My "Homage to Tim Holtz Page"--the right side of the layout.
I used one of Tim's grunge flourishes, covered with Fired Brick Distress Ink. I sanded it a bit to bring out the swirl design on the grunge board.
I could have snipped it and made more room to write, but I like the whole grungy/baroque thing going on.
And the red matches the forest fire happening on the left side of the layout. :-)
~Cynthia
Here is my "Homage to Tim Holtz" Dec Daily Page! ;-)
First, I made a tag. (Have you seen Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas?? WHOA.) Yeah, it looks nothing like his glorious creations.
I'm OK with that.
I blended red and brown Distress Inks on the tag, then stamped the trees and covered them with Distress Stickles.
It totally came out looking like a forest fire. Which...oddly...matches the Reminisce paper.
I love it in an odd sort of way. =D
~Cynthia
This is just one huge piece of a beautiful sheet of Reminisce paper.
I love the paper and couldn't bring myself to adhere anything to it.
So.........I'm not sure if I can bring myself to actually WRITE on it.
Heh.
~Cynthia
I got the idea for this page over at the Moxie Fab World blog.
Alas, as always, what I see and what I want to recreate doesn't always translate. :-)
It's supposed to look like cross stitching. After I stamped the first X, I realized I should have used a....you know...SMALLER X.
*sigh*
I sprayed Glimmer Mist all over the page. And yet it still looks like a pyramid of some sort.
The upside is I have plenty of room to journal!! =D
~Cynthia
*wipes sweat from brow*
And I'm all caught up with my Dec Daily pages!!! Now I can get back to posting my Christmas cards too!
This page is a pretty simple layout. One Bigz Top Note die cut, one seriously cool Santa postage stamp, and one hand-drawn line.
I distressed both postcards with my go-to power duo of Antique Linen and Brushed Corduroy Distress Inks. I usually use Walnut Stain Distress Ink for antiquing, but I found that the Brushed Corduroy has a bit of a yellow tint and makes paper look very aged.
As with the other side of the page, I can journal on the postcard or around it.
~Cynthia
WOW. I can't believe I'm FINALLY caught up with my Dec Daily pages!!
Both sides of December 7 have the same Bazzill cardstock--it's called Cocoa. I love it!
I die cut two postcards using the Bigz Top Note die cut from Stampin Up. On this side of the layout, I stamped holly and PostCard, and also the postage cancellation wave. The stamp is an actual postage stamp from many years ago.
I drew a line down the center and then carefully placed my PostCard stamp right over the line so it would line up with the letter T.
I like how I can journal either on the postcard or around it.
~Cynthia
I got a little fancy-scmancy on this page.
I saw on Ali Edwards' blog that she used baseball card-type refill pages and I just happened to have a few I wasn't using. I cut one page up and sewed along the cut sides to make two pages. I just put one in here.
The little bits of Santa paper are from Graphic 45. In the empty pockets I put (sadly) empty Reese's Peanut Butter Tree wrappers. Pretty much because I ate a bunch of them yesterday.
Man, I love Reese's.
The page beneath the pocket page is the same BoBunny paper as on the left side of the layout. Then there's a strip of green polkadot paper and a section of the usual red cardstock. I also had some artist's paper that had a ticket on it. I cut that out, distressed it a bit and tucked it under the green strip.
The red cardstock (Bazzill) has a slight waffle (like corrugated) texture. I sanded many of the pages to highlight the texture, which resulted in a cool tactile texture as well...it's powdery, smooth and corrugated all at the same time. :-)
~Cynthia
