Fluttering butterflies

Good Morning everyone

My 4th niece Kitty-Bea will be 5 this week - thats scary where the years go, I got to spend some lovely time with her and her sister last week for half term and they are getting so grown up. 

For Kitty-bea's card from my parents ive gone for full on butterflies with a surprise hiding inside with a spiral pop up design

6x6" white cardbase.  I picked a paper with subtle rainbow hues for the front and die cut lots and lots of butterflies from patterned papers in a rainbow of colours.  Die cut the birthday sentiment and 5 today from white card matted onto gold glitter card circles and then arranged the butterflies.  I added a touch of glitter glue to the butterfly bodies.

and inside.....I actually did the inside first and then decorated the front.  I used panels from the same soft rainbow hued paper.  I then die cut a circle from acetate Id saved from some plastic packaging.   I then used scissors to cut a spiral into the middle of the circle.  Using red liner tape I attached one end of the acetate spiral to one side of the card, once that was secure i added red liner tape to the other end and closed the card onto it, doing it this way meant it was lined up perfectly so closed nicely without catching. 

I added large die cut gold glitter flowers over the ends of the acetate spiral to hide the glue and help keep them in place, i added a few more of the gold flowers around the panels.

I then arranged the butterflies onto the acetate spiral, gluing 2 back to back so that they clamped the acetate between them and looked nice from all angles.  I added lots of little butterflies and some flat orange gems to the centres of the flowers. 

Computer printed sentiment die cut into an oval to write the greeting on to finish. 

You can see the flying butterflies better here

Not having made anything like this before i was rather pleased with the effect and i think Kitty-Bea will have hours of fun opening and closing it

Items Used:

Sizzix  butterfly die set

memory box mini butterflies die

flower & birthday sentiment dies

Sizzix  oval die

Ranger stickles 'unicorn'

Papermania orange glitter dots

12x12 make&create paper pad 'ombre'

Thank you all for stopping by once again, I hope you all have a good week. Emmaxx

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