Thank you for purchasing a Sweet*Heart Bride paper angel, personalized just for you!
Since you are visiting this page, then you must have ordered your own personalized angel. Thank you! I've prepared some tips and instructions for making your paper angel, so let's get started! It will go much more smoothly if you read through all the instructions before you start just to familiarize yourself with the process.
MATERIALS NEEDED -
- Your Sweet*heart Bride PDF, ordered from my Etsy shop Loopsies
- Color printer
- White cardstock or cover weight paper
- small sharp scissors or an exacto knife
- clear tape
- straight-edge
- bone-folder or other scoring tool
- adhesive applicator (not a glue stick or wet adhesive as it might buckle or slip)
- Optional - thread or fine cord for hanging
ASSEMBLY -
Open your PDF with Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have Reader installed on your computer, click here to download it for free. Once you have opened the PDF, make a trial print to make sure you like the results. Quality will vary from printer to printer, but you should get a good print from just about any of them. The choice of paper is more important. I like to use superfine white cardstock from Paper Source, but any cover weight premium paper would work as well. Just make sure to match the paper with the type of printer (inkjet paper for an inkjet printer, etc). When printed, it will look like this (minus the © watermark):
If the colors in your trial print are not vivid enough for you, try adjusting the ink saturation levels on your printer, and print again until you get a satisfactory result.
Using a pair of sharp scissors and/or an exacto, carefully cut out the pieces:
Now let's add her arms and bouquet. First, hook the arm piece around the head:
Then flip the arm piece up, and position the bouquet as shown below. Use a bit of clear tape to attach the bouquet to the arm piece:
Flip the arms down, turn the angel over and tape the arm piece at the back like this:
Now we're going to score the wings, using a straight-edge and bone folder. Score both wings from the front, being careful not to push so hard that you tear the paper:
Once scored, fold the wings up like so:
Carefully curve the angel into a smooth rounded cone shape to where the folded wing edges meet in the back, forming a heart. Tape together as shown below. Try to get the edges to meet as snugly as possible and make sure they form a flat plane:
Next, take the personalized heart and your adhesive applicator:
Apply adhesive evenly to the back of the heart, especially along the edges:
Carefully position the heart onto the back of the angel, matching the two heart shapes. Once in position, press pieces together to firmly adhere:
Use scissors to trim any place the edges overlap:
And that's it! You can use the smaller heart as gift tag if this is to be presented as a gift. Or print a flock of angels to use as shower decorations or bridal favors!
You may decide you want to hang your angel as a Christmas ornament. This can be done by affixing a loop of thread or fine cord to the back of the personalized heart before attaching it to the main piece. Then hang up your little bride and watch her fly!
I hope your Sweet*Heart Bride brings you lots of happiness! I also hope that you'll share your photos with me, because I love to see the angels out and about! And thank you so much for letting me be a small part of your joyous celebration. :o)
Jenny
Please respect that this Sweet*Heart Bride Angel and the angel template are my copyrighted designs, and are sold to you for your personal use only. Selling this angel, or the pattern, or adapting the template to your own design is copyright infringement.
