Let beautiful butterflies, dragonflies and fairies be your inspiration to decorate your living area with an adorable 3D picture, and your child’s bedroom with wall stickers and flowering fairy lights.

• Create a string of pretty flower fairy lights you can use to decorate a bedhead. All you need to do is buy Hawaiian-style leis – they cost about $2 each from discount variety stores – snip the cotton thread and slide off each flower. Working with a string of fairy lights, push a bulb through the hole in each flower. Then simply stick the bulbs in place using double-sided tape at the base of each bulb.

• Go punch crazy and cut paper butterfly and dragonfly shapes, then use them to create a pretty piece of framed art for your living room.

All aflutter

Gather your supplies
Cold-pressed watercolour paper; dragonfly punches (one small, one large); sheet of butterfly cut-outs; black frame with mat; sharp scissors; heavy card; ruler; scalpel; pencil; sample pot of Dulux Sunbound;

foam roller; craft glue; bamboo skewer

STEP 1 Punch out several small and large dragonflies, using watercolour paper. Cut paper joins to separate butterflies. Cut card to frame size, paint yellow and let dry.

STEP 2 Position mat on yellow card. Trace the window onto the card. Randomly glue bodies of winged cut-outs onto card, within marked outline. Assemble frame without glass. Glue more cut-outs onto mat. Pinch back butterfly wings for a 3D effect.