I had so much fun making these Botanical Butterfly Note Cards that I almost couldn’t stop in order to do this blog post! Best of all, this Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper is available FREE during Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase. Honestly, I often go to look up this designer paper in the Occasions Catalog because it seems too “nice” to be given away free in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure.
The Stampin’ Up! Note Cards are probably some of the best products and maybe often overlooked products in the Annual Catalog. You will find them on page 193 and come in both Whisper White and Very Vanilla. In one package there are 20 note cards and envelopes. The note cards are made out of thick cardstock and measure 5″ x 3 1/2″. They are very nice quality, so nice in fact that I used them to make the response cards for my daughter’s wedding invitations. The envelopes are a mailable size, which is great!
I took three note cards out of the package and folded them on the scored line to form the note cards. They come already scored. Then I used the Botanical Butterfly Paper to either punch out or cut by hand different butterflies with which to decorate the note cards.
The first card has three butterflies punched out of the designer paper with the Butterfly Duet Punch. You can punch out certain butterflies on different sheets of the paper but almost always you need to cut into the paper in order to position the punch properly to reach the butterfly. This punch is currently on backorder.
The second note card has a piece of designer paper (one of the really beautiful sheets, I think!) at the bottom with a bit of Lemon Lime Twist 1/4″ Ombre Ribbon tied around and a bow added separately. The large and small butterflies are punched out with the Butterfly Duet Punch.
The third card uses a piece of the backside of the butterfly paper, so you can see many of the butterfly designs have a black and white design on the other side of the paper. The large butterfly on this card is cut out with my Paper Snips (it is larger than the Butterfly punch), and the opposite side of the paper is this black and white check.
The greeting on all the cards is from the Butterfly Gala Stamp Set. I love the font and the size of the greeting, as well as its usefulness when making cards!
The next time you pick up your Stampin’ Up! Catalog, please check out the Note Cards & Envelopes on page 193 and order some to have on hand. Sometimes you may want to just make a quick and simple card or write a short note to someone and these are perfect! And they might help you reach your $50 purchase in order to be able to choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration item, perhaps the Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper with which you could make Botanical Butterfly Note Cards.