He is Risen

He is Risen, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

He is risen indeed!

Happy Easter, blog friends!!


~Cynthia

Rabbit in the Grass

Rabbit in the Grass, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

I got this idea from Julie over on Paper Trufflez. And while it's not exactly the same as her card, I think this one is so cute!! ;-)

Super easy too. I brushed some blue Distress Inks on a white cardstock panel to create the idea of sky--you can barely see it in this picture, but in real life it's quite pretty.

I stamped the rabbit and cut him out, giving him a bit of shine with a gel pen on his eyes and nose. Then I stamped and colored the egg.

The grass is hand cut.

So SO want the die cut Julie used!! (She has a great video showing how she made the card...here.)

Then I just stuck everything on. The egg and the bunny rabbit are adhered using Pop Dots.


Supplies:
Paper: Recollections (white card blank); Bazzill (green cardstock); Neenah (Solar White cardstock)
Stamps: Pink Cat Studios (Limitless Limbs set--egg); We R Memory Keepers (Cotton Tails: Some Bunny set); Studio G (Easter stamp)
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Black Soot, Tumbled Glass, Broken China); Tim Holtz Distress Pens (to color the egg)
ETC: Spica Atyou (sparkly pen); EK Success (Pop Dots)


And that's it for me! I'm taking a few days off here so I won't be around probably until next week some time.


Stay crafty, my friends! =D



~Cynthia

View from above

View from above, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Here's another page I did with yet another Instagram photo. I used a different filter that made the gorgeous blue sky POP.

I was thinking about the sky and the clouds and the sun and wondered what the view from above looked like...hence the title.

I layered a few various papers--there really is a bit of orange on the largest page that matches that orange beneath the photo.

I also hit that wooden butterfly with some of Heidi Swapp's Color Shine.

Love that stuff. ;-)

Thanks for dropping by today!


~Cynthia

Scrapbook page

Scrapbook page, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

As promised this past week, here's one of many scrapbook pages I finished recently.

I was running errands downtown and I had a lot of "hurry and wait" type situations. So I made the best use of my time and took a ton of Instagram photos.

I love Instagram.

Yes I do.

You can check out all my photos by clicking over there >>>> on the cleverly titled Instagram link! ;-)

I also love black and white photography.

Yes I do.

So I printed up a few photos and followed along with Shimelle on her blog Pretty Papers. True Stories. A few days ago she had a post on making banners using photos.

Yeah, totally out of my comfort zone, but I dove in.

Love the outcome!

I have three small photos interspersed with tags. I did use the far right tag for journaling after I took the photo of the page.

I made the middle green tags using green cardstock and a background stamp. I added tiny washi tape banners. The buttons are made from a Japanese newspaper. And the letters are Amy Tangerine's.


Thanks so much for stopping by. I'll have more scrap pages this week and the rest of my Easter cards. You know...if I can stop scrapbooking long enough to get *those* done! ;-)


Craft happy!!


~Cynthia

St Patrick's Day

St Patrick's Day, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Here's my last St. Pat's Day card. I didn't send too many out this year. We'll just call it lack of motivation and move on, shall we? ;-)

This one was fun and super easy.

Take a piece of white, textured cardstock and drag Distress Stains down to make stripes.

Instant flag!

I made the clover just like I did for the card yesterday--Prima paper flower and lots of spray inks.

I wanted to make the flag kind of free-form and artsy, but it came out looking messy. A little free advice? When making flags, neatness counts. =D



Supplies:
Paper: Bazzill (white cardstock)); Recollections (ivory card blank)
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Stains (Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade, Picket Fence)
ETC: Adirondack Color Wash (Lettuce, Meadow); Perfect Pearls Mist (Biscotti); Prima paper flower



Happy Friday!! I hope you have a wonderful, crafting-filled weekend!


~Cynthia

PS:  The color scheme of green, white and orange is also One Layer Wednesday's challenge this week.  Play along if you get the chance!

St Patrick's Day Card

St Patrick's Again, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Well, I had thought that I was past the whole "Let me apologize for the seriously crappy photo" bit, but yes, I must apologize for the seriously crappy photo of this sweet CAS card.

I blame the photographer. ;-)

Anywho.

I used one of those fun Prima paper flowers, spraying it with a combination of green Color Washes and some Perfect Pearls Mist. Instant four-leaf clover! =D

While that was drying, I eyeballed the swirl placement and stamped it and the sentiment.

Done.

Supplies:
Paper: Recollections (white card blank)
Stamps: Studio G (sentiment); All Night Media (swirl)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Black Soot)
ETC: Prima flower; Adirondack Color Wash (Lettuce, Meadow); Perfect Pearls Mist (Biscotti); Glue Dot


I've got one more St Pat's card to show you and then...get this!...a scrapbook page! Woo hoo!!! ;-)

Thanks so much for stopping in!


~Cynthia

Put a Rabbit on it

Put a Rabbit on it, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Well, goodness!! It's been a few days since I last posted. I didn't mean to be gone so long, it's just that I've been busy making STUFF!! =D

And here's one of those creations! This week's Cue Word over at CASology is BUNNY. But, as you can plainly see...this ain't CAS. LOL!

I had fun making this crazy Easter basket. It all started with the Tim Holtz/Sizzix die cut bunny rabbit. I used it for March's tag and I loved the look. But I wanted it in CHOCOLATE.

So. Chocolate bunnies are now everywhere. ;-)

I stamped the basket and fussy cut it out, distressing the edges with a bit of ink.

Then I punched the eggs. (No, I don't have the blue-sized plain oval punch. *sigh*)

I used a stencil and some glitter spray to color them. I hand cut some grass too. And I made a banner for an added touch.

The end.


Supplies: Bazzill (kraft, green and cream cardstock); Recollections (ivory card blank); white paper for eggs
Stamps: GinaK (Easter basket set); Craft Lounge (Prayers and Blessings set)
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Gathered Twigs); Heidi Swapp Color Shine (Teal)
ETC: Marvy punch (scalloped oval and square); Tim Holtz (rabbit die cut); unknown paper stencil


I've been having so much fun making chocolate rabbits that I've forgotten to make St Patrick's Day cards! Better get to it! Do you think St Patrick loved chocolate bunnies?? Hmmm....

Have a great weekend!!!


~Cynthia

CASed Birthday Card

CASed Birthday Card, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

I kinda/sorta CASed this beautiful card by Ann at KingstonMamaCrafts. You can see I used her layout, but totally made it my own! =D

I ran a 2/3rd sized panel through an embossing folder, die cut the butterflies and stamped the sentiment.

Easy peasy!

The most difficult part was trying to find an ink that matched the die cut butterfly paper. Of course, I should have known Tim Holtz and his magic Distress Ink would save the day! It's almost an exact match!! :-)



Supplies:
Paper: Neenah (Solar White cardstock); Recollections (white card blank): snippet (I think it's BoBunny.)
Stamp: Stampin Up (sentiment)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Shabby Shutters)
ETC: Memory Box die (Vivienne Butterfly and Darla Butterfly); Cuttlebug (Victoria ef); Glue Glider Pro; Zig Two-way Glue


Thanks so much for dropping by today. I hope you have a wonderfully crafty Monday!!

~Cynthia

Tim's Tag March 2013

Tim's Tag March 2013, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

It's March the first and you know what that means: Tim's Tag Time!!!!!!!!

Head on over to Sir Tim's blog to check out his creation because I'm telling you...I had to go all MacGyver on this one AGAIN!!

I pretty much followed Tim's recipe except for the tinsel bit.

I have no tinsel.

And I feel like less of a person because of this.

OK. Not really. ;-)

But I had to think and think and think on this one. So the only thing I could think up was pipe cleaners.

Yeah, we're goin' OLD SCHOOL all up in here!!! =D

I cut a piece of cardstock to fit behind the rabbit, then covered it with Glue Glider Pro glue. I cut up pieces of white pipe cleaner, stuck it down on the glue, then brushed it with Distress Stains (Brushed Pewter for the whole body and Worn Lipstick for his ears and tummy.)

Not exactly the look I was going for, but I kinda like the pin stripe thing going on. I have a well-dressed Easter Bunny, yo.

I hand cut the grass and used a flower left over from Tim's Tattered Floral Challenge project.


And that's it for me today! Join us over at Tim's for some tag making fun!! And thank you SO MUCH for dropping by!


~Cynthia