Papercut Butterfly Specimen Box

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  Step 1

  Measure your shadow box to work out how many butterflies you can fit and what size they should be.

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  Step 2

  Open up Silhouette Studio and pick a butterfly design you like. I used the Heart Butterfly from the shop. Scale the butterfly to the right size for your shadow box and fill up an A4 sheet with them.

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  Step 3

  Cut out your butterflies on black card.

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  Step 4

  Peel off the black butterflies and fold their wings up at either side to give them a 3D shape.

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  Step 5

  Now print out a second set of butterflies on an old sheet of map.

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  Step 6

  Peel off the map butterflies and bend up their wings at either side.

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  Step 7

  Match up a black card butterfly with a map butterfly so that the butterfly on the top has it's wings pointing down and the one on the top has it's wings pointing up.

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  Step 8

  Arrange your butterflies on the corkboard until you find a design you like

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  Step 9

  Pin the butterflies in place.

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  Step 10

  Place in your frame and enjoy!

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