Butterfly made of paper with a stencil for cutting: voluminous, openwork or accordion

Butterfly made of paper can become an ornament forwalls or clothes, it is suitable as a gift. These crafts are always in fashion and are relevant for holidays. Make a paper butterfly with your own hands is easy. It is enough to arm yourself with the necessary tools and materials, learn a few secrets and include your own imagination.
Stencils of butterflies for carving
Openwork paper butterflies are especially attractiveAttention. They are beautiful and unusual, so they are perfect for decorating the room. For the manufacture of such products you need a stencil. It's easy to make by yourself. For this, a silhouette appears on the cardboard, and in the middle a drawing is created at its own discretion. First cut the butterfly itself on the contour, and then the pattern inside. Thus, a stencil is obtained, which can be used repeatedly. It is enough to attach it to a paper of any color, circle and cut.

On a note! When manufacturing a stencil, we cut it out carefully, otherwise all the shortcomings will constantly reflect on the finished products. For this it is convenient to use a small sharp knife. To give volume, do not exactly stick to symmetry. You can make the wings a little different, but that it is not too obvious.
To date, the Internet has ready sketches of butterflies for carving. First they will have to be downloaded and printed, and then transferred to the cardboard, as in the previous case.


Another option is to purchase ready-made stencils.

On a note! Open-work artwork will look more interesting if you cover it with varnish and sparkles.
Patterns of butterflies made of paper
In fact, the template is the same stencil. But sometimes an ordinary sketch is taken for him, without an internal pattern. Templates are used similarly to stencils. They can be created manually by connecting a fantasy.


On the Internet there are ready-made templates that will save you from having to show your artistic abilities.

Cut the butterfly along the outline of the template
First they need to be attached to the paper forfabricate the product, traverse the outline, and then cut it. So you can make products of completely different sizes. In the process it is recommended to connect the children, this activity will seem interesting to them.
On a note! With the help of such products it is possible to decorate a wall, decorate a wall, curtains, cover the floor with them, and fill a vase. Find them an application to a person with unlimited imagination will not be difficult.
A way to make a butterfly using the origami method
A multi-layered volume work is obtained using the origami method.
Step by step the product is performed as follows:
The paper square is folded in half (horizontally and vertically), and then diagonally from both sides.
The workpiece is folded into a triangle.
The upper part of the triangle bends to the crown of the head.
The workpiece is flipped so that the vertex of the triangle looks down. Then it bends so that it passes over the base.
As a result, you will get a small end of the triangle, which will slightly look out. It is necessary to bend it and fix it with adhesive on the reverse side.
The product is almost ready, it remains slightlyModify to get the right shape. For this, the craft is bent in half from the side where the small triangle is. Antennae can be made from wire.
Perhaps, at once to understand the whole principle of action will not work. For clarity, the photo is a step-by-step implementation.

The picture below shows how original the decoration turned out.

Using the origami method, you can make an oddity accordion. To do this, you will need:
superfine brush;
thread (depending on the idea);
colored paper.
The following sequence of actions is performed:
A square sheet of paper folds in half, resulting in a triangle.
From the middle of the figure you need to start creating an accordion by folding the material. Similar actions are repeated with another paper box.
The resulting accordions are folded and wrapped in the center of the ruff. It is necessary that it serves not only as a fastener, but also used as an antennae.
"Wings" slightly unfolded to make them more in size.
The pictures below will help to visually present the process of making such "harmonies".

Of the many such elements, you can make a beautiful garland. For this they are connected by a thread, which passes in the center of each craft.
Video: how to cut a butterfly from paper
Below is a short video that shows how to cut a butterfly from paper.
And one more video of making unusual diy for decorating a wall
Sometimes you can make unusual andbeautiful things. For this the Internet is filled with master classes, video instructions and other material that will help in this craft. For those who do not want to start with the basics, ready-made templates are proposed that simplify the task considerably. With the help of them, you can create shapes of flowers, turtles, cats and much more. In the future, products can be issued at their own discretion. Some use lacquer for this, others - paints, others are pasted with a cloth. In this case, there is a lot of fantasy. Butterfly made of paper refers to more simple crafts, which require a minimum of experience and time.













