Superhero Family Caricature

One of the fun things about having a blog is that you never know what opportunities will come your way. In this case, ABC offered to create a caricature of our family as a part of a promotion for their TV series, No Ordinary Family. We even got to pick are own superhero powers. I chose super speed, my son picked shooting fire with his hands and my daughter wanted to fly. As for my husband, he didn't pick a power so that's why he's just standing there. I think they did a pretty good job with the caricature minus one little mistake. My husband is Japanese, not white. I came up with the idea that his power is shape shifting like Mystique in X-Men but he's not buying it.

Hopefully I'll be back soon with a craft. Our house has been plagued with some awful flu bug which means no energy for crafting. Boo, hiss.

Kid Craft: Comic Books

For the past couple months my son has really been into making comic books. And when I say "really" I mean obsessed. He even asked for a stapler for Christmas so he could make them look more professional. The more he created the comics, the more detailed they got. First I noticed the words, "an epic novel by" on them. Then he started adding a chapter page. And like the true life cycle of a product, they eventually had a price tag. He even tried to sell them to family members!

So, I dedicate this craft to my little author.

The inspiration for this craft, one of Evan's comic books.

Supplies:
Card stock
Copy Paper
Stapler
Templates - all templates were created with a half inch border minus the cover. Right click, copy, save and print template on landscape size (11 x 8.5) paper.

Print out one cover on card stock paper.

Print as many inside pages as desired. Print on both sides of paper.

Print one chapter page and an inside page on the opposite side.

Assemble: Place cover page face down. Place chapter page face down over cover page. Place all inside pages on top of chapter page. Staple down the center. Fold book in half.

Start writing!

Shape Up Your Sticky Notes

The flowers above were made with basic square sticky notes from the office supply store. I got the idea from some standing dog shaped sticky notes I saw at Kinokuniya. It was obvious they were just folded sticky notes so it got me thinking about what else I could create with the concept. Below are a few ideas of what I came up with along with some simple instructions.

Supplies:
Sticky note pads
Die-cuts
Stamps
Scissors

To make the sticky notes in the top picture, slide one sticky note paper in the die cut. Turn the die-cut over to make sure the bottom of the image overlaps on the sticky part. Punch out. Make a ninety degree fold and stick to any surface.

Here I just punched out a shape from one sticky note and added a second sticky note behind it.

Save the date.

Dress up a treat.

Other ideas:

Place sticky notes on top of a gift in replace of the standard gift tag.

Use as a fun, easy place card holder.

One More Japanese Craft Book

ISBN978-4-415-30506-6

Here's the other Japanese craft book that I shared about in an earlier post. The craft book is all about creating cards. What appealed to me most was that many of the cards were made out of scraps from magazines, food packages, airline tickets, etc. It has inspired me to start collecting paper scraps that would normally be tossed into the recycling bin. I hope you will find some of the images as inspiring as I do. Below are a few pictures of my favorite cards from the book.

Happy New Year!