Our Butterfly Lantern hangs from our pergola outside, glowing in the sunlight and, also, glowing in the moonlight.
It is ever so pretty, in a completely summery way.
To make it, we needed…
* pretty, double-sided, scrapbooking paper.
* a paper lantern
* glue
* scissors
On a white piece of paper, I played around with the scissors to make a template for the butterfly wings. Then, I folded the pretty scrapbooking paper so that it would fit the wings I had drawn and put my template wings on the fold so that, once cut, would open up into butterfly wings.
I cut around my wing template to make pretty butterfly wings for the scrapbooking paper.
Teddy Bear painted glue in the spot each butterfly was to go and we stuck our pretty paper butterflies in place.
Even when the real butterflies are resting for the day, our butterfly lantern brings the wonder of summer onto our deck.
Blessings and magic,
Donni
15 Responses
So pretty!
i love the soft, summer colors you have chosen!
ohh looks so nice!!thanks for sharing.
So sweet! What a beautiful Summer craft.
aw donni, that is too cute.
This is great I just saw paper lanterns at the dollar store and I have a plethera of scrapbook paper that is begging for a creative use. Perfect! Thanks.
Blessings,
Kat
Pretty!!
Very pretty. The paper hearts are lovely to.
So sweet and pretty…
great idea! your blog seems to have changed up a bit and it looks so clean and fresh.
Your blog is definitely my new fave. I love your new header too. =)
HI Donni
Lovely idea. I have just nominated your blog for a beautiful blogger award! now you can pass it on to 10 of your faves too! the picture link is over at my blog http://www.mamamoontime.com THanks so much for continued inspiration!! Amber
Aww, that is so pretty! Thanks so much for the great idea, I’ll be linking.
Hi Donni, Just proves that simple things are best! We all need more pretty in our lives,thanks for another great idea.
Great tutorial. I like it very much, thanks for sharing