DIY Wedding Decor
Hanging Peacock Butterflies (community article)
Go Magical! Create a beautiful and elegant touch to your wedding reception with peacock butterflies! This design is simple, only takes minutes to assemble and hang!
Design, Description, and Photos by Cassaundra
For Prep:
(makes 25 butterflies)
1 Mini Glue Gun (Michael's)
2 Mini Glue Sticks (Michael's)
Scissors
100 peacock feathers (online websites sell these in bulk, .25 a feather!)
50 oval gems (Michael's)
1 spool of clear fishing line (Target)
Directions:
- First, find a safe area to use the hot glue gun.
- Plug it in and wait 5-10 minutes.
- Trim down the peacock feathers to just below the eyelets.
- Oragnize feathers by size, into piles of four, along with two gems per pile.
- Cut the fishing line to length, according to your needs. (average is 48in)
- Take one gem, squeeze hot glue onto the back of the gem and immediatley press in one "wing" at a time.
- Once all the four wings are on, while the glue is still hot press on second gem to opposite side.
- Then, quickly take the fishing line and slide between gems (just enough to hold the string)
- Set aside on flat surface.
- Allow Butterfly to cool for at least two minutes before moving.
- And Voila!
More professional photos to come, after our wedding!
For Protection until the Event, carefully seran-wrap the butterflies in quantities of five. Place in safe area, so the wings don't get damaged!
Extra Touch: You can actually "curl" the wings on the butterfly, like you can with ribbon, by using sissors and running them over the wings!
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Last revision on 10/07/2009 at 10:29 am in basics, budget, do it yourself, reception, style + color
Authors: Cassaundra
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