StNicholas [serial] . fig. 15. FIG. 16. inches wide. Directly over the center of thebackground paste a small piece of broken mir-ror. Cut a three and one quarter inchsquare of gold paper, and in the center of thesquare cut a perfectly round hole one and onequarter inches in diameter. Paste the goldsquare over the mirror so that the hole in thesquare will be exactly in the center of the valen-tine. From white tissue-paper cut a circle aboutfour inches in diameter, in the center of the circlecut a round hole the size of the one in the gold. BE VALENTINE OPEN. square, then point the edges around
StNicholas [serial] . fig. 15. FIG. 16. inches wide. Directly over the center of thebackground paste a small piece of broken mir-ror. Cut a three and one quarter inchsquare of gold paper, and in the center of thesquare cut a perfectly round hole one and onequarter inches in diameter. Paste the goldsquare over the mirror so that the hole in thesquare will be exactly in the center of the valen-tine. From white tissue-paper cut a circle aboutfour inches in diameter, in the center of the circlecut a round hole the size of the one in the gold. BE VALENTINE OPEN. square, then point the edges around the hole as inFigure 12, which shows the gilt square under thewhite circle and the round mirror in its mistilygilt frame. Paint in water-colors the wreath of VALENTINES TO MAKE AT HOME 351 little blue flowers and green leaves that encirclethe mirror (Fig. 12), or cut the flowers andleaves from tissue-paper and paste them on. Ifyou use paint do not make it too wet. From the middle of a piece of gold paper, fourand a quarter inches square, cut a heart, threeand a half inches high from the top of the curvesto the bottom point, and three and one half incheswide at its widest part. Paste the. gold squareover the white circle, inclosing the wreathof flowers. Now cut an oblong of unruled writ-ing-paper just the size of the cardboard back-ground, and in the center of this draw a heartabout one eighth of an inch larger all aroundthan the gold heart cut from the gold square. Bylaying the gold heart in the middle of the whitepaper yo
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