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do you want beautiful christmas decor
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but you're on a budget
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make this stunning christmas angel today
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for virtually no cost
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what about a pair to go on your
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mantelpiece or dining table on christmas
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i'm christine of christinecrafts.com and
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i'm going to show you how to make yours
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so without further ado what will you
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need some sort of ball for the angel's
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head i suggest a polystyrene or a
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styrofoam ball but any light bulb that's
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size to look in proportion to your book
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you're gonna need a paperback book where
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the spine's still holding the pages
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you'll see i've only got half a book
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because that's all you need
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you need about 150 pages
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so i use the other half to make a
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you'll see on the list you need glue and
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i've put paint optional
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obviously mine was painted gold but you
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so to start with take just one page
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and fold the top corner down to the
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and get a nice crisp fold and then
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fold that edge to the spine again
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make sure you've got a nice crisp fold
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now the bit sticking out the bottom of
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fold it up and tuck it in between that
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and the rest of the book make sure it's
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and open it out so we'll go through that
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take your top right hand corner bring it
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smooth it down nice crisp fold
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the bit that's sticking out the bottom
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and make a nice fold so you're going to
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so that you have 20 pages folded just
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so just keep folding keep folding keep
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keep making sure the nice crisp folds
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until you've got 20 of them
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and then once you've checked you've got
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we're going to make the first angel wing
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very simple instead of looking at your
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we're going to use the bottom corner and
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we're going to fold it up to the spine
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again we're still making sure we get
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nice crisp fold and fold that into the
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center of the book again
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nice crisp fold and do not tuck the top
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leave it sticking out the top of the
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book that's what's going to cause you
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and repeat now we're going to just do
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five of these five pages
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okay make sure it's a nice crisp fold
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the more accurate you are with your
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folds the more accurate your angel will
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be the better your wings will line up
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so it's up to you how much care you take
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okay so we're just going to repeat that
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and then just check those are nice
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you're happy you've got five
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and you're going to go back to the
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original fold so let's just run through
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top corner down to the spine fold that
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you'll notice it's starting to get a
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little bit harder to get into the spine
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persevere just keep going
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and tuck that bottom under get a nice
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and repeat and you're going to keep
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you've got 25 pages left
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okay so just count do a quick check 25
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and we're now going to form the other
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so fold it up from the bottom into the
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fold it again into the spine and leave
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you won't be surprised to learn five of
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because we're doing an angel's wing to
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so just five pages folded this way
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and then we should have two wings
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and you should have 20 pages left
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and those 20 pages you've got left we're
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going to go back to folding down from
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so again fold down from the top to the
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fold that edge in again you'll find it's
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getting really difficult by now
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because the ones that you've already
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folded are getting in the way
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but do make sure you keep trying to get
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right into the spine so you get a nice
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end product so repeat for all
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and then you should have no pages left
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that have not been folded
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and when you stand it up it's not going
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to look quite like the angel you were
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so you might need to do a little bit of
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tweaking you can see one of my pages is
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unfolded there right at the end
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so just run your fingers down them
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smooth any that you need to smooth
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and then look at it and think well do i
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want my wings there they're a little bit
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so i'm going to fold them forward
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there we go and now you can look at all
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those folds you've made
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and line them up how you want and all
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you've got left to do now is put your
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so if you're not doing any painting you
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can glue your head on straight away
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however if you're thinking of painting
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got some advice for you
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if you're using a polystyrene or a
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they really really do not like
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aggressive paints like spray paints
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so i recommend to get the effect i got
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to give it a coat of some sort of
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paint an emulsion a primer undercoat
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one of those sorts of paints you can put
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the more coats you put on the less the
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spray paint will damage your ball
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now if you're using a cardboard ball or
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a wooden ball you won't have this
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so once you've got it how you want it
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you're going to spray
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paint it now i'm not going to show you
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this because i do it in my garage with
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the door wide open with lots of
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ventilation and it's not a good place to
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but i'm just using a standard metallic
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spray paint so i'll spray paint spray
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and the book so then all you need to do
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apply some glue to the ball apply some
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glue to the top of the angel
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and stick your head in place if you want
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more decorations on your angel then you
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can go for it but i've just left mine
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so you can still tell it was a book but
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so thank you for watching please if you
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