Crafty Marie

These beautiful paper butterfly decorations and embellishments make for a wonderful spring craft project for both adults and older children to make. The completed designs can be used as pretty party decorations and also as stunning and professional looking embellishments for your handmade cards, scrapbooks, wall art and more. This how to tutorial walks you step by step through crafting up some of your own gorgeous 3D paper butterflies that have these rather amazing and gorgeous glitter edged wings.  I've been making up these designs for many years for my card making and we also have them dotted around the playroom which has a real Spring theme to it. The ones I've made here are made from soft cream and vintage style papers but you can make your designs up in a riot of colors as you please.

Making up pennant banners and bunting is pretty quick and easy to do using felt fabric sheets. Felt has a number of advantages over most materials that you can use since you can cut this into any shape you like and the edges do not fray. This makes it nice and easy to work with. Another big advantage is that your completed banner will last a whole lot longer than a simple paper one will. See how to make a felt pennant banner and then you can pop this up for a celebration such as a birthday, a wedding or a special time of year like Christmas and then you can take it down, store it carefully away and re-use it again as often as you need to. Since it's made of a fabric, you should only use this outdoors when it is dry or under a sheltered area. Do not leave it out overnight where it risks getting damp. This is ideal for an indoor decoration and can be used outdoors on a fine, dry day as a very temporary fixture. Fabric banners certainly look cuter and add a little touch of class t...