Flutterby Butterflies

As promised in yesterdays post, here is the mini book I have been working on, the pages of which have been created from the humble coffee filter.

Anita bought me a pile of filters as a challenge quite some time ago, and we sat and cropped at my house working through some ideas, we managed the bare bones of our books but then mine languished in a zip-lock bag, sidelined for more pressing projects.

I felt inspired to finish the book last night, the coffee filter pages have been stamped and hinged together with some large butterfly shapes. The basic shape was a google image printed out and used as a template on patterned paper, all papers used in this book are Cosmo Cricket.

Then I set about finding all my butterfly punches, dies and chippies

I used lots of quotes, typed up and printed out onto textured card, one of my fave quotes in the book is

"Butterflies are self propelled flowers" and I used this as license to add lots and lots of lovely flowers (not that I normally need an excuse!)

I added a few pearls and grunge-paper hinges to the outer covers which were crackle-painted.

We have our new Cuttlebug class starting tomorrow and I can't wait, the ever bubbly and brilliant Bonnie is benefitting us all with her expertise on all things die-cutting.

The classes are the third thursday in each month, they are £6.00 and we are currently running two sessions, 10-12am and 1-3pm,  I have a couple of spaces in the morning but the afternoon is at present full

Dates are 18th August

                15th September

                20th October

                17th November

                15th December

Please ring or call into the shop if you are interested in booking a place.

One last thing before I bid you all goodnight, thankyou to Victoria who bought me a cute little bauble to decorate, even though the 'c' word is still banned I think I might just relent and have a play with my bauble, I promise to share when it is finished.