Design Team Preview Number 2

As promised in December, here is the next sneak preview of another one of my Scrapbook Magazine layouts, enjoy!

A bit different to my first preview!  Very pink, very girly and features my favourite thing - butterflies!

Butterfly Flutterby

I've used another series of photo's taken at Lanark Mill for this layout.  We walked along the River Clyde, that ran right outside our bedroom window.  The walk was breathtaking and full of wildlife.

This little butterfly fluttered right past me, and settled on this bright yellow flower!  This was a fantastic opportunity to use my new Martha Stewart Butterfly Border Punch that Craig had bought me back from America.  I also used the negative from the postage stamp punched at the top of the page along the bottom of the layout to frame my title.

I used a 2 inch and 1 inch Postage Stamp punch, and my Marianne D butterfly die to use as an embellishment along the top of the page.  I love butterflies, can you tell?

An easy made card

It's my friends birthday on Tuesday, and keeping with my not buying cards this year motto, I went cropping on Friday and made a card.

This card was made using Scraps of card, my Stampin Up Scallop Circle Punch, Martha Stewart Doily Punch and Martha Stewart Butterfly punch, foam pads, hot glue gun and gems from Sarah' Cards.

A close up of the layering.  I turned the butterflies so they were not facing all the same way to add some interest.

Let them eat cake.....

And they did!  We couldn't make my eldest Nephew's wedding, but my Sister and Brother in Law shared their photo album with me, and I was able to print off some gorgeous photo's!  I normally Scrapbook people, but don't very often do just object, so Nigel and Fleur's wedding cake was perfect and it was beautiful too.

The butterflies on the wedding cake inspired me to Scrap these, as Butterflies are some of my favourite embellishments.  I'd also just received my new Marianne D die that I wanted to try!

I made the main embellishment, something that took me out of my comfort zone!  I had bought some beautiful Butterfly ribbon at a Scrapagogo Retreat 2 years ago, and I'd never used it.  I folded the ribbon up so the butterflies were on the front of the ribbon, and I've held it together with a couple of Maya Road pins.  Very simple, but lovely!!

Getting Inked.....

It's taken me 20 years, but I finally went and had a tattoo done on the inside of my wrist!  I like tattoo's if they are on the right person, in the right place, and are appropriate.  Craig booked the appointment thinking I wouldn't go, so I double bluffed him and went!  I think for once I surprised my husband!!

I've just had a small butterfly tattooed on the underside of my left wrist, so I can hide it up for work if I want to or show it.  I still need to go back and have it touched up, but it's very feminine, very me, so of course I had to Scrap it!

I've used a piece of purple Bazzil card stock and a piece of Prima Marketing Fairy Floral paper that has large pink flowers watercolour style all over it, perfect for my butterfly!  I've also used a Martha Stewart Doily Punch to make the scalloped edge.  The Photo's show my tattoo at it's various stages.

I used a Martha Stewart punch for the butterflies, and originally I had just put one layer of butterflies on my layout with the stones, but my friend Louise said it would look better if they were layered, so I painstakingly picked all the stones off, put another layer of butterfly on and reapplied the stones.  Thanks Lou, you were right, they look so much better!

I was lucky enough to be given the stencil that was used to put the outline of the butterfly on my wrist, so that piece of memorabilia had to be included.  The stencil was drawn in pencil, and I knew over time that I would loose the pencil lines off the layout.  To stop the pencil drawing from fading, I used Ranger's Glossy Accents to make a glass like bubble and seal the drawing in.