~Fairies~

Random Thought Thursdays are here! What will you find on The Butterflies Attic every Thursday? A random picture, quote, idea, meme, video or anything else I find that I want to share! :P

Today I am posting an original art piece I made using Gimp and some fantastic brushes:

The largest fairy is a clip art from google, the brushes are listed below. 

This picture started when my brother asked me about art programs on the computer, I showed him GIMP but realized that the majority of my brushes were lost when my last computer crashed. I then went about searching deviantart.com to find some of the brushes I had fallen in love with before... I ended up finding a lot of them, and found a TON of new brushes as well. I adored the grass brushes and knew I wanted to use them in the picture I was making. I was inspired and decided to search for fairies in google for a starting point. I found the fairy in the foreground and the rest of the picture started to come to me. 

I had a blast making this and surprisingly it didn't take to long! I will probably be making more fun gimp projects in the future, but for now I have to go back and finish my little sewn horse! She will be making an appearance this weekend here so check back :D

Enjoy!

Like the brushes you see here, well you can download them too!

Fairy brushes: click here

Dead tree brushes: click me

Grass brush: click this one

I am not sure where the clouds and water overlay brushes came from, I am going to try to find out who made them, feel free to search deviontart for them as well! There are some amazing brushes on that site!

Sandcastles

Sandcastles!

So this past week my family and I spent some time at the beach. It was nice to be able to get away from it all for a little while and just kick back and relax. We spent time reading, or watching movies, I also worked on a new project that I will be posting here soon. But in the meantime I wanted to share some pictures of teh awesome sandcastles that my family and I made while on vacation. Keep in mind these aren't your everyday sandcastles... 

Take a look!

The first castle

The first castle at a different angle

One view of castle number 2!! Check out the bridge! 

Castle two with the added city in the back

And FINALLY:For all you Avatar the Last Airbender fans, here is our sand castle version of Ba Sing Sai for everyone else, here is an AMAZING sand castle!! (sorry about the weird sand coloring at the bottom not sure what happened with my camera!)View number 2And just to give you an idea of how big this sand castle really is, here is my boyfriend and my brother with the castle!!
Hope you enjoyed these as much as we enjoyed making them!

~Meg

First Blog!

Hey there!
So this is my first blog yay! I will be posting many different crafts and tutorials that I make here. I am a knitter, seamstress, needlepointer (lol), cross stitcher, an avid photographer and very amateur crocheter. I am self taught in ALL areas!! I will be posting projects that I have finished, or idea's that I will be working on soon. I might even upload some things here that I'm selling!
Please check back often :)
Have a request? Let me know!!
~Megan

Come back later this week for Random Thoughts Thursdays!!