Butterfly Mini Book + GIVEAWAY!

Hi, Heather here again! I can’t believe this week went by so fast. I have had such a great time playing in my scrap room with the new SEI collections. I hope they have inspired you along the way!

For my final project, I remembered I had bought a butterfly chipboard album at Michaels for $1 several years ago so I went into my stash of alterable items hoping I didn't give it away when I cleaned out my scrap room. Of course, it was there because I keep everything.

I love the 6 x 6 paper pads for cards but you know what? They fit the mini butterfly shapes perfectly so I put the papers I wanted to use in order, traced the butterfly shapes on the back, cut them out and adhered them to each page. Once I had them all glued down, I used my Imaginisce d-stress tool to sand all the edges.

Let me walk you through my thought process as I was building each page...

Cover

I chose the newsprint album for the cover because I wanted something neutral. I knew I wanted to capture all of the Field Notes colors on the cover and anything else might have been too busy. I inked the edges of each page with cocoa ink. Then I layered the yellow punched strip die-cuts from the Sample Box, stickers, a butterfly, which I fussy cut from the Butterfly Collection paper and a rolled flower from the Arboretum paper. The sticker in the upper left corner was intentionally left blank to that I can personalize it when I am ready to give them to someone special.

Pages 2 and 3

When I started on these two pages I knew I wanted to add the frame that I had fussy cut from the Vignettes paper, however; when I laid the frame on the stripes it looked horrible so I added the coordinating green from page 2 as a background and then it all came together. Again, more die-cuts and fussy cut butterflies.

I kept page 2 more simple by adding some twine and die-cut butterflies.

Pages 4 and 5

I used the die-cut scroll from The Sample Box and then hung banners from the sticker sheet as well as hand-cut banners. I think it would be really cute to add a small photo over the banners

I love the pop of the orange flowers in the Arboretum paper so I played that up a bit by adding the orange behind the circle die-cut image and then layering the floral paper over it to make a photo frame.

Pages 6 and 7

More banners but this time it's an assortment of banners, tags, frames, flowers and buttons. I was going for the eclectic look. Mostly, I wanted something as fun as the butterfly paper on the coordinating page.

I love this butterfly paper but it can be a bit much for me is I use a lot of it at once. So, I covered the page and toned it down by adding a basic frame and a neutral rosette. Of course, it needed another butterfly to pull it all together.

Pages 8 and 9

I love the more muted tones of these papers that are in the collection. I simply layered the rosette and brad over the thin die-cut strip, offset the butterfly and left more clean space on this page.

Similar to the coordinating page, I kept this last page clean and simple. You can add a little photo or journaling to complete the album.

I didn't get a shot of the back but I covered it in this beautiful goldenrod paper in the 6 x 6 paper pad.

Thanks for sharing your week with me. I hope you enjoyed my creations.

xoxo Heather

Thank you for sharing so many great Field Notes projects this week, Heather! It was fun getting to know you and seeing all of your pinterest inspiration too!

Remember everyone, our week-long giveaway is still going. We will keep it open until Sunday, February 29th at midnight MST. To enter to win some Field Notes products, leave up to one comment on each blog post this week (Monday-Friday). That means you have up to 5 entries!