Greeting Card - Butterflies

Alexandra Priore for Fiskars®

Fiskars® Tools:

Border Punch - Bracket (4595), Everywhere Window Punch™ Square (5563), Lever Punch Daisy (5463S), Squeeze Punch Scalloped Square (5368), ShapeCutter (4806) + Mat (8610), Clear Stamps Butterflies (5524) ; Rounds & Squares (4657) ; Flourish (4669) ; Uppercase, Lowercase & Numbers (4663), Stamp Blocks (1380), FingerTip Swivel Knife (4147), Personal Surecut™ Paper Trimmer (9893), Texture plates (5659), Stylus (5607)

Supplies:

Light Purple Paper

Deep Purple Paper

Lilac Paper

Light pink Paper

White Paper

2 purple inks

3D Foam Pads

Step 1:

With the trimmer, cut a piece of light purple paper measuring 30x15cm. Score and fold it in half to make a 15cm squared card. Cut a 14.5 cm squared piece of deep purple paper. Ink the edges and glue it on the light purple card.

Step 2:

With the trimmer, cut a square in the white paper to measure 13.5 x 13.5 cm. Cut each edge with the border punch-Bracket. Ink the edges and emboss behind the card using the texture plates and the stylus.

With the Everywhere Window Punch™ - Square, cut 2 windows to 2.5cm from the edges; one at the left top and one at the right bottom. Position on card and glue in place.

Step 3:

With the trimmer, cut a 11cm squared piece of lilac paper. In the middle, cut a 10cm square. Ink the edges and glue it on the card.

Step 4:

Punch 2 scalloped squares from the lilac paper using the Squeeze Punch. Ink the edges and glue them next to the 2 windows.

Step 5:

Stamp 2 squares in the white paper using the Stamp Block, Butterflies stamps and purple ink. Cut out the outlines using the FingerTip Swivel Knife and position them in the middle of the windows using the 3D foam pads.

Stamp a butterfly onto the white paper using stamps and purple ink. Cut out the outlines using the FingerTip Swivel knife and glue it on the scalloped square at the right top.

Step 6:

Stamp the foliage design from the Flourish Stamps using purple at the left bottom. Stamp 3 butterflies around the foliage using the butterflies stamp and purple ink.

Stamp 2 foliage designs from the Flourish stamp on the frame at the right top using a deep purple ink and stamp around them little flowers using light purple ink.

Step 7:

Punch 9 little flowers in the light pink paper using the lever punch-Daisy. Ink the edges and put them upside down on a paper handkerchiefs packet or other soft surface such as a mouse mat and rub each petal using the stylus, making little circles. Turn them around and do it again in the middle of each flower. Glue 3 flowers to each other. Do it again to assemble the other flowers and glue them on the foliage at the left bottom.

Step 8:

Stamp the letters ‘THANK YOU’ in the white paper. Cut around, ink the edges and glue it on the card, at the bottom right hand corner.