Craft-Dee BowZ Blog Hop

Hi Everyone,
Welcome to the Craft-Dee BowZ blog hop. If you arrived here by way of  Dana's blog then you're in the right spot. If not, you will want to start at the Craft-Dee BowZ blog to be eligible for the prize to be awarded on Saturday.

The theme we have for this blog hop is Butterflies and Flowers and I have really stepped outside the box for this theme because I have used the Craft-Dee BowZ tool in making both my butterfly and my flowers.

My butterfly came about because I made a double looped bow one day and it reminded me of a butterfly without a body. So I made another and fashioned a body using gold filigreed beads. The antennae are just gold seed beads. To add and secure the body to the bow, I just slipped the wire under the knot, added the beads and that secured the body to the bow (wings).Here is the end result.

Here is a close up of the butterfly:

How did I come up with the flowers?? I really don't recall other than I was just playing around with the CDB tool and wound some wire around the pegs instead of the ribbon I usually work with. When I pulled the wire off the pegs and separated the loops, they started to look like petals on a flower and when I had all the loops moved around, the flower was born. I happened to have some brads that have a large colored rhinestone for the center and I felt that would look great as the center of the flower.

Here is a close up of those flowers:

Well that's the back story for my butterfly and the flowers that I used on my card. Hope this inspires you to try different things on your bow maker. The bow maker is a very versatile tool, it makes more that a bow and works well with things other than ribbon.

Blog Rotation in case you've gotten lost along the way.:

Amber

Brenda  

Dana Tatar (our guest designer this month)

Barbara -you are here

Craft-Dee BowZ - (to leave one last comment)

I hope you have enjoyed our little blog hop here at Craft-Dee BowZ this month. Please leave a comment here on my blog and also we ask that you leave a comment back at the Craft-Dee BowZ blog  to be eligible for the prize, a Craft-Dee BowZ tool.

Thanks for stopping in and I will be seeing you soon

My design is being entered in the following challenges:

ABC Challenge - Anything Goes

Animal Friends Challenge - Butterflies and/or Bugs

Card and Scrap - Use Flowers

Kreativeinkauf-Challenge - Everything that Flies

Lia Stampz Challenge - Add a Flower
Craft It Up and Link It Up Party by Craftin Desert Divas - Ribbon or Twine
Created with Love - Anything Goes
Fitztown Challenge - Anything Goes
Make My Monday - Use Lace and/or Ribbon