Flutter By Wednesday: Butterfly Memo Board

Good Wednesday morning girls!!! I hope you are having a wonderful week! It's been great around here! A little chilly still but wonderful! We came down the hallway the other day and saw 2 doves taking shelter from the wind in the window above our front door. That was pretty cool. We were headed out the door so I felt bad that we scared them away. I hope they found another quiet place to rest. Then this morning (which was really Tues. morning as I'm pre-posting this) we had ducks - yes ducks - on our front lawn. Hubby said one was hobbling around on a stump; he fed them lots of bread so hopefully they had full bellies before they flew off. This is my second post for the day - please be sure to scroll down and see my Cuttlebug Challenge card - I love how it turned it out!!

Since it's Wednesday I have another Flutter By Wednesday project to share with you. Several months ago, Maggie, the owner of the Cuttlebug Challenge blog asked several of us to create an altered project for the Ready, Set, Create ezine. (Click on the cover to purchase this issue. It's full of lots of other great and easy projects!) I was thrilled to be asked and set about making a simple project. (This is actually not the first project I started - that project had pictures the wrong size and has been shelved since then). But I have a few of these memo boards and decided to alter one of them and make it into something pretty AND functional.

Here's what I started with:

To begin, I removed the corner brackets and then the side pieces. They were hot glued together so I just gently used an exacto blade as needed. I also removed the piece separating the memo section from the cork section. You could leave the white board on there but I carefully removed it and used it as a template to create my topper.

Some pretty dictionary butterflies. It's hard to see in this photo, but they have been embossed using my cuttlebug folders and inked. Gems on their body and gems highlighting some of the paper design to add a bit of sparkle.

The journaling tag was stamped with a quote from Paper Makeup Stamps. This is the small size; I really like this quote and think I'll have to get the big size too! It is tucked under some layered flowers. The center is a really pretty aurora borealis button I picked up at WalMart. After gluing the section back down, I added some lace to act as a barrier from the corkboard section.

We would love to see your butterfly creations as well. Please use the keyword FBW when uploading at SCS or PCP. Also be sure to visit the rest of the Flutter By team. They create the most beautiful cards/projects - you won't want to miss them! I am so excited to welcome Nancy to the Flutter By team. She is one of the sweetest stampers and is so very talented too! You will really enjoy getting to see her work if you are not already familiar with her. Be sure to leave her a note of welcome. Another big thing is that the challenge is all about Fluttering - and fairies flutter just like butterflies. So we are adding fairies to the challenge too!

Ann
Ashley
Cathy
Danni
Heather
Jodi
Kristie
Michelle

Nancy

Be sure to keep scrolling and see my card for this week's Cuttlebug Be Inspired Challenge.