Make a paper chain

Finally! After a blog hiatus from about two months, I'm back! And I'm terribly sorry... I had a really busy two months, it seems.

BUT! To make up for it, I talked a classmate and friend of mine into cooperating in this entry, so you're gonna have two hosts today! Hurray!

We went to the MangaKissa in Utrecht, yesterday evening, where we decided to do a page from my journal. It ended up being the "make a paper chain"-page, because on that one you could collaborate. C:

Meet Nancy! She's actually the person who gave me the journal for my birthday. She's awesome. And my partner in crime for this episode!

For making a paper chain, you  need the following:

Stuff to color with (at the MangaKissa they could provide us with markers and Stabilo pens), glue or tape and a pair of scissors.

We then start with cutting the strips out.

My lovely assistant Nancy is showing you how. (It's actually easier to first rip out the page before you start cutting it in strips, but hay, it's all about the idea)

After we've cut all the strips, we color them! For this, we need strips and stuff to color them with.

I am such a charming lady.

Next, color! YAY!
And when you're done...

Nancy and I highly approve of this.
We just let our fantasy run wild on the strips- they weren't that big, so we couldn't do any real artsy-fartsy stuff, so we had to do with colorful decoration stripes, mostly.

After this, we glue/tape the two ends of the strips together!

For this we need glue or tape and, ofcourse, them strips.

Don't forget to "chain" them together, instead of making only loose chains!

I ended up using tape, since there was only one glue stick- or at least only one we could find. But this is the idea. I'm sure everyone has done something alike in kindergarten once.

Nancy had the gluestick, so she was way faster with making her piece of chain, since she didn't have to cut pieces of tape also. So hers is way longer.

Two chains! And when two chains become one...

Long, colorful chain! We approve of this also.
Since it was kinda hard to get this back home in one piece- and ofcouse the question of who it should go home with, I decided to stick it on the wall in their tiny kitchen, between the other crafty artwork other people had left behind there.

... I feel out-arted. But hay! We made a paper chain! That also asks for some kind of artistic skill!