Be Inspired Wednesday Challenge #23

Welcome to my blog!! For this week’s Be Inspired Wednesday at Cuttlebug Challenge, we were asked to use our punch a little differently. For this card, I first cut a 5 ¾ circle with my Cricut using Cloud 9 paper. I found it best to not use cardstock for this. Once cut, I folded the paper in half, opened it and folded it again in the other direction. One more time, I opened it and folded it again to give me 8 pieces of the pie. Once that was done, I started folding and punching with my EK Success Paper Shapers Pop Up Butterfly punch keeping the creased side to the left of the punch. I continued opening and changing the folds until I had 8 butterflies, one in each pie. The last punch cut was in the center of the fold, but I made sure I was centered enough not to cut short or into one of the cut butterflies.

Once all the cutting was done, I took my Fiskars Paper Edgers (cloud) and went around the outer border of the circle. I popped up the butterflies and used Close to my Heart Liquid Glass to give it some sheen.

After that dried, I inked the edges with Martha Steward ink.

The base card I used was a 5 ½ x 5 ½ Joann Craft Essentials and embossed with my Cuttlebug embossing folder Textile Texture. Again, I inked the edges with Martha Stewart ink.

I cut a small tag with my Nestabilities and embossed it with my Cuttlebug Swiss Dot embossing folder; added a K & Co butterfly.

Prima flowers, pearls and Stickles finished it.

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