Memory Baubles.You can reuse Christmas cards as beautiful ornaments. It's a great way to remember loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl during the holiday season. Here's how. YOU WILL NEED: Old Christmas cards Pencil Scissors scissors Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends Stiff cardboard (cereal-box cardboard works well) Glue 8-inch length of ribbon DIRECTIONS: 1. Trace the above circle and triangle patterns onto the cardboard and cut each out. 2. Select Christmas cards with pictures on them that you like, then use the circle pattern to circle the part of the card you want to use for your ornament. 3. Cutout cut·out n. 1. Something cut out or intended to be cut out from something else. 2. Electricity A device that interrupts, bypasses, or disconnects a circuit or circuit element. 3. the circular section of the card. Repeat for eight circles and number their backs 1-8. 4. Trace a triangle on the back of each circle. Make sure all three points of the triangle touch the edges of the circle. Fold along the lines of the triangle, flaps up. (It should look like a three-cornered hat See Cocked hat , with the picture inside the flaps.) 5. Spread a thin layer of glue on the back of circle 1's flaps and wipe off excess glue. Keep the glue off of the picture side of the circle. Place a flap from circle 2 against the glued flap--edges as closely aligned as possible--and pinch tightly for 10 to 15 seconds. 6. Glue a flap from circle 3 onto an open flap open flap n. See flat flap. from circle 2. 7. Make a hanger by glueing a looped length of ribbon to an open flap at the top of your ornament. Glue two flaps of circle 4 onto the open flaps of circles 1 and 3 to close your ornament top. 8. Glue a flap from circle 5 onto one of the open flaps of the top of your ornament. Then glue a flap of circle 6 to the next open flap of the ornament top. Glue together the open flaps of circles 5 and 6 that are next to each other. 9. Glue a flap of circle 7 to the next open flap. Then glue together the open flaps of circles 6 and 7 that are next to each other. 10. Carefully position and glue circle 8 to the remaining open flaps, closing the ornament. Extras: * Write the year the cards were received on the ornaments, * Try theme ornaments made of pictures of Santa or sleighs or Christmas trees Christmas tree Evergreen tree, usually decorated with lights and ornaments, to celebrate the Christmas season. The use of evergreen trees, wreaths, and garlands as symbols of eternal life was common among the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Hebrews. . * Use one circle to outline the card sender's signature; that way they will have signed the Christmas ornament Christmas ornaments are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to festoon a Christmas tree. Ornaments take many different forms, from a simple round ball to highly artistic designs. ! |
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