


You can carefully use the end of a pencil eraser to emboss the aluminum into the crevices. Place the crumpled foil over top and begin to press it down into the hills and valleys of the drawing. Keep the sticks on each side flat and close together. Coat your entire yarn covered picture in a thin layer of white glue.Using your DIY reflector Position the model with the sun behind them and bounce in the sunlight with your DIY reflector. Once finished with the q-tips, rub generous amount of shoe polish all over the entire piece. Now press down the foil with your fingers and then use q-tips to rub the foil down around the glue lines without breaking the sheet. Now wrap the foil over the front and to the back. Take care not to wrinkle the foil as you tape it on or you’ll end up with ‘hot spots’ of brighter areas on your reflector. Keep the glued pattern over back of the frame. Secure the end of the twine with hot glue. Run the foil over the edge of the cardboard and tape. The back should have one wrap along each side of the intersection, so the twine in the back should form a thin square. At this point the front of the corner should show two wraps of the twine across each diagonal, so the twine should form a thick X. Again, wrap diagonally, and then horizontally, and then diagonally, and then vertically. When you cover the cardboard with the foil, press it very well. Have in mind that that the glue should be applied on the cardboard and the foil (the picture above). Two pairs of kids’ hands made them, competing which picture would be more beautiful. Wrap it across the back vertically this time. This is part of our homemade Christmas decoration. Bring it diagonally across the front again - this time it should fill in the other diagonal (so if the first time you went top right to bottom left, this time you'll go bottom right to top left). Then bring it horizontally across the back of the intersection. Bring the twine diagonally across the front of the corner. Use a hot glue gun to glue one end of the twine to the back of one corner of the frame (You can also use hot glue to initially fix sticks in batches together). At one corner, lash the sticks together with twine.
