Hello SCT friends! It’s Erica here with you today sharing two projects using the Storyteller collection from Vicki Boutin! Today is “Teach Me Tuesday,” and I want to share how you can create dimensional embellishments for your projects!

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Supplies | Cardstock: American Crafts; Patterned paper, specialty paper: Vicki Boutin Storyteller; Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, Therm-O-Web; Sewing machine: Brother

The Storyteller collection from Vicki Boutin has some great patterned papers that are perfect for fussy cutting and layering! I pulled out the beautiful Mariposa 12” x 12” paper and fussy cut the whole page. If there is a page you struggle with, try, and think of a different way you can use it. Fussy cutting images to create layered embellishments is one way to get a lot of use out of a paper like this.

Once all my butterflies were cut, I started to layer them up. Some of the butterflies I matched up the same size and color. I also mixed it up a little by adding different sized butterflies together for even more interest. There are a few ways you can adhere these pieces together and I decided to run them through my sewing machine to add some texture. If you do not have a sewing machine you could hand stitch them or just use some adhesive. A nice strong wet adhesive that dries quickly would work very well but you could also use some glue dots!

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You could do this technique with many other different images and shapes. This is one technique that could be done over and over again on your projects. Taking it a step further, you could layer the butterflies onto some of the pretty Storyteller vellum with gold accents to create even more layers! I decided to take one of my butterfly layers and create a clean and simple card after I completed my layout!

To see how I created my layout today please check out this process video:

I had so much fun creating these layered butterflies with the Mariposa patterned paper from Storyteller. I would love to see you give this simple technique a try on one of your upcoming projects! Tag us and use the hashtag #sctmagazine on social media so we can see what you create!

~ Erica