Saturday, February 9, 2013

Which came first...the chicken or the egg?


Hi!  Welcome to the Joy's Life February blog hop!

I created a crazy card:

My punny sentiment is from "Yummy Puns":


 Our challenge: 3D Animals and Card Folds.

My chick is a 3D action wobble and the
cracked egg is a different sort of card fold:

Here is the action wobble in action:

Last week our basement flooded.  I lost some paper crafting magazines, 12x12 papers, and 12x12 collections (all older stash) that is drying out.  I plan to cut the papers that I can salvage parts of.  Before I start trying to clean basement stash and move it into my craft room as I sort/cut/salvage, I have been purging my craft room and getting it in perfect order...I can't work in chaos.

I love to organize, and it has been fun going through every shelf and drawer in my craft room and being reminded of some wonderful items.  Like this action wobble!  A blog friend sent me several last summer and they were buried under piles of stuff on my desk.  And all of the papers for today's project came from various Artful Delight kits from 2011 and 2012 :)  

Isn't it fun to create a unique card from bits and pieces?

Thank you for hopping by!

Your next stop on the hop:

*and the answer to my post title:  the egg.
1.  I cut the cracked egg from my Cricut "Create a Critter" cartridge @ 3 1/4".  I used temporary adhesive and glued the two pieces, spacing apart.  This became my guide to hand cut the rough oval shape of the card.
2.  I cut two small banners and scored three lines in the middle 1/8" apart.  I glued one to the top and one to the bottom of my rough oval.
3.  I covered the base (from step 1) with patterned paper.  I glued the other half of each banner to the cracked egg pieces, then covered the egg pieces with patterned paper.  The chicken came last : )  She was cut at the same size and from the same Cricut cartridge.

39 comments:

Linda said...

This is really cute. I like how the egg opens. Great job on the stitching too!

Linda ☺
Crafting With Nana

~amy~ said...

Love it...so cute June and love the egg action:)

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

Yikes about the flooding! Glad you can salvage some of your stuff!! I loveeeeeeeeeeeeee your card!! Sooooooooooooo cute cute cute!!

Josie0602 said...

I am so sorry about your flood! That would be so upsetting!! Super cute chick card. I love anything with Wobbles on it!

Tracy
jtg (at)sbcglobal (dot) net

jessica said...

This is super adorable!!
Thanks for sharing!
Jessica
chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com

Tracy said...

oh June I'm soooo sorry about the basement (did it allllll flood or just a portion? - thats a lotta basement) But as is typical of my sunny side up friend :-)you made lemonade out of lemons. And that little chickie is a-dorable!

Unknown said...

June,
Your card is so cute! I'm sorry about your basement. BLAH! That's awful. Yesterday, I used an Action Wobble for the first time in a while. They're so much fun! Thanks for being in the 3D Animal & Card Folds blog hop!
Super Hugs,
~Joy~

Vicki said...

Super cute.

snappy scrappy said...

This is so darn cute...love it!! Lee-Ann :)

Kimberly J. said...

This is so awesome! What a fun card! Action wobbles are alot of fun to play around with! ;)

DebC said...

June your card is adorable! I love it and love the wobble on it. Sorry to hear you had a flooded basement and it ruined some of your things.
Hugs
Deb C
Bugjuiced

Got2BCrafting said...

Super cute! Love all the elements. :)
I am sorry to hear about your basement, I hope your loss is minimal. But, the silver lining is, like you mentioned, getting to go through all your stuff again and reorganize. Finding great things we forgot about is almost like Christmas!! LOL!
Hugs,
Lori

Darlene said...

aww! sorry abt your stash! That is my worst nightmare. When we evacuate for Hurricanes, I always make hubby put plywood over my craftroom window! TFS your super cute chick card!

Darlene

SugarGem said...

So cute cute cute girl

Kris Dietz said...

So sorry about the flood. Hope you are able to salvage quite a bit. Love your card and the way it opens. Just love action wobbles! TFS.

Kris
dietzrobles at yahoo dot com

Lisa said...

This is absolutely adorable!! How fun it wobbles!! I love the creative cut of the egg shell!! So awesome...it makes me smile!! Happy Saturday :)

Lisa
A Mermaid's Crafts

Ros Crawford said...

I adore this!! It would be a fantastic card for my group to make too! Sorry about your flooding though ... have a lovely weekend

pattyk said...

love the cracked egg !! My granddaughter will too! Thanks millierose651@aol.com

Anonymous said...

So sorry to hear your Basements flooded And your crafty items were a part of it :( that no fun... This egg card is way too CA-UTE!... lol I love these types of questions because it makes ya think ... how can there be an egg if there wasn't a Chicken to lay it.

TFS
Micia Yellowbirdcreation@gmail.com

Sue D said...

I am glad you found an Action wobble--so cute with this chick.

morentin1326 said...

Awesome creation... just love it
i say egg came first too....
morentin1326ATaolDOTcom
adventureofthecreativemind.blogspot.com

DIANA L. said...

This is so cute. I loveyour peep peeping out and wobbling
beautiful papers.
DIANA L.
http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com

Patty B said...

Super adorable card, June! I love how the egg opens AND he wobbles! :) Sorry about your basement...hope you can salvage a lot of your papers.

Lady Fair said...

Very cute, love the egg-shaped card. Adorable!

Leslie Hanna said...

Nooo, not flooding! What a mess. I hope you didn't lose too much.

I have wobbles, somewhere ...

jennyplace2 said...

What a cute card, I love using action wobbles for all my grand kids cards. Sorry to hear about the flooding. What a big mess and so much extra work to do.

Heidi said...

So cute! I've never used wobbles yet but they look so fun. I like your little card! So sorry for the flooding. What a frustrating mess not to mention the loss scrap stuff! Ugh.
Live4scrappin

Unknown said...

What an adorable card. Everything about it has me smiling.

Hugs~

Krista's Paper Cafe said...

sweet card

Jen R said...

Oh so cute!!! I love this little wobble chick and the egg is just perfect! So sorry to hear about your basement flooding, but now you get to purge...I am almost to my purging point for my whole house.:)

SiskiyouSue said...

Your card is darling, love that chick wobbling around in his egg!

Sheri said...

How cute :) love the stitching

Sheri

sherii at cfl dot rr dot com

Unknown said...

ADORABLE!

Missy said...

This is just darling, great stitching and the wobble is fantastic!!!

An'Jenic G. said...

LOL so happy you posted what came fist. I love your card and the action wobble is add fun. TFS AJ-

MS said...

I love your crazy card! So cute & creative!

So sorry to hear about your basement :( I hope you didn't lose a lot of goodies! I would love to send you a crafty box to help out! Email me back with your snail mail addy (I can't remember if I already have it). Hugs girl! Xoxo

Candy said...

Great card , June! Glad to see that you were able to save some things from your flooded basement... so sorry about your basement :( I love the action wobble chick - I've been eyeing those for awhile and now I may just have to give 'em a try! TFS June!

Candy

lauren bergold said...

ooooooooh! i love the fun fold AND the wobbly thing! i think i have a few of those, you've made me want to go and unearth them!!! this is soooooooo totally adorable, you are a CREATIVE chick, missus!!! ♥

ps: sorry about the basement, that sort of story suddenly has an even more immediate response from me... just the thought... and no landlord to call... waaaaaahhhhhh!!! (i'm pretty sure i would not be NEARLY as good a sport as you are being, also!!!) :) :) :)

Rose said...

eek!!! too cute and i love his wobbly head :)