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Summary: A couple of things that might go wrong with your butterfly, and are easily fixed. Learn how to make paper butterfly sun catchers from a professional art instructor in this free crafts video.
Kira Morrell, Owner of Create Art Studio located in Easthampton, MA has been teaching children and adults for nine years. She earned her degree in Fine Arts and Art Management from...read more
"A couple of things that might go wrong with your butterfly, and are easily fixed. Your butterfly, the body might come unattached. If that's the case, pull out the staple and put it back in. With the antennas, the same thing can happen, and what's probably a better attachment is if we wrap the pipe cleaner antennas around the head, just to securely fashion them on. We've also got, remember, we have another staple up here, and that might need to be reinforced with a second staple. The other thing that can sometimes happen is that the tissue paper can come loose. What we want to do then is we want to use our glue stick, not the liquid glue, to reattach any of these pieces that might have come undone. We can do the same thing on the front. So, if we have a couple of loose pieces, don't be afraid to take this in. Again, this is a place where we could use a little bit of the glue decoupage on a paint brush for those spot treatments along the edges of the tissue paper, to make it nice and straight. The other thing is the glue, the sequins, those things could fall off. It's really not a problem, we can reapply it with the glue. Other things that sometimes happen is that the sun will start to fade our sun catchers, but since these are such an easy project to make, you can always make more."
eHow Article: Butterfly Sun Catchers: Troubleshooting