Oriental butterflies

There are some lovely oriental papers on the market at the moment and I couldn't resist having a little go with them!It's a butterfly card (of course)

I stuck 2 matts onto a square card blank, then concertina folded another piece of paper to hold the butterflies. I threaded cocktail sticks into the edges and made some black beads for each end. I didnt have any butterflies that I hadnt used so I lifted the "waste" butterflies from a peel-off sheet. These were then stuck to the "blind" and the blind applied to the centre of the second matt. I added 2 strips of paper and 6 more beads to the side, and an Chinese greeting peel-off on a mount of black card. It reads "friend"

Although these papers are of an oriental theme they are very versatile and some of them could be used for other projects.