My aunt bought me some rather pretty butterflies for christmas a few years back and I've been trying to work out how they were made, but it remained a mystery until I ran across
this tutorial, which gave me a good place to start. All you need is some cling wrap, wire, craft glue (or any glue that dries clear, I imagine), glitter pens and food colouring.
I bent some metal frames in butterfly and dragonfly shapes. Mixed some glue, glitter and food colouring until I got the mix I wanted. (It was all very much guess work.) I pressed the butterflies as flat as possible, then filled in the wire frames with the glue mixture using a toothpick and left it to dry. Once dry, they peeled off the plastic quite easily.
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| In the process of drying out on cling film. |
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| The final versions in several colours. |
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