My notebook cover craft swap

I have now received an email from my swap buddy, Liz that she has received the goodies that I sent to her for my most recent swap - the notebook cover. She said that she really liked it which is always good. Here's a few photos:

I was very relieved when I saw my notebook that there was a little butterfly on there as well as a couple on the card that I received with it - I hoped this meant that Liz likes butterflies - I think I was right judging by the email that I received to say that she had received her parcel so that's brill.

I stamped the butterflies using a clear sticky pad (not too sure what it's called and them dusted them with mica pigment powder and set with hairspray (the cheaper the spray the better apparently). Stuck down with a little double sided sticky tape and the tops of the wings curled up to give the 3D effect shown here. For the antenna (as the once on the stamp are far too small to cut out) I curled a single strand of gold picture wire and stuck this to the back as I place them on the cover of the book.

I wanted to make my notebook as reusable as possible so the lined pages are just from a standard A5 notebook with the cover removed. I also added a little pen/pencil holder to the spine of the cover and a little wallet on the inside to hold any loose papers - I wanted the cover to be as user-friendly as possible. Finally, I also made a little bookmark to send with the notebook - another butterfly - I love this - I found the pattern on Ravelry. I think I might have to make a few more of these and experiment with different colours and yarns to make them from. I made the wings of this one with all yellow acrylic and the centre and long tail for the bookmark part in two colours of acrylic as well - I crocheted the two colours together. I would have liked to have added a bead to the bottom instead of just finishing this with a knot but I didn't have one with a big enough hole in the centre for the 6 strands of yarn that I had at the end.

This was all wrapped in tissue paper and packaged to be send. Not forgetting to add a little Happy Henlow Crafts logo in there as well!