{"id":42,"date":"2010-04-26T12:34:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T16:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2011-11-12T14:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T19:32:59","slug":"im-on-cloud-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2010\/im-on-cloud-9\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m on Cloud 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

In third grade, I was the last person to pick a topic for the science fair. While my classmates got the more glamorous projects – lizards! exploding volcanoes! mold & bacteria! – I got clouds. Clouds! Can you believe it?\u00a0 My project consisted of me going outside taking pictures of the sky and taping them onto a sky blue poster board. I was virtually ignored at the science fair, “Please!!!! Let me tell you about cirrus clouds!!!” “No thanks, going to see the lizards.”<\/p>\n

If only I had had these cute paper clouds back in third grade – nobody would have been able to resist my report!<\/p>\n

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\"Clouds<\/a><\/div>\n

These happy, little (and, if memory serves me right, cumulus) clouds were leftover from our recent catalog<\/a>, and since it would be a crime to throw a cloud away, they now live up in the atmosphere of the creative studio.<\/p>\n

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\"Missy<\/a><\/div>\n

They make me smile whenever I come into work – I just find them so darn cute! And not only do they make lovely office decor, but they also would look darling in a kid’s room or (on a smaller scale) above a crib in place of a mobile.<\/p>\n

Want to make your own paper clouds? It’s easy!<\/p>\n

Supplies<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

– we used big rolls of photo set paper, but you could use poster board or whatever type of paper you want (depending on the size of the cloud).<\/p>\n

– foam board<\/p>\n

– scotch tape and packing tape<\/p>\n

– fishing line<\/p>\n

– x-acto knife and cutting mat (or a couple sheets of cardboard – don’t want to slice up your kitchen table!)<\/p>\n

Cloud Making 101<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Trace your cloud pattern onto paper. Our clouds have wavier, elongated edges, but you could do much shorter and stylized edges for a more cartoonish look.<\/p>\n

2. Place the paper on the mat and cut out with x-acto knife.<\/p>\n

3. Trace the same pattern onto the foam board. We made our paper cut-out slightly larger than the foam board; it creates a nice transparent edging.<\/p>\n

4. Cut the foam board pattern out.<\/p>\n

5. Apply loops of scotch tape to the foam board, then carefully place the paper on top of the foam board and press down.<\/p>\n

Voila! You have a beautiful cumulus cloud of your very own:)<\/p>\n

Finding a home for your cloud<\/strong><\/p>\n

We hung our cloud from a pipe with fishing line. We cut out small foam board rectangles and wrapped the fishing line around them, then taped them to the back of the cloud using packing tape.<\/p>\n

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\"Cloud<\/a><\/div>\n

You could tape directly to a wall if you like. Or since they are lightweight, you could use small ceiling hooks to suspend them from the ceiling. Just make sure to test first – you don’t want a cloud falling on you!<\/p>\n

Send us your pictures if you decide to do this – we’d love to see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An easy DIY decorating project: happy paper clouds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[4,8,34,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}