I made this tree to display my butterflies at the art show...I used a glass vase upside down so the base is large and wont tip over. I hot glued two floral Styrofoam bricks together and then to the bottom of the vase. I decoupaged blue tool to the outside of the vase wrapped a garland of leaves around it. added silver ribbon to the place where the bricks and glass meet. I added a bow to the base and a flower to the top! The best part was stocking it with 100 hand made butterflies, dragon flies and fairy flies!
My beautiful butterflies are made out of heavy plastic #1 . I outline a butterfly and cut it out. Using permanent markers I color them in on both sides and pain a thin coating of mod podge . when it dries I color in the butterfly again. repeat the steps of color, mod podge, dry as many times as needed (3 or 4) works best.