For a long time I wanted butterflies to decorate my paper craft.
I tried this once and it worked. I did a lot and kept them for future use.
It's one basic cut out of paper.
It works well as a simple decoration to any paper craft, like bookmarks and cards. You can use this idea to do a more complicated butterfly.
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All you need is:
Coloured paper
Scissors
How to:
Fold paper in half.
Cut a B shape with the bottom smaller and angling downwards and the top bigger angling upwards.
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