Fractal popup Christmas card

This is my first Instructable, so please be kind!

I will show how to build a Christmas popup card that features a Fractal decomposition of images. You can fit your personal photos and pictures, so that the whole renders as a Christmas tree.

It takes about 1 hour to prepare the card (I did it on PowerPoint, and the file is available if you want to start from something already half-done).
For each card the cutting/folding is about 10 minutes per card. I sent about 12 of them, only one fooled up.

Step 1 The powerpoint template

I did the card mostly using PowerPoint. Once the basic template is done (you can download a blank one without pictures here) it is very easy to make it yours, and add you own photos to it.

Comments

[admin]

This is a great Instructable, but you need to add a main image of the final project to the intro step. Please do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work. Thanks!

[richarno]

Hi, I merged the first and 2ns steps, so that the intro step has now nicer looking. That should make it. Bruno

[richarno]

Hi Admin, It looks like my instructable has not been registered in the "card" contest. However I submitted it on time! Can you fix this please? Thanks, Bruno

[richarno]

Hi again admin, Thanks for entering my instructable in the card contest. However, it has never been directly availaible neither from the home page nor from the RSS flux. Hence there are only few visits. Can you make the entry more "visible" on the instructables Web site, so I get a chance to gather some more votes. Thanks anyway, Bruno

[snowpenguin]

That's not the admin. That is just a picture of Robo-instruct.

[lschwartz]

The 'ible says in Step 5 to follow the folding order, but I don't see it and it is not in the PDF I downloaded.  Where can I find it?

Thanks for contributing this.

Larry

[eld102]

How do you get the small photos to cover up the big ones?

[ntbrown]

 Can't wait to make a few of these! 

[BootlegWarrior6]

Just to help out: On Power point 2003, you have to right click on the box, then click on the color drop box on the "colors and lines" tab. When this drops down, select "Fill Effects". Then select the "Picture" tab. Click "Select Picture" then find you image, and click "OK". Hope that helped! Great instructable!

[BootlegWarrior6]

finally tried this out last night, and made a random one out of some pearl jam images to see if it really worked. The results were amazing! I'm going to start using this all the time! thanks!

[monsoon0203]

wow this is just brilliant! I made it for my best friend's birthday and after folding it i was amazed myself. thanks!

[Kiteman]

Brilliant idea, and you earned me brownie points with my mother - she's been dropping hints about me making something for her since I carved a pair of hearts for Kitewife. I used your idea to make her a card (I copied the PowerPoint template into CorelDraw to add the images and slightly adjust the proportions, just personal preference), and now she's happy. Thank you.

[Patented]

Hey c'est vraiment nice! Sa donne un tres beau résultat!! Merci et Joyeux Noel!!

[Sunbanks]

:D My geometry teacher would love one of these!

[ansanma]

It's a pity that you don't added this wonderful instructable to Holiday Card Contest (closed yesterday)! May be someone can help you because voting will finish soon...