Hi everybody! I'm in an airplane right now blogging...how cool is modern technology? I'm heading back home after a week in Alabama for work. I loved being in Montgomery, but yeah for home!
I've been loving the fortune-telling stamps I've been seeing around (fortune cookies, magic 8 ball). I decided to make a different type of fortune-telling project--a cootie catcher:
Did anyone else ever make cootie catchers in elementary school? My friends and I would make them with secret messages on the inside about the boys we would marry or where we would live. I always picked Hawaii. I suppose South Dakota and Hawaii aren't too different. ;)
So for a fun Valentine's Day project, I made a cootie catcher. Please excuse the little wear on the image...it might have been used once or twice last weekend after I made it.
I used eight different digital patterned papers from Two Peas in a Bucket. Here's the first picture as it's being unfolded:
See how the patterned papers are different than the outside? It was fun to mix so many papers. Here's one of the "answers" inside a flap:
I used a digital brush from Hero Arts for that cute heart. The other flaps had similar hearts, but the last heart had a message:
Of course, you could substitute the inside for any kind of messages. If you're very ambitious, these cootie catchers would make great lunchbox notes.
HERE is a guide to the folding. It's been about 30 years since I had made a cootie catcher, so I needed a little refresher. :)
Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!
Supplies
Patterned papers: (Sweet Pea Chevrons, Sweet Pea Stripes) Truman Studio; (Eye Candy Chevrons, Eye Candy Patterned Paper) Just Jaimee; (Madras Solids) Polka Dot Pixels
Stamps: (heart from Love in Hearts and Borders) Hero Arts
Cootie Catcher Template: Valorie Wibbens
Font: AK Cupcake
Oh, my! Do I ever remember making these! :) Though I feel, REALLY old beause that was soooo long ago! lol Love yours! It's way cooler, than the ones back in the day! ;)
ReplyDeleteI remember those! How fun! And what a clever valentine treat!
ReplyDeleteI remember these - and I could never make them right! We wrote numbers on ours to determine how many times to expand it each way before getting to the bottom.
ReplyDeleteI love your modern, bright, colourful, *fun* take on this Jocelyn! Thanks for the blast from the past!!
A flash from the past...too cute!! Lee-Ann :)
ReplyDeleteSo cute! Yes, I used to make these, but I never called it a cootie catcher. I know a cootie as a germ here (in Australia), is that what was meant? When you touch a boy you catch cooties (boy germs)? ;-)
ReplyDeleteMy kids LOVE making these! In fact, my 10YO son made a stack of about 30 of them a few weeks ago. He was obsessed! I must admit, using patterned papers for these makes them waaaaaaaaaaay cooler ;). It was so sweet that you dropped by my blog today! i hope that your flight back home to your family is uneventful. Have a great weekend!!!
ReplyDeleteI loveeeeeeeeee this!!! I love love love love the colors!! And I used to play with these all the time when I was a kid!!!!!
ReplyDeleteLOVE these! We made these when I was younger too and so I had to make them with my daughter for her birthday party this year! They were a huge hit!
ReplyDeleteSuper cute! Love the colours and patterns! Totally made these when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteCootie Catcher...love that!!!
ReplyDeleteOnly you would be able to make this digital!!
ReplyDeleteHa! I made one of these last year for an '80s party I went to. So much fun! Yours is way prettier though :)
ReplyDeleteTotally fun, Jocelyn! Of course if you want to (pretend to) be all mature, you can turn it upside down and say it's a candy dish. :P This way is much more fun, though. (My friends and I didn't call it a cootie catcher, just a fortune teller.)
ReplyDeletethis is so cute! I remember making these when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteMan does that bring back memories! Of course mine weren't half as cute as yours is! ***:)
ReplyDeleteAwwww...i love it!
ReplyDeleteHow fresh and creative of you!
TFS~
Thanks for the link to the folding directions! This gal had forgotten how.
ReplyDeleteOh, I remember making these probably long before you were born--ha! So fun and nostalgic to see them "reborn" on your blog!
ReplyDeleteMy 8 year-old son thought I was a genius when I showed him how to make that "flippy-thingy" he brought home in his backpack a couple months ago. How awesome that yours is digital! I seem to remember that ours used to be based on numbers, and then you did another round spelling the color you landed on.
ReplyDeleteJocelyn this is awesome!!! Haven't seen one jn a while, had totally got hitter how to make one!! Live the way you used the digital paper too
ReplyDeleteAlrighty, that is too cool! My youngest came home with cootie-catchers a couple of years ago, and the instant nostalgia....pretty awesome!
ReplyDelete"Cootie Catcher"? LOL! Never heard that name before although I cannot for the life of me remember what we called them. I also never learned how to make one. I feel like I missed out on an important childhood lesson! Love the fun papers you used for yours. Maybe I'll go learn to make one now...
ReplyDeleteLOL, I'm laughing at Jen Wills' comment 'cause we never called them cootie catchers but I can't remember what they were called either! This one is so pretty! Love the patterns and colours.
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