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Hello! My name is Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village, today we're going to learn
how to make paper snowflakes. In this example, I wanted to show you another way that we've
cut the snowflake, the center of the snowflake, out. Instead of our earlier clip where we
cut it on an angle, what we went ahead and did is we cut it straight across instead of
up and down on the angle. Of course, that earlier example formed a star in the center.
We have something in this case that is just a little bit closer to a circle. You can see
as we proceed or progress in our examples, we're getting a little bit more intricate
with our cuts and our ideas. Again, be as creative as you want to. You can do so many
neat things. All you have to do is to keep in mind these 2 points here. That will start
to formulate in your head the certain patterns that you want to make and what the snowflakes
will turn out to. You'll be able to start to visualize what they'll look like. In this
case, what we did again is we cut the top off here. That's what gave us our circle in
the center. Then I went across the bottom here and cut it on kind of an angle, then
went up, and then formed sort of like this little cut in here that went in, up, back
out, formed into a triangle here, and then up to the edge and cut it off. You want to
again cut the top off. Then you've got 2 parts right in here. A little triangle here. This
one, I don't know if you can see it close enough, but it forms a bit of a triangle but
then it went in just a little bit more. Then this is what will give you these neat sort
of outer edges of the snowflakes right in here, which is just a little bit different
than a triangle. It gives you a little bit more of an intricate design. We've got one
more example in our final clip. That's coming up.