layer on the largest thickness of the pasta machine.

Using a scalpel, I cut out two details of a future butterfly.

I roll a small sausage in my hands and attach it to a tile - this will be the body of a butterfly.

Then I attach the lower wings first, and then the upper ones. All joints are carefully worked dotsom. It is necessary that the parts are well attached to each other.

Next, I begin to draw the texture on the wings with a needle. First I use a large needle for this, and then a thin one. So it turns out the original pattern.

The next stage is toning. Dry brush apply pastel blue, blue and purple.

The body and head of the butterfly were covered with a little flock (finely cut pieces of wool), which glued liquid plastic onto the gel. This coating gives the butterfly more realistic.

Antennae made of pieces of fishing line, the ends of which dipped into the gel, and then flock. I tried to insert them deeper so that they would hold well.
After that, black acrylic paint put points on the wings of a butterfly and draw the entire contour.

Put on the wings a little silver eye shadow, for shine.
I send the butterfly to pre-bake for 10 minutes.

Now make out the reverse side and attach the metal base pin.

It gave texture with a toothbrush, and then tinted with a dry powder of olive color. After that, the brooch is baked again for 20 minutes at a temperature of 100 degrees (the time and temperature of baking should be viewed on the packaging of the polymer clay from which you sculpt).

The butterfly is ready to fly !!!
The size of the brooch is 6 by 3 centimeters.

Thank you for your attention!!!

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