3D Papercraft Projects

Layered Butterflies

My Butterfly Favour Bag has been hugely popular recently and I’ve had several people ask if I have any other butterfly designs that could be added to the bag.

Butterfly Favour Bag by Esselle Crafts

This is something that I’d considered doing when I designed the first one and so, as I loved doing it, I have designed three more!

Set of 4 3D layered butterflies for paper crafts

The first one (that comes with the bag) is a likeness of a Small Tortoiseshell butterfly and the others are likenesses of a Peacock, a Monarch and a Speckled Wood butterfly.

I have the whole set of four butterflies available in my Etsy shop as SVG cut files as well PDFs if you prefer to cut out by hand.

Layered butterflies blog post by Esselle Crafts

They are so delightfully versatile and, as well as adding them to the favour bags, they can be used for all sorts of different papercraft projects.

Here I’ve used two of them on a greeting card. 

Butterfly greeting card using 3D layered butterflies

The butterflies are super easy to assemble (consisting of only two layers) and look amazing with the top layer cut out of mirror card.

2 3D layered butterflies cut from paper

I can’t wait to see what you use them for! 🦋

Happy crafting
Suzanne

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