Square Butterfly Cards

My friend Bevie linked me to Cindy's cute blog below. Cindy has made some adorable square envelopes out of regular A2 size envelopes. It's the perfect solution for 4" x 4" square cards.

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I was inspired by Cindy's blog post to create some square cards with matching envelopes of my own. Here's a close up of a single card with the back and front of the envelopes. My envelopes differ a little bit from Cindy's in that I covered the entire envelope side and then created a flap. For my project, I used new patterned paper by pebbles inc which I purchased at my local scrapbook store. The Polkadot Butterfly stamp is from Karen Lockhart and was colored with Copic markers. I cut and embossed my image with a square Spellbinder's Nestabilities Die Template. Notice how I created an assymetrical look to the main image by cutting off a portion of the butterfly. The creates visual interest plus it gave me extra white space to stamp a Papertrey Sentiment.
Here's how you create the square envelope. The width of my envelopes was 4-3/8" so to make a square envy, I cut it to be 4-3/8" square. Lick the envelope and seal or use adhesive to adhere it shut. The finished car inserts into the side that you cut off. Refer to Cindy's blog for more detailed photos. To cover the entire envelope with patterned paper, I cut my striped patterned paper to measure 4-3/8" x 6". By cutting at 6", you can get 4 pieces of this out of one 12 x 12 piece of patterned paper. You score at 4-3/8" so that you have the leftover portion to make the flap. I rounded the corners like Cindy did too. The finished card size is 4" x 4" square. The patterned paper piece on the front of the card measures, 3-3/4" square. I needed some little cards to send out in product orders to friends...I thought by tying a ribbon (May Arts) around the card and adding a little chocolate, it would make a little thank you gift of sorts. Notice on the card above that I used the Papertrey sentiment that reads *Live Your Bliss*. Hershey's now makes a chocolate candy called Bliss.....I love the dark chocolate flavor and have to say that these compare to the silky smoothness of my beloved Dove chocolates. So how cool is it that I matched the bliss sentiment up with a Bliss chocolate!?

Dang, I KNEW I should have bought more of this patterned paper. I was using restraint though....never works!! Hope you enjoy and thanks to Cindy for the inspiration!!