What to do if the design of the room is tired, and there is no money or effort for repairs? The fastest and not very expensive way is to change textiles and decor elements. And not all decor needs to be bought. For example, butterflies for decoration will help to bring an element of lightness. They make panels, wall compositions. Larger and brighter "live" on curtains or flowers.

What are they made of

Butterflies on the walls are made from different materials, sometimes even exotic ones. The appearance of the resulting decor depends on this choice. While there is no experience and you do not really imagine the end result, you can make several different decorative butterflies for testing. They can be attached to the location of the planned decor. So it will be easier to evaluate the effect and choose the most suitable option.

Paper

Butterflies for paper decor are the easiest and cheapest to make. There are several different techniques. If the product is flat and it is glued entirely to the wall / panel, only the front surface is important. If a three-dimensional composition is supposed, the paper should be double-sided - both sides should be painted, because the white often “wrong side” spoils the impression.

Instead of ordinary colored paper, you can take corrugated paper. The effect will be different - it is lighter, airy, translucent, with its help it is easy to make the decor with butterflies voluminous.

Butterflies for decoration made of corrugated paper are airy and light

You can make butterflies from an old magazine, newspaper, postcards, colored napkins, wallpaper of suitable colors, any other printed matter.

As you can see, there are a lot of options only from paper. Considering that they can still be slightly tinted, combined, made multi-layered, it is clear that there is a huge scope for imagination ...

Cardboard

Cardboard is not very dense. It's more of a thick paper. It is also available in color and double sided. With its help, they often make voluminous decor - you can easily bend the wings relative to the body. This material holds its shape even better. It is only worth remembering that you can no longer make corrugated wings - the material is too hard to make a small fold.

It is also easier to make openwork butterflies from cardboard. Having enough sharp knife cut out the "extra" leaving only partitions. Such decorations require perseverance, great patience and accuracy.

Cardboard is also used to make templates for the "mass" production of identical butterflies. With the help of such stencils, you can make insects of the same type and size and spend a minimum of time on it.

Textile

Having a template, you can make butterflies for decoration on a wall or a fabric chandelier lampshade. The fabric will need to be given additional rigidity, but otherwise the process is not much different: a contour is applied, cut out, decorated if necessary and mounted on the wall.

It is more difficult to work with fabric, although very interesting decorative crafts are obtained. This is an option for more advanced decorators and needle or sewing machine skills. With their help, you can recreate the veins on the wings.

Exotic materials

Old vinyl records will also be an excellent raw material for making butterfly decor. Since the vinyl is hard, to cut a butterfly out of it, you have to heat it up in the oven. And in order not to spoil the baking sheet, it must be covered with foil.

A contour is applied to the vinyl using chalk, the plate is placed in a preheated oven, as soon as it begins to soften, it is removed, and quickly cut out along the contour with scissors. Often it is necessary to heat the "workpiece" several times. After cutting out, heat for the last time and give the desired shape.

From beer cans or any other relatively soft tin, excellent flying beauties are also obtained. First you need to cut off the bottom and cover and align the piece of tin. Then, using an awl, transfer the contours from the template to the sheet, connect them with a marker and cut along the resulting contour.

Even beer cans can be used for "butterfly" wall decor.

You can decorate the back - the shiny part. This will require markers or felt-tip pens, you can try decorating with nail polish. Painted beauties are given the desired shape. One caveat: the edges are very sharp, you need to work carefully, otherwise cuts cannot be avoided.

How to make contour paper butterflies

We start with the simplest, but spectacular - contour butterflies. You will need colored paper or magazine pages, contour maps etc. You can use old postcards or colored cardboard. You will also need ordinary cardboard - to cut out the template.

These are contour butterflies for decor - they are easy to make, but they look great.

Preparing a template

We take a piece of cardboard - any, you can even some kind of packaging (tea, breakfast cereals, cereals, etc.), the main thing is that the cardboard is dense and not cellular. We find the silhouette of a butterfly that you like, transfer it to cardboard and cut it out. There are several silhouettes in the photo gallery. They can be printed, then cut out and transferred to cardboard.

Moth on the wall - it will be good in color Swallowtail is attractive with its “tail”, but paper consumption is greater and work requires more accuracy Paper butterfly patterns for interior decoration are made by half. The second is obtained “automatically” after turning a piece of paper folded in half

Some tips for working with templates. Many butterfly outlines are given with two wings, but it is better to cut off one wing - it will definitely turn out symmetrically.

Decorations from winged insects of different sizes look good. Therefore, the same contour can be enlarged, reduced using the simplest functions of graphic editors - the same Paint that is on any computer. Since only the contour is important in this case, the quality of the drawing is not so important, so feel free to experiment with sizes. We cut out the printed template, apply it to the cardboard and circle it. We cut out a hard working template with which you can make dozens of identical elements.

Cut and fasten

We take a sheet of paper, fold it in half, apply a template, circle it. Cut along the drawn line. Next, we bend the wings from the "body", we get a workpiece. Having cut out a certain number of butterflies, we attach them to the chosen place - on the wall, a piece of cardboard, etc.

You can mount it on ordinary glue (PVA usually the best option), small strips of double-sided adhesive. Wallpaper paste, etc. can be used. If in doubt about the result, stock up on sewing pins. They can be mounted on the wall several times without much risk of damaging the surface. When you place all the butterflies and the result suits you, you can glue or use adhesive tape.

Openwork

The situation is a little more complicated with openwork butterflies. They are made from paper or cardboard. It is important to have a good sharp knife and a template with lines printed on it, along which you will need to cut out excess paper. Needless to say, this is hard work.

Patterns of butterflies with openwork wings - a variant of medium complexity The second half is symmetrical

The process is the same as described above: a template is prepared, then the required number of elements is cut out from it. The peculiarity is that small fragments are first cut out and removed, and then a contour is already cut out of a piece of paper. With such a sequence of actions, there is less chance of breaking thin jumpers, and it’s easier to work this way.

How to make an openwork butterfly out of paper - the process in pictures

You need to work with a knife with a thin and sharp blade. It’s better not on the table, but by placing something solid enough - you can use a piece of plastic, etc. But you need to understand that grooves and cuts will remain on the surface, so it will be problematic to use this piece for some other purpose.

Multilayer bulk

In the manufacture of multilayer volumetric butterflies, several pieces of the same shape are cut out (size and color may vary). They are stacked one on top of the other, the “bodies” are glued together, and the wings are bent at different angles. So these butterflies are more voluminous.

You can make a combination of openwork and contour butterflies. Take paper in contrasting colors or find the same color, but different shades. Make butterflies of the same shape out of them. Only some will be with openwork, others - without. Arrange them by placing a fragment without a pattern down. It turns out an interesting effect.

There is a technique that allows you to immediately cut out voluminous butterflies from paper. You will need two rectangles of paper - a larger one (for large wings) and a smaller one. We fold them diagonally once, then the second. There are two triangles of different sizes. Now, from two opposite sides, we bend the paper inward so that we get such a triangle as in the third photo (with a newspaper).

On the resulting triangles draw the wings. In large openworks, it can be located only along the edge, in smaller ones - over the entire area. We cut out the blanks and put one into the other, glue it. From above we glue the “body” cut out separately with antennae. Due to the fact that the paper is folded and the wings are double, the products have a larger volume.

Corrugated paper

It is easier to work with corrugated paper and butterflies for decor are more airy and light, since the paper is translucent. We select suitable colors, take threads, scissors, glue. Nothing else is required. We cut out rectangles from paper about 7 * 10 cm.

We sew the resulting rectangles in the middle with a needle and thread, tighten, make a couple of turns with a thread. It turns out something resembling a bow. We fold it in half, straighten the paper with our fingers, trying to leave as few folds as possible - we form wings.

When the result satisfies you, we take scissors, cut off a strip of a few millimeters from this edge - into the antennae. On the rest, we form a patterned edge resembling a butterfly wing.

We twist the strips of antennae with our fingers into thin tubes. Now they definitely resemble antennae. We unfold the wings and finally straighten them. We got light butterflies.

From folded paper

From double-sided colored paper or old magazines, you can make paper butterflies for decoration by folding them into a small accordion. We cut out two squares or rhombuses from paper (one a little more, the second a little less), fold them into a small "accordion", starting from one of the corners. The smaller the fold, the more interesting the product will turn out.

Two folded rhombuses are folded one with the other, tied in the middle with a thread or flexible wire in a sheath suitable color. From the remnants of the wire we make antennae, straighten the wings, if desired, correct the shape.

Photo for inspiration

To begin with, a little about how and on what you can attach already made paper butterflies. The easiest way is on walls or panels with glue. The second no less simple way is with double-sided tape. But to make the decoration more voluminous, it is best to glue it not directly to the wall, but on a small piece of foam rubber. You will get a more airy composition, with clear shadows.

Paper butterflies are used to create voluminous decorative compositions on small hoops with a fishing line tied to them. Cut out paper insects are fixed on the fishing line. You can’t hang them on the wall, but they look very original, although creating such a composition is more difficult than on the wall.

Hoops and fishing line - all you need to create this beauty

And several wall compositions that use butterflies for decoration, made from different types paper.

Another option with a big butterfly…

Colored tornado….

The main thing is to find a bright picture and even a simple silhouette will look great.

The theme of butterflies in the interior has been popular for not only several decades, but for centuries. They have always been a symbol of joy, carelessness, a positive attitude to life, romance and love. Adherents of mysticism, on the contrary, saw in them a hint of otherworldly forces, subtle worlds, carriers ancient magic. One way or another, this is a hot topic for interior decor, and making butterflies with your own hands is not at all difficult. In this article, we will look at many methods and materials from which you can choose the most preferable.

• Butterfly in quilling technique
  • Materials for creation
  • Mini video lesson
• Butterflies from book pages
  • We will need
  • Instructions for creating

• Butterflies within
• Butterflies under glass

• Double cardboard butterflies
• Butterflies, circles and flowers
• Felt butterflies

• From photos
• From the atlas

• At the front door
• On the ceiling
• Over the bed

• Butterfly pillows
• Prints
• Canopy with butterflies

"Paper Butterflies"

Paper is one of the most common materials for hand-made in general, and for making such a simple shape as a butterfly, it is hard to find a better one. Even for those who are taking their first steps along the path of independent decor, it will be easy to join the work with it.

"Butterfly in quilling technique"

• If you have never heard of the art of quilling, it is time to envy you, because there are so many interesting things ahead! First, let's talk a little about what it is.

Quilling is the creation of volumetric compositions from strips of paper twisted in a spiral. The size and shape of the curl varies, and these tiny elements make up quite large-scale works. It sounds quite simple, but the resulting things surprise with their thoughtfulness. This hobby is a craft with a history that has been practiced since the distant Renaissance. And in the 19th century, it became one of the most popular ladies' hobbies.

Quilling is a rather complicated technique, do not expect everything to work out perfectly the first time. But over time, crafts will look more and more elegant, and less and less time will be spent on them.

"Materials for Creation"

What tools will be needed in order to make butterflies with your own hands using the quilling technique?

1. colored paper the usual variety, which must be cut into strips, 3-5 mm wide. In specialized stores, you can also purchase ready-made cuts, but there is nothing difficult in doing it yourself.

1. A twisting tool, which is a thin stick with a blunt end. Specialty sticks are sold in stores in the right thickness, but if you are still not sure whether you are serious about quilling, you can make it from a toothpick or ballpoint pen refill. In the rod or toothpick, you need to make an incision directly along the section with which you will grab the paper.

1. Glue - regular PVA is perfect. But for some operations, a glue stick may come in handy, so grab that too.

1. The paper that will serve as the base. This is left to your choice. You can use thin white, thick black, cardboard, craft - in general, anything.

1. Scissors with thin tips.

1. Tweezers to capture the resulting curls.

"Mini video lesson"

It does not make sense to explain the technique in brief, it is best to watch a few video tutorials that will save you from common mistakes. If you want to create the same complex designs for the interior as do-it-yourself butterflies in the photo below, start learning. Then the unusual will not keep you waiting!

"Butterflies from book pages"

• Intelligent and very gentle design of the room - butterflies made from old books. This, again, is not at all difficult and very exciting! Original simplicity is now in vogue!

"We will need"

"Creation Instructions"

1. Tear two pages out of an old book.

2. Place a roughly cut butterfly on top of a white piece of paper.

3. Trim the book pages around the outline of the picture, making sure they match exactly.

4. On one cut, place a thin wire laid crosswise. This is necessary so that the finished butterfly can be shaped.

5. Spread one butterfly well with liquid glue.

6. Put a wire on it and connect it to the second half.

7. By pressing on the wire, give the piece any shape you like.

That's it, library butterflies are ready! They can decorate walls, bookshelves, hang on the ceiling and mirrors, in a word, anything.

"Vintage Butterflies"

Butterflies are mythical and somewhat mysterious creatures. They are often used to embellish classic designs. We will show you two that you can make with your own hands, where butterflies are not cheerful and frivolous creatures, but more mysterious and mysterious.

"Butterflies within"

• We can offer you a very elegant solution in a sophisticated Victorian style. Such butterflies can be hung in an old office or living room decorated in vintage style. The harmonious ratio of photo frames is very important here - in addition, you will have to work on the art of decorating them or buy retro accessories at the flea market.

Butterfly silhouettes are easiest to print on a printer, and if you know how to draw, do it in watercolor. Our advice - do not use plain office paper for printing. Get something interesting - textured rough sheets or paper with bamboo fibers. If this is not possible, tint the sheets yourself, with tea or brewed coffee, to get the effect of old paper.

"Butterflies under glass"

• Another accessory reminiscent of a bygone era is handmade butterflies placed under glass cap. You can make the butterflies yourself or buy them in a flower shop; florists often use such specimens to decorate their magnificent arrangements. There you can also find a foam base, which you will be happy to decorate beautifully. And then you just have to cover them with glass and put them in a conspicuous place. It is advisable to allocate a separate nightstand or console for this.

"Garlands of butterflies"

Garlands are not necessarily a Christmas decoration. They can be useful for the usual weekday decoration of the room. Moreover, DIY-made butterfly crafts will doubly “please the eye”.

"Double Cardboard Butterflies"

• Double butterflies made of thick multi-colored cardboard can be used to assemble a variety of garlands. This decoration is very simple, but also very popular because it looks more spectacular than you might think. Despite the number of elements, it is done quite quickly. After all, butterflies for this can be cut out in whole bundles. Be sure to use thicker paper because you will end up having to bend the butterfly's wings to the desired angle, otherwise the garland will look flat and implausible.

"Butterflies, circles and flowers"

• Moreover, you can create garlands consisting exclusively of butterflies. And you can mix them with other paper elements to make the composition look even more interesting. In the photo below, the butterflies are harmoniously woven into "beads" made of paper circles and.

"Butterflies from felt"

• And it's not even limited to paper. If you are making garlands for a child's room, you need to be aware that paper products will not last long. Whether it's fabric, but sewing so many butterflies with your own hands is a task too time-consuming. So, we need a dense fabric for cutting, for example, felt. As you can see in the photo below, the central thread is simply passed through the parts with a needle. By the way, butterflies look very nice, being interspersed with felt pompoms. Additionally, they can be decorated with beads or sequins.

"Butterfly-paintings"

Such masterpieces are mastered very easily! We select, cut out and framed or under glass. Matte photographs, aged school atlases, and glossy magazine pages will do.

"From Photos"

• In photo albums, not the most successful photos were stale, which it is high time to throw away? Don't make hasty decisions. We may need them to create mini-paintings to help you decorate your bookcase shelves. You already know the algorithm of work - cut out several butterflies on a stencil, glue or wrap with a thread, then glue to thick cardboard.

"From the Atlas"

• As you understand, butterflies can be cut from anything - their sophisticated and exotic shape will look good on any medium. For example, you can use an old school atlas, and make unusual butterflies with your own hands, as in the illustration below.

"Pendant Butterflies"

Butterflies are supposed to flutter, so hanging them from the ceiling seems like the most obvious solution. Or against the wall, perhaps to the door, or maybe over the bed? Let's take a look at some options...

"At the front door"

• Decorative wreaths on the doors are appropriate not only for holidays. Why not decorate your home with these cheerful symbols all year round? You can print images of butterflies on colored paper or buy a ready-made set of pictures, and then paste them over a wicker wreath.

"On the ceiling"

• To make it beautiful, we will use nothing more than an embroidery hoop. We connect the hoops with each other with cords or a thick fishing line, around them we tie threads with our butterflies. The lighter your tropical creatures are, the more believable they will move their wings at the slightest breath of wind. Therefore, instead of cardboard, use thin paper, and if you want to hear the rustle of wings, then foil.

"Over the bed"

• Do wooden hoops seem too heavy for you? If yes, then you can make the base with plain white ribbons like in the photo below. The basis is the same hoop, but this time wrapped in translucent chiffon. Such butterflies can decorate the interior of both a children's room and an adult bedroom.

"Fabric Butterflies"

To convey the brightness and subtlety of the pattern on butterfly wings, it is good to use high-quality textiles. Perhaps you will like the idea to make for the interior? Or replace the boring seat upholstery with a new one? Even sewing is not such a difficult task for a person who has never dealt with a sewing machine before. But before you open up new possibilities for decorating - it's worth a try!

"Butterfly Pillows"

• Making small butterfly-shaped sofa cushions is easy, and how much fun they can bring! Use as bright fabrics as possible or sew appliqués on top if you want to play with the tropical theme.

"Prints"

• A more complex interior will go with butterfly prints on a simple plain fabric. For example, in the form of a strict graphic pattern. It can be pillows, and bed linen, and towels, and capes.

"Canopy with butterflies"

• Butterflies have always been considered a symbol of tender love and well-being, so they have a place in your bedroom. How to place them there to make the atmosphere as romantic as possible? Kill two birds with one stone by hanging a thin canopy dotted with moths over your bed. Such an interior decoration with butterflies will certainly bring harmony and comfort to the house!

Hello dear readers. Today I invite you to get creative. There was a very interesting idea decorate the room with bow tie garlands. It looks beautiful. You can decorate a room or a chandelier, you can also attach butterflies to the wall in the form of a heart or any other pattern. So you can decorate a room for an anniversary or birthday, you can decorate a cafe or a restaurant, or you can make a beautiful composition of paper butterflies in the classroom, I think the students and the teacher will be delighted. It's simple and beautiful. Handmade jewelry will be appreciated by everyone.

Paper is the most common creative material. It is easy and simple to do everything, I think that children, if they have a desire, can also make paper butterflies.

A paper butterfly garland will take a little of your time. Since we will be making butterflies out of paper, I will be using double-sided paper that I bought for making postcards. She is bright, beautiful and dense. You can use origami paper.

Here is my stack of paper, this is scrapbooking paper. I don't know if colored paper can be used. There are some downsides. Colored paper is one-sided and very thin, I'm afraid that butterflies can be damaged.

You can make a butterfly using the quilling technique from colored paper, but today I will make paper butterflies on a thread.

You can use cardboard, but there are some subtleties, it is very dense and one-sided. I haven't tried it, but you can try.

Also, on the forum, I read that craftswomen who are engaged in creativity advise making garlands of butterflies using foil.

Do-it-yourself butterfly garland - we make it out of paper

I will share with you my master class, with step by step photos work process. Butterflies can be made using a special cutting "butterfly". I have a cutting of a flower, a leaf, but there is no butterfly) I will cut it out with scissors.

What you need:

• Paper
• Scissors
• simple pencil
• Butterfly templates (you can print or draw by hand)
• PVA glue
• Thread or ribbon

On the blog, I already showed how to make a garland of paper hearts on a thread, it's very simple, today I'm making butterflies. In order not to repeat with a thread, I took a thin ribbon.

Let's get to work:

1. You need to print butterflies in different sizes (you can use one size). In this work, I have large, and medium, and small.

2. If it is not possible to print, butterflies can be drawn by hand, fold the sheet in half, draw half of the butterfly, cut it out (this will be a template). So everything is symmetrical.

3. Now the most difficult thing is to circle the butterflies on paper and cut them out. It takes a little time. The job requires perseverance and patience.

I have 2 butterflies, I make 2 identical butterflies and I will stick them one on top of the other.

4. I will glue this garland of butterflies to the ribbon with PVA glue. if you have glue gun, then you can use it. I have a glue gun, but not everyone has one, so I decided to glue with PVA glue to see if the butterflies would stick with regular glue.

When the glue is dry, the butterflies hold up wonderfully, stick very well.

5. I apply glue and glue the butterfly to the ribbon.

6. I glue the second butterfly on top, applied only a thin one. a strip of glue. Thus, the wings will be straightened and not glued.

7. Thus, we glue all the butterflies at the same distance from each other.

8. As a result, I got 2 ribbons with butterflies. This is what it looks like.

The work is painstaking, but it's worth it, it's very beautiful to hang butterflies on a chandelier or on a wall. The next day I decided to make paper butterflies on a thread of the same size.

Paper butterflies on a thread - a master class with a photo

Can be used for butterflies white paper A4 format, and even a newspaper, looks very original.

What is necessary:

• Paper
• Scissors
• simple pencil
• Butterfly templates (any, small, medium, large)
• PVA glue

Let's get to work:

1. Having prepared everything you need, you can get to work, as in the first version, we circle and cut out the butterflies.

2. I cut out butterflies of the same size. I glued rhinestones to the wing (you can do without them), I bought them at the Everything for Scrapbooking store, there are enough such little things.

3. I take the most ordinary thin thread and PVA glue. We apply glue on the center of the butterfly and on the thread, glue the second butterfly on top. Therefore, I cut out 2 butterflies of the same color.

4. Thus, at the same distance, glue all the butterflies to the thread and let the glue dry. When gluing the butterfly, one to the other, it is best to press them down with your fingers.

That's what I did.

5. Now you can decorate the room with this beauty. I glued the thread and ribbons with butterflies to the wall, it can be on the ceiling or on the chandelier. Of course, to make it more beautiful, you will need a lot of such threads with butterflies.

This is how it looks to me.

Our children said that paper butterflies on a thread look more beautiful than on a ribbon, from a distance, on the wall, you can’t even see the thread, it feels like it’s just butterflies, without a thread, that they glued to the wall.

The camera cannot convey beauty, but from the outside, it is very beautiful and original. I had an idea that butterflies fly from one point, and fly up to different sides. But you still need to do, at least 2-3 threads with butterflies, then it will be even more beautiful.

Butterflies can be glued to a decorative thread, but for this you will have to use a glue gun. It will be faster and even more reliable.

I really like the butterflies on the wall without a thread of thread.

This wall decor is not only beautiful, but also unusual, original. So you can decorate a studio for a photo or a cafe.

This is an original decorative element. Simple and very beautiful.

You can make a voluminous butterfly out of paper. Origami paper is used.

Do-it-yourself voluminous paper butterfly

You can not only decorate a room with butterflies, but also make pictures of these cute creatures. I like the picture in the shape of a heart, very original.

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