Leafy Greens and Critters Pop Up

 It's Friday! Today, still trying to get over this blasted cold #4, I played around a little with Distress Stains and my Line Up stamp from Stampotique to cheer me up. I made this pop-up... I don't know whether I'll make it into some kind of card or just leave it on the table to enjoy for a while as-is. (EDIT: I ended up cutting it out and liking it a lot better! It'll stay up on my shelf for a while)

What screams cheeriness and get-well-soon like itty bitty monsters in lacy underwear? 

 I took a scrap of watercolor paper I had, probably about 5x7'', and doodled some leaves on it. Then I used  a variety of Tim Holtz Distress Stains to color the whole sheet right over top of the leaves. This whole process was super fast, it just took a while for the stains to dry.

Then I just cut out all the leaf clusters and cut more little leaves out of the green scraps of stuff that was left over.

 The whole pop up thing is just cutting cubes upon cubes, then gluing the leaves and the critters to the boxes. And yes indeed, it does fold up flat still! Even with that whole forest on it.

I hope everybody has a fantastic weekend. My plans are nothing... I can just relax now!

And also on a proud-of-myself note: I gave myself a haircut yesterday (I used this YouTube video for instruction) and it turned out just super and saved money that I can now blow on more craft supplies.

Happy Friday!

Birds and Dresden Inchie Cube

 Good morning! It's the second day in 2013 and I am determined to spend it all in my jimmie-jams. I caught another cold from my visiting family and all the kiddos, but it's a total lack of surprise even after the ludicrous display of vitamin-munching I did. I'm just a sickness magnet. Boo. At least this time it was worth it and I know exactly who I caught it from.

Well, now I'll be relaxing and crafting and blogging. Today's thingie is an inchies cube ornament. They're actually about 1.5" by 1.5" each, so technically they're inchies-and-a-halfies. But let's just says inchies, okay?

 Once I made all the inchies, I just glued em each to one side of a wooden cube that I painted black with craft acrylics.

Here's another angle. I don't have a picture, but I finished the project by drilling a tiny hold and adding a tiny metal screw eye to attached a loop of string for hanging. If you wanted to use the little guy as a di (dice? die?di?) you could just unscrew the eye and there you have it.

Happy Wednesday!

Stuff I used that you can get:
Miscellaneous Dresden (the shiny bits)
Various Birds Collage Sheets (all from Alpha Stamps)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It's 12:01! Happy New Year! Scheduled Blog Post! I'm probably asleep!

So 2012 was a very eventful year, some wonderful things, some sad things, but overall a really good year. I feel like I lived a lot of my life this year and gained so much by trial or success. I owe my readers and FB likers much gratitude for helping me have the confidence to keep pushing forward. So, thanks, and much love :)

I have plans for 2013 that involve a lot more new fun and exciting crafts and skills to share. I want to share more videos and more tutorials and more book reviews! The last few months of 2012 have been nutso-crazytown-deluxe with business-sauce. I'm crossing my fingers for a little more free time this year so I can do a little more sharing and caring. 

I hope you all have had a great year, and I wish you the very best new year.

And if one of your resolutions is to get crafty, I encourage you all to enter something in the Unique Crafters January Challenge which is "New Beginnings". Sponsored by Scrapbook Unique. :)