Glittered Paper Butterfly Ornaments
This weeks project are these darling glittered paper butterfly ornaments, made from antique scripty writing . So pretty for your Holiday tree, or to top off a package!
This is the digital collage sheet that I created for this project. You can click here for the PDF of the Printable Butterflies .
I’ve included a supply list and instructions below:
Supply List:
1) Glitter – I used German Glass glitter, because I love it!
2)Cardstock – Plain white works just fine
3)Mod Podge Dimensional Glue
4) Regular Mod Podge (I used Matte)
5) Thin Wire
6)Glue Gun
7)Florist Wire
8)Chenille Stems (bump for the large butterflies and regular for the small, I used white but you could use silver too)
9) Bone folder (Or something sturdy to press a fold with)
1) Print the PDF onto the card stock and cut out the butterflies. I like to use these tiny fiskar scissors, they work the best for me.
2) Fold butterflies in half and press with the bone folder, or whatever you have.
3)Using the dimensional glue, add glue around the edges, or wherever you want some sparkle.
4) Dust the wet glue areas with glitter and allow to dry.
5) Next cut your chenille stems to fit your butterly wings (these will be the bodies) and use Mod Podge glue (dimensional or regular are fine) and glitter onto one side and dry.
6)Using your florist wire, make a bend in the center and then fasten the ends into curly cues for the antennas. (Next time I make these I will probably paint these silver first, as the green showed through a tiny bit, not too bad though since they are mostly covered with glitter)
7) Wrap the wire antennas around the top of the chenille stem. Next glue and glitter the antennas as well. (You need to wrap them around the body before you glitter or the glitter will come off)
8) Make two perforations in the center of your butterfly.
9)Cut the thin wire to desired length (this is what you will use to fasten the ornament to the tree) and pull through the holes and fasten in the back.
10) Apply a coat of regular Mod Podge to the back of your wings.
11) Dust the glued wings with the glitter and dry.
12) Finally when all pieces are dry, hot glue the body to the center of the wings (Sorry that photo didn’t turn out)
And your done!
I hope you liked this fun and frugal crafty project!
dana montalbano says
I am excited to do this for an ornament exchange. I hope I can pull it off since I’m not crafty! I have a couple questions. In section 5 where you show 4 glittered chenille pieces , is that the body and more wings? Is that shown put togethr with antenna in section 7? Is there a template for those pieces? Not sure if the non straight parts in 5 are more wings made of chenille , or? Thank you from the beginner crafter:)
dana says
the pdf link isnt working properly when i got o print :((((
Lewann Rice says
Hi Karen!
I love your site!!!!! I also love butterflies so this is right up my alley! LOL
I was wondering if on the PDF is there are way to change the words on the butterflies? I would love to make these for my nieces and nephews for Christmas with their names on them. Thanks!
Lewann
Karen- The Graphics Fairy says
I just fixed the link to the PDF, it looks like it stopped working at some point. Sorry about that! You can download it now and it should work just fine!
Alexandra says
Love it! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
ApachesPrincess says
Those are gorgeous! Thanks for the tutorial! I love it!
Kim -today's creative blog says
I’m stealing this. 🙂
Delightful Dwelling says
Those are so pretty! Thanks for sharing the template for those.
Jenny @ Words on Wendhurst says
Beautiful! I love all the little butterflies that are everywhere this year. So pretty!
tpurk says
Thanks for sharing – and providing the PDF download..that’s a bonus for those of us who can’t draw such a great butterfly. Great project.
Terrie @ YourDecoratingHotline.com
Angie @ The Shabby Chic Cottage says
Those are terrific! And they look great on that tree!
Amy {The Red Chair Blog} says
These are wonderful!
Shirley says
Another wonderful idea. I’m just loving this “party”! I butch of idea of shapes I could also make flashed through my head> Lord knows I have enough scrapbook paper to decorate the world!
Amanda says
That’s really lovely, hard to catch the beauty of something sparkly with a camera – so I bet it’s even prettier in person!