For those of you who made a butterfly mobile

Re: For those of you who made a butterfly mobile

• JenPVH

  August 2010

  I never made a butterfly mobile but did make a pinwheel one.

  For the fishing line, I was lucky DH already had some in his toolbox.  However, you can find them at your nearest hardware stores like OSH, Home Depot, Lowes, even at Target and Walmart.  You might find some in the beading section of craft stores too.

  As for the hoops, I just used the needle point wooden hoops at craft stores like Michaels.  They are super cheap.

  I remember scrolling the selection of scrapbook paper to pick for my mobile and did come across  a butterfly shaped hole puncher that was of good size.  There are several shapes available.  That might be an idea if you can't find the pre-cut ones.
  

   

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• LadyDelilah member

  August 2010

  Thanks! I looked in the beading section and it was all the stretchy kind Home Depot will be my next adventure

  

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• slwprincess member

  August 2010

  I'm still making mine and it will be birds instead of butterflies but anyway... I got everything at Michaels.

  A) I found it in the jewelry section.  There was the stretchy stuff, wire stuff, and also the clear stuff.  But it did take me a few minutes to locate it.

    Embroidery Hoops.  I bought 2 sizes- if that doesn't look full enough, I will go buy a 3rd.

  C)  Since I'm doing birds, mine was a little easier.  I had this bird statue already so I traced it and it worked perfectly.  I don't know that I could cut all those butterflies by hand! 

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

  
  

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• jessiesnwbrd member

  August 2010

  I had to handmake my butterflies. The punchese were just too small. I made a template out of cardstock and just traced it over and over. Time consuming, but easy.

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• puterbaby

  August 2010

  For the butterflies - if you know a scrapbooker with a Cricut machine you could use that to make your butterflies.  I bought pink butterflies in the wedding section at Michaels next to the rose petals.  All they had was pink, though.  There were solids and sheers.  I hotglued the sheer to the solid to give them a dimensional effect. 

  

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• Geback723

  August 2010

  DaniLorello:

  For those of you who made a mobile where would I find

  A:) the fishing line or whatever you used to make the hanging part

  B.) The Hoop

  C.) if you made the butterfly mobile did you find pre-cut butterflys any where? Or did you use a stencil?

  TIA

  A. The fishing section at Walmart ( I got a HUGE spool of it for $2) its alot cheaper than the craft line.

  B. The hoops I got at Micheals in the embriodery section

  C. I hand cut the butterflies out. You can use a hole punch, but I couldn't find one big enough and I didn't want to spend the $20 on one either. 

  Here is my finished product.

   

  

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