Butterflies and Buttons

I've been sorting through a pile of old craft mags, looking to see what I can throw away (the decluttering is still continuing) and came across some photos of finished cards that I rather liked. I took inspiration from them for these two cards, in that they used torn patterned papers, butterflies, buttons and twine, and the general layout is similar.

For the first card, I used papers from a very old magazine freebie booklet, adding a butterfly cut using my old favourite Cuttlebug die, cutting it once using one of the papers from the set and again using a patterned vellum. The body of the butterfly is made with liquid pearls and the bird cage is actually part of a die cut wedding favour that I bought a pack of from The Range - they are meant to be sweet boxes but each one cuts nicely into four separate cages.

 

For my second card, I used papers from a Crafters Companion pad called "A weekend in Seville" which I won in a recent blog challenge. The butterflies were die cut in white and in a printed pink vellum that's been in my stash for years. Again I used liquid pearls for the bodies, although my white ones had been unused for so long that it seems to have gone a bit thin and splodgy.

 

 

I am sharing these at

 

Butterfly Challenge - Butterflies with Buttons and/or Bronze (both cards)

Clear it out challenge - Patterned paper over a year old (only the first card)

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper challenge - March (both cards)

Use Your Stuff - Lace, Ribbon or Twine (both cards)