Purple gingham

Purple gingham
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

Here's a birthday card that should have been mailed out on Monday and will now be late due to the post office not living up to the "neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail" thing.

I'm not complaining, right? Just a little bitter that the card will be late...oh and I can't get to my fave scrapbooking store either. Heh heh heh!

On to the card then.

The purple gingham paper is actually from a Bath and Body Works mail out from earlier this year. I thought the paper was too cute. When I was going through my paper scraps, I saw it and knew it needed to be a card!

I layered it with some periwinkle and white cardstock, added a bit of ribbon from my stash, and then stamped the sentiment.

I like the layers and yet how simple it is.

Supplies:
Paper: Bazzill (cardstock); Bath & Body Works ad mailer; Recollections (white cardblank)
Stamp: Stampabilities (Happy Birthday)
Ink: Stampin Up (Perfect Plum)
ETC: Ribbon from stash; Glue Glider Pro


Happy crafting!! =D

~Cynthia

Mini Snow Album

Mini Snow Album
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

Sorry for the poor photo today. We don't have any sun at the moment for a good shot. What we DO have is 5+ inches of SNOW on the ground!! For SC, this is a big major huge DEAL. :-)

Pretty much the entire city is shut down. The plows haven't made it out to where I live yet, so I'm stuck.

Oh, poor me. I'll just have to spend my days in the craft room. ;-)

This is just one of the things I created yesterday. It's a Mini Snow Album! I got the tags from Grace Hester (gracehester.typepad.com) for FREE. You know I love the FREE STUFF!!! =D

These are cute little tags with sweet flowers on them. I took a few pictures of the snow and the backyard, reduced them to about 2 inches, added some snowflakes (punched and stamped), then wrote captions. On some of the tags I wrote parts of poems about snow.

And I couldn't resist a bit of Distress Ink action! I used Tumbled Glass throughout the album. I edged the front and back cover with it and stamped all the snowflakes (two sizes) with it too.

I tied it all together with a little piece of thin white ribbon.

This was so much fun to do! I went the easy way on the photos. I took them with my cell phone, emailed them to myself, then edited them. Boom! DONE. =D



I hope you're staying warm wherever you are today! I am SO grateful our power is still on!! :-)

~Cynthia

Jar of Flowers

Jar of Flowers
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

I think I forgot to post this one.

And I forgot to send it.

Poor, sad, neglected card.

:-(

It started out as a different card, got messed up, got cut up, got rescued and got turned into this cute card.

I messed up the front of the cardblank, that watermelon colored part, so I cut off the back, trimmed it up and adhered it to a white cardblank.

I stamped the jar and flower stamp on a piece of white cardstock and cut out the jar. I put it on the watermelon paper, masked it and stamped the flower part of the stamp. I used a white gel pen to color the flowers on the watermelon paper.

It was supposed to be a thank you card, but I guess I wasn't thankful enough to send it.

Oops.


Supplies:
Paper: Die Cuts With a View (watermelon cardblank); Recollections (white cardblank)
Stamp: Endless Creations
Ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black)
ETC: Uni-ball Signo Pen


Thanks for stopping over here today! Have a great one!!

~Cynthia

Coffee Cup Album--Page 7

Page 7
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

Well, this is the end of another album journey. I always hate getting to the last page of a good book, don't you? It makes me sad.

Same thing for an album too. :-)

On the left side I made a tag with stamps and Distress Inks. I added a ribbon, making the tag more like a bookmark, and distressed that too. There's a little quote behind the ribbon from Dr. Seuss that says, "Oh, the places you'll go." I love that book!

On the right I deconstructed another Hallmark card. This one had some beautiful handmade paper attached to it. I cut out the word Dream, adhered the person on the swing and some little stars.



I made a card yesterday for my friend's birthday, but did I take a picture of it before I mailed it? No, I did not.

It was cute.

Really.

;-)


~Cynthia

Coffee Cup Album--Page 6

Page 6
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

This is one of my favorite pages in this mini-album!

On the left, I adhered a piece of designer paper that I had carefully cut out to resemble a photo, complete with photo corners! There was a cloud already on the album paper so I thought a flying/airplane theme would work really well.

The quote above the airplane is by Leonardo daVinci: "Once you have tasted flight, you will walk the Earth with your eyes forever skyward, for there you have been, and there you long to be."

At the bottom of the page, I added a quote that says, "Take in all life has to give," which I cut out from another Hallmark card. I distressed the edges a bit with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

On the right side of the layout, the main image is a shiny silver airplane. This, and all the quotes on this page as well as the one on the bottom of the left page, are from the same Hallmark card and are all distressed with Walnut Stain Ink.

The top curved quote says, "High-fly it" and the bottom quote says, "Blue-sky it."

Only one more page to go! Then I guess I'll have to get back to showing you some cards. I guess that means I'll actually have to MAKE some cards. Oops. ;-)


~Cynthia

Coffee Cup Album--Page 5

Page 5
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

I loved the colors on these two pages, so I didn't add much.

I covered the left side's picture frame with a tag I found in a parking lot. I brushed some Distress Inks on it and stamped a swirly flower stem. Then I added a Prima flower (sprayed with Glimmer Mist) that matched the color scheme.

I painted over the speech bubble at the top because it was about coffee and added this quote from one of my favorite Hallmark cards ever: "Conformity--proudly serving painfully boring people since time began."

On the edge I added a quote from Tom Turiano: "In the backcountry, it's just you and your gear. It's a total test of who you are and what you can do--and therein lies the reward."

On the right side, I added just a hint of Distress Ink to the inside of the frame, then adhered a grungeboard 7 that I hit with more Distress Ink. Underneath, I covered another coffee quote and added a blog comment by Rowan: "Hey guys....in the philosophy of life I would say take the route that provides more memories and better times."


I hope you take the route the provides more memories and better times today! =D

~Cynthia

Coffee Cup Album--Page 4

Page 4
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

Happy New Year!!

I'm pretty excited to start this year because I've joined a few online classes! One is an art journal journey and the other is a take on Ali Edwards' One Little Word album called My Little Word. I'm combining them into My Little Word Art Journal. (Ha ha ha!!)

In my little Coffee Cup...I mean Travel and Cupcake Journal, I've gone from a very busy page (Page 3) to a pretty serene page here.

On the left I've adhered a piece I stamped months ago and had left sitting around, waiting for the perfect spot. I so love this stamp. It's one of the very first I ever purchased. I also used a Tim Holtz grungepaper key, covered with Distress Embossing Powder. Seriously cool effect, like a rusty key.

The heart beneath it is actually on the paper itself, so the 'fly bird' fit perfectly! I added a strip of script paper at the bottom.

On the right side, I kept it very simple. I adhered a bird from a pack of ephemera I bought. Then I typed the word 'dream,' cut them out and added them to the clouds. I also sanded parts of the background paper to create more of a worn look.

The quote at the bottom says: "There is no bad weather, just bad gear!" So so so true. :-)


~Cynthia