Butterfly Medley Keepsake Book
Butterfly Medley Keepsake Book
Other Products: Vellum Paper, FSJ Inks: Pretty Pansy, Lavendar, Pineapple Smoothie, Lemon Grass, Kiwi Slice, Distress Ink: vintage Photo, CTMH Accordian Fold Book, Purple Embossing Powder and Heat Gun, Foam Tape, Pearls, sponge daubers, green card stock, white card stock, versa mark ink, distress ink markers, purple card stock, small hole puncher.
Watch this video https://youtu.be/BSXY9MWCSKI to see how to create butterfly embellishments and backgrounds. See this video https://youtu.be/0Qcx0tuQ0iQ to create the Botanical Rose.
Instructions: Click here for a larger project image. Front Cover: Ink all the edges of the front of the book with vintage photo distress ink. Cut out 6" x 6" green card base and then cut 5 3/4" x 5 3/4" designer paper, ink around the edges and glue down to the base cardstock. Next cut out designer panel from paper and stamp the Botancial Swirls Flowers stamp in the middle using the vintage photo ink. Take a sponge dauber and color in the flower with pretty pansy in the center and then the lavendar on the outside for shading. Color in the leaves with the lemon grass and the kiwi slice the same way as the flower shading. Glue the stamp image down on the front cover. Stamp 3-4 for the roses on white card stock and cut out with coordinating die. Sponge dauber the centers of the flowers with the Pineapple smoothie and then ink the edges of all the petals with the pretty pansy. Cup the petals of each flowers with the flower tool kit and mat. Stack flower petals to create 5 varying sizes of flowers. Top each of the centers of the flowers off with a pearl. Cut the word strip from the paper and ink the edges with vintage photo. Next stamp the butterfly stamp on vellum using versa mark ink and sprinkle purple embossing powder over the top, heat set with gun. Cut out with coordinating die. Color the butterfly in with distress markers. Stamp with vintage photo the leaves on green designer paper from collection and cut out with coordinating die. Wrap the words banner around the bottom left corner of the front of the book and tack down with foam tape. Arrange the flowers, leaves and butterfly around the front of the book as shown and glue down with dries clear glue, especially the vellum butterfly.
Interior #1: Cut 6" x 6" pink panel from paper collection and ink around the edges with the distress ink. Be sure when you cut the paper that you leave the pink flower trellis on the right side. Glue down with zip dries on the right side. Next cut another 6" x 6" paper from pack and ink around the edges. Using a fine pair of scissors or even an X-acto tool fussy cut out the large pink trellis. Glue down the base paper and then attach the large pink trellis to the center with foam tape.
Interior #2: Cut out designer paper as shown on the left side and ink around the edges. Glue down on the left. Cut out decorative ornate gateway die from purple card stock and brush across with sponge dauber and pretty pansy ink for a varied look. Glue down with dries clear glue in the top center. On the right page, cut out paper 6" x 6", ink around the edges and glue down to book. Die cut out rectangle using the Cut Mat die. Glue down in the center as shown.
Interior #3: Cut out the designer sheets as shown for each side both 6" x 6" and ink around the edges with vintage photo ink. Glue down to the pages as shown with zip dries glue. Cut out the stamp images from the paper and using a very small hole punch, punch each divet in the stamp all the way around so you have that stamp edge. Do this to all three of the stamps. Cut a strip of striped paper from pack 2 1/2" x 6" and glue down the left side as shown, next glue down the stamps with the foam tape.
Decorate your book with cherished photos or written keepsakes to complete.