"Love is Like A Butterfly" Mini Book by Suzanne Crowther

Hi Its Suzanne again. As I said I went mad with this paper and the amazing thing is that this is the second mini book, but I also have made a Scrap Layout, 3 cards, 4 Thank You cards and a tag. The sad part is I ran out of paper before I could do the off the page projects lol.

“Love is like a Butterfly” Mini book by Suzanne Crowther

 This little mini boom I deigned myself, I must say I made a few as I did one back to front anyway all was good I hope you like this project and you may get to see the other projects on another day!!!

Using Black cardstock cut your card 12 inches long x 4 inches in height so this will form the size of the book. Score this at 6 inches and fold. Cut your next piece at 12 inches x 4 inches score at 1 inch this will glue to the back page to form your album, score at 6 inch that gives you 1 page and the piece alone will only be 5 inches left. Your next piece is 12 inches x 4 inches this is scored at 2 ¼ inches, 3 ¼ inches, 4 inches and the last piece will glue to the 5inch panel this will give you 12 panels to decorate and add photos to ext.

You can add more pages by gluing some flip pages, I made a few like that but I think this looks pretty awesome. I cut the front and back cover leaving a space all around the front cover. I added a lace die cut, a texture paste butterfly, metal leaf, blue flower, small flower, metal decoration with little nob, metal butterfly, blue brads, ribbon and gesso.

Page 1: I used a plain backing paper added Butterfly Collection paper lace + ribbon, silver metal trim, gold + silver crosses, Butterflies and ink. This page has Charlotte and Blake on their Christening day. The book opens like a concertina

Page2: Butterfly Collection paper, fussy cut flowers, a beautiful saying from kit, I used the perfume emphera as a little book to add journaling, trim and butterfly added

Page 3: This page is the Butterfly Collection paper with texture paste, glimmer mist and the beautiful butterflies.

Page 4: This page has a beautiful rose in texture paste, ribbon charm emphera, glimmer mist and paper from the butterfly collection.

Page 5: A photo of Miss Charlotte, ribbon and emphera. 

Page 6: Small page has gather your dreams  + paper from the butterfly collection and lace + ribbon trim.

Flip the Book Over

Page 7: Is the little page with the butterfly collection paper stamp and a saying mounted on blue card stock.

Page 8: With this beautiful paper I made a small pocket and made some small tags and tickets.

Page 9: More beautiful with me in a frame. I made a small frame and place a vintage beauty in then used glossy accents. When dry I added trim and Ribbon, I also die cut a frame and put a photo of me in it dressed for a vintage day.

Page 10: This was the very pale paper I put a mask on it and some texture paste, when dry I sprayed glimmer mist, added flowers and a little butterfly with the saying Gather your Dreams.

Page 11: I cut out a bigger shape of the small frame in the kit and I added Viva Ferro and Viva Metallic Paint with a mask. I also added texture paste and lightly added some inks and a saying.

Page12: More beautiful paper with some mask and texture paste, glimmer mist, a saying from kit and one of the beautiful big butterflies fussy cut out.

The Back Cover has some emphera and a beautiful butterfly. I laced a ribbon around the spine and added a star and a crystal heart.

I hope this little book has inspired you all today

Thank You Suzanne Crowther

Products Used Meg’s Garden

The beautiful butterfly collection

Metal butterflys – handle leaf

Little gold butterfly

Ribbons

Trims

Emphera

Acitate Sheet Butterflies

The butterfly Collection Card Kit

The butterfly Collection “Another Delicate Garden for Butterflies”

The Butterfly Collection “A French Butterfly”

The Butterfly Colllection “A Butterfly Garden at Night”

The Butterfly Collection “A Flower Garden for Butterflies”

The Butterfly Collection “Vintage Beauties”

Lace

Flowers

Other Products

Inks, Glimmer mist, Masks, Texture paste, Gesso



" The Garden" Mini book by Suzanne Crowther

Hi everyone welcome to Megs Garden blog. Its Suzanne here today to share a mini book with you all. The book features the beautiful butterfly collection from Megs Garden. Grab a tea or coffee relax and come into “The Garden” a mini book by me!!!

When I received this stunning paper from Megs Garden I was so happy I had so many ideas of what to make that sadly I ran out of paper.

“The Garden” Mini book by Suzanne Crowther

When I designed this book I had made up my mind to use some dies to cut out my mini book. I think it gives it a little bit of style.

I used my largest die size 98.67 x 121.88mm inches + 3.88inch x 4.8inch. With that picked 1 die cut 8 shapes in black card stock as I wanted the beautiful butterfly collection to shine. I mixed and matched all the papers in together. I then trimmed the paper to fit all the pages and I also cut some blue card stock which I use as matting to these beautiful papers.

As you travel the garden book you will notice I have used back ground stamps, other stamps, glimmer mist and inks. I measured and cut everything onto blue cardstock I used 2 way tape and the pages were all inked. Then I fussy cut some butterfly’s from the acetate sheet I glued them onto white cardstock. When fully dry I added some glitter and I also used some white flowers which I sprayed with ink and glimmer mist. I did die cut a few butterfly’s just in case I needed more with all this preparation done it was time to put the book together.

At this stage I also had blue fingers lol, with the help of a black coffee I was ready to get it all together.

I took 8 pages and measured up for a spine. I cut some black cardstock 2 inches x 3.2 inches and trimmed top and bottom to match the inverted corner I scored this at ¾ inch in on both sides this gave me a ½ inch spine for my pages. This was glued to the front cover and the back cover leaving a ½ inch spine down the centre, while the covers layed flat on the table I took this time to cover he front the spine edges are glued to the inside of the book front and back this will leave the outside of the book nice and smooth. I cut one long piece of paper I trimmed it to fit, inked edges and with the cover done I turned the cover over and got the pages ready six in total but I did add 2 small pages as I put this all together.

I had pre-cut some black pieces that I used between the pages that fitted into the spine, but has no page, I wanted to have room to embellish the book. The blanks and pages where all glued with Helmar 450 for strength with all this done I glued 3 striped of black top, middle and bottom of spine. I then glued all this into the spine and left it to dry overnight it needs to be fully dry before you open the pages and work on the book. When you first open the book it will be a bit stiff but this glue is amazing.

On the front cover I used some beautiful lace from Megs Garden and I threaded some ribbon top and bottom the piece I cut fitted end to end. I glued this down to give more strength to the book. The metal piece on the cover, I added a brad and some seed beads and filled it with glossy accents I then let it dry and glued it to the lace I also added a couple of little flowers, a bow and one of the butterfly’s with glitter.

I had pulled out a few stamps with some positive words for this mini book. Butterflies give hope, everyone loves butterflies so this Garden Book is a positive up lifting book a book of hope and love it was made with love. You could decorate your pages with whatever you have in your stash a lot of these bits and pieces all come from Megs Garden. All the ribbon, laces and trims are from Megs Garden so come along and check out the store you will be amazed and inspired.

 

Products Used: Megs Garden Products

The Butterfly Collection card pack

The Butterfly Collection – A Flower Garden for Butterflies

The Butterfly Collection – A Butterfly Garden at Night

The Butterfly Collection – A French Butterfly

The Butterfly Collection – Another Delicate Garden for Butterflies

Sheet of Acetate Butterflies

Selection of Ribbons

Selection of Metal Embellishments

Stick Pin Products from Megs Garden

Seed Beads and Beads

Selection Trims and Flowers

Chocolate Butterfly Suitcase

Hello Bloggers.

I had the great pleasure to work with these lovely papers which inspired me to create a gift box for my valentine. The lucky recipient was my husband who appreciated the chocolates but seem to get more enjoyment from the gift book.

I started by painting the suit case with smoke blue paint and edged the corners with silver ink. I used the butterflies collection to cover the outside. I then fussy cut some of the butterflies gluing them down in the centre and lifting the wings up to make them appear they are sitting there.

I used silver and blue glitter glue to highlight the flowers and butterflies. I placed small crystals

beside the flowers as I was trying to catch the light.

  

Inside I  placed some yummy chocolates and a valentine voucher book made from the butterfly collection paper.

The inside lid I continued the silver glitter and used a lace love heart to represent the valentine theme.

 I had fun using the papers to make the voucher book. I found the papers worked well for small projects like this one. Some of the Vouchers were "Get out of yard work for the day" or "Control of the remote."Don't worry there was a use by date.

  I used the round silver Diamante trim as a strip of embellishment and cut each individual ones as the studs for the suitcase.  

Thank you for having a look at my project and I look forward to creating many more creations with megs gardens wonderful scrapbooking treasures.

Megs Garden Products.

Butterfly collection.

Silver Diamante Trim

Various ribbons

Flowers

From my own stash

Lace heart

Smokey blue paint

Blue and silver glitter

The Butterfly Book Kit with Margaret Mifsud

Hello everyone and welcome to the Garden!!  So glad you popped in for a visit.

My turn again to share a project created with some fabulous Megs Garden products.  I have created another mini Album.  This is a wallet style album and, all the papers used here, are from the new Butterfly Book Kit.  Just like the other Book Kits that are now available in the store, this one contains all the papers and ephemera you could possible need to create an Album to hold your most precious photos.
 So, grab a cuppa, and make yourself comfortable because there are a lot of photos!!

The base of this album is deep blue cardstock.  It only measures 5.5" x 5.5" and it is only 0.75" thick, but it will hold quite a lot of wallet size photos.

Used a Tim Holtz stencil with Viva Crackle paint on the front flap.  Once it was dry I brushed the area with Silver Distress Paint and blue acrylic paint which had been watered down quite severely so the colour wasn't overwhelming.   I really love the effect.

The flower cluster is a mix of blooms from Megs Garden and also from Kaisercraft.  I've added some clear micro beads to the flowers and also some seed beads in and around the cluster as well as incorporating some twine, some burlap strands and a small piece of gauze.

The top flap opened out.  I've simply done a little stamping and stencil work here.  You won't find a lot of embellishments in this book.  I've only used some stickers and some lace to decorate it as the book is only small and I didn't want to bulk it up too much.

Bottom flap down.  Again only stamped and senciled.

The first page with lace from Megs Garden, a sticker and, again, stamped and stencilled.

Second page.  I added a little paint splat in the corner this time. Just for an extra touch of colour.

The back of page 1.  The 'pocket' was fussy cut from papers in the kit and the labels are part of the ephemera.

Inked the edges of the pocket and added some glitter glue to the flower centers.  The photo doesn't really show the glitter too well but it actually looks quite pretty.

All of the edges were inked with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

The back of page 2.  Different paper, different tag, similar pocket.

All of the labels and tags used are from the ephemera sheets.

Page 3.  As this is the Butterfly Book Kit, of course there have to be butterflies in the book.  This one is actually from the Butterfly Transparencies Sheet.

 Page 4.  I have used a butterfly sticker here.  Aren't the papers stunning??   You really don't need to add lots of embellies when the papers are this gorgeous.

The back of page 3.  The belly band was also cut from the papers as is the semi circular piece at the bottom of the page.  I call this my little 'tag stop', becaaauuse it 'stops the tags' from falling out when you hold the book up.  LOL!

Just a little stamping here.  This little butterfly is also from the Transparency Sheet.  I added some glitter glue to its body for a little sparkle.

 More labels!  There are some stunning vintage images that come with this kit too.  I will give you a link at the end of this post so you can see the entire Kit for yourself.

The back of page 4 which is very similar again to the previous page.

Page 5.  These next two pages open up and then down.

The back of page 5.

Page 6 ...

... and the back of page 6 with another sticker.

We're almost at the end folks, I hope you are still with us.  This last opening is a gate fold.  (If I don't mention it, do you think people will notice that I've put the papers on upside down????)  So unfortunate that there is some writing on this page, or you probably would not have been able to tell.  Ah well,  gives it character I say!!  LOL!!  Once the photos are in no-one will notice anyway!!  I hope!!

And the last page with the gate folds opened!!

Another fussy cut pocket and butterfly cut from the Kit.  Added some flat back pearls this time.  As you can see, there are moths as well as butterflies in this kit.  Still pretty!

Labels and tickets fussy cut from the Kit.

The back of the book was  left plain ...

and here it is fully opened.  I mentioned at the beginning that this book will hold quite a lot of wallet sized photos but, of course, they don't have to be all wallet sized.  The book is too small for 6 x 4 photos but it will take some in between sizes, you just won't be able to use quite as many.

Well, we have finally come to the end.  I hope you have enjoyed leafing through my little wallet style album and that I have inspired you to make something similar for yourself.  Megs Garden has a selection of Book Kits which are available in printed or digital form and they are absolutely fabulous as they contain everything you need paper wise, for whatever style of book you might wish to make.  HERE is the link which will take you directly to the Book Collection page and, while you're there, why not browse through the store and grab some embellishments too.  Happy crafting!!!

Megs Garden products used
Butterfly Book Kit
More Butterflies Transparency Sheet
Lace
Flowers

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Take care and God Bless

oxox Marg