If you are a little bored with regular bows to embellish your projects, here is something a bit different: butterflies. Although they are similar to a bow, they have that symmetry and the additional beaded body to turn them to something original.
You can use any straight ribbon, whether it is opaque or translucent, with straight edges or scalloped. If you use a smaller ribbon, the result will be a smaller butterfly. The maximum size it will make is a 900-pixels butterfly. If your ribbon is thicker than 400 pixels, the script will resize it to 400 and work from there.
Get it in the store: Ribbon Butterflies
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For a sampler, I created three straight and translucent ribbons and ran the script on them. I chose some basic colors that should go well with just about anything. You get the butterflies and the matching straight ribbon too.
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Butterflies are elements that can be added to just about any project. Creating some might be fairly easy but when you are in a hurry and you want to create some using existing papers in a kit, it could be a little more tedious, especially if you want to create different ones every time.
As a sample, I created 8 full-size butterflies (about 900 pixels) in fall colors. They are in png format so you can place them wherever you want and you can also resize them, since they are fairly wide.
