Patent ID: 8070896

Claim:
A method for making an illustrated card, comprising steps of: providing a cardboard with at least one printed layer, a plurality types of ornamentation and a stylus, wherein: the cardboard has two surfaces; the at least one printed layer is formed on one of the two surfaces of the cardboard and has a pattern ink layer arranging a pattern and being mounted on a corresponding one of the two surfaces; and multiple adhesive portions being attached to the pattern ink layer; and the stylus comprises a shaft having a blunt end; and an adhesive end having a fastener protruding from the adhesive end of the shaft; and an applicator being made of resin and fastened by the fastener and having a cylindrical segment mounted in an inner space of the fastener and having a proximal end and a distal end; and a tacky end protruding from the distal end of the cylindrical segment and mounted out of the fastener; using the tacky end of an adhering element of the stylus to adhere to one of the plurality types of ornamentation; putting the one of the plurality types of ornamentation on one of the adhesive portions, each adhesive portion holding at least one type of ornamentation; using the blunt end of the stylus to press the one of the plurality types of ornamentation toward the adhesive portion; and repeating using the stylus to selectively adhere the plurality types of ornamentation on the adhesive portions, and using the stylus to press the one of the plurality types of ornamentation toward the adhesive portion, wherein: the fastener of the adhesive end has the inner space; an enlarged end mounted on the adhesive end of the shaft; and a narrow end having a through hole defined through the narrow end and communicating with the inner space of the fastener; and the applicator is mounted in the inner space of the fastener and partially protrudes from the through hole of the narrow end of the fastener; and wherein: the fastener is conical and further has two halves combined detachably to each other, wherein one of the halves is formed inmlly on the adhesive end of the shaft and has an inner surface having a protrusion protruding from the inner surface; and two side edges, each side edge having a first detent formed in the edge; and the other half has an inner surface having a cap protruding from the inner surface having a mounting hole formed in the cap and corresponding to the protrusion of the one of the halves to receive the protrusion to combine the halves securely; and two opposite side edges, each side edge having a second detent formed on the side edge and securely mounted in one of the first detents to fasten the two halves firmly; and the applicator further has a fastening ring formed integrally from the proximal end of the cylindrical segment and having fastening hole mounted around the protrusion of the one of the halves to fasten the applicator to the fastener.