hope.

hello! i have a non-paper craft project to share using a cool set of butterflies. i made a mixed media canvas using the different kinds of butterflies from the butterfly assortment.  there are so many cool butterflies cut from different types of material.  i used grungeboard, velum, acetate, chipboard and velvet.  i painted them and stacked some of them.  there are so many possibilities from the assortment!

have a good weekend and hope you can spend some time getting crafty! 

angie

Butterflies Fly Free (LOTS of picts & text!!)

Hi all!

Becky here today to share another Out-of-the-Box idea with a Peek-a-View Box "Lantern" & the fabulous new Butterfly Assortment from Creative Cuts & More!!

When I first saw the Butterfly Assortment, I knew that I wanted to play with it! How could you not? With 3 different sized butterflies cut in all sorts of fun materials!!

Hanging Butterfly Lantern

I love working with the Peek-a-View Box for things other than its intent! It's such an easy product to think of different ways to doctor it up!! So, I got this crazy idea to cut a hole in the bottom & fit one of those battery-operated tea lights inside! Because it's meant to be hung, I had to tape the "peek-a-view" (acetate) portion to the cardstock part so that the bottom wouldn't fall out. Because of that, I needed the light to poke out a little from the bottom so that I can turn it on/off & change the battery when needed.

View from the bottom

(But, I did glue the tea light to a piece of floral foam inside so that it was more anchored in the hole in the bottom.)

Tea light inside

After I figured out the logistics of the light in the box, the rest was just plain fun! I added alcohol ink to one side of the acetate from the box to look like stained glass, and did the same to 4 vellum butterflies from the Assortment. 

Alcohol Ink on the acetate of the box

While that was all drying, I pulled out the Glimmer Mist in 2 shades of blue & added that to 3 of the "dictionary" butterflies & one aqua cardstock butterfly. When those were all dry, I used some Red Tacky Tape to attach one vellum butterfly to one dictionary butterfly for the bottom hanging ones; and the larger vellum butterfly to the cardstock one for the top. Using fishing line, I strung a length between the layers to hang from the bottom.

Bottom butterflies

In order to hang all the butterflies, the dominoes & suspend the entire thing from more fishing line, I used my crop-o-dile to put holes & eyelets in the top (4) & bottom (3). The top butterfly is attached with a dab of Aileen's Tacky Glue just on the bottom of the wings (That stuff is like cement!!).

Top of lantern butterfly

For the box itself, I inked it all over with walnut ink & added some Antique Brass Distress paint to shabby it up. I found some great images on Etsy for the dominoes (I drilled a hole in them & inserted an eye hook with my Dremel) that fit right in with my theme!

Top Domino - "Land of Enchantment" shop

Inside Domino - "Magicpug" shop

That's pretty much it! Hope you enjoyed my little treasure!

Here's just a few other things I've done with this great box...

For holding sea shells

For holding scary candy corn!

Or just a crazy circus box!

Don't forget to hop on over to Creative Cuts & More to order your own Butterflies & Peek-a-View Boxes to play with!!

See what kind of crazy creations you can do with them too!!

TTFN!!

Designer: Becky Voth

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Somehow every time I seen this Peek A View box with a view from Creative Cuts and More I thought it should be a flower box like a terrarium almost.

This is a view of the box closed and ready to give as a gift

This is an acetate butterfly from the  Butterfly collection I used as a holder to use as a knob. There are a few felt flowers in pink from the Flower Assortment Pink Felt Pink collection

This is a view with the top off and all the felt flowers showing. I used the Flower Assortment Pink felt flowers and married two together with each wire pic.

I tied a small label to the wing of the butterfly and put a Primitive heart tiny.
Hope you like my quick project with so many great collections from Creative Cuts and More.

Oh This Is My Favorite Frame Idea

What do you think about using these plain black chipboard pieces to make the frame below?

8" x 8" Album Page is what I used from Creative Cuts and More. Now you can buy the whole album together here.

I just happened to have a couple pages left over from a previous project and didn't want to waste them.

The paper I used to mat with is from DCWV - La Creme Stack and it is a black cream mixture.
The Decorative Label is what I used to mat my pictures on the left.

I also used one black chipboard butterfly from the

Butterfly Assortment

Wanted you to see how I used my crop o dile to put in eyelets. I then found some simple ribbon to connect the pieces.

Here is a close up of the right side. Most of the flowers were gifts to me, from Natasha, and Melissa.
So do you think I did the two pieces of chipboard justice?
Make sure you pop in and check out all the albums that Creative Cuts and More now carries.

Using a CCM Album Page as a Card!

Hi all!

Sorry for being a couple days late on this post! (I tried to post it on Sunday, but I think because my internet connection was via satellite, it didn't load right...) Better late than never!

But, here we are now! Kim decided to use a "leftover" for this one...

a piece of cardstock that was originally cut for the Mix n Match album!

She tri-folded it into this great card!!

Adding fun vintage images of ladies & butterflies here & there plus some acetate butterflies from her stash (you could easily order some butterflies from CC&M in acetate & then use alcohol inks & Copics to color them!), she created this fun card ready to send off to a girlfriend!!

That's really it!

So try to use up some of those extras or look at things in a different way & use up some old supplies!

Thanks for stopping by!

Designer: Kim Langhorst

Blackjack Entertains

Hi Everyone-Dawn ll here today.
Today I want to share a really fun assortment I used  many, many butterflies.
Creative Cuts and More now has some great mixed assortments.

I used the butterfly assortment  

it has 11 of Buttterfly #01-Small, 10 of Butterfly #02-Large & 11 of Butterfly #11-Small.

This assortment has butterflies cut in acetate, chipboard, felt, grunge paper, metallic card stock, recycled book pages, smooth card stock, textured card stock, vellum card stock and velvet paper, 

 I did a quick layout of my daughters cat Blackjack. He is a real sweetie and loves to amuse everyone.

Here is a fun picture of him entertaining.

I used SEVERAL of the butterflies as you can see- I doubled almost all of them and then ink distressed the edges and added some fun bling on their bodies

 All the papers and ribbon are from my stash.

You need to pop in and check out the many assortments available at Creative Cuts and More