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Ganesha Pop-Up Card


©jmg 2008 For personal use only
Click on image to view enlarged.


This card is not difficult to make at all -- Balavihar summer camp students (of all ages) made oodles of these. Adult supervision, however, is needed for cutting with an exacto knife.

Materials
1 Cream color greeting card (and envelope) 5 x 7
1 Cream colored card 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 *
Cream color cardstock (for printing template image below)
Gold foil
Glue stick
Scissors
Exacto knife (adult supervision)
Rhinestones, sequins, etc. (for decorating Lord Ganesha's crown)
Gold gel pen

* Fold a piece of sturdy cardstock for the inside of the card. Cut size to measurements listed above.

Solid lines represent cutting lines.
Dotted lines represent fold lines.

Directions
1. Print the image (below) onto a cream colored cardstock.
2. Cut out the head, ears and pop-up template.
3. Fold each cut-out piece on the lines where indicated.
4. Take the pop-up template and place it onto the folded inside cardstock (4 1/4 x 5 1/2). Be careful to place the template onto the fold of the card.
5. Trace the solid lines (cut lines) onto the cardstock.
6. Cut on the solid lines.

(More directions to be posted shortly.)

Click for full-page view. Print on cream colored cardstock