OLW96: (Not a) Birthday Blings

OLW96: (Not a) Birthday Blings, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

The mojo was waning a bit when I saw the latest One Layer Wednesday challenge. But I thought...I can do that. It's one layer! What could go wrong??

*sigh*

Turns out, many things.

The OLW challenge was to use bling...rhinestones, glitter, shiny things.

Easy.

I stamped this sweet flowers-in-a-jar stamp then looked for some blingy stuff for the flower centers.

Nothing matched.

Nothing looked right.

No problema. I own Alcohol Inks. I can make anything any color.

Oh yes I can.

So I grabbed the Salmon Alcohol Ink and dabbed it on some pearly dot blingy things.

Turns out, Alcohol Ink eats the pearly finish off of pearly dot blingy things.

No problema.

They were bling to begin with and bling they will remain.

Turns out, Alcohol Inks also eat the sticky glue stuff off the backs of pearly dot blingy things.

So *now* I'm all like ticked off and stuff.

I smooshed the pearly dot blingy things onto my card....and willed them to stick with all the Jedi mind force I could muster.

No problema.

Then I stamped my little 'hello' stamp.

So cute.

And sooooo crooked.

I stamped it two more times to make it look all artsy and stuff.

Not bad.

It looks like I used an actual typewriter and it came out all crooked and artsy on purpose.

I'm kinda liking it.

It was *then* that I realized that the OLW challenge specifically said BIRTHDAY Blings.

Not HELLO Blings.

Oh, fer cryin' out loud!

*pounds head on craft table*





Supplies:
Paper: Recollections (white card blank)
Stamps: Endless Creations (flower jar and hello stamps)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Pumice Stone)
ETC: Ranger/Tim Holtz (Alcohol Ink--Salmon); Recollections (Rhinestone Stickers)



All I got to say is...Thank Goodness It's Friday. Have a great weekend!


~Cynthia ;-)

CASology Week #1

CASology Week #1, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Hey, there's a new CAS challenge in town! CASology started their brand-spankin'-new Clean And Simple card challenge yesterday. Every Tuesday they'll be posting a cue card with one word on it and it's up to you on how you interpret that word! This week's word is SUN.

I used one of my absolute favorite stamps on this one. I stamped the sun with VersaMark, then embossed it with Tinsel Gold embossing powder. I tried to get a picture of the sparklies, but with our current overcast, gray weather, I just couldn't get the lighting to work. Pretend it sparkles like the sun, OK?? ;-D

I went looking for a different 'hello' stamp and ran into this one--perfect!

Clean And Simple and full of SUN!


Supplies:
Paper: Recollections (white card blank)
Stamps: Rubber Stampede (Soleil); Hero Arts (Sending Happy)
ETC: VersaMark; Stamp-n Stuff (Embossing Tinsel Gold Opaque Powder)


Thanks so much for dropping by today!

~Cynthia

Starting Point

Starting Point, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Monday means Scrapbook Starting Points over on Shimelle Laine's blog. She has a beautiful page and layout for this week. I took lots of inspiration from it, changing the layout to fit my never ending supply of panoramic photos.

I really was going to go the red-and-black route, as Shimelle did, but that color combination made for an odd Christmas looking page.

I went with this crazy mix of lime green, butter yellow, gray and pink instead.

So there.

I used Shimelle's ideas of washi tape and stripes along the bottom. I didn't add any journaling because the story is actually in another scrapbook, where all the "regular" sized photos are. I think it's a pretty enough picture to stand by itself.

The photo was taken in 2004. Oddly, I just noticed I wrote 2014 on the date.

I'm like a time-traveling scrapbooker.

*sigh*



~Cynthia ;-)

More Panoramic Fun

More Panoramic Fun, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

The other day I found a sad little tacky plastic frame with two photos in it. Both of the photos are panoramic sized. I scrapped the other one here and now I've got the second one done.

This was a hard one to scrap. The panoramic is angled--I had a lot of difficulty photographing the falls because of where I was standing and the size of the falls. Ergo, the entire page layout had to go a bit funky.

I'm not all that excited about this page, I'm just glad that it's done. Is that bad to say? No, no it's not.  ;-)

I used the same papers I used on the previous photo layout because they face each other in my scrap book. It's all My Mind's Eye: Penny Lane (Free Bird.) Oh, except for the glittery letters. They're by Dear Lizzy/American Crafts (Chipboard Letters: Sparkling.)

I die cut the leaves (Sizzix), punched out the circles from more MME paper and made a funky button with the same MME paper.

And then called it DONE. ;-)



Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!


~Cynthia

A little Panoramic Love

A little Panoramic Love, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

I have a lot of panoramic photos running around.

A lot.

I never know quite what to do with them.

I had two of them stuck in this tacky plastic frame thing and decided the other day that it was time the tacky plastic frame thing went bye-bye.

So then I had two panoramic photos sitting on a bookshelf.

And then I decided that THIS was the day that I scrapbook those panoramic photos.

**cue stirring, triumphant music!!!!**

I went searching for help and landed on a Two Peas in the Bucket Gallery. Marcibun (heh heh, that makes me laugh just typing it!) had a great idea for a panoramic photo layout, so I used her recipe and got this page! WOOT!!

All of the papers and embellishments (minus the letters) are from an old My Mind's Eye collection which I had horded for just the right moment.

That moment is NOW, crafting friends!! I UNHORDED some paper!!! I destashed! I scrapped a panoramic photo!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!




Supplies:
Paper: My Mind's Eye (Penny Lane: Free Bird)
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Markers (Vintage Photo) and Distress Ink (Gathered Twigs); Adirondack Color Wash (Espresso)
ETC: The Paper Studio (brown sticker letters); Authentique (tiny salmon sticker letters)
ETC: EK Success (Pop Dots); Glue Glider Pro



This photo is from the Segars-McKinnon Heritage Preserve in Hartsville, South Carolina. It's an absolutely gorgeous place with an absolutely awesome boardwalk through deep, dark, dense forest. Very cool.



Have a lovely day and thanks so much for stopping in! AND....if I don't see you tomorrow...Happy Fourth of July to you!!!!


~Cynthia

Tim's July Tag

Tim's July Tag, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

It's the beginning of the month so you know what that means, right?? TIM TAG TIME!!! Wooo hooooooo!!!!!!!!!

I had a BLAST making this tag!! The Alcohol Ink technique Tim Holtz demonstrated was SO. MUCH. FUN. Check it out here!

I basically followed Tim's recipe. I just used different colors and stamps. For the "metal" tags and embellishments, I just made the darn things because I don't have any! =D Check out that technique too!

Here's a rundown of all the stuff I used...in no particular order:

Alcohol Inks, Dabber Paints, Lumiere Paints, Memento Ink, Distress Stains, die cuts, corner rounder, twine, stamps, seam binding, paper distresser, VersaMark, embossing powder, glossy paper, cardstock, a tag and my trusty GlueGlider Pro.


I had stamped a tiny outline heart on the round embellishment and grabbed the heat gun to heat up the embossing powder...only to discover my faithful heat gun had died. I was so sad. So imagine the tiny heart up there and when I get a new gun, I'll put the tiny heart back on there, OK? ;-)



Peace, love, and Alcohol Ink happiness to you!

~Cynthia

Squash/Smash

Squash/Smash, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

In 2011 I had a Project 12 going on. Kind of like Project Life, just by month and not by week. It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed putting it together. But for 2012 I decided to do something different.

Thus...the Squash/Smash Book. A riff of K&Co's Smash Book, renamed by my mom as a Squash Book., with a little bit of Junque Journal, a la Tangie Baxter, thrown in for good measure.  Here's a link to the brand-spanking-new, never-been-used Squash Book I posted back in December.

I do one page each day, adhering STUFF from my day...receipts, menus, comic strips, church bulletins, song lyrics. Whatever goes on and needs to be documented.

I will make it through the last day of June with this one. And I've already got the new one ready to go. As you can see, the old one is stuffed to the gills! ;-)

I will probably add "January-June" on the front cover with letter stickers.

The one big lesson I learned is to add the Distress Ink on the edges of the cover AFTER I've finished filling the Squash book. I grabbed it many times with damp hands only to discover I had Walnut Stain all over my fingers!! =D Heh heh.



Thanks so much for dropping by today--have a great weekend! And if you're in the heat like we are--stay cool!


~Cynthia