Butterfly Wall Art

Hello,

I’ve recently finished a really big project.  A REALLY big project.  I have found a new interest: Wall Art!  Anything that can be stuck on a wall will do for me!  Unfortunately, I don’t have much space in my room for that kind of thing, so, I decided to use the ceiling instead. My sister and I started cutting out and hanging butterflies.

I think we used about 102 butterflies.  I know, that’s a lot, but it didn’t seem like that many when we did it.  These are the patterns I used, but these are some more good ones:

http://www.fabdiy.com/-butterfly-decoration/

http://www.moomama.com/2014/04/diy-3d-butterfly-wall-art-with-free.html

http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/home-and-gardening/headlines/20130529-lush-leafy-east-dallas-property-inspires-with-art-water-conserving-features.ece

http://zugalerie.blogspot.com/2011/05/idee-pour-la-fete-des-meres.html

Some of them are templates, but not all of them.  I just free-handed mine; this is how I cut it out:

 Fold the paper in half, then cut out the butterfly.

 Unfold it, and you have a butterfly!  Sadly, you still have to do… a lot more.  That would be why I called it a “REALLY big project.”  Once I cut them all out, I taped them up on the ceiling.  The tape doesn’t stick.  They keep falling down.  😐  I keep putting them back up, but they fall down again.  Ughhhhhhh.

Here are a few pictures of the finished product.

They start from the corner of our bedroom door.

  A swirl of butterflies.  This is the best overall view I could get; it’s pretty hard to capture everything in one picture.  You have to see it in person to really get the whole feeling.

  Sorry some of the pictures are kind of fuzzy; it is hard for me to take good pictures of the ceiling!  I hope you guys like this, and please comment!

~Joy

Cute Paper Craft

Hi,

This is a cute little thing I did a while ago.  Actually it may have been more then a year ago, but it is still one of my favorite paper crafts I’ve ever done.

This one is my favorite.

This one is not a great one, but I decided to put it in anyways.

Sorry I couldn’t put more pictures in; I am still trying to figure out how to do this.  🙂

Anyways,  all I did was take a flower hole punch and punch out pieces of newspaper.  Then I glued them on a piece of card stock, and cut out a different piece of colored paper and glued it on a the other piece.  It’s super easy if you have a flower hole punch, but if you don’t, you can cut out your own flowers.  I usually don’t go to that much work for one craft, but if you’re that dedicated, go for it!  Hope you have fun!

~Joy