CLOSED: Wicked Witch/Ruby Slippers Bookmark Giveaway!

CLOSED! Thank you to those who entered!

Hey friends! In order to celebrate 1000 likes on my Oops I Craft My Pants Facebook Page, I'm doing a DOUBLE giveaway! By popular demand, I'll be giving away two of my Original Wicked Witch/Ruby Slippers Bookmarks to two lucky readers :) Up for grabs are one of each style bookmark: 1. The "REGISTERED" Ephemera-Style bookmark here on the blog and 2. The "I want those shoes" Collage-Style bookmark on Facebook.

 You can enter for both giveaways by commenting here on this blog post, and by commenting on the giveaway announcement on the Facebook Page! 

This giveaway is open to international folks as well. You can only win once, just in case you're crazy-lucky and happen to be chosen twice. Winners will be selected by random.org's random number generator and announced on February 6th 2012. So comment away! Make sure you leave a way to contact you in case you   win :) Thank you for following my work! I 100% appreciate all your support! 

AW SNAP! Lil Cowboy Card

 Ah, the unconventional birthday card... I made this "AW SNAP" card for my little sister (technically, she is my BFF's little sister, but I never had one, so I've taken her as my own). Anyhoo, it was her birthday this month and she needed something colorful, I decided.

 The little boy is cut from a discarded kids book from the 1960s. There was a set of boys playing cowboys and indians that was so dang funny. This kid just got "shot", and I thought his posture and face was the perfect  "aw snap" face. Kinda ironic, but that was the point :)

You can kinda see the metallic craft foil stamped designs in the background. That was probably my favorite part aside from the fluffy pom-pom yarn embellishment. The letters were stamped onto water colored paper and made "3D" with some sticky back foam.

In stamp-related news, Bobby made me this shelf for my rubber stamps! Unfortunately, it doesn't fit all my stamps, but the good news is that it was easy to make... And my birthday is coming up. Maybe he'll make me another one :) Have a super week.

PS. I'm almost at 1000 likes on my Oops I Craft My Pants Facebook Page! Once I hit 1000, I'm going to have a giveaway. Any suggestions for what I should give away?

Fancy Beaded Lava Princess Crown

 What girl doesn't need a couple of crowns lying around for those blah days? I made this second crown a few days after I made the fancy beaded mermaid crown, but used a little different style. And guess who remembered to take a few in-progress pics? This moi.

 I used the thickest gauge of wire they had at Michaels for the foundation of this one, and wrapped it all around with much thinner wire to hold it together.

 Then, I used the thick wire to make this piece to create tiers for the many gleaming jewels.

You can see here how I wrapped more wire around to attach it to the circle.

 So without any beads, the base for the crown looked like this.

 Then, I took about a 2 foot section of thin wire and strung beads onto it. I secured one end to the base by twisting it around, then began wrapping the beaded wire around the base, spacing them about 1 bead per wrap-around, if that makes sense. When you run out of beads and wire, just secure it, then add another length of wire and beads. It's easier to do it in pieces instead of one LONG piece of wire, because wrapping that crap is crazy. It'll be everywhere.

 Then once you get to the pointy-bits, pull the bead wire across the centers to fill in the empty bits.

Tada! Magical. Queen of the Hot Lava monsters.

 I had a woe-is-me couple of days this week, and I tell you what, I needed to wear something sparkly to make me feel better. Not pregnant again. Booooo. I don't usually like to get too personal on this blog, and I stick to the crafty stuff, but man, that's what's going on right now. Good thing I have crafts to cheer me up, right? :P Okay, no more pity party.... Have a great weekend, everyone!