craftgrrl | Another 1,000 cranes, but with a twist!

Traditionally, the legend goes that a person who folds 1,000 cranes is supposed to be granted a wish. In reality, I think a person who folds 1,000 cranes ends up with carpal tunnel syndrome and a bunch of paper cranes. So what do you do with them? Answer: con someone else into taking them by making them think it's a really nifty present... ;)

So I decided to make them magical, wish-granting cranes! That's right, it's a box of 1,000 wishes! The only stipulation was that in order to get the wish, she has to let the crane go - giving it away, setting it free, whatever. So I don't feel so bad about saddling her with a box of scrap paper. ;)

In my first 1000 cranes, I used a paper cutter to cut the squares. Paper cutters are nice, but I often ended up with wonky squares because the paper would slide, etc. This time I had a brilliant idea - a square scrapbooking paper punch! I was able to line it up and get better pictures on the back of the cranes, and not waste so many cuts (before I'd cut up a whole catalog/magazine/whatever, then sort through the squares to find the good ones).

Though, of course, I still made a few differently sized cranes out of other materials:

Baby Crane

A family of Coupon Cranes

Gum wrapper cranes

Mr. 1,000!

The whole flock!

For my next (not again!) set of cranes, I bought memo cubes, and I plan to write one thing that makes me happy on the paper, fold it into a crane, and take a picture of it with/on/near something that represents what I wrote. I'm going to (hopefully) post them all over at Daily Crane on Facebook if anyone wants to follow the insanity... O.o