Flutter By

Flutter By, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Here's my Lesson Number Two in Mixed Media Scrapbook Pages.

Heh.

I think I did much better the second time around. I followed this tutorial on The Crafter's Workshop blog by Sanna Lippert. (She totally makes it look easy!!)

Pretty simple, fun and not at all time-consuming.

I used one sheet of white cardstock for the background and one piece of vellum layered under the photo.

I used Tim Holtz's Distress Inks in Peeled Paint and Bundled Sage. Throw in a few stencils and a leaf stamp, along with some Distress Markers, and I got a pretty cool page! ;-)


Thanks for stopping by today! I'll be back tomorrow with an actual CARD! =D


~Cynthia

Skippering

Skippering, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

A few days ago, over on Shimelle Laine's blog, a guest artist posted a short tutorial on how to include mixed media on a scrap page.

I have always wanted to try this, so I followed Christin Gronnslett's step-by-step instructions.

SO EASY.

And SO much fun!!

I totally got a bit carried away, but man, did I have a good time slinging ink around!!

I used multiple stencils from The Crafters' Workshop, inks from Tim Holtz's Distress Ink line and Ranger's Archival line, and stamps from various places.

Although you can't see it in the photo, I also used Dreamweaver's embossing paste with the stencils for some super cool texture.

Then I added snippets of paper and slapped a photo of a Silver-spotted Skipper butterfly down and called it a day!

Christin calls this "mixed media light" and it's perfect for those of us who have never tried this kind of creating before.

There are definitely some things I would do differently....so come back tomorrow for my second go at a page of fun mixed media!! =D


Scrap happy!!


~Cynthia

Clearwing Moth

Clearwing Moth, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

A lovely Hummingbird Clearwing Moth has been visiting our Butterfly Bushes for some time now. He's a quick little thing! I haven't been able to catch a photo of him until just recently.

I guess he got used to me acting all paparazzi-ish around him! ;-)

This page is an homage to layers. And snippets. And anything else that might stick to a page.

And sewing.

SEWING!!

I got sew (haha!) excited about sewing on paper, I did a mini craft room re-do just so I could put my sewing machine where I could reach it quickly and easily.

YAY!!


Snippets are from American Crafts, WeR Memory Keepers and Cosmo Cricket.

I've got Simple Stories letter stickers and some naked chipboard Thickers too.

Oh, and Pop Dots.

LOTS of Pop Dots.


Happy Friday, you wonderful paper crafters! Have a lovely weekend!! =D


~Cynthia

A Garden Moment

A Garden Moment, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Here's another layout by Mitchel Kraft that I scraplifted from the Lily Bee Design blog.

Also.

For the record.

I love to the bottom of my toes this line by Little Yellow Bicycle called Fern & Forest.

I know, I know...it's the boys' line. But it's got lovely pale mint greens and deep earthy browns and burnt sun oranges.

LOVE IT.

And I absolutely love the little forest gnome too!

AND I know I've done like 400 layouts with these papers.

Ahem. I may be just the teeny-tiniest bit obsessed. ;-)

At least it's paper and not crack cocaine, RIGHT???????

Anywho. This is one of the last shots from the local garden/hiking spot I took back on the fourth of July.

I just love the colors of the flowers so much--and the shadows too! =D

I layered a bunch of snippets from Fern & Forest, along with an old Crate Paper bit. Then I threw in a few embellishments, including a Chit Chat word sticker from Tim Holtz. I'm really starting to love using them randomly here and there!


Thank you so much for visiting today and for leaving such lovely comments!! YOU are wonderful!!! =D


~Cynthia

Stained Glass Beauty

Stained Glass Beauty, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Boy do I love to junk up a page!! =D

This one was more of an experiment in playing. I saw the layout idea here on the Scraptastic Club blog and had fun twisting the layout to fit my photo.

Sorry about the weird glare on the photo, but it's a stained glass window in a garden shed. This is the same educational garden that has all the beautiful coneflowers that I scrapped earlier.

I've had the background paper for a while and I wanted to use it--I actually won it in a blog giveaway. Yay! ;-)

The flower centers are this deep red so I pulled out some Jenni Bowlin snippets that matched that red and added a bit of Graphic 45 as a little "shelf" for the photo to sit on so it doesn't float around. ;-)

The bottom stripe is another piece of a Doodlebug Design paper that I cut up.

I added bits of Simple Stories journal blocks--for both the piece I journaled on and the cork circle on the right side.

A few embellishments and some letters and I was done!


Happy Wednesday to ya!! Come back again soon! =D


~Cynthia

Oh look! Wildlife!

Oh look! Wildlife!, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

So way back on July 4, Lily Bee Design had a guest designer whose page was so cool I totally scraplifted it, then promptly scraplifted his second designer stint a few days later.

His name is Mitchell Kraft. And he loves layers.

I love layers.

I put lots of layers on my page.

Layers are good.

I've got a page from an old accounting book, a few snippets from Little Yellow Bicycle's Fern and Forest line, some Doodlebug Design strips and a bingo card from Simple Stories all nice and layered.

There's even some cork and wood veneer.

I made my own tiny banner clip thing. Because you can, you know. Make your own banner clip thing. With a paper clip and a snippet of paper. And thus avoid the $2 charge for such things.

But I digress...

I scruffed up the edges of all my glorious layers and used lots of Pop Dots.

Oh yes I did.

And you know what?

I SEWED.

It was scary at first.

You know...this is my beloved paper and I didn't want to ruin it with some crazy, drunken sewing.

The sewing *is* a bit crazy and a bit drunken. But nobody got hurt. I think that's the main thing, no?

I also got crazy with the misting.

Because, in addition to layers, I do love some good misting.

And nobody got hurt in the process of misting this page.

That's important.


Mist on!


~Cynthia

Damselfly

Damselfly, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

This photo is another in a series of pictures I took on July 4 at one of my favorite places to hike.

As I was carefully picking my way down some wet stairs to the river, this gorgeous Damselfly posed long enough for me to get a really lovely closeup shot.

I wanted to keep the page simple, so I used very few colors, layers and embellishments. The background paper is from my very-loved and getting very-overused Little Yellow Bicycle line called Fern and Forest. This is the B side.

The yellows and greens are mostly from LYB's Poppy line. I love how even though the two lines are verrrry different, they still coordinate nicely!

I cut up a page of Doodlebug Designs' chevron strips and used them for the top and bottom border.

A bit of cork, some punched shapes, a Chit Chat sticker from Tim Holtz, and a snippet of left over paper that I punched stars from....and I was done!

Well...except for the title. Did you notice that my "s" is backwards? Actually, it's not an "s." It's an upside-down question mark. I had every letter in this so perfect dark sparkly teal set EXCEPT the "s" so I just made do.

And I'm totally OK with it.


Thanks so much for dropping in today and have a happy Monday!!


~Cynthia