Materials:
1 4.25" x 5.5" piece of cardstock
1 8.25" x 8.25" piece of text weight paper in same color as cardstock.
adhesive (glue, double sided tape, or a xyron)
Directions:
Fold cardstock in half to form a standard sized card. Set aside.
Stamp the Square paper as desired. Valley fold square paper in half diagonally. Open.
Valley fold in half diagonally from opposite corners. Open.
There should now be an 'X' folded in the paper. Mountain fold the paper in half to form a rectangle. Open.
Fold on the diagonals again, collapsing the center fold, to the inside of the structure, forming a triangle.
Fold the top layer's right corner to the center of the baseline.
Repeat with the top layer's left corner. Turn over and repeat.
Open and then collapse each of the little flaps just created into the center of the mechanism.
Glue the mechanism into the card so that the point just touches the fold.
Add glue to the top of the mechanism, then close the card so that both of the inside surfaces of the card are attached to the mechanism.
When the glue is dry, open the card to see the "explosion".
Designed by:
Kathy Berger
kmberger@pacbell.net
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