My Time Made Easy Butterfly Candy - My first digital/hybrid project

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Today I made some more college candy goodness!! I decided to try Lauren Meaders wonderful My Time Made Easy templates and I also used some of her digital paper - a first for me!!

Here is a butterfly "box" full of York Peppermint Patties for my DD Julia and her roomie!! The template couldn't be easier to use!!! I printed some of Lauren's digital black and white paper onto cheap white cardstock from WalMart - I've never used digital paper before. I'm not sure the cost of ink makes digital paper "cost effecient" but it sure was easy!!

So basically you print the paper (or use patterned you have) put it back into the printer, print the template, cut and glue - easy peasy.

Lessons learned:

1. - for the actual "box " part - I should have made the paper double sided by running it through my printer again on the opposite side - once the box was glued onto the butterfly I didn't like seeing the white inside - so I cut another box and stuck it inside the glued on "box" so the pretty text paper was on both sides.

2. The whole pkg of York Patties was too heavy and the bottom of the wings were not able to support the weight -so I took the whole box apart carefully - traced the butterfly wings onto black thick c/s (I didn't know how to print it so it would show up on the black) and glued the black new wings to the already decorated red wings - the double thickness of the wings worked super!!

Here is the side view - bad pix again :(

I took some of the coordinating butterfly digital paper of Lauren's and using my Cricut and Basic George covered a box of sour gummies to go along. I cut out a couple of the butterflies and used popdots for a little pizzaz. See the bit of red - its my first attempt at using Copic markers - I think I'm gonna try and take a class with them next month.

Best lesson learned - digital/hybrid projects can be FUN!!

Anyone know if the cricut software SCAL that lets you automatically cut Lauren's templates will mess up my new Gypsy? If not - I may just have to get it - cutting out 4 butterflies for this project was ok - but sometimes I want to make a bunch of the same project and hand cutting could get "old"

Thanks for stopping by - hey can you believe 3 posts this week? LOL Andrea