Home  Spring Crafts  Summer Crafts  Autumn Crafts  Christmas Crafts  Craft Recipes and Tips  Wood Crafts  General Crafts  Kids Crafts  Paper Crafts  Fabric and Sewing Crafts  Cards  Craft Patterns  Instructions, Tips and Tutorials  Picture Gallery  Sitemap  Contact  Links  Artist Trading Cards  Tags Jewelry and Bead Crafts  Recycling Crafts  Clay Pot Crafts  Newsletter

Tutorial - How to Create a Paper Butterfly Window Decoration All patterns, pictures and text found on Craftideas.info may be printed out and used for private purposes or school-room use only. It is NOT permitted to use our text or photographs on any website, any blog or any other form of publication. Here is some more useful information: This project is recommended for children ages 10 and older (caution is required using the craft knife) Spring and Easter paper crafts - Have you ever made paper pinwheels or do you need Easter gift boxes? You will find these projects with instructions here, as well as many others to keep you crafting through the spring season! Creative paper crafts for all occasions >>> Would you like to learn about decoupaging or how to alter daily items into new treasures? Learn new paper craft techniques and Find these and other fun to create crafts in this section. Paper crafts for fall and Halloween >>> Decorate your home with typical halloween figures, embellish your window with pumpkin suncatchers or create a pumpkin luminary to lighten up dark evenings. Have fun creating these and more projects found in this section. Quick and easy paper craft projects for Christmas >>> Here you will find crafts to keep you busy at Christmas time. Create greeting card gift boxes, snowflake bookmarkers and a 3-D Christmas tree amongst other quick and easy fun crafts. Decorate your packages with these homemade tags >>> You have wrapped that perfect birthday present and need now the appropriate gift tag to finish it off? This section offers easy tag inpirations and ideas to help you decide what you would like to do. Artist Trading Cards to craft for summer and all occasions >>> Artist trading cards or otherwise known as ATC’s are like miniature works of art. Find out more about them here and examples to show you how you can start making them. Butterfly Project 1   Butterfly Project 2 Step-By-Step Tutorials 1 Here you will find over 80 step-by-step tutorials with pictures. Step-by-Step Tutorials 2 Find even more step-by-step tutorials and instructions. New tutorials are being added on a regular basis. Origami Picture Frame Tutorial   1. Print out the butterfly template and make a permanent template. Lay it on a piece of folded construction paper. Secure the butterfly with paper clips and trace around the insides and the outside of the template. 2. Remove the template and continue holding the paper together with paper clips. Take your craft knife and first cut out all of the inside markings of the butterfly. 3. This is now how it looks. 4. Now you can take your scissors and cut the outside shape out. Continue holding the pieces together with paper clips. 5. Now you have two identical butterflies. 6. Using the stick glue, glue along the inside of the butterfly. 7. Tear pieces of your fiber paper to fit the insides of these spaces and press them to the glue. 8. Continue filling out the spaces with the colors of your choice. Here are green and white the chosen colors. 9. You have finished filling out the inside spaces. 10. Find the side that will be laying over the first butterfly piece and glue along the paper. Press this piece now exactly over the first butterfly. Now your picture looks perfect on both sides. Enter your search terms Submit search form Web www.craftideas.info