Easter Card

Easter Card
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

As I was about to type up this post, I realized with a laugh that this card is also stamped "off the edge" like the challenge I've been playing along with this week at Less is More! I wasn't really thinking about that when I stamped the lily off the edge of the card. I think it looks better this way then hanging in midair. :-)

So, I stamped the flower, colored it with watercolor pencils, then stamped the sentiment. DONE.

=D


Supplies:
Paper: Recollections (white cardblank)
Stamps: Heartfelt Creations (HCPC 3370 Easter Lilies PreCut Set); GinaK (Basket Blessings sentiment)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Pumice Stone)
ETC: Artists Loft (watercolor pencils)


I've really enjoyed doing the "off the edge" and clean and simple type cards the past few days. They are simple to do and the result is pleasing to the eye from a design standpoint. Of course, that just means I need to grunge the next card up!! ;-)


~Cynthia

Off the Edge Part 2

Off the Edge Part 2
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

Here's attempt number 2 of an "off the edge" card--the current challenge at Less is More.

I used an ivory cardblank this time, but I used the same stamp and Distress Inks as yesterday's card (Peeled Paint and Forest Moss.)

Because I had an issue with the ink on the sentiment on the first card, I used a soft green pigment ink by Studio G this time. This ink worked much better than the Distress Ink I used previously. Yay! It's very creamy, almost like a thick chalk ink. And the color worked really well with the Distress Inks.


Supplies:
Paper: Recollections (ivory cardblank)
Stamps: Stampendous (Agapanthus Cluster); Inkadinkado (Expressions #96614)
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Peeled Paint, Forest Moss); Studio G/Hampton Arts (green pigment ink #VP0006)


Recently I've been hanging out at Shelley Starkis' blog, Shelley's Stamping Ground, and CASE'ing a few of her cards. In her latest blog post, she mentions that she was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I know God hears our prayers so would you mind saying a prayer for her healing? God is in the business of the miraculous.


~Cynthia

Off the Edge Part 1

Off the Edge Part 1
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

Here's my take on Less is More's weekly challenge--to stamp off the edge of your card.

By habit, I guess, I would have stamped off the right side, but this stamp lent itself to the left side stamp off. (Yes, I just made that term up. Heh.)

Anyway, because Less is More is a clean and simple kind of challenge, this card is thus clean and simple. =D

I stamped the Agapanthus with a mixture of Peeled Paint and Forest Moss Distress Inks. The sentiment is in Forest Moss as well. The only thing I don't like about this card is that sentiment. I'm not sure if it was because I haven't used that stamp much or the Distress Ink is busy distressing, but the words have a bit of a ragged look to them.

For once, it looks better in the picture.

HA HA HA!


Supplies:
Paper: Recollections (white cardblank)
Stamps: Stampendous (Agapanthus Cluster); Inkadinkado (Expressions #96614)
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Peeled Paint, Forest Moss)
ETC: NOTHING. It's supposed to be CLEAN AND SIMPLE! =D


It's a rainy and dreary day here, but I have so enjoyed some peaceful hours in the craft studio. I hope you find peaceful moments to create today as well.

~Cynthia

My apologies...

I've got nothing to show today, so my apologies on that. I DO however have something to share.

Mary Ann Moss from LA Dispatch (Remains of the Day) is currently in Paris. And she's taking pictures and blogging her adventures and travel journaling and....in short, making me insanely jealous.

One of her posts included a picture, taken just past dusk, of a top story window with lights gleaming into the dark. And Mary Ann said this...

On the way home through the dark streets I looked up and saw this window. Maybe inside there is a child on a feather bed reading a storybook. Dreaming about a trip she will take when she grows up.

I always feel better when I find someone who feels the same way about travel as I do. Sometimes I think I'm the only one affected by wanderlust and then along comes someone who feels the same, who totally gets it.



Dreaming about a trip,

~Cynthia

Lil Easter Rabbit

Lil Easter Rabbit
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

Back to Easter cards again. :-)

My favorite little rabbit makes an appearance, sitting over two scored lines and a simple pink Happy Easter.

I think the simplicity of it makes this one very sweet card! =D


Supplies:
Paper: Recollections (white cardblank)
Stamps: JustRite (15 Point Times New Roman alphabet stamps); Endless Creations Inc (rabbits #DD24)
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Pumice Stone and Spun Sugar)
ETC: ScorBuddy


Happy Saturday to ya!! I'm off to work in the studio again. I've been spending a lot of time working on some art journals I've made, so I had better get going on some cards! Less is More has a new challenge up, so I might take my cue from them today.


~Cynthia

One More St Paddy's!

One More St Paddy's!
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

This is the last one, I promise!

Originally, I was following one of the Fall-to layouts, but when I put the card together, it looked funny. So I switched the layout around and got this. I'm not 100% happy with it...it needs something on the top. But, hey, it's done. =D

The St Patrick's Day sentiment is stamped on a QuicKutz die cut, which is layered over pretty much the only green patterned paper I seem to have. Heh. Then I used a border punch on a strip of green cardstock. I added a bit of Distress Ink around the edges of the die cut for a little color pop.


Supplies:
Paper: Bazzill (green and white cardstock); ADT (Great Outdoors scrapbook kit)
Stamp: Hampton Arts/Studio G
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Peeled Paint)
ETC: Recollections (border punch); QuicKutz (name plates die cut); Glue Glider Pro


I'm all done with St. Paddy's Day and these cards are ready to be mailed! Now if I can only remember to actually MAIL them.........

Happy weekend!! ;-)

~Cynthia

Bunny Rabbit

Bunny Rabbit
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

I love this little rabbit!! The stamp comes with two rabbits on each side of a small wooden block. One faces the right, the other the left, so you can stamp them as if they're kissing! HILARIOUS!!

I chose to skip the kissing and just stamp the lil fella in the grass.

=D

I stamped the grass on the front of a white cardblank, then stamped the rabbit on a piece of white vellum. I adhered the vellum over the cardblank (at the top only), then cut a strip of green cardstock, used a border punch and adhered that over the vellum (also along the top only).


Supplies:
Paper: Bazzill (green cardstock); Vellum; Recollections (white cardblank)
Stamp: Endless Creations Inc (rabbit #DD24); Daisy Bucket Designs (Row of Grass)
Ink: VersaColor (Green Tea); Memento (Tuxedo Black...I probably should have used StazOn for this, but so far, the ink looks like it is permanent.)

ETC: Fiskars (border punch); Glue Glider Pro


The rains have finally stopped and the sun is now shining! We survived with no flooding problems...at least here. Our neighboring states have not been so lucky this time around. :-/


~Cynthia