Ava Butterflies with Bouquet Blooms and Leaves by Anne Thompson

Here's a butterfly card for today that features the AVA BUTTERFLIES 94643 layered to make one lovely butterfly flitting over a field of BOUQUET BLOOMS AND LEAVES 94652.

materials used

• AVA BUTTERFLIES 94643
• BOUQUET BLOOMS AND LEAVES 94652
• HELLO STREAMLINED SCRIPT 94540
• FRESH AQUA COLLECTION SP1004
• LUSH GREEN COLLECTION SP1003
• MADRAS PLAID BLUE AND VIOLET PP1014
• CLEAR FAIRY DROPS DRP101

to make this card

• trim one of the light blue plaid papers to 5 1/4 X 4 and add it to the front of a white notecard
• die cut the Ava Butterflies twice from one of the dark teal cardstock papers; adhere the small ones on top of the larger ones
• die cut the Bouquet Blooms twice from a light blue cardstock and the leaves twice from an olive green cardstock
• orient the notecard to have a top fold
• glue a variety of the blooms scattered across the card front and tuck in some of the leaves near the blooms
• add various sizes of the Clear Fairy Drops to the flower centers and use three of the smallest Clear Fairy Drops to make a body on the butterfly

• die cut the Hello Streamlined Script from a scrap of dark teal cardstock; glue it to the upper left area on the card front
• use a large glue dot or foam dot to add the butterfly to the right, hovering above the flowers

I tucked the second butterfly inside the card where I will write a message. 

I'm not usually a butterfly person but I love this Ava Butterflies 94643 die set as well as the Stella Butterfly and Background 94635 that I used on yesterday's cards.  I know these are dies I am going to reach for again and again because of the lovely embossed details on the wings of both Ava and Stella.  

It's Memorial Day today in the United States, a day on which those who died in active military service are remembered.  Dad and I put red, white, and blue flowers and a flag on his brother's grave this weekend and I will put my Uncle John's Purple Heart on display in a place of honor. And I will thank my 99-year-old dad for his service on the European front lines in World War II.