Beautiful Buttetflies

Have you ever experienced being in your Craft Zone? For me, it normally happens after I've made a card or a layout, and suddenly the creativity juice keeps on flowing. It's the total opposite of a creativity block where I spend a while day and struggle to create anything!

Anyway, I'm going to make the most out of my craft mojo right now. I made the following card for a very generous lady that I know. Not only is she generous, she has also been so supporting and encouraging in my craft journey.

The inspiration for this card actually came after I made these butterflies.

Aren't they just so pretty? I stamped them using the Butterfly Gala stamp set and punched them out using the Butterfly Duet punch (more detailed listing of products used below).

After I had butterflies 😆, everything else just kind of fell in place......and here's the end result.

I didn't go too over the top with embellishment because I wanted to keep this card simple, yet elegant.

After that I couldn't put down my duet butterfly punch, and I have another special person in my life that I needed to make a card for. This time it's for a very dear friend who is always there for me. Who listens to all my problems (bless her!) and shares laughter with me too.

Her favourite colour is blue, and she has expensive taste, hahaha! So I added some silver foil to the card 🤣

I also added some stamped leaves to make the silver foil pop more and to add more dimensions to the card.

Pearls are perfect for the butterflies, don't you think? 😊

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you've enjoyed reading this post and I also hope it'll inspire you to create something too!

Happy crafting,

Juanita

-------- MATERIALS USED --------

- 1 x Petal Pink A4 Cardstock for pink card base and textured background

- 1 x In Good Taste Designer Series Paper for strip in the middle for both cards

- 1 x Whisper White A4 cardstock for butterflies, leaves and sentiment stamping

- 1 x Silver Foil sheet for the blue card

- Pearl Basic Jewels for decorating the butterflies and the card

- Petal Pink ribbon for the pink card

- Denim ribbon for the blue card

-------- TOOLS ---------

- Basic tool kit (trimmer, adhesives etc)

- Butterfly Duet punch

- Butterfly Gala stamp set for the butterflies and the thank you sentiment

- Beautiful friendship stamp set for the birthday sentiment

- Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder

- Tasteful Label Dies

- Forever Fern Bundle for the leaves stamps and die-cuts

- Soft suede and Petal pink inkpads for the pink card

- Night of Navy and Seaside Spray inkpads for the blue card

Scrap With Juanita ~ Video 3

Yeah my third video is up! Sorry this was a week late (I was aiming fortnightly), life got in the way!

This is a scrapbook layout of my little one when she turned 3 last year. The photo doesn't really have any particular colours that pop, making it great for any patterned paper of my choice. I decided to go with the Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper as the base and two of the circles. The paper for the brown circle is from In Good Taste Designer Series Paper. I cut these circles out using Layering circles dies.

The photo is matted onto Pretty Peacock cardstock, which has been cut out using Rectangle Stitched dies.

I trimmed a white cardstock to 10" by 10", and stamped on it using Tasteful Touches Cling Stamp Set, around the corners and strategically stamping some images beside the photo.

Next, I used the Forever Fern bundle to create all the different leaves - some are stamped on off-cuts from the white cardstock using different green inkpads, and then die-cut out, and some are simply die-cut from different green cardstocks.

I also stamped a flower from Tasteful Touches Cling Stamp Set onto white cardstock using Melon Mambo inkpad, and then fussy cut it out.

Last but not least, I die-cut the title using Well Written Dies.

I hope you agree with me that this is a simply yet pretty layout! At the end of my video, you will see my next layout, here's a sneak peek :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Scrapping,

Juanita

-------- MATERIALS USED -------- 

In bracket is what I have used and link to my shop: 

- 4 x patterned paper one for base and three for the circles (Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper and In Good Taste Designer Series Paper) 

- 1 x white cardstock one for background stamping and off-cuts for stamping flower/leaves (Whisper White 12”x12”) 

- 1 dark green cardstock for photo mat and die-cut (Pretty Peacock A4 cardstock) 

- 1 lighter green cardstock for die-cut (Old Olive A4 cardstock) 

- 1 brown cardstock for die-cut title (Early Espresso A4 cardstock) 

- 1 x 3¼” by 4.5” portrait photo 

-------- TOOLS ------- In bracket is what I have used and link to my shop. 

Besides the basic tool kit (trimmer, adhesives etc), the following is what you need: 

- Stamps and die set for background, flowers and leaves (Tasteful Touches Cling Stamp Set, Forever Fern bundle) 

- Circle and rectangle dies (Layering circles dies, Rectangle Stitched dies) 

- Alphabet or words dies for title (Well Written Dies) 

- Dark green inkpad (Pretty Peacock inkpad) 

- Medium green inkpad (Shaded Spruce inkpad) 

- Light green inkpad (Old Olive inkpad) 

- Pink inkpad (Melon Mambo inkpad)