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Scrap butterflies make my heart soar!

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These  scrap butterflies were featured at the blog Heart Handmade and they are so beautiful and look like they could be made with all sorts of materials. I was looking at a few other scrap fabric butterflies and I saw one that used a clothes peg as the body. It was painted gold and looked pretty cool. I think I’m going to try making some wings using a base piece of fabric and just top stitching scraps on in a mirror pattern. I’ll be sure to post what I come up with! But before I do be sure to check out some clever DIY’s at the blog Heart Handmade.

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