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• Cut printed tiles carefully and accurately.  Otherwise your medallion won't fit together well no matter how carefully you fold it.
• Keep your thumbnails long enough to crease folds well or use a bone folder.  A piece of plastic such as a credit card will also act as a bone folder.
• If you have trouble getting tight folds you can use a toothpick to get into corners.
• Print out extra tiles and experiment to see which fold works best with your pattern.
• Make sure all of your folds face the same way before gluing.
• Use a glue bottle that only gives a little dab of glue.  You can buy small adaptors to fit over glue bottle tips or alternatively use a pin or toothpick to dab on the glue.  Some prefer taking a small portion of glue from a glue stick rather than liquid glue.
• If you have a bit of white showing after you have folded, you can carefully cut this part off and in the majority of cases it won't be noticed.
• Use the printing template for positioning kite tiles.
• Have lots of medallions ready to make quick cards.
• If you want your medallions to lie flatter, put a dab of glue between the layers.
• If you make your own tiles from a picture, print out the picture as well for the card so that people can see the end result of the medallion.
• Keep a copy of the different folds in a book with instructions to remind you how you did the different folds.
• If you use someone else's tile, it is nice to give them the credit if you post a picture of your card on line.
• When your medallion is finished and you have a hole, you can always use a brad or an embellishment in the center to hide the hole.
• When cutting out a cut tile, if the area you need to cut is skinny, you can always put a piece of scotch tape on the backside to give it strength as you cut it out and the remaining scotch tape can just be left on.
• When layering, co-ordinate your colours whenever possible.
• Using decorative scissors on the edges of the folded tiles gives a different unique look to tiles.
• Don't rush and have fun!