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One of the favorite and most common decorations for bedrooms and living rooms is butterflies. Beautiful butterflies can be created from old plastic bottles and painted to your liking or in harmony with the color of the wallpaper and home decor.

Stained glass butterfly


For crafts will need:
1. A plastic bottle.
2. Special paints - acrylic.
3. Sharp small scissors.
4. Beads and wire.
5. A sheet of paper with a marker or a small butterfly template.
6. Hot melt adhesive.

Stained glass butterfly


At the first stage, you need to draw and cut a butterfly. It can be any size, but the wingspan should not be larger than the circumference of the bottle.

Stained glass butterfly


Cut a narrow part from the bottle, you will need only a smooth part of it.

Stained glass butterfly


Use the adhesive backing to secure the butterfly to the inside of the plastic bottle. Try to straighten all the wings so that the halo of the insect is easier to outline and decorate.

Stained glass butterfly

Stained glass butterfly


Squeeze the paints into the palette. You can use ready-made colors or create others by mixing, for example, pink is obtained from red and white, etc. Use a thin, soft brush to outline the outline of a soaring insect. For convenience, you can first paint one side of the wings, and then display the pattern on the opposite side. Each line contour is drawn in black paint.

Stained glass butterfly


First paint the inside of the upper wing. Then, apply paint to the rest of the pieces and start decorating the lower wing.

Stained glass butterfly


It is important that when using these paints do not add a lot of water, otherwise the contours will spread out.

Stained glass butterfly


When the paint dries, apply dots with a contrasting shade, they will give a greater resemblance to a live insect.

Stained glass butterfly


Next, decorate a second pair of wings on the other side and let the work dry well.

Stained glass butterfly


At this time, the body of the butterfly, the head and the antennae gather from the beads. As a result, this should be the middle:

Stained glass butterfly


Butterfly needs to be cut, be sure to repeat the wave of wings, and do not cut in a straight line.

Stained glass butterfly

Stained glass butterfly


The resulting workpiece will curl inward in the form of a tube. To make the wings flutter, rotate the insect model in the center and the wings will take the desired shape.

Stained glass butterfly

Stained glass butterfly


Smear the middle part of the butterfly with hot glue and immediately glue the "skeleton" of the beads. Then hold it firmly and let the glue dry.

Stained glass butterfly


The butterfly is ready. It can be pinned with a needle to the wallpaper or fixed on flowers, the butterfly looks great on a wall clock or room ikebana.

Stained glass butterfly
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