#kathcraft

[chitsangenthusiast]

for @chiptrillino 🧡💚

↳ the lily pad frogs love hanging out with zuko when he comes by the pond! zuko, on the other hand...has mixed feelings

(it spins! video below the cut)

hop around the floaty lord 🐸

#ENJOYYYY NENE <3333 #shoutout to her btw for coming up with such a fun lil atla animal that when she requested one i was like ''how about: eight <3'' #lil scamps <333 #coolest thing abt this project: the water bubbles were created by using envelope moistener between layers of cellophane! #funniest thing: the fact that the red of zuko's outfit disappears as the blue darkens.....science is real #funniest thing part 2: i didn't realize you could see the papercut i got from this project in the video until just now lmaooo #anyway SO FUN and i hope you love nene 🧡🧡🧡 #zuko #zuko atla #atla #papercraft #kathcraft #id in alt text

[sugarpillcosmetics]

Try this bad ass look for your Independence Day festivities! @kathcraft used #sugarpill Midori eyeshadow. 💥

#sugarpill #sugarpill cosmetics #makeup

[chitsangenthusiast]

*linda belcher voice* little baby

edit: btw if you thought this lil guy was great...may i interest you in eight of them?

#just finished the craft this lil one is part of today!!!! WHEW #hoping to be able to post this week but i love lil dude so much i gotta share <33 #and nene has already seen (this lil bit! uwu) so >:) #kathcraft

[chitsangenthusiast]

i'm miles morales. but you...you can call me the prowler.

sometimes my wips don't get translated into paper. sometimes the builds i make get too intricate. sometimes you learn the hard way that finding deep purple cardstock is practically impossible and so you drop the project 🙃

thanks to @drive who convinced me i should post this build even if it never gets to see it's true paper form! miles42 you deserve it 👾

#once i realized that i wasn't going to succeed at putting him to paper i kinda just went ham with the details on the shoes lol #genuinely. it's the deep purple vision that broke my heart and why he'll never get finished rip :') #still love him. glad i was convinced to post it bc i do love how he came out! #his outfit is modeled after the miles action figure btw! #miles morales #miles42 #miles 42 #atsv #across the spiderverse #kathcraft #<- counting it lol

[chitsangenthusiast]

"hey, check this one out" for @zukkaweek 2022 - the arts // soulmates

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#happy zukka week i am *doesn't even check watch* many late lol #anyway! #imo zuko finds way more allure in the soulmates idea than sokka would #(as in: he doesn't really believe in it meanwhile zuko doesn't mind thinking of sokka as his 'twin flame' lol) #but hey sokka is still willing to indulge in the few extra heart flutters when seeing art that looks /exceptionally/ like him and zuko <3 #zukka #zuko #sokka #papercraft #papercutting #kathcraft

[chitsangenthusiast]

for @scrtminlikesdrawing 💚 ↳ haru has a super cool rock he wants to show you! :)

(he's interactive! video below the cut)

[video id: begins with a small haru sitting in a carved out geode, both made of layered paper. the rock is glued to a piece of cardstock. haru is soon removed from the rock so that the cardstock can be flipped. on the backside, jet's hands are featured, also made of layered paper. his hands are significantly larger and cupped so that haru can sit nestled in them when he's brought back into frame. his head is given a couple of soft pats on his head before the video ends.]

#he's pocket-sized! and travel ready! i love him! #also wouldn't be a proper gift if i didn't make it jetru in some way lmaoo so: FOR U <33 #i hope you enjoy beloved he was a blast (!!!!!) to make <333 #haru #haru atla #jet #jet atla #jetru #atla #papercraft #paper cutting #kathcraft

[chitsangenthusiast]

[id: a layered papercraft showing mai and ty lee seconds before sharing a kiss. ty lee cradles mai's jaw in her hand as she leans in, and mai has one arm wrapped around her waist to pull her in close. her other arm rests over ty lee's shoulder, and in her hand is a small bunch of yellow, orange, and white flowers. behind them is a circle of red torch ginger lilies and pink siam tulips, all outlined in black to resemble stained glass art. over the entire photo are soft streaks of sunshine.]

for @maileeweek2022 (belated) day 2: flowers // featuring stained glass artist!mai & flower shop owner!ty lee 🌹🌷

"Are those dandelions?" Mai asks, and it's a wonder that there's barely a tremor in her voice with how hard her heart is stuttering, how obvious her hands are shaking as she accepts the dandelions and clover flowers thrust at her the minute Ty Lee rushes back into the workshop. "You caught me by surprise!" shecries back, all sunshine and watery giggling as she uses her now-free hands to wipe at her eyes. "If I had known you were doing this then I would've come prepared! I've been planning for weeks—I have so many specially curated flowers back at the shop just for it!" Mai looks down at the flowers in her hands. They're hastily picked, a far cry from the striking bouquets back at the flower shop with the bruised petals and uneven stems and a clearly hurried attempt at creating even a passable presentation, and yet— They're beautiful. Mai has never pressed flowers into glass before, she's never had the desire to. But already she knows stained glass won't be enough, none of the vast array of colors in her workshop could ever come close to recreating the sheer radiance of such a declaration like these few flowers themselves do. "Well—" finally, the tremor presents itself, overwhelmed exhilaration flowing out to match her racing heartbeat as she asks, "do dandelions and clovers mean anything?" "They do!" and Ty Lee is beautiful. Full of delighted laughter, her eyes endlessly darting from the stained glass piece resting on the table behind them to Mai and then back again. Her cheeks are a light pink, a stark contrast to the shining reds of the glass and her own top, the most stunning color Mai has likely ever seen in her life. Ty Lee sways forward then, closing the gap between them as she slips her hands up the length of Mai's arms, up to cradle her jaw, before tucking her grin into the corner of Mai's gasping mouth. "But I'll tell you in a sec. Come here."

#love confessions through gifting stained glass art.......WHEW <333 #there were so many special flower options to go with for this piece #but ultimately i decided on red torch ginger lilies and siam tulips #both bc i could see them being ty lee's favorites and bc (from my understanding) they symbolize certain aspects of love <3 #also tried smth new with using sunshine as a prop!! #maileeweek2022 #mailee #ty lee #mai #kathcraft #my writing #(+ yeah i 100% did put ty lee in a leopard skirt bc i worked on this on my bday lmaoo)

[chitsangenthusiast]

[Image ID: black line work on a warm beige background of Zuko giving Sokka a piggy back ride. Zuko looks back at Sokka smiling with his eyes closed, and pushed to the side of Zuko's head is the Blue Spirit mask done in patterned blue, white, and grey papercraft. 

Sokka looks down at Zuko, his thumb tilting Zuko's chin and cheek towards him. Sokka's other arm is hooked around Zuko's front, and in his hand dangles his red, black, white, and yellow mask from the Fire Days Festival featured in "The Deserter" episode, also papercrafted. END ID.]

post heist bliss for @zukkaweek day one: blue spirit zuko masked zukka if you want to pull off a successful heist, you're gonna need a good mask!

@boybff had the phenomenal idea to do a collab for zukka week, and i am just ecstatic at how it turned out! thank you jax for giving me the opportunity to finally blend paperart and digital art, and for gifting us with such a soft zukka moment 🧡🧡

(detailed photos of the masks under the cut!)

[ID: both photos are a detailed close-up of the two papercrafts featured in the above photo. photo one is of sokka's red, black, white, and yellow mask. photo two of zuko's blue spirit mask. END ID.]

#just thot abt: sokka also calling his heist mask persona wang fire bc he thinks it's the perfect versatile stock name lmfaooo #JAX YOU ARE LITERALLY SO WONDERFUL ILYSMMMMMMM <3333 #god picking out the paper for sokka's was so fun and for zuko's so challenging but i love how they came out! #zukka #zukka week #zukka week 2022 #zuko #sokka #boybff #kathcraft #papercraft

[chitsangenthusiast]

socks :')

#gluing things is so fun bc it really does feel like i'm playing dress up with them! #figured a lil bonus would be fun to see lol #kathcraft

[chitsangenthusiast]

hiii kath !! i was wondering if u have done any papercraft that isn’t atla related? no worries if not but if so and you wanna share i would love to see it 😌 i love it so much you’re so talented :’) no pressure though 💌

oh this is a very good+funny question bc actually, i really haven't! atla got all the luck in that my previous fandom was supposed to have been my first ever fandom-related papercraft...except i never got it out of the planning stage lol but before that, i really just made cards!

(starting from most recent craft to one of the oldest, from 2016. most of my things have been made for other people!)

i'm hoping to do some non-atla crafts this year (specifically, the wicker king <33), so fingers crossed :') tho i also want to try to get back into cardmaking in some way, mostly bc i want to finally figure out how to make light-up cards lol

#i also used to make crafty window displays for my mom's shop which i'm convinced is why i like making everything interactive lol #z.kka teapot really changed the game on everything tho once i realized i Could make things interactive i now want to do it with everything! #ask #sorry if you've already seen these too! #funnily enough i don't have a lot of photos of my old things but i do still have some of the first paper i ever collected to make them! #kathcraft

[chitsangenthusiast]

in the excited shimmy moment of the process!

#mistakes don't exist <3 #feet don't either esp once they get covered <3 #(teapot z.ukka!sokka's conveniently out-of-frame feet also don't exist lmaoo avoid whenever i can for ease!) #kathcraft #halfway through now i gotta refigure out the sunrise lol

[chitsangenthusiast]

despite all the gluing i've already done, there's no way i'm finishing my zukka week piece in time (or potentially even this week lol rip) but i can at least offer a sneak peek into what i've got cooking??

arts prompt my beloved

tho now that i'm missing the deadline by miles, this does give me the opportunity to potentially add even more to this piece than already planned 👀

#this is actually technically covering the soulmates prompt w the arts one #all my gluing and STILL i haven't gotten to gluing their faces or poses down smh lmfao #see yall in a month w this giant monstrosity of a project <3333 #(so pleased w how it's turning out tho!!) #((sorry if it feels a lil dull i didn't feel like turning on the proper lights for a wip lol)) #kathcraft

[chitsangenthusiast]

...can we see it?

LMAOO yes you may <3 tho 1) i just realized that i wrote the description wrong in that tag. zuko was actually holding only sokka's head

and 2) i should preface that the pic was taken when i was on surgery no. 3 (?) of them, and once i realized i didn't want to go in this artistic direction (re: their eyes) every human feature got ripped off zuko's clothes so i could start over lol

(i'm still amazed that with all the gluing and ripping i did, i never once actually ruined zuko's or sokka's clothes beyond repair in the process lololol)

#ignore the lighting taking pictures at night is the Worst #anyway i thought this was so funny when i glued it and then stepped back to assess lmao #this is actually fun to show bc you can really see what happens if i over-handle cut paper in this one #(the poor rectangles....i recolored them once and then didn't again until as the second-to-last step bc i knew they'd just fuck up again) #despite all the frustrated tears starting over was actually the best possible move bc like. this before and after......wrow #THE DIFFERENCE IN THE QUALITY OF SOKKA'S HEAD ALONE........LMFAO #ask #kathcraft

[chitsangenthusiast]

do u have any other pictures of ur zukka recreation of the kiss? i would love to see if at different angles

(klimt!zukka my beloved)

unfortunately i don't really have any photos from other angles (and i'm not in my home state to take any right now) but i'd be happy to share any detail shots and/or progress shots if you're interested in that!

i promise i will be very normal and not go on at length over how involved this craft construction was+how many times i had to start over lmao

#tho i've shared a few progress shots in my 'kathcrafts' tag so maybe that's not as much of interest lol #i can't believe it's already been almost a year since i posted it omg........ #ask

[chitsangenthusiast]

quiet evenings at the tea weevil 🧡

it's interactive! with a nice little surprise at the end :)

(more angles under the cut!)

ah, husbands 🧡🧡

(they 100% stole seat cushions from another table they're such HOGS)

#id in alt text #they're so much in love your honor <3 #some fun facts: this took about a month to complete and measures about 9.5 x 6.5 x 2.5 in / 24 x 16.5 x 6 cm! #(i hope i converted those numbers correctly lol) #the smallest pieces are the teacup saucers at ~0.5mm #my shining star project <3333 #zukka #sokka #zuko #papercraft #kathcraft

[chitsangenthusiast]

catching the fire lord and the councilman smooching in the hallway between meetings is officially the free space on everyone's bingo cards at this point, honestly

#zukka #zuko #sokka #this is their fifth kiss can yall move out of the way you're blocking the rest of the hallway smh #whew this was....harder to construct than i anticipated! somehow my most fragile piece so far <3 #(also the hardest to photograph i can't tell if i'm happy or not lol) #but when the call comes to indulge yourself in your own headcanons and to use all the red+blue paper you own....you listen to it <33 #no one talk to me abt the anatomy or anything this was a learning experience and also none of those concepts exist in my inner mind lol #papercraft #kathcraft #own post