Think Spring

I've seen several Valentine's wreaths lately using rolled of paper flowers. I don't have the patience to do that right now and wanted to do something more seasonal instead of holiday specific. Continuing with my butterflies, I went with a butterfly wreath.

The wreath is small, perhaps 6" -8" and wrapped in white floral tape I found at Michaels.

The butterflies come from a long Sizzix Sizlits Decorative Strip die called Butterflies, Fancy, which they probably don't make anymore. The paper is from DCWV Border Punch Strips in Brights, which are almost the perfect size for the Decorative Strip dies. Mine seems to be an older stack than what is currently available as it has 87 sheets.

The die makes 5 kinds of butterflies: 2 solos, 2 doubles, and 1 triple butterfly. 

For this project I only used the the two solos.

There are sections to punch out in the wings that may take some time and there may be a few antennae lost along the way if your die does not cut all the way through and you have to encourage them out of the paper.

I cut the butterflies out of one of every color in the stack, ending up with 25 different colors and 50 butterflies.

Then went about gluing butterflies to the ring, trying to avoid having two of the same color family together. I left space at the top to loop a ribbon over.

Enjoy!