The Avengers is out today on Blu Ray and if you are a geek like me, you'll be watching it a lot. I like to imagine it'll be my revenge for KC's Twilight marathons that can go several days. So if you are planning on having a marvel marathon viewing party of your own, why not be uber geek and make custom decorations out of comics!
I enlisted KC's help showing me how she made the Party Balls at the last Etsy Night at CAFAM. These are instructions originally from Mark Montano's demo. I'm going to use old and freeby comic books instead of the Robert Pattinson gossip magazines she uses. These party decorations made from comics are going to make my re-purposed geek party a hit!
Materials
- Paper (30 pages)
- Hot glue gun and sticks
- Scissors
- Pen
- Large throat stapler and staples
Step 1
Create a template to trace a 7" diameter circle on your papers.
Step 2
Cut the circle shapes out on 30 pages.
Step 3
Cut 12 little notches proportionally around the circle stack. Draw lines across your template to line them up first.
Step 4
Group a stack into 15 pages and fold them in half straight through two notches on either side. Along this crease, staple three times evenly. Repeat this step, you will have two stacks prepped for gluing.
Steps 1-3
Starting between the 1st and 2nd pages of a stack, place glue dots on the first, middle and last notches.
Step 4
Turn the next page down and put glue dots on the two notches not glued on the previous page.
Repeat this process until all the pages are alternately glued together, resulting in a half moon shape.
Do all these steps again for the other stack. When 2 completed stacks are glued dry, carefully unfold these halves and complete the paper sphere by gluing them (pictured below).
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-- Kevin Sears