Since Carol's cube puzzles are put together from photographs, greeting card covers, and other pictures, she suggests several steps to complete before you begin the project:
- To avoid damaging the originals, color-copy your photographs.
- For the cubes, use children's building blocks, make your own out of thin cardboard, or ask have blocks cut at your local lumber yard or woodworking shop.
- To make your puzzle more resilient, coat the images you will be using with a clear acrylic spray and mount them on index cards before attaching them to the wooden blocks.
Materials:
photographs, greeting card covers, or other desired images
wood blocks
paper
craft knife
rubber cement
acrylic spray
Steps:
- Place the blocks side-by-side in any four-sided shape you desire.
- Draw a frame around the outside edges of the shape you created in Step 1.
- Cut your image to the exact size of the frame.
- Place the image face down.
- With the rubber cement, glue one block to a corner of the back of the image.
- Use craft knife to cut the image around the block so that the block is no longer attached to the rest of the image.
- Place second block on the back of the image so that an edge of the block lines up with an edge you cut in Step 5. If your blocks are not perfect cubes, it is important to remember to which side you're gluing the image so that the puzzle fits together properly when completed.
- Glue the block to the back of the image and repeat Step 6.
- Repeat Steps 7 and 8 with the rest of the blocks.
- Repeat Steps 1 through 9 with the unfinished sides of your puzzle blocks.
