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Swell Noel Circle/Decoration

BookClass created and designed by Kathy Black

This wonderful Christmas project has been created and designed byguest designer Kathy Black for Charmed Cards & Crafts. Kathy usedthe K&Company Swell Noel Collection for this project.The circle book doubles as a fantastic Christmas decoration to treasurefor many years to come.


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You will need:

4 sheets 12x12 Bazzill type card Thicker card or chipboard for the covers Ribbon K&Co Swell Noel papers K&Co Swell Noel embellishments

Notes:You can make this book using thick double-sided papers if you like, but I like the stabilityyou get having the Bazzill to work onYou can also add more pages but this particular book is intended to be left standing upas a Christmas decoration, so the 4 tableau areas work well for this project

Step-by-Step InstructionsStep 1

Cut the biggest circle you can from each of the sheets of card. I used a dinner plate as atemplate.Step 2

See diagram below for this step. Take the first circle and fold it in half along the line AB,make a crease with a bone folder. Open up and fold in half again along line CD, Open up,

turn the circle over and make the third and final fold along line EF AB & CD will bemountain folds and EF a valley fold.


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Step 3

Take hold of the corners of line CD and fold and squeeze towards the centre so that point

E and point F come together in the middle.Step 4

Repeat with the other three circlesStep 5

Use one of these folded circles as a template to make 2 cover pieces for your book, I usedchipboard, but just some thicker card would be fine.

Step 6Choose one of your patterned papers and use the chipboard covers as a template to cutone piece for each of the covers. My tip here is to choose a design that doesnt have aright-way-up much less confusing than one that you need to work out which way up


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it will be!Step 7

Adhere one piece of paper to each cover piece and ink all of the edges

Now to assemble the bookStep 8

Find the halfway point on the curved edge of the wrong side one of the cover pieces andmake a mark


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Step 9Cut two pieces of ribbon about 25cms long. Glue one end of the first length of ribbon

onto the wrong side of the cover in line with the mark you made. This end will behidden inside the book, so make it nice and long so that it stays securely in place.

Step 10Take one of the folded circles and apply glue all over the top quadrant, then carefullyplace over the wrong side of the cover piece, matching the edges and enclosing the stuckdown end of the ribbon

Step 11Take another folded circle and glue this in place on top of the first, make sure you matchup all the edges accurately

Step 12Repeat with the third and fourth folded circles. Your pile of folded circles should now look

like this:


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Step 13Stick the other piece of ribbon in place on the top quadrant so that it matches the

position of the first one.

Then glue the 2nd cover piece over the top to make a nice fat sandwich. This is the basicbook completed. It will look like this:


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Now, if you set one straight edge on the table and take hold of a curved edge in each

hand and pull them round so that the covers are back to back youll be able to tie theribbon ends into a bow and your open book will, just like magic, look like this


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Clever, eh? Thats your basic circle book all ready to be decorated in whatever way you

choose, but Im just going to tell you a bit about how I went on to finish mine using thewonderful K&Co Swell Noel goodies that Karen sent for me to play with!I decided that they were way too nice to make into something to give away, so Ive mademy book into something I can display every Christmas.

As all the sections of the book are the same 2 basic shapes I started by making a patternfor each of them.Using a piece of scrap paper, cut a circle of the same diameter as your card pages. Fold thecircle in half and draw a line about 0.5cms inside the curved edge, cut along the newcurved lines and discard the off-cutsCut the circle into sections so that you end up with


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1 x circle1 x circle2 x 1/8 circlesNow youll have a selection of templates for cutting your patterned paper pieces

I thought the four sections I got when I tied the book open looked a bit like mini stagesets, so decided to treat each one in that way. However, you could choose to use thebook in a more conventional way and add photos, poems, memories etc to the pages. Itwould make a beautiful Christmas Memories book,

Im just going to share a few ideas and techniques I used to decorate my book which Ihope will be useful to you

The snowy village tableauI used the beautiful embossed paper with pictures of houses and churches etc.


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1. Cut a semi circle shape from patterned paper using the scrap-paper template. Make sureit will be the right way up when stuck into the book!2. Cut in half and adhere of the upright pages of the book3. Cut 2 x1/8 circle shapes from the top part of the paper with a Father Christmas, sleighand reindeer flying over a village, this part of the paper is just pale blue with little stars stick these pieces to the small slice of cake shaped section.4. For the base of this section I used some white handmade paper5. Cut some motifs from the first paper, but leave about a 1.5cm border at the bottom of

each motif.
http://www.charmedcardsandcrafts.co.uk/acatalog/4_snowscene.JPG


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6. Make a fold at the bottom of the little picture so that it can stand up on the littlefolded piece.

7. Glue in position on the base of your book take care not to stick over where the pagewill fold, check also that when you fold the pages up your pop up motifs will be able to lieflat. To do this, just hold them in the place you want them to go and gently fold thepages up to check their positions. Its difficult to explain in writing, but easy to see whenyou actually do it.

8. Ive added some extra free-standing pieces to the floor of the page using somegorgeous pieces of double-sided chipboard icons that match the papers they come in abox that will be wonderful for altering when its empty!I made little stands for these by cutting strips of card, folding to form triangular prismshapes, and then cutting a slit for the chipboard pieces to fit into.


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9. Around the curve of the circle Ive used some of the beautiful glittery multi-layeredsnowflakes I love these, there were masses in the box and various different sizes too, souseful for lots of projects.10. Ive used a couple of the snowflakes stuck back to back and suspended on silver threadfrom the 1/8 circle shaped section

The Baubles and Stockings Page

Click image to enlarge1. Ive used the Baubles paper for the backdrop, the reverse of the embossed trees paperfor the floor and the reverse of the border stripes paper for the central section2. I made a hole through the small section in the middle, then used a fine needle and

thread to attach a row of small beads from one side to the other, passing through the hole
http://www.charmedcardsandcrafts.co.uk/acatalog/1_baubles.JPG


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in the centre section and knotting through needle holes at either end.3. The backdrop is decorated with some of the glittery Grand Adhesions Bauble Stickers,Ive added some ribbon and a brad from the Dovecraft Funky Brad set4. To add more dimension to the background paper Ive used more of those prettysnowflakes in the centres of some of the baubles.5. The tree is free-standing, made with quarter-circle of the Holly paper curled into acone shape. The base is a scrap of red card made into a cylinder and glued inside thecone. For stability I covered a square of chipboard with the same paper used on the floor

then glued the trunk of the tree onto it6. The stockings were made in a similar way to the little houses above, but this time I cutout the whole stocking and attached a piece of folded card to the reverse to make thestand. You need to check that the stockings will not be damaged when the book is folded

7. You can attach stand-out pieces to the backdrop using the same folded strips of cardtechnique: this time you need to allow about 1.5 cms for making two folds - the mainlength of the card strip (A) is attached to the stocking, then, leaving the centre foldedsection (B) free adhere the end folded section (C) to the wall.


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8. The Joy is a chipboard sticker and is free-standing. To make it stand up make a

triangular prism shape (like a Toblerone), cut a little slit to allow the chipboard piece to sitin. You may find it better to use two of these for each chipboard freestanding element.


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The Gifts pageIve used different papers for each of the circle sections, and another for the little

section in the middle.

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1. Make some tiny parcels from scrap card, or if youre lucky you might find some tinyready-made boxes to use. Cover with papers from the collection, tie narrow ribbonaround them and use as freestanding decorations for this section2. Use the triangular prism method to make stands for the chipboard parcels in the Chip

Box3. stick scraps of paper onto card, cut into parcel shapes, add some ribbon and fix to thebackdrop with foam tape4. Cut out gift shapes from the Gifts paper and attach to the walls using the tab method
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described above5. Cut out one of the trees from the Embossed Trees paper, stick first to a scrap of card,

then to the backdrop6. Add some ribbon to the Noel tag from the Chip Box and hang this from the littlecentral section with silver thread

Snowman SceneUse the Snowmen paper for the backdrop, white handmade paper for the floor and theswirly green reverse of the snowman paper for the centre section.

Click image to enlarge1. Cut out snowmen and tree motifs from the paper, leaving the space at the bottom ofeach to use as the tab. Stick down taking care to make sure the pages will still foldproperly. Hopefully these three pictures will help illustrate how the pieces lie when the
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book is being folded


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3. Add a snowman from the chip box to the tableau use the toblerone method!

4. Add more of those gorgeous glittery snowflakes, and maybe some glitter to the snowy


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bits of the trees and snowmen on the background paper.

To Finish:You can make holes near the centre folds of the small inner pages of the book and tieribbon through them. This helps keep the book stable, and easier to open/close

Decorate the covers of the book but keep them fairly flat if youre going to display thisbook open, because bumpy covers wont allow the book to tie open nicely.


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I hope you are inspired to have a go at making one of these books, they are great fun andoffer lots of scope for letting your creativity run wild!

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