Butterfly and Tulip Vase
Paper Casting Project
Use painted paper castings from Rycraft cookie stamp designs
to decorate a vase to add to your own decor or give as a charming gift!
Materials Needed
1 Rycraft cookie stamp or craft stamp each: #057 – Butterfly and #190 – Tulip
100% cotton linter) (Rycraft Cotton Linter)
2 paper castings* of design #057 – butterfly and
4 paper castings* of design #190 – Tulip (see Basic Paper Casting Instructions)
1 wood vase
Sandpaper
Spray primer for wood box
White acrylic spray paint for wood box
Clear acrylic varnish
Acrylic paints: yellow, orange, red, green and blue-green
Hot glue or tacky glue
*Note: Alternately, the casting for this project may be made from clay instead of paper (see Basic Clay Casting Instructions).
Instructions
1. Let paper castings dry thoroughly. Then with sharp scissors carefully cut out 2 butterfly designs and 4 tulip designs. Note: Remove one leaf from 2 of the tulip castings.
2. Sand the wood vase, then paint it with primer and let dry.
3. Paint the vase with your white acrylic paint and let dry.
4. Varnish each cut-out to seal it before painting (so wet paint won’t make design swell and disappear). Let dry. Optional: Apply a 2nd coat of varnish for more permanence.
5. Apply yellow paint as the background color on the butterfly cut-outs as well as the tulip cut-outs and let dry. Apply red and orange to butterfly (as shown) and to highlights of tulip flowers (as shown).
6. Apply green and blue-green paint to the raised portions of the leaves as shown.
7. Optional: Apply another coat of varnish to protect painted cut-outs and let dry.
8. Glue 1 butterfly to opposite sides of the vase.
9. Glue tulips as shown on opposite sides of the vase so that there are 2 flowers and 3 leaves.