Landscape & Portrait Challenge

Landscape & Portrait, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

This time around Shimelle has given us a Sketch to Scrapbook Page using both horizontal and vertical photos.

I changed up the sketch a bit to use one portrait photo and one journaling card that mimics the two smaller landscape photos Shimelle used.

This was a super fun sketch. The part that took the longest was drying the Mister Huey spray! Too much humidity=loooooong heat gun drying time!! ;-)

I actually picked all the papers first and then had to hunt a vertical photo. Gratefully, this particular zinnia decided to grow in such a direction that I had to take the photo longways! LOL!


Supplies:
Paper: Echo Park (Everyday Eclectic--paper and stickers); Bazzill (hot pink and white cardstock)
Ink: Studio Calico Mister Huey spray (Shine)
ETC: October Afternoon (Mini Market letter stickers: Green and Cream); McGill (sun punch)


Thanks so much for visiting! Come back again soon! =D


~Cynthia

A 3x4 Gathering

3x4 Gathering, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

And the challenges over on Shimelle's blog just keep coming! This has really been so much fun! (And I've gotten LOTS of photos scrapped too!!)

For this challenge, Shimelle gave us a sketch to turn into a scrap page.

I almost always scrap 4x6 photos, rarely smaller, unless I have lots of one thing. I just happened to have two photos--one of a butterfly, the other of a blooming Pyracantha bush--that I printed out at 3x4.

And then promptly pushed aside to scrap all the 4x6 photos!

I *knew* they would come in handy!! ;-)

I used the sketch a bit differently as I only had two photos and not three. Other than that, I pretty much followed along with Shimelle.


Supplies:
Paper: Echo Park (Everyday Eclectic); Bazzill Basics (Lucy's Crab Shack--journaling card)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Gathered Twigs)
ETC: October Afternoon (Mini Market letter stickers--Green and Cream)


Oh, and sorry for the wonky photo. We got three inches of rain early this morning and the humidity outside is making all my pages warp before I can take a picture! :-O


~Cynthia

Vertical Design

Vertical Design, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Back with another Shimelle challenge today!

But first, mucho apologies for the absolutely crappy photo. It was late when I finished the page and therefore, dark. And today it's raining, so no outdoor photography. :-(

But onward, yes? :-)

I manged to skip out to a craft store yesterday and bought my first ever page kit. It's an old one from Echo Park, but I love the colors and it comes with bunches of stickers! YAY for stickers!

I took Shimelle's sketch and turned it sideways, like her guest, Stephanie Berger, did. Then, I only used one photo.

I kinda like all the open white space on this one. I do miss my layers though! ;-)


Looks like Shimelle has more challenges up today too! Gotta get scrappin!!


~Cynthia

#9 Layered Embellishment

#9 Layered Embellishment, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Back again with another challenge page. This time it's all about the layering.

Challenge #9: Make a stacked embellishment

Another fun challenge! Loved making this embellishment. I used die cut pinked circles, a die cut label, a punched circle, a sticker, a metal dot and lots of pop dots.

I kept the rest of the page pretty clean because of the 'scene' on the background page. I did distress a few layers of paper for under the photo.


Supplies:
Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle (Fern & Forest); old page from an accounting book
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Gathered Twigs)
ETC: Nestabilities (pinked circles, labels); EK Success (circle punch, 3D Pop Dots); Thickers (Dear Lizzy puffy letter stickers); Heidi Grace (metal dots); Simple Stories (24/7 sticker)


Thanks so much for dropping by!!


~Cynthia

#8 Pick a Sketch

#8 Pick a Sketch, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Here's Shimelle's final Saturday challenge page. For this one we get to go back in time and find a Sketch to Page video Shimelle posted and use that as our guide.

Challenge #8: Pick a Sketch


This was a fun challenge! I watched quite a few videos and decided on #35, which is from September 14, 2011.

The photo is of a dried Tiger Lily seed pod, in black and white. They are so gorgeous close up!! I didn't want the page to be sad so I titled it, "The sleep of the tiger lily" and journaled about how beautiful the pods are...knowing that in the spring, new Tiger Lilies will be produced from the seeds.

I also totally misspelled tiger "lillies" in the journaling. I decided to be OK with it and moved on. =D


Supplies:
Paper: We R Memory Keepers (Simply Spring: Easter Eggs); Bo Bunny (Olivia Baby's Breath and Ad Lib: This N That); K&Co (Designer Mat Pad: Ocean and Border: Julianne); Bazzill (white cardstock)
Ink: Memento (London Fog)
ETC: Thickers (Subway letter stickers); Authentique (letter stickers); Queen & Co (Midnight dots); EK Success (3D Dots)


And with that, I'm all caught up! At least for the moment! ;-)

Thanks for the visit!


~Cynthia

#7 On the Vertical

#7 On the Vertical, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

After a brief pause to play along with Tim Holtz and his awesome tags, I've returned with another Shimelle challenge page.

Challenge #7: Scrap on the vertical.

Not something I do often. Isn't that funny how we like what we like and that's how it is?? ;-) But this was a fun change-up for me.

I used a snippet of Tim Holtz paper for the big vertical piece. And Simple Stories for all the sticky things. I also managed to get a bit of cork (the geotag) and a bit of wood (the tiny star) on this page.


Supplies:
Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle (Fern & Forest); Tim Holtz (Lost & Found paper stash); K&Co (Designer Mat Pad: Ocean); Simple Stories (bingo card from 24/7 6x6 collection): Basic Grey (Basics Manila)
ETC: We R Memory Keepers (tab punch); Simple Stories (letter/word stickers); Tim Holtz (Chit Chat sticker)


I think that's it for me today. I'm quickly running out of daylight to shoot photos. I'll be back tomorrow to finish up the challenges!!


~Cynthia

Tim's Tag for August

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

The Talented Tim has struck again!! His tags for August are way beyond awesome!!

I, of course, had to go all MacGyver AGAIN this month because I don't have the main supplies Tim used.

No matter. I used what I had and came up with this! I'm loving the background especially because it looks like clouds rolling.

I used stamps, Distress Inks, Distress Stains and Distress Markers. In place of the mask stuff Tim used, I used the ol' Post-it Note trick.

The band, which I thought was appropriate because I live 200 miles from the ocean, says, "possibility begins with imagination." I can imagine I'm on the beach, right?? =D

I ran the Picket Fence Distress Marker across the metal band several times until the ink went down into the words. It also sank in around the brads on either end. I wiped some of the ink off and the remaining gives the band a salted-by-the-ocean look!


And that's it for me this month! Thanks so much for dropping by!!


~Cynthia