Time to make the star of the show: the Glowstone Cube



Make sure you have all of your supplies gathered before crafting!



On the outside, the cube is covered in printouts of the Glowstone texture - on the inside, its structure comes from the mounting board



Step 1: Trim the white paper off your printed textures (see picture 2)



Step 2: Take your mounting board and cut it into two rectangles, each equal to three sides of the cube. So, if your cube is 7" per side, each rectangle should be 7" x 21"



Step 3: Use a knife to score (not cut) the mounting board along each side's edge, so that it folds into three squares (see picture 3)



Step 4: For each face, take your spare texture and use it to cut holes in the mounting board ( all except one face - that'll be the bottom) where the white spaces inside of the texture are. This is where the light will shine through (see picture 4). You can be a bit sloppy here, since the mounting board will be covered by the texture. Note: masking tape is your friend, use it to hold the texture still while you cut



Step 5: Cut out the holes in each texture print. Be very careful here, since this is what will be visible. Try to remove all of the white paper, but don't let your knife slip and leave cut marks





Now for the tricky part: attaching the textures



Step 6: Time to attach the first texture! Using LetterTech, or some other adhesive, line up the holes on one of the texture printouts and attach to the middle section of one of the mounting board strips



Step 7: With your middle texture attached, you'll want to fold a wing to be 90 degrees from the middle section by putting it on the edge of a table. Repeat for the other flap (see picture 6)



Step 8: Repeat steps 6 and 7 on your other strip of mounting board. You should now have two half-cubes with only one face textured - but, because you glued the flaps, they should now do a pretty good job of staying in a cube shape



Step 9: Slide the two halves together to form a cube, then use masking tape to hold them together.



Step 10: See all of the new flaps sticking out? Glue them down, except the one that would prevent your bottom, hole-less face from swinging open, since that's what we'll use to put in the LEDs!



Step 11: With the new texture flaps glued on, and your bottom still open-able, cut off the flap that's still sticking out on the bottom.



Step 12: You now have to apply the rest of the textures. But here's the deal: after you apply a texture, you have to glue down all of its flaps before you apply the next texture. And, whenever you're going on top of another flap, cut off the new flap. This'll give you the clean-edge look visible in picture 1.



Congratulations! You should now have a beautiful glowstone cube! Next, we'll cover how to insert the LEDs.