Beautiful Butterflies for Let's Craft and Create Challenge #230 on the 5th of April 2026

 

Hi All!

It has been an extremely busy start to the year! Thankfully it is Easter Holidays and we can relax a bit before I am heading to Singapore for some training next weekend!
Anyway, for this month's challenge at Let's Craft and Create Challenge Blog, we have the optional theme of

Beautiful Butterflies

I thought of the beautiful Bloom Album that Martha Tucker designed using products from La-La Land Crafts, so I have used some of the ideas - I really need to actually make that album!!

So, here is my card:

I have used the following products that are already in the La-La Land Crafts Shop:

• Butterfly Die
• Notebook Pages Die
• Bloom Vase Die - this is on sale!
• Side Lily Die - so is this!

I have diecut the butterfly from both gold cardstock and a blue cardstock, then the vase and "bloom" from the same blue cardstock. I diecut the lily from gold cardstock, then the largest of the notebook pages from gold cardstock and white cardstock.

I started putting it all together on my new Make Art Stay-tion that I won at the last La-La Land Crafts Colour & Create Virtual Retreat 2026!

Then I also laid the pieces out on a white slimline card from Envelope Solutions:

I was originally also going to use the Left Butterfly that you can see, but decided that one butterfly was enough!

So, to make the card, I glued "bloom" to the bottom of the card, then the gold Notebook page and the white one on top. Then I glued the vase, tucked the lily flower in the opening of the vase, glued the stem, leaves and bud of the lily. I just adhered the centre of the butterfly wings in blue to the gold and glued the gold body to the blue body, then glued the butterfly to the card.

Here is another photo of the finished card:

I would like to enter this card into a few challenges:

 Classic Design Challenge #03-2026 Mar/Apr '26 - Anything Goes with Optional Twist: Fun/Fancy Folds

A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge - #4-2026 - Anything Goes

Mix It Up Challenge MIUCB #82 - Anything Goes + optional Die Cuts

Love to Scrap Challenge LTSCB#178 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #319 - Anything Goes

The Creative Crafters Challenge #98 - Anything Goes

   

Let's Craft and Create Challenges are monthly and go live on the 5th of every month and you have until the end of the month to add your creations which can be anything goes plus an optional theme.

There is inspiration from the rest of the Let's Craft and Create DT over on the Let's Craft and Create Challenge Blog, so please pop over to everyone's blog by clicking on their name. We always appreciate a comment or two! :) You can also find out what other challenges are out there, which could give you some ideas for your card stash.

Thanks for looking!