Crisanne is in a jam and needs our help with Chris, her fiance, who is totally stressed over a crossword puzzle competition. Looks like Crisanne is going to need some kind of a roof over her head, so I'm bringing this birdhouse for her.
I had purchased this little chipboard birdhouse eons ago, and when I saw the inspiration teapot, I knew I wanted to photocopy a crossword puzzle from the newspaper and use that as my designer paper.
I first covered the birdhouse in acrylic white paint. I applied the crossword puzzle with Mod Podge, as well as my roof tiles that I made with the larger oval punch. The bird's wing is popped up on a dimensional, and these old SU rub-ons were perfect for my project!
It's late and I need to get to bed so I can get up for work in the morning. I'll get this posted to my blog tomorrow. Oh, and if I'm late for work, it's all my friend, Lynn's, fault. See, she called me about 9:00 p.m. tonight with a couple of questions, which woke up Bertie, forcing her to get her big butt outta her chair and create sumpin' for Teapot Tuesday. Therefore, we stayed up too late! (I love having an alter ego to blame things on---LOL!)
Thanks for looking, and your comments are always appreciated!
Oh, and ya might wanna beware. Bertie took off a little while ago to go to Walmart and purchase No. 2 lead pencils and a new pencil sharpener for the party tomorrow for when we all work these crossword puzzles. You might wanna wear protective goggles cuz I know she's gonna be really annoyed when SCS goes down for the day. That girl can't stand to be without her SCS fix!!!
Date: Monday, March 22, 2010 GMT Views: 612
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Registered: May 31, 2008 Location: Seattle Posts: 14509
Mon, Mar 22, 2010 @ 8:41 PM
For darling and so unique! Rock on, Charlene! We are both early, so don't be flingin' anything at me, okay? I'm afeared of really pointy pencils this time. Your alter ego could be danerous and stuff!
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Mon, Mar 22, 2010 @ 10:14 PM
So cute and adorable! Very tweet of you to think of Chrisanne and provide her with a "house". Love the texture you added to your roof shingles! Now about Bertie...you are kind of scaring me here...
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Registered: May 2, 2005 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 24136
Mon, Mar 22, 2010 @ 10:41 PM
Oh, Charlene, how creative of you to make a crossword puzzle house for Crisanne! It is adorable! And BTW, I'm with Bertie... gotta' have my SCS fix!!!!
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Registered: February 24, 2008 Location: MN Posts: 11427
Mon, Mar 22, 2010 @ 10:50 PM
Oh! Girl!..this is just adorable..i just love it...Love how you did the roof too,and the darling bird...really cute. And I have to agree with Bertie...I'm going to be lost tom. too
Registered: September 12, 2007 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 61357
Mon, Mar 22, 2010 @ 11:21 PM
Leave it to you to bring a birdhouse to our boston tea party! I love the roof and it was incredulous creative of you to use a crossword puzzle for the bird house. Just amazing!
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