Friends' birthdays often have the habit of sneaking up on you and when you finally realise, you either have no time or money to get them a present. At the moment, money is often tight for me, so I came up with an idea to make a unique present that my friends' would love that was quick to make and affordable.
I have a box at home full of little bits and bobs I've found lying around, including broken brooches, bows and ribbons off packaging and chocolate boxes, buttons, little bells off the Lindt Chocolate Bunnies :) and lots of other things.
I was given a sparkly butterfly by a friend, which use to be on a ring but fell off and had another butterfly that use to be a brooch. I really wanted to use these in a project and one day I was in The Works bookshop and they sell mini canvases on easels for 99p each. I bought two and knew that I wanted to combine the two things in some way.
At home I used acrylic paints and painted the two canvases (which was quick as they are so small!) and when the paint was dried wrote the names of the friends on them with gold or silver pens and superglued the butterflies onto them.
The great thing about this idea is you can use anything instead of butterflies, maybe something that reflects your friend or something they like, as long as it's small and not too heavy. You could use any colour paint and because it's small, it could put it anywhere on a shelf, table or desk and just sit there looking all decorative and pretty :)
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