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Home » Decorating » DIY Rustic Butterfly Decoration from an Old Book

DIY Rustic Butterfly Decoration from an Old Book

August 10, 2019 By Vanessa Beaty Leave a Comment

If you love paper crafts and you enjoy everything rustic, there’s nothing more fun than making beautiful crafts out of old book pages. In today’s video tutorial, you will learn how you can make hanging rustic butterfly décor from an old book and some keys.

Rustic old book butterflies are lovely displayed against a wall.

Table of Contents

  • How to Make Butterflies from an Old Book
  • What You Need for this Old Book Paper Craft
  • What to Do With Butterflies from an Old Book
  • How to Make This Rustic Butterfly Décor Step-by-Step Video Tutorial

How to Make Butterflies from an Old Book

This is a fast and easy old book craft. You only need a few pages to make a number of butterflies. How many you make is up to you. You can make them all the same size, as I did, or you can make them in a variety of sizes.

Old book butterflies are displayed against a wall.

What You Need for this Old Book Paper Craft

To make this rustic paper craft, you just need a few basic supplies. You’ll need a pair of scissors, some hot glue and a glue gun. You’ll require some twine and an old book that you are willing to cut up.

You will need a couple of other things as well. In order to create the shapes of butterflies on the pages to cut out, you will need butterfly stencils of some variety. If you want to reproduce the results of this craft closely, you will need the same shape of stencil in two different sizes, one slightly smaller than the other.

Download our butterfly templates here: butterfly_template.jpeg (Can be printed black and white)

You will also need keys, which will serve as the bodies of your butterflies. You can use any types of keys that you want, but you will achieve the best rustic effect if you go with vintage skeleton keys. If you do not have any of these, you can purchase them by the lot online.

Rustic butterflies made with old book pages and keys are ready to hang.

What to Do With Butterflies from an Old Book

After you complete this craft, you can hang up your butterflies anywhere you please. You can put them against a wall or simply hang them from the ceiling anywhere in a room.

Old book butterflies spruce up a wooden cabinet.

How to Make This Rustic Butterfly Décor Step-by-Step Video Tutorial

Ready to get started making butterflies from an old book and keys? Find the quick list of materials and tools required below along with written instructions to accompany the video tutorial.

 

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DIY Rustic Butterfly Decoration from an Old Book

Rustic butterfly decorations made from old book pages and keys are displayed against a wood backdrop.

Love rustic crafts using the pages of old books? You’ll have fun making these butterflies from an old book with our easy video tutorial.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Active Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Difficulty Easy
Estimated Cost $3

Materials

  • Old book
  • Butterfly stencil
  • Keys
  • Twine or other rustic string

Tools

  • Hot glue and glue gun
  • Scissors

Instructions

  1. Begin by cutting out your butterfly stencils in two different sizes so that you can trace around them. If you don't have any download our free butterfly template here.Cut out the butterfly stencils.Butterfly stencils in two sizes have been cut out.
  2. Tear out a few pages from an old book to work with. How many you need depends on how many butterflies you plan to make.Tear out some old book pages.
  3. For each butterfly, trace around both the large stencil and the small one on the book page so that you have two butterfly shapes in two different sizes.Trace around your butterfly stencils on the old book pages.
  4. Cut out the butterfly shapes from the old book pages.Cut out the butterfly shapes.You now have an assortment of large and small butterfly shapes cut from multiple pages.
  5. Apply hot glue to the top of one of the larger butterfly shapes, and then attach the smaller butterfly shape on top of it. This becomes a single butterfly with more of a “3D” effect than it would have if we’d simply used one shape to create it. Do this step repeatedly to create as many butterflies as you want.Apply hot glue to the top of one of your larger butterfly shapes.Attach the smaller butterfly shape on top of the larger one.
  6. Apply hot glue to one of the keys, and then attach that to one of the paper butterflies.Attach a key to a butterfly.
  7. Rinse and repeat to create as many butterflies as you want.
  8. Run some twine through the hole at the top of the key so that you can hang up the rustic butterfly decoration. Again, do this with all of the old book butterflies you have created.Run twine through the key.Knot the twine so that it forms a loop to hang the butterfly decoration by.A rustic butterfly decoration is ready to hang.
  9. You can now hang your rustic old book butterfly decorations anywhere!Butterflies made from old book pages and keys are completed and ready to display.Rustic butterfly decorations made from old book pages and keys are displayed against a wood backdrop.

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Project Type: Upcycling / Category: Decorating
What to Make Next If You Enjoyed This Old Book Craft
These are the materials you need to make rustic butterflies from an old book.

If you had a good time making hanging butterfly decorations out of an old book, you should enjoy making some other rustic old book crafts. And you’re in luck because we have a number of tutorials for other old book projects here on our site.

You can get started by making DIY rustic vintage flower decor from an old book. Next, you can learn how to make a romantic bouquet from old book pages.

In fact, if you have fun with that craft project, you can learn 10 other easy ways to make DIY book page roses. We also have a number of Christmas crafts you can make out of old book pages, such as this tutorial to create a beautiful snowflake.

Have fun, and explore our archives for many more rustic craft project tutorials!

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