Tag: Butterflies

More Trifold Cards – Using Graphic 45 Papers

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I have enjoyed making these trifold cards so much, I had to make more!! I have one other, but forgot to take a photo of it! so I suppose I’ll have to do another one.

The first here is made from the “Let it Bee” paper Keepsake collection. It was re-released in the Spring. Flowers are hand crafted using old heartfelt Creations dies.

This card has a little tag on the back panel.

The next 3 phots are from the G45 collection “Blossom”. This was another keepsake collection, and included the lattice die, and dragonfly die you see here. The bumblebee came from the Let it Bee keepsake collection. The butterfly is an old Spellbinders die, I use it A LOT – and I will be using the dragonfly, bumblebee and lattice dies a lot now too!!

The middle panel has a little foldout, which can have a private message written, and still allow the card to be displayed.

This is my most favorite collection currently. It is called “Flights of Fancy” and has the most amazing hummingbirds and butterflies!

This one also has a little foldout for writing a message.

I have loved making these trifold cards. I can see making many more in the future! I hope you enjoy playing with paper as much as I do!

IF you want to be able to fit this in an envelopelope to mail, simply cut off the top part where the ribbons and grommets are, and don’t use dimensional embellishments. (I don’t see that happening in my future, but perhaps for yours?)

Trifold Cards from Heartfelt Creations Scraps

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I saw a post by a lady on Facebook, using Heartfelt Creations paper and dies to make a tie-fold card (Kirsten Muehlen). It was adorable!! Anyway it got me going on a roll, and I have here, 5 little tri-fold cards made from 5 different Heartfelt Creations paper collections. They each measure about 4×6 when closed. The middle panel cover on all these hides a sketch pad – the nice kind meant for water coloring!

Tweet Cherry Blossom

Climbing Clematis

Delightful Daffodil

Cottage Garden (hydrangeas)

Sweet Magnolias

Anyways, I had a fun week! Thanks for looking!!

Gift Card (with Chocolate!)

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I have NO idea why this wasn’t posted before today! I enjoy this particular paper collection from Graphic 45 almost more than I enjoyed the “Floral Shoppe” papers! This one is called “Flights of Fancy”, and has delightful hummingbirds, whimsical butterflies, and gorgeous florals – the colors are vibrant and frankly, it’s just a beauty to behold. It’s almost difficult to cut into the papers, and one makes certain to measure twice and cut once, so as to not waste any of the preciousness!!

I still use my stamps & dies from Heartfelt Creations, even though they are completely digital now, as I find they are excellent quality, and I have quite a large variety of different flowers to choose from – the range goes from tiny little lilac and cherry blossoms to (what I consider) enormous Dahlia and Wild Roses.

For this particular card, I used the classic rose, and “Oakberry” blossoms, as well as a tiny punch for the dark dark pink blossom. The butterflies are from the Ephemera pack that goes along with the collection.

I had some fun with the ribbons as well, as you can see, combining 3 different textures, widths and patterns.

Inside is a little mini cards, some pretty postcards, and a couple of chocolate bars.

I had so much fun creating this for someone special, I hope you’ve enjoyed my newest make!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Album in a Box with G45’s Flight of Fancy

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Having too much fun over here – we had a tornado come through town, devastating many homes and businesses – not mine, but the power was out at my office, so I got a free week off from work! Guess what I did, while forced to stay home? Yup!

I didn’t realize how much I was going to love the Album in a Box, but this turned out so darn cute! And I stepped away from my usual, didn’t do ANY dimensional flowers – so the album can fit on my bookshelf without my worrying that I’ll smush something!

Pretty much all the album requires is cutting and pasting – kind of like kindergarten, with a twist! Enjoy!

If you would like to see a mini video walkthrough you can check out my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/-1a2LhuniHI?feature=shared

Thanks for looking!!

Throwback Thursday

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I made these cards quite a while ago, but for some reason never posted them here.

They are really sort of gift cards, and a unique element is the hangar on top, which allows the recipient to display it on a knob – like I have here in my kitchen.

The pink one is just a single sheet of paper decorated on both sides, the purple is an actual card, and even has a thin magnetic closure, which was required because of the heaviness of the back (see below).

It’s the chocolate bars, frankly, but maybe also because these are sorta “stuffed” with tags and mini-booklets!

Personally I think they are adorable, but then, I’ll admit, I’m kind of biased!

Thanks for stopping by!

A Mother’s Day Card

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So I have a goal of creating 50+ Mother’s Day cards this year, to give to a Nursing Home on Mother’s Day. You will see the “Happy Mother’s Day” message a LOT this coming year! This is one using a collection from the spring, the Climbing Clematis, and is on a 6” x 6” card base.

I also added a cute little pop of butterflies from the Floral Butterfly collection, and stuffed some tiny pale pink blossom in there which I fashioned from the Wisteria die, just to fluff it out a bit.

Thanks for stopping by!

Mini-Folio

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This is a little folio, measuring ~4”x 5-1/2”. It only needs two pieces of paper, one to make the book, the other for the fold outs.

Mini-Folio, with room for 10-12 photos

Below are a few stills. Thanks for stopping by!

Fold Out Cards

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This was the first time I had used one of those precut fold out cards that has the curvy edges. They are very cute, but a little bit of work, as you have to cover both sides of each little “page”. All in all, if you do it right, you could simply use two 12 x 12” pieces of decorative paper for your base papers, but I wanted to make things difficult for myself!