Beautiful Butterflies for AYSI 341

 It was so great to see so many entries in our last  As You See It challenge where people posted their crafting resolutions for 2025. I hope you enjoy this next challenge because it's my first challenge of the year. It's a recipe challenge: just take the five given ingredients, add your own bits and bobs, and see what you can cook up!

When I sat down to create this card, I did begin to wonder what planet I'd been on when I thought up a mixture of a celebration theme, heat embossing, ribbon or twine, punch or die and pastel colours!

A deep breath and a look over at the Beautiful Butterflies bundle sitting on my desk lead me to this....

The sentiment, which ticked off the 'celebration' part of the recipe, is from the Beautiful Butterflies stamp set - which this month is one of the free items you can choose as a Sale-a-Bration reward with a qualifying purchase. 

To get the heat embossing part of the recipe in, I white heat embossed the sentiment onto a strip of Beautiful Bokeh DSP. Pleasingly, it was an off-cut from another project so was technically a scrap!

I also used Resist Embossing to create the large butterfly. I heat embossed the image in white onto Basic White card, then sponged over Lemon Lolly, Balmy Blue and Fresh Freesia inks with blending brushes to colour the unembossed spaces.  These colour choices ticked off the 'pastel colours' part of the recipe. They are all members of Stampin' Up!'s subtle colour family.

The large butterfly was die cut out, and I also die cut a small butterfly, and these ticked off the 'use a die' part of the recipe. I sponged the small butterfly with some Lemon Lolly ink and layered it over the large one. 

The final element was to use ribbon or twine. I added in a small silver bow using the regrettably retired silver twine from the Elegant Trim pack. If you're like me, you'll have a sizeable stash of it tucked away!

In case you're wondering about that gorgeous embossed butterfly background, it's the Beautiful Butterflies embossing folder. As it's a hybrid folder, it is part of the Beautiful Butterflies die set and cannot be purchased separately. 

The team and I would love to see what you cook up with this recipe. Visit the As You See It page to see what the rest of the team have done and to link up your entry. You can join in the challenge until Wednesday February 19, 11.59pm PST.

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