Red butterfly card made from recycled materials.
- Red butterfly card made from recycled materials.
- Read this beautiful book to inspire your cards.
- Parents or older kids: cover the inside of your card with white tissue paper. See hub article for instructions.
- Parents or older kids: draw butterflies for stencils.
- Parents or older kids: make card board stencils to cut out butterflies from gift wrap.
- Parents or older kids: cover the outside of your card with red tissue paper. All ages: use stencils to cut white paper butterflies.Then cut gift wrap butterflies just a little smaller than the white ones.
- All ages: glue butterflies onto cards and outline them with black markers.
- All ages: glue gift wrap butterflies on top of the white outlines by the bodies only, leave wings loose! Use black marker to add more detail.
- For the green butterfly card, glue white tissue paper on green card board.
- Add gift wrap butterflies to front of card and cover the entire card with one or two more layers of white tissue paper to create silk effect. Here, the third layer only overlaps part of the picture.
- To make the butterflies stand out from the "mist", outline them with green marker and add details.
- This card was made by a seven-year-old using a Christmas shirt-box.
- For the fan card, fold small pieces of gift-wrap with small designs or color your own as shown here.
- Butterfly card made by thirteen-year-old using gift wrap, construction paper and markers.
- Butterfly in the snow! Another shirt-box butterfly card.
- Another seven-year-old creation with fans and flower made from gift wrap.
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