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INFORMATION

Create a garland decoration to celebrate the Twilight Carnival. You may either use the templates provided below, or create your own. Your garland must have at least 3 of the the templates below or artwork of your own creation.

★ Garlands must be colorful!

★ Multiple garlands can be created for your entry, but you will only get one reward!

★ You may use any medium to “decorate” your garland. Glitter, felts, and clay (and more!) are all accepted as long as your garland matches the minimum drawing requirement!

examples:

Garland by Frouzon!

REQUIREMENTS

The entry submitted to this prompt must show good effort and adhere to the following guidelines:

★ Your garland must be made of at least 3 templates, whether that be of your own creation or based on site items like a lantern fruit. Being creative is encouraged! 

★ Your entry must show good effort and not appear lazy or rushed.

★ You may use any of the templates provided to decorate your garland, or make your own design!

★ This prompt may only be submitted once per user!

Templates

If you don't feel like making your own design, you can use the provided template! Just print these out onto an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper and cut them out. Click the template to download the full resolution image. 

Garland Template created by NeonSlushie and Frouzon.

Follow along

This is a visual guide on how to construct your garland!

You'll need:

★ Construction paper
★ A pair of scissors 
★ A stapler
★ Tape
★ A pen

Optionally:

★ A glue stick
★ A hole punch

1.  Gather your materials! You will need to print the template provided or have drawn your perfered shapes on a seprate piece of paper. 

2. Start by cutting out your templates. Remember you only need to choose 3 to complete the prompt, but you are free to use as many as you desire!

3. Next we need to prepare our colored construction paper. Fold your paper in half along the vertical, or "hotdog" style. Crease the paper to give yourself a guide to cut along. Three standard sheets of paper will give about 66 inches of length to your garland. 

4. Once all parts are cut out, tape the short end of the strips together from one side. This will be the back of your garland. 

5. Take some time to align your templates. Start at the end of your paper and make sure they fit nicely without major gaps! Once you find a good fit, trace them onto the back side of your garland. Don't want to trace? Try glueing down your templates instead!

6. It's time to fold all the excess paper behind your designs. This will be folded in an accordion fashion. It's very important to make sure the ends of your traced design matches up to where you set your folds, otherwise you risk accidentally cutting your garland apart in the middle! 

7.  Working with so much paper can be difficult, so it's recomended to staple along the outer edges to hold the layers in place as you cut! Make sure the staples do not enter the bounds of your design- or you'll struggle to unfold it later!

8. Almost done! Cut out your traced design. Remember to mind the folded edges when cutting!! It's OK to fudge the shapes a little to keep the string going. (You can see I did so on the Ru Berry!) For details like the boolew's eye or the affocato's stem loop I used a hole punch and punched through all layers at once to keep consistency. To better define the shape of the ruberry to autumn leaf, I made a small cut that did not compermise the string's intergity.

Finally, I decorated the entire string from the good side with marker to help define each template's shape! 

INSTRUCTIONS

To submit your creation for this prompt, follow the instructions below!

1. First, upload a photo of your decorated garland to our on-site Holiday Gallery.

2. Fill out all of the related information. Add a title and description, and from the Prompt drop-down box, select "NAME". Click the "Add Character" button, and add the code for the character(s) featured in the piece. If you're using one of our templates, or anything Project Xero related that isn't a specific character (such as the logo), you can use code X-025 for our mascot. Submit the piece!

3. Copy the URL of the piece posted to the Gallery, and click "Submit Prompt" for NAME.

4. Paste the URL of your photo to the "Submission URL" box. You can ignore all of the other fields in the prompt submission. The rewards are added automatically for you!

6. Submit your prompt, and wait! A member of the team will review and accept it for you. Your account will receive a notification once the submission is approved!