How to cut butterfly paper cutouts?

Prepare a square piece of colored paper, a pair of scissors and carving knife, a pen.

The specific tutorial is shown below:

Fold both sides of the square colored paper. As shown in the picture below:

Paint half of the butterfly pattern on the folded color paper. As shown in the picture below:

Cut out the inner lines with a carving knife, and then cut out the rest with scissors. As shown in the picture below:

Finally, unfold the cut butterfly and finish it. As shown in the picture below:

Expanding knowledge: Paper cutting is a kind of hollow art, which visually gives people a sense of transparency and artistic enjoyment. Paper as a processing object, with scissors (or carving knife) as a tool for the creation of art. Paper-cutting is widely spread in folklore and has a long history. As a kind of traditional Chinese folk art in the folk activities occupy an important position.