Butterfly Template

Butterfly Template

Butterfly Template - Create a New World in Your Home
By Marie Lopez

There is nothing like taking time out of your busy life for your favorite crafts, you can savor them by yourself or share them with your family and friends. Any time you can come up with a fun theme it just makes your favorite craft that much more enjoyable. There is nothing like creating a whole new world in your home to take the stress of the day away. For instance imagine using a template for a butterfly to cover the walls and ceilings of your little girl's bedroom with countless multicolored butterflies, you can even cover furniture with cut out and decorated butterflies.

No matter what type of crafting you like to do from decoupage to stenciling you will find hundreds of uses for a pattern of a butterfly. You can have fun by using a variety of different sizes of templates to create whole families that can all be painted in a rainbow of colors. You will find that you can even download templates from the Internet that can be imported into your favorite paint program where you can color them and print them out to use in your favorite crafts.

There are hundreds of different uses for a butterfly shaped template, you can use one to turn a potato into a butterfly stamp or use an inverse template to paint the shape on your walls, mirrors or windows. There is a type of acid etching cream that you can use to etch your butterflies directly into the glass part of your mirrors for a more permanent image. You can use your templates to create appliques that can be sewn onto skirts, shirts, quilts and many, many other items. By the time you are finished your home and your surroundings will be awash with a wealth of colorful butterflies.

You will find that it is very easy to locate a butterfly styled patterns online, in fact you will find that there are a wealth of sites that offer thousands of different templates that you can use to decorate your home and your favorite crafts. They will keep both you and your kids busy and happy for hours and are simple to use. The only thing you really have to do is download the templates you want and print them out. You can then transfer the printed image to a piece of cardboard or plastic that is designed for templates and then cut them out.

To add more fun and variety your projects you will want to download several different sized templates and even try a few variations on the basic shape. Make sure you print out a few extras for the littlest members of the family to color so that they do not feel left out.

Butterfly Template