I made these pop up origamic architecture/kirigami butterflies for the 2024-2025 holiday season. The butterflies are two pieces, laser-cut from the last of the Ice Gold stock (now discontinued). Alas the wonderful Curious Skin cobalt blue stock I used for the backing cards is also no longer available. I liked being able to accentuate the contrast between the blue and white with the extra cutouts, the flower on the inside and the spiral on the outside.

Somewhat stylized kirigami pop up pearlescent white paper butterfly with Celtic spiral designs cut into the wings. There is a flower design cut into the base, which allows the cobalt blue backing card to show through for the petals. Three-quarters above right view.
Somewhat stylized kirigami pop up pearlescent white paper butterfly with Celtic spiral designs cut into the wings. There is a flower design cut into the base, which allows the cobalt blue backing card to show through for the petals. Three-quarters above right view (higher up).
Somewhat stylized kirigami pop up pearlescent white paper butterfly with Celtic spiral designs cut into the wings. There is a flower design cut into the base, which allows the cobalt blue backing card to show through for the petals. Top-down view.
A collection of somewhat stylized kirigami pop up pearlescent white paper butterfly cards arranged side-by-side. The butterflies have Celtic spiral designs cut into the wingss. There is a flower design cut into the base, which allows the cobalt blue backing card to show through for the petals. Three-quarters above left view.
A collection of somewhat stylized kirigami pop up pearlescent white paper butterfly cards arranged side-by-side. The butterflies have Celtic spiral designs cut into the wingss. There is a flower design cut into the base, which allows the cobalt blue backing card to show through for the petals. Three-quarters above left view.
A collection of somewhat stylized kirigami pop up pearlescent white paper butterfly cards arranged side-by-side. The butterflies have Celtic spiral designs cut into the wingss. There is a flower design cut into the base, which allows the cobalt blue backing card to show through for the petals. Three-quarters above left view.
A collection of somewhat stylized kirigami pop up pearlescent white paper butterfly cards arranged side-by-side. The butterflies have Celtic spiral designs cut into the wingss. There is a flower design cut into the base, which allows the cobalt blue backing card to show through for the petals. Three-quarters above left view.
A collection of somewhat stylized kirigami pop up pearlescent white paper butterfly cards arranged side-by-side. The butterflies have Celtic spiral designs cut into the wingss. There is a flower design cut into the base, which allows the cobalt blue backing card to show through for the petals. Above and almost head-on view.
Closed cobalt blue card with a spiral cut out in the upper right corner showing the white paper inside. There are also little triangles in the corners where the corners of the interior pieces come through to mount them.

There is also a short video (1:50m) video showing assembly of a card and some rotating views:

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