Creative Inspirations #23 - Christmas Gift

Hi Girls. Hope you are all enjoying the festive season. I am really pleased that you have found the time to pop in to my little bit of cyberspace to see what is here for your delight (hopefully). I hope you enjoy your visit.
Nearly time for the bells ringing in the New Year and as usual my Hubby need wadges of paper to write down all his Resolutions for the incoming year (only to be totally ignored very soon after as usual.Lol). So the Creative Inspirations Challenge to make a "Christmas Gift - Anything but a card " gave the ideal opportunity to make a nice thick notepad to hold them all.

The pad is made by cutting three pieces of thick card and sandwiching them between two pieces of matching paper. This used up some scraps of a paper I have long lost the detail of. I mounted a piece of Silver Mirra card on top. This card has butterflies etched into it, although the photograph doesn't show them well, so I took another unknown paper with butterflies and cut them out and mounted four of them onto a piece of white card and stuck it on top of the mirra card. I then cut out another four butterflies and layered them on to the others and bent their wings to give a 3D effect and stuck small gems down their backs. Lastly I stuck a tassel
on the edge of the top to lift the top to get at the pad I stuck inside.

I quite enjoyed making this and I hope you like it enough to take a few minutes of your time to leave a comment. I really do appreciate them and love reading them all. Have a great crafting day and keep safe. Hope to see you back soon.

Hugs,