Card Class: Red Layer Card

Card Class: Red Layer Card
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This hot number is the third card from the class I took with Stacy from Stacy Stamps.

We were learning about layers and borders on this one. Stacy suggested cutting thing strips to use as borders instead of layering a full sheet of paper. Then adhere the strips on the back of the main piece--the focal point. (This one was made with a large, ornate, scrolly stamp and embossing powder mixed with glitter. Red jewels were added for a little bling.)

Before adhering the layered piece, attach a strip of foam tape to prevent the center of the main piece from caving in. Cool eh? ;-)



Have a wonderful day!!

~Cynthia

Class Card: Brown

Class Card: Brown
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Here's the second of four cards I created in a class taught by Stacy of Stacy Stamps.

You know how I love to distress stuff, so this card was a favorite of mine! I love the browns we used to make it.

The lacy bit on top and the stripes on the bottom were both made with Stacy Stamps! We distressed the edges of the cardstock then threaded the little flower with the ribbon we had also distressed.

Stacy had a cool ribbon punch--one that looks like an old school hole punch. I had seen the border punch-type ones, but not the one we used. Very cool. Going on my Want List. ;-)

Then we layered everything on a piece of folded kraft cardstock.

Easy peasy! I love the old fashioned look to it.


Thanks for hanging out here for a bit today!

~Cynthia

Class Card: Green

Class Card: Green
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

First order of business:

Let's have a BIG hurray for the SUNSHINE!!! And half-decent pictures!! YAY!!! =D


This past week I took a card making class at my LSS. It was a lot of fun--I had never taken a class before. It was all about borders and backgrounds. So here's the first card we made. I *love* the colors on this one!

I don't have any supply details for it because all the supplies were supplied!! ;-) I CAN say that all the stamps were from a cute stamp company called Stacy Stamps.

And Stacy herself taught the class! Double YAY!!


Have a wonderful, sun-shiny day!!

~Cynthia

Layer On Layer

Layer On Layer
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I was having so much trouble yesterday getting this picture posted to Flickr and then getting online to blog! But all is well today!! YAY!

Here's another page from my art journal. There are sooo many layers on this one. I really experimented (played??) with different types of paint. I have regular craft paint , Tulip fabric paint (gold shimmery stuff!!) and spritz spray. Oh yeah and ink, if I can count that as a paint! The Tulip paint gave the entire page a smooth-as-glass finish.

I've also got paper layers, circles made with paint, and clock faces too.

I'm still art journaling my way through the Psalms in the Bible and this is from Psalm 4. I focused on the verses that dealt with silence and peace and searching your heart. Thus the pages are dark (like the night sky) and I stamped clocks (for taking time to think quietly). I journaled in the circles.


Thanks for stopping in! Have a creative day!! =D


~Cynthia

Kinda masculine?

Kinda masculine?
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

This is a card I made for (and have already sent to) a guy friend of mine. I was super excited--I don't get to do many guy cards!

But I was also super excited to use the new die cut I bought.

Um. Maybe using the lacy die cut was not such a good idea. What do you think?? =D

I die cut the lace then tucked it under a larger piece of the same Basic Grey paper.

I stamped the sentiment on a scrap piece of kraft paper and distressed the edges.

I used water color pencils to just barely color, more like tint, the....hmmm....what DO you call those wooden pile things?? Anyway, I *did* color the sand, sea grass, pile thingys and the rope. You can see it in real life. ;-)

I distressed just the edges of the kraft piece, then layered it over a dark brown piece of cardstock.

All of the above is adhered to a kraft cardblank.


Supplies:
Paper: Basic Grey (basics manila paper pad); Bazzill (kraft and brown cardstock); The Paper Studio (kraft cardblank)
Stamp: Stacy Stamp (beach set); Hero Arts (Classic Messages)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Walnut Stain)
ETC: Artists' Loft (water color pencils); Glue Glider Pro; My Favorite Things (Die-namics, Open Scallop)


Happy Weekend!!!

~Cynthia

PS: Thanks for everyone's kind comments on my art journal pages. I really, really appreciate them!!!!

A Shield Around Me

A Shield Around Me
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

Here's another page from my art journal.

A while ago I stumbled upon a blog site dedicated to creating an art journal page for every page of the book "Moby Dick." It's really quite amazing. Check it out sometime: everypageofmobydick.blogspot.com Matt Kish (the artist) said something along the lines of how he was so changed by spending so much time diving deeply into his favorite book.

So cool.

So I got the idea to do the same thing...but with the Psalms in the Bible.

This is the page for Psalm 3, verse 3, about how God is a shield around us.

It's a pretty simple page, but I really wanted the verse to be the focal point.

Excuse the blotches on the right side. Um. The paint from the next page bled through.

Yeah, lesson learned there all right. ;-)


And in a totally unrelated bit of news...Shimelle (the amazing scrapbooker) posted a big honkin' post about her recent travels. (Four months in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and South America!) She has some super cool tips for traveling as well as scrapbooking the adventure. Here's a quote that is just so amazingly cool and why I want to travel:

"Some of the most amazing things are the very quiet activities too--paragliding was cool, but I wouldn't trade it for watching the sunrise over Angkor Wat."



Exactly. I mean...EXACTLY.

Amiright????


~Cynthia

Part Deux

Part Deux
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Here's the finished, final, absolute last, DONE, journal page!! ;-) This the same one from the previous post, just with the final touches on it, all ready for journaling!

And once again, sorry for the bad picture. It feels like we haven't had sun here in a month!

I added some bubble wrap stamped areas and a few strips of Tim Holtz's tissue tape. I brushed the tissue tape with Forest Moss, one of the Distress Stain colors I used on the pages. I also stamped a few funky circles in Forest Moss too.

For my title, I chose a quote I read a few days ago:

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

(~Langston Hughes)


I feel a little like that broken-winged bird right now because of various situations in my life. I've been trying so hard this past year to find my wings again. One day. I just keep telling myself...one day...I will fly.


Thanks for visiting! :-)

~Cynthia