Mother's Day Part Deux

Mother's Day Part Deux, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Thanks for the kind words on yesterday's card! Y'all are so sweet! =D

However, I decided to try again. I was cruising in blogland and found this card on the WPlus9 blog--scroll down a little if you want to see it, it's the fourth card listed.

I changed the color and the layout a bit, but I was definitely inspired by the cute card!

First I ran the front of a white card blank through the Cuttlebug with this fun embossing folder. Then I gently brushed Shaded Lilac Distress Ink over the raised images. I don't think you can see it too well in the photo, but in real life it's there. ;-)

I die cut two sizes of Nestabilities labels, then stamped the pansy on the smaller one and colored it with chalks. I edged the die cut with more Shaded Lilac.

For banners I cut two strips, then used a square punch to cut the little tails. I distressed the white banner with Shaded Lilac too.

I adhered the larger die cut using pop dots, adhered the banners to that with a glue gun, then adhered the white die cut with pop dots.

I stamped Happy Mother's Day on the inside, also with the Shaded Lilac ink.

I am SO MUCH happier with this card than the one I posted yesterday!! YAY!!! ;-)



Supplies:
Paper: Recollections (white card blank); Bazzill (lilac cardstock); GinaK (white cardstock)
Stamps: Stacy Stamps (Floral Minis); Paper Inspirations (Happy Mother's Day)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Shaded Lilac)
ETC: Inkadinkado (Blending Chalks--Bold Brights and Soft Tones); Sizzix (Labels Nine); Cuttlebug (Birds and Swirls embossing folder); Marvy (One-inch square punch); EK Success (Pop Dots); Glue Glider Pro


OK, so should we take a vote?? ;-) Do you like today's card or yesterday's card better?


~Cynthia

Shhh! Mother's Day Card!!

Shhh! Mother's Day Card!!, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

OK, don't tell my Mom, but here's her Mother's Day card. She has the really bad habit of snooping around my blog sometimes! ;-)

I'm not sure about it yet. Tell me what you think. *I* think it needs something. More color? More pattern? Anything? Bueler? Bueler?

To the card!!

I punched the large lilac cardstock circle first.

I die cut the super cool flower next. I used some black and white patterned paper and distressed it (carefully!) with one of Tim Holtz's brand-new Distress Inks--Shaded Lilac. It's oh, so gorgeous, don't you think??

I placed the negative (leftover paper) of the die cut over the lilac circle and sponged more Shaded Lilac on the inside of the negative to create some depth of color beneath the die cut flower.

I added the strips of black and lilac, punch the borders. The top lilac strip is the leftover from the border punching! ;-)

The word "mother" is from Tim's new Chit Chat stickers. I adhered all the layers onto a white card blank.

On the inside I stamped "Happy Mother's Day" in Shaded Lilac.

So...what do you think? Additions? Subtractions? Bin it and go back to the drawing board????



Supplies:
Paper: Bazzill (black and lilac cardstock); My Mind's Eye (Meadowlark collection--"Dawn" Circles Paper)
Stamp:  Paper Inspirations (Happy Mother's Day)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Shaded Lilac)
ETC: Fiskars (border punch); Memory Box (Amana Circle die cut); Tim Holtz (Chit Chat stickers); Marvy (circle punch)


And that's it for me today. Thanks so much for visiting!! =D

~Cynthia

Masculine Birthday

Masculine Birthday, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

I had this card rolling around in my head after I saw this card over on Crafting Clare's blog. I thought her card was so cute! Here's my take on it.

I die cut the postage stamp pieces out of ivory cardstock. Then I stamped the images, waited for them to dry, then distressed the edges with the same ink color.

I was going to mat the postage stamps on plain kraft, but I found this piece of leftover Graphic 45 clock paper and thought...how cool would that be??!!

So I positioned the postage stamps and then stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment.

And was immediately saddened.

The Happy Birthday got lost in all those clocks.

So I sat there for a moment, staring.

And then I thought...how cool would it be if I stamped the Birthday all over the place???

And so I did. And I think it looks rather cool. Like it was printed right on the paper.

Epic save!! ;-)

So then I adhered my layers and called it a day. Yippee!!



Supplies:
Paper: The Paper Studio (kraft card blank); Bazzill (blue cardstock); Graphic 45 (Kraft Reflections Collection--Before Your Time); Springhill (Vellum Bristol Cover--ivory)
Stamps: Stampin Up (present); StampCraft (party hat #48483B); Endless Creations (Happy Birthday sentiment)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Chipped Sapphire)
ETC: Cuttlebug (postage stamp die cut set); Glue Glider Pro


I've been so busy the past few days I haven't had time to post cards! This is so wrong. ;-) I *have* managed to visit blogland a bit and I also managed to make my Mother's Day card--which is Sunday! I'll post that one for you tomorrow and you need to let me know what you think about it. I still have time to make another if need be!! ;-)


Craft happily...

~Cynthia

Pink and Black

Pink and Black, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Today I've got a birthday card to show you. It seems kind of funny after all the Week in the Life pages the past few days. ;-)

I cut the card from hot pink cardstock. Then I cut a section of black and white cardstock and layered them.

I stamped one of my most favorite--and most used--flower stamps in Worn Lipstick. I edged the white panel and lightly distressed the whole piece with the same ink color.

I stamped the sentiment on the card blank and called 'er done! ;-)



Supplies:
Paper: Bazzill (pink and white cardstock); unknown source for black cardstock
Stamps: Stampendous (Agapanthus Cluster); Endless Creation (sentiment)
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Worn Lipstick, Black Soot)
ETC: Glue Glider Pro



Thanks for visiting with me today. Have a wonderful weekend!!


~Cynthia

WITL--Saturday

WITL--Saturday, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

And here we are. The end of 2012's Week in the Life--Ali Edwards' project.

On the left side I have three photos of some wee visitors--Carolina Wrens.

On the left I have a screen shot of the end of the NASCAR race at Richmond, VA, Saturday night. Sadly, my man did not win.

The other bit is an ad encouraging me to subscribe to The Baking Sheet--which I do! =D

All the pages are 7Gypsies papers.

I really had a lot of fun doing this project. I'm glad this fell on a week that had stuff going on, so some of the days weren't too boring! ;-)

I loved working in the Zutter Cover-all journal. I punched and bound all the pages beforehand so I was ready to go. I got the Cover-alls on sale at my not-so-local scrapbook store and bought all they had--FOUR. LOL!

Anywho, if you've never done a Week in the Life, I recommend it. Really, it didn't take a long time each day to put everything together. And now I have a very unique remembrance of this time.

Thanks so much for looking in today!


~Cynthia

WITL--Friday

WITL--Friday, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

We're almost there! Only one more day of Ali Edwards' Week in the Life!! =D

This is the middle spread for Friday. On the left I've got three photos of my view while sitting in the car while my mom's at physical therapy. It's rather nice out there. Lots of birds and a large meadow area. I do the crossword puzzle--that's the bottom right photo. ;-) The journaling is about what I do while waiting in the parking lot.

The other side is my 'Currently' journaling. I do that in my regular daily journal on the 7th, the 17th and the 27th of each month. And Friday was the 27th.

Big thanks again to Avital at Creativity Prompt for the free journal cards and tags! =D

And on the very far right you can just see a bit of the Graphic 45 kraft paper I used for pockets on both inside covers. Because I was on the road for the beginning of the week, these totally came in handy to hold journaling blocks, tags and letter stickers. Plus, that Graphic 45 paper just rocks. Kraft, black ink and clocks??? SWOON. ;-)


Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you have a beautiful day!!

~Cynthia

WITL--Thursday

WITL--Thursday, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Here's Thursday's page in my week-long voyage of the Week in the Life project...by Ali Edwards.

After all the excitement of the trip to Charleston, SC, the rest of the week seemed rather tame. For Thursday, I took a few pictures of the rainy view from the car where I waited on my mom during her physical therapy appointment.

It was so boring a day I added the price sticker from a loaf a bread I bought. ;-)

On the next page I added a list of news headlines from that day.

I did go back through the week and add a small journaling rectangle to document the number of miles I biked/walked for that day.

Thursday tag is from Cathy Zielske.
Banner tag is from Creativity Prompt.
Paper is from 7Gypsies.


Thanks for looking--have a wonderful day!!

~Cynthia