Cutting up my posterboard...

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So, I had a bad day, and despite the fact I had so much more to do, I decided just to do a couple quick projects.

My last post here asked people what they do when they don't have a bunch of crafting stuff, but they do have a lot of...stuff. So, here's a birthday card, made completely of whatever I found around me.

The front. I thought about pixelating the number but...eh, no one knows her here, and it doesn't have her name anywhere.


The inside...it has extra blank pages of texture like fancy cards at the store. You can also see the stitches holding it together here.


The actual inside with the writing.


The second page of texture stuff. If you can't read it, it says "A completely improvised card from those of us without fancy thingamajigs." It's referring to her marvelous Cricut. (We got her the software package for it for her birthday. The little piece of paper is both glued and sewed in there.


The card was made with:

white printer paper

crayon

an exacto knife

embroidery thread

needle

black and red Sharpie

white glue

ripped-out pages from an old hardback book I found

scissors

I also made a journal. I disassembled three of my notebooks from school. I'm working on combining my notes from all my classes into larger books like "European History", "Other History Classes The Stupid Department Made Me Take", "Math and Science" and "Other Humanities". I'm a bit of a pack-rat, and I just want to save the information I have right now, but I hate the way a whole bunch of notebooks look on a shelf. This is just the blank pages from the ends of the notebooks - I'm trying to put my notes together better before binding them.