St. Nicholas Snowflake Ornaments

Designed by Pat Borek

St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Parish, Everson, Pennsylvania

Materials

• Plastic glitter snowflake ornaments, 4-inch (inexpensive ones are available in season)
• White cover stock, suitable for color printing (Hammermill 67-lb Bristol Cover)
• Laminating sheets, optional—helps minimize curling
• Print St. Nicholas images see below for multiple image PDFs
• Aleene's Tacky Glue or fabric glue minimize curling
• DecorArt Craft Twinkles, brush-on crystal glitter paint or white crystal glitter
• Paper cutter or trimmer
• Small paintbrush for glitter paint

Directions

1. Download PDF and print needed St. Nicholas images
2. Laminate printed sheets, if desired
3. Cut out images, using a paper cutter
4. Glue image in center of glitter snowflake, make sure there is glue on the corners
5. Add glitter to edge of image by applying a bead of crystal glitter paint or putting a bead of tacky glue around the edge and sprinkling with crystal glitter
   (if using glitter paint, let dry and apply a second coat)
6. Attach a loop to hang if snowflakes didn't come with one

Special thanks to Pat Borek, St Joseph's Roman Catholic Parish, Everson, Pennsylvania

Tips for accurate PDF printing

In the Adobe Print dialog box, check these boxes:

For Adobe Reader 8.0
If you are having trouble printing, try clicking on "Advanced" then "Print as Image."

For older versions
In the Adobe Print dialog box, make sure the boxes for Shrink oversized pages to paper size and Expand small pages to paper size are NOT checked. (In some versions the option is Page Scaling: NONE, click to find Fit to pages and Shrink large pages.)

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