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www.Scrapdivadesigns.com  just released her new products for March 2025. The first die set I ordered from this release is her 7 piece Butterfly Set of dies. This die set makes four different sizes of butterflies and all of them put texture on the card stocks when you die cut them. Here is a photo of this new die set:

Lots of her team members on YouTube have put out videos on their projects using her new release products so lots of inspiration there! I decided to dig through the stash and I used single sided and double sided card stocks, shimmer card stocks, plain and coloured vellum.  For the butterfly body/antennae pieces I used foiled card stocks, shimmer card stock, and scraps of gold poster board from the Dollar Tree. This is a small project so I was able to use a lot of printed card stock scraps for the butterflies. Here are all the pieces after I did my die cutting:

I did not want my butterflies to be all matchy, matchy so some of them I used two pieces and others I used three. All of my butterflies do have a layer of vellum -- some of the older vellum in my stash is very thin so when I tried to die cut the first butterfly layer from this vellum the vellum tore and it was hard to get it out of die. So I decided to try again -- I put the die, cut side up, on the die cut machine plate. Then I put a piece of the vellum, and then a piece of light weight white card stock. Put the top plate on this stack and ran it through the machine. This time the vellum and white card stock were cut together and the vellum did not tear and it was easily removed from the die:

Some of the crafters using this die set suggested you emboss a piece of vellum in an embossing folder and then cut out your butterfly so that it is embossed. But if you do it in that order the embossing design will get flattened while die cutting out the butterfly. So I cut out the vellum butterflies and then put those in an embossing folder and embossed them in the machine. This way the embossed design is raised on the vellum and more noticeable. With all pieces cut, embossed and ready to go I assembled all my butterflies. Once they were all assembled - some with tear and tape and others with liquid glue - I pulled out my little stash of premade flowers and used hot glue to add flowers to the center of the butterflies:

Once the flowers were added to the butterflies I pinched the wings towards the center to show the layers of these:

And some of the groups of them:

For my butterflies I used the two smaller dies. These butterflies will make nice embellishments, look nice on a tag, treat holder, etc..  Happy to be able to use more of the stash and the scrap printed card stocks. The next die I ordered is the next project I am working on - her 3D Egg Holder which I am making into a tote to hold treat holders and treats... Another cute product for Easter projects ahead!