Sweet Peas and the Butterfly Punch with a Picture Tutorial!

Hi everyone!

It seems like ages since I've had time to share something and I'm so excited about this card! I made these flowers with the butterfly punch! I've been having so much fun making pansies with the butterfly punch and so I thought...hmmm....why not try a Sweet Pea as they are one of my favourite flowers. What do you think? Didn't they turn out cute?  I haven't seen these made anywhere, so I hope you enjoy them!

 

This Sweet Pea stamp (from the Occcasions Mini) is absolutley perfect for this card!!  Love it!!  I used the end of my stylus and dipped it in the lid of my Frost White Shimmer Paint to make the little dots around the pink Scalloped Oval Punch...so pretty!

Here is a close up of my flowers:

These were so easy to do.  Here's a picture tutorial on how I made them. 

First you need to punch out a couple of butterfly shapes in different colours.  I ran them under the tap, or you could spritz them with water if you like....I was in a hurry!  Then crumple each butterfly into a ball and unravel it. I did the same thing with the  5 Petal Punch and the leaves on the stems are the wings from the new XL Two Step Bird Punch.

One butterfly makes a flower, fold the wet, uncrumpled piece in half and shape it with your fingers.

 

Once you've folded your butterfly in half, then pinch the end together and set it aside to dry. If you'd like to make a Sweet Pea bud, then take half of the butterfly and gently roll it up, pinching the ends as shown in the picture.

Here you can see my different colours of flowers as well as a couple of buds and my 5 Star punch which I will cut into individual petals to attach to each flower and bud.

Once they are dry,  I cut the petals of the 5 Petal Punch out, cutting towards the middle so I will have 5 individual petals.  After shaping with my fingers, and adjusting it to fit on the bottom of the pinched sweet pea flower, I used my mini glue gun to secure it into place.

 

I tucked the excess parts of the green petal behind the flower and pinched so the hot glue (which isn't really hot at this point...but still be careful not to burn yourself!) holds it nicely.

Here's another card I did and I created the Seed Packet on Microsoft Word using a Text Box...and couldn't resist using my sweet little kitty's name on the seed packet....LilyBean...she's such a cutie and Sweet Pea is one of my names for her too!!

 

Again, here is a close up of the flowers.  For the stems I cut strips of Old Olive Carstock and the little wispy tendrils are floral wire that I curled around a pen.  I also added Bashful Blue Satin Ribbon to the bottom of the seed packet for a finishing touch.

I hope you like my tutorial and hope it inspires you to make some Sweet Peas too! 

Thanks for stopping by and sharing your time with me!
Judy