Shabby Butterfly Card

I have always loved the shabby look on card and scrapbooks, so here is a card that I made in honor of all of you that love the shabby look, like I do :o)

This card is a little more involved, but worth the time! You will need:

Brown Textured Cardstock w/ Beige Underside, White Core (DCWV)

Heidi Swapp Edge Distresser

Jeweled Brad

Butterfly Stamp or sticker

Beige Cardstock

Swirl Stamp (Rhonna Farrer)

Small Flower Punch

3 micro buttons (All Dressed Up)

3 Small Bling Jewels

3 Small Flower Punchies

Silver Embossing Powder

White Acrylic Paint & Brush

"It's Your Day" small stamp

Foam Pop Dot

Sandpaper

Red Ink Pad

Paper Glue

Instructions:

Make an A4 Sized card out of the brown textured cardstock with the fold to the left.

Cut another piece of the brown cardstock the exact size of the front of the card. Sand the edges a little on the top and side, exposing the white core of the cardstock.

Take white acrylic paint and brush back and forth on the front of the paper, not going to the edges. Set aside to dry for a few minutes.

Take another small piece of the brown cardstock and tear a piece the length of the front of the card, making it roughly an inch or two wide. Sand the left edge of the paper and then pounce the torn edge of the paper into your red ink pad. Take your edge distresser and tear up the torn edge a little. Also use the distresser on the painted piece of cardstock on all edges. Glue the torn piece of cardstock to the left edge of the painted cardstock. Then adhere the whole topper onto the card.

Stamp a swirl in red right on top of the painted part of cardstock. Adhere three small flower punchies on the swirl. Glue a tiny button into the center of each of the flowers and also put three bling jewels here and there on the swirl design.

Fold the right top corner of the brown cardstock and place a jeweled brad through it.

Stamp a butterfly onto beige cardstock and emboss with silver embossing powder. Trim closely around the butterfly and place it on the top part of the torn cardstock.

Stamp "It's Your Day" onto a piece of beige cardstock and cut a rectangle around the design. Adhere below the butterfly with a pop dot.

Whew! That was a lot of work, but I think you will be very pleased with how it turns out and you will get a lot faster every time you make this one. Happy crafting!

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What I've been working on...

Whew! Where does the time go? I just got a Cricut on eBay the other week, so I've been having a blast! If you are not aware of the latest things for crafting, (like I was not so long ago!), a Cricut is a computerized Die Cutting Machine. it runs on cartridges that are loaded with shapes. They have a huge selection of designs. I think my favorite so far is the Mickey & Friends, Winnie the Pooh and the Happily Ever After cartridge that features the Disney Princesses. Here are a few designs that I have made the past few days.

So yes, I've become a Cricut addict! The best thing is, you can make your shapes to the size you need for your specific project., anywhere from 1/4" to 23.5" tall! So if you're a serious scrapbooker, make sure you keep hinting to your loved ones what you want for Christmas :o)

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Iris Folded Shoe Pattern

As promised, I am posting a little more about iris folding. When you see the back of a completed pattern, it looks pretty terrible!

This is the first iris folded pattern that I made. I was just an experiment, or I would have used a more complimentary paper to cut the pattern out. Here is the front when the pattern was completed.

It's hard to tell, but the pattern is completely backwards while you are working on it, then when you are finished and turn it over, it looks just perfect. That wasn't so bad for a first project, eh? Usually when I start something new, it doesn't turn out quite right the first couple of times. If you want to give iris folding a try, you can get this pattern here: http://www.irisfolding.circleofcrafters.com/shoepattern.html

They also have instructions on how to do iris folding. Circle of Crafters is a really neat site with lots of free patterns for all sorts of paper crafts. Happy crafting!

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