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Kaleidoscope Snowflakes

kaleidoscope snowflake

You can buy pre-made templates for kaleidoscope snowflakes to use with Kaleidoscope Kreator.

Or...you can make your own! I used a free program, Mehdi Kaleidoscope 2.1 to make the kaleidoscope pictures. It works with Photoshop products and any program that can load Photoshop plugins (like Corel PhotoPaint or Paint Shop Pro). I used Photoshop Elements.

Make a kaleidoscope picture

Install the plugin.

Open a photo in Photoshop. I chose something with lots of blue. Crop the photo to a square. I try to get some color variety in the square and I often boost the saturation to get a brighter blue.

Click on the plugin. Make sure you have 6 "petals". Adjust the sliders or click "random" until you like what you see. Save your kaleidoscope picture.

How to make the kaleidoscope

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Super simple method: in Photoshop click on the Cookie Cutter Tool. Select the snowflake. Adjust the size. You're done! The drawback is that there's only one snowflake shape.

More complicated method, giving you a choice of snowflakes: open or import your kaleidoscope picture in a vector program. I usually use Corel Draw, but here I used Inkscape, because it's free and readily available.

How to make the cutout

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You can cut these by machine if your cutter does print and cut.

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