Day 75

I was flipping through my book "365: Make Something Everyday and Change Your Life", the book that got me started on this journey.  I was looking for some inspiration and I found it on day 217 - "Create a flip-book animation in the corner of a notebook or book."  So that is exactly what I did!

I remember doing these simple flip books in school years ago, so I just went with a simple stick figure cat or dog, or deer, or whatever...use your imagination...and drew one on the corner of each notebook page (small so I can reuse this notebook for other things in the future) in pencil.  On each page, alternating, I did one with the legs out and one with the legs in.  And for an added bonus, I had Stan help me record it on the camera so we have a movie today!  After the craft video, be sure to watch the second video below of Cody molesting me while I was trying to record the craft!

Grab some popcorn and tune in:

And now here is Cody (if you turn your sound on you can hear him purring like a crazy kitty):

Day 23

Today's craft I got from the book "The Big-Ass Book of Crafts".  Yes, that really is the name of the book.  One of the reasons I got it!  The crafts in the book are great, but pretty involved and in need of many supplies I never have.  I decided to flip through once more, since I usually do it quickly and forget what's in there.  I saw the "CD jewel case notebook" and decided to give it a go. 

I realize I already did a notebook (the tea box notebook - Day 12) but this one is a different concept, and hey, you can never have enough paper notebooks around! 

First I took a CD case, took out all the stuff inside (the cover, black cd holder and the back cover) then I cut 10 sheets of regular copy paper to 10" x 4.5" and folded it in half.  I then cut a piece of decorative scrapbook paper to the same size and glued it to the first white paper.  I cut another piece of paper 2" x 4.5" for the spine and glued that on to the bigger sheet.  I stuffed it all into the CD case and then put in a pencil (that I had to sharpen, and sharpen, and sharpen...until it was the right size!) and closed it all up nicely!   

The finished CD jewel case notebook closed:

Close up of finished CD jewel case notebook closed:

The case open:

The back of the case open (sorry about the reflection):