NSD Challenge #3

NSD Challenge #3, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

I'm back for day 2 of National Scrapbooking Day challenges. Number 3 over on Shimelle's blog is to "use mist"!

You don't gotta tell ME twice!! =D

Love LOVE working with sprays and mists and all that fun stuff so much. So I totally went wild with this one!

I got the general layout idea from a page I saw over on Pinterest, but by the time I finished, it looked nothing like it!!  I started by using two different Heidi Swapp Color Shines and a stencil for the background.

The smaller circle under the photo is gray cardstock with more of the teal Color Shine. I made the the triangles and banner tails the same way--gray cardstock with Color Shine.

The letters have been doused with three different red sprays/mists. I got a wee bit carried away there and the letters started to fall apart. No matter. I just glued the layers back down. Ya can't even tell! ;-)

I didn't have any small letters in the right colors to add to the title so I just left it as one word. I journaled all the pertinent info on the bottom and called it DONE.


Thanks so much for stopping by!


~Cynthia

NSD Challenge #1

NSD Challenge #1, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Welcome to National Scrapbooking Day! For Shimelle Laine's first Challenge we get to "scrap in pink"!

I don't have a lot of pink paper, so I had to scrounge a bit. I did find some sparkly pink letters though. Major score there! :-)

The photo is of a gorgeous white azalea in bloom...hence the title in sparkly pink letters!

I also added a bit of Mr Huey's Shine in a top-left-to-bottom-right diagonal.


Thanks for taking a bit of a look-see! Enjoy your scrapping holiday!! =D


~Cynthia

NSD Challenge #2

NSD Challenge #2, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Shimelle challenged us to "use 4x6 photos" for Challenge #2. I hope one photo counts! =)

This picture is a tag on a old power line pole where I hike a lot. I had never noticed the different tags on it until I walked over there a few weeks ago. The power lines are no longer in service. I really have no idea what Cobra is all about, but the year indicates that's when it was checked by the power company.

Anyway. I wanted to go a bit monochromatic with this page. The papers are made by Bella Blvd and are from the same Thanksgiving line. I just used the "B" sides of both!

The darker colored papers are from BoBunny.

Sorry about the crappy photo. It's been a dark, dreary, rainy day and now the sun's gone down. Ergo...bad lighting situation.

Ah well.


Craft on!


~Cynthia

NDS Challenge #5

NDS Challenge #5, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

So for National Scrapbook Day Challenge #5, we are to "use brads or eyelets" as per Shimelle.

I'm gonna be a bit honest here...it's also my "I'm getting frustrated, hungry and tired now" page.

This started out with two photos, with different paper and with black washi tape. Now I'm down to one photo, a completely different group of papers and a strip of green washi tape.

I like the simplicity of the second version.

Using the eyelets was fun--and a bigger challenge than I had anticipated.

But it's finished.

Oh, if you can't read the title, it says...Posing for the Paparazzi. I mean, look at that duck, will ya?! Don't ya just want to pinch his little duck cheeks??!! =D



Snack on! Oops, I mean SCRAP on!


~Cynthia

NSD Challenge #11

NSD Challenge #11, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Number 11. This time Shimelle has challenged us to "add some sparkle to your page"!

So...I'm a Tim Holtz kinda gurrllll, right? Tim Holtz don't use no sparkle.

So this was a major challenge for me.

So I had to get my sparkle on.

I think I succeeded. Hee, hee!!

I sprayed the letters with Dylusions Bubblegum Pink then doused them with Mr Huey's Shine.

I also doused the buttons with Shine too.

Then I flicked more Shine on the paper...which I've been hording for years.

Goodbye, cool chalkboard paper!

And just to show my page who's boss...I added some diamond blingy blings.

Pink AND sparkly.

Sparkly AND pink.

Whoa. I need some Walnut Stain Distress Ink...STAT.



Craft on!

~Cynthia ;-)

NSD Challenge #13

NSD Challenge #13, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Happy National Scrapbook Day--wherever you may be! =D

This page is the first of several challenges hosted by Shimelle over on her blog Pretty Paper, True Stories.

The challenge for this one is to "highlight your favourite papers"--as Shimelle would say! ;-)

I immediately grabbed my very much beloved and oh so "favourite" paper by Graphic 45.

I wanted to use this photo of two Mallards in my front yard. Graphic 45 has some sweet papers that have gorgeous colors. I mixed and matched several lines too. Some old, some new. Seamless mixing. One of the many things I love about G45 papers.

Instead of using lots of border strips, I let the paper be the border strip! ;-) Beyond that, I simply scraplifted Shimelle's layout....kinda! ;-)



Happy NSD! Come play along with us!! I'm off to play with another challenge!


~Cynthia

Tim's Tag for May

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

**Cue foreboding music**

"Ohhhhh, Tim!!" (Our crafty creator cries!)

"How could you??? HOW COULD YOU??" (Our crafty creator weeps!)

"You...you...you used...I can't say it!! I just can't say the word aloud!! (Wails our crafty creator!)

"YOU USED MY MORTAL ENEMY! THE BANE OF MY CRAFTY EXISTENCE!! HOW COULD YOU??????" (Howls our crafty creator!!!)

"You used.......(gulp, sob, gasp!)



...RUB-ONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


(Our crafty creator has succumbed to her emotional overload and lies quietly weeping, curled up into a ball, on the floor...of her craft room....)

**Cue melancholy cello music.....**

Yes, that's right, kids! The King of Crafty Goodness, Tim Holtz himself, used rub-ons...AKA Remnant Rubs.

Now, I'm sure Tim's Remnant Rubs are amazing and all that, but...ahem. I hate rub-ons. We just don't get along.

In fact, the only rub-ons I own were purchased for a specific project and only because they were like 99 cents.

And I bought several packs because I knew I would screw them up.

And I did.

Lots.

So all I've got in the Drawer of Rub-on Crafts is some 2008 dated thingys with numbers and months.

So I used them, dang it.

On. This. Tag.

And then...insert EVIL LAUGH HERE...I tortured them. With glee.

I scratched them with a nail file, I doused them with Distress Stain, I stamped over them with PERMANENT ink, and I buffed their little heads with Distress Inks.

TAKE THAT YOU EVIL RUB-ONS!!

Ahem.

And when I got that out of my system, I made the cool charm.

Tim used an enameled tag.

I have none so I made one. I used one of Tim's acrylic tag charms and painted the back with white Distress Paint. Then I dropped Terra Cotta Alcohol Ink on the front, THEN I stamped part of a ticket stamp and parts of a compass stamp using more permanent ink on the charm. It kinda looks like amber. :-)

Finally, I colored some ribbon and attached everything. The word band on the bottom says, "Encourage your hopes, not your fears."

So true, so true.

I no longer fear you, you evil little rub-ons.



Peace, love, and rub-ons,


~Cynthia