Phone Booth?

Phone Booth?, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Doesn't this shot remind you of British phone booths??

No?

Is it just me then?

Fine.

Let's just call it, "I had an artsy photographic moment and thought this was cool architecture and color and texture and lines and design." OK??

OK!

This is actually a section of of the front door of my local pharmacy.

Cool, eh?

I was bored, waiting on my Mom, so when I get bored, I start taking pictures with Instagram and my cell phone.

I like the minimalist vibe on this one. And the colors. Oh, those glorious reds and glass blues!

=D



Thanks for popping in today!


~Cynthia

Story Telling with a Sunburst

Story Telling with a Sunburst, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

OK, so there's a front story and a back story to this page.

Ready? Deep breath....

Shimelle has a Starting Point Challenge on her blog today. The challenge is to use a sunburst on your scrap page.

Shimelle *also* has a prompt in her Break it Down class over on UK Scrappers on documenting a conversation.

I have...magically...designed a page that answers to BOTH challenges.

I'm sure you're saying, "WOW. How does she DO that??"

You're probably also saying something like, "Um. There's a church on her page and those are the colors of Ohio State University. Please explain the correlation."

Can do! Which leads me to the back story of this page...

See. I went to my second cousin's graduation on Sunday. He went to a Christian school and the graduation was held at the church which houses the school.

(Keeping up so far??)

The speaker for the ceremony was from Ohio. It is a well-known fact (which I did not know) that if you are from Ohio and yell, "O-H!!" at someone who is ALSO from Ohio, you will hear the other person yell back, "I-O!! If they *don't* yell it, they aren't from Ohio.

Did I mention my entire family is from Ohio? Yes, yes we are.

So when the speaker yelled out, "O-H" several members of my family responded...in church...at a graduation ceremony..."I-O!!!"

Cuz we're all from Ohio and this is how we roll.

Thus, a photo of a church with the Ohio State University colors.

Thus the sunburst. Made of Ohio map paper.

And thus the you-gotta-be-from-the-great-state-of-OHIO to understand this conversation.

O-H??

I-O!!!

GO BUCS!!!!!





~Cynthia


PS: If you're dropping in by way of Shimelle's blog...I am totally not always this crazy. Well, OK. Most of the time. I *AM* from Ohio after all! ;-)

Warning! Snake on a page!

Warning! Snake on a page!, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Yeah, so you've been warned if ya don't like snakes! ;-)

I thought you might be tired of seeing owl pictures, so I scrapped some snake photos today! =D

Don't worry. This one is non-venomous and thanks to my phone's super zooming capabilities, I wasn't really in any danger from getting a snake bite. Plus, this snake (a Red-bellied Water Snake) is very docile unless messed with. He was pretty accommodating while I once again acted like paparazzi and snapped tons of photos!

I used some old Cosmo Cricket paper and some brand new (to me!) tire track washi tape.

The "hello" flair is handmade by me! ;-)

I.

Love.

Flair.




Have a wonderful weekend!! And all youse guys up the East Coast take care! ;-)


~Cynthia

Hoo Me??

Hoo Me??, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Barred Owls are easily identified by their call, which sounds like, "Who cooks for you, who cooks for you all?" Sometimes their call is abbreviated to "hoo all," thus the title for my page...Hoo me?

This is the backside of the Webster's Pages paper I posted yesterday.

I added the journaling on this page--which is probably the only writing I'll do for this series of photos.

I kept it pretty clean-and-simple, like the rest of the pages are/will be, using lots of greens, blues with accents of yellow and orange.

In the top right corner...the fun little bread bag "tie" idea is from the Real Life Page Tabs by Evalicious. I just cut the paper down to the size I wanted, punched the heart, and then stapled the paper with Tim Holtz's Tiny Attacher. Or as my mom likes to call it--the Tiny Attacker. Heh.


That's it for me today. Back to working on another owl page!



~Cynthia

Owl at Home

Owl at Home, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

This is the first of several pages I've completed so far concerning the recent visit from a Barred Owl. I made this like a title page, so no journaling or much embellishment.

I titled the page 'Owl at Home' after one of my most favorite ever children's books called...you guessed it..."Owl at Home" by Arthur Lobel.

The background paper is an old old old Webster's Pages creation. So pretty. I didn't need to add much to the page.

I colored a wood veneer butterfly with Distress Stain, then added a small Maya Road paper owl to the bottom left corner. The sticker there is from Simple Stories and it says "true story."

I added a few more pieces of paper and a trio of wooden stars.

And there ya go! =D


And if you're interested in taking a cool class from Shimelle Laine, there's a free one happening on UKScrappers called Break it Down. You don't have to be from the UK to participate, you just need to sign up on the site! That's free too! :-)



Carry on scrapping!!


~Cynthia

Starting Point

Starting Point, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Over on the Pretty Paper; True Stories blog, Shimelle has challenged us with a Starting Point scrapbook page.

She gave a few dimensions for paper layers and then we are to take it from there!

This page is actually one of several I'm working on involving photos I took of a Barred Owl on the patio. He came in for a visit, politely posed for many (MANY!) photos and then flew away. They're very common around here, but I've never had one sit on the patio furniture before!! =D

I thought this particular photo went well with Shimelle's challenge. I just moved my paper layers over a bit because he was looking down.


Thanks for checking this out! I'll be posting the other pages of the Owl Visit all this week! ;-)


~Cynthia

Tim's Tag For June

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

It's June first and you know what that means!! Tim's Tag Time!!!

So Sir Tim has challenged us in a (for me!) very challenging way this month.

We have to color stuff.

With Distress Markers and water brushes and watercolor paper stuff.

I do not color.

But it's a challenge, right??

So I took on Sir Tim's challenge and here's my tag.

I stamped the sweet Carolina Wren and the daffodils in Archival Ink.

Then, because I was too scared to do any coloring, I made the background part with Distress Stain, Ink and Paint.

Then, because in order to complete the tag you actually have to COLOR the tag...I sucked it up and colored my image.

I will say I held my breath a lot.

And might have contemplated taking up drinking...in excess.

But no.

I persevered and colored my image!!!!

For having zero coloring talent, I'm giving myself a Not So Bad grade. ;-)

At least you can tell it's a bird with flowers.

Right?

Hello??




Thanks so much for stopping by!

~Cynthia ;-)