3D Papercraft Projects – Page 5

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.

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.

Greeting card with two 3D layered butterflies cut from paper

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

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

Happy crafting
Suzanne

I recently updated my business card design to include my new website and some of my favourite 3D papercraft projects, and I’m so pleased with how it’s turned out!

So, this got me thinking … How can I safely store and present my lovely new set of 100 business cards, whilst keeping consistent with my brand?

And, of course, it had to be a handmade box!

A business card display box made from mint green cardstock and decorated with white spotty card holding 100 business cards.

This is how I made it …

I started by measuring the set of cards and worked out that I needed a 20cm x 20cm piece of cardstock. I chose the lovely vintage mint green colour to match my brand (and my Cricut Explore 🥰). I then used my scoring board to score the lines shown below and drew the diagonal lines at the sides with a pencil.

I folded and burnished the score lines, then cut the tabs as shown below.

Next, I added some patterned paper panels to the front (measuring 8.5cm x 1.5 cm) and the two sides (measuring 4.5cm x 5cm with the diagonal lines at 1.5cm).