Snowflake Postcard

As winter still is in full bloom (or rather in full snow) I have done another snow project. This one is a bit tricky and requires a lot of patience.

Snowflake Postcard How To:

Material: 1 Sheet of white paper
                a small piece of sandwich paper (left over from the snow crystal project)
                a small piece of a different transparent paper (a different shade of white,
                a slightly different texture)
                sky bluish paper
                sewing thread in different shades of blue (consistent to your choice of
                background paper)
                glue stick

• Cut the sheet of paper in two crosswise.
• Draw the contour of a snowflake and cut out.
• Cut out a snowflake from the transparent paper.
• Cut out a small hexagonal crystal shape for the center and 6 pieces for the tips of the snowflake from the sandwich paper.
• Align them all on your background paper in layers, so that they fit into the snowflake cut-out of the cover.
• Glue carefully only in the center of each 'arm' of the snow crystal, so that it is just fixed a bit, but the ends will remain loose.
• Sew the layers together, using different shades of sewing thread for each seam.
• Glue under the cover and sew carefully together.
• Glue the finished  cover and the other half of the A4 sheet together. Cut off protruding edges if necessary.
• Fold in two.
• Very carefully pull the loose ends of the tranparent parts of the crystal a bit off  the background for a more 3D look.

Fixing the transparent paper onto the background and sewing everything together are the trickiest parts. If your sewing machine allows for extra slow sewing, take the chance.