Reflections

Today's page is from my local hiking spot.  I love the reflections in the water.  Here's a cool one where the reflection joins the actual object, making it hard to see which way's up!  These are cattails and a duck box...and the beautiful blue sky.

I used kraft paper and some fun green embellishments.

Once again I'm having problems blogging.  Flickr isn't playing nice and Blogger isn't either.  I get error messages all over the place.  Anyone else having problems like that??


Thanks for dropping in today. I'm so trying to be a better blogger!  =D


~Cynthia

Collection

Since I'm having huge amounts of problems blogging, this is gonna be quick.  Here's a black and white photo I took at my friend's koi pond.  The bits and pieces were just laying there, begging to be photographed.  I made a few washi tape feathers and used leftovers from We R Memory Keeper's autumn collection.  A few splats of ink and some enamel dots and I was done.  I'm now crossing my fingers that this even posts. 

~Cynthia

First Post of the Year!

It's January first and you know what that means, right??

Oh sure, Bowl Games.  (Yes, my alma mater is down by one at the half.  AHHHHH!!!)

And taking down the Christmas decorations.  (I seem to have forgotten some roping and one Santa.  Oops.)

But no.  I'm talking about Tim's Tag Time!  Yes, our Fearless Tag Leader is continuing his monthly tag series!!!  Check out his tag here.  Because seriously, my tag looks nothing like it.

 

So to start...sorry for the awful photo.  That journal tag isn't really that pink.  It's been cloudy here for like 523 days in a row, so it's hard to get photos that are true-to-life.  :-P

Anyway.  I followed Tim's Tag recipe.

Kind of.

The background is super cool.  I used Pumice Stone Distress Stain and flicked water on it and stenciled a Julie Fei-Fen Balzer feather over that using Pumice Stone Distress Ink.

The jar (of hopes for the future--get it?) is die cut grunge paper covered in silver tape used in HVAC work.  I embossed that with swirls then die cut another jar using some etched plastic I found laying around.  I painted the swirly embossed image with Black Soot Distress Paint then stuck some Chit-Chat stickers on top, and stapled the plastic die cut piece on top of that!

Whew.

I used some of Tim's glorious Remnant Rubs for the words on the bottom of the tag and added a journal tag with an old old old compass stamp.

I made the fun charm just like Tim did.

OK.  Not really.

I punched a 3/4 inch circle from cardstock, applied a Remnant Rub phrase on it then cut the circle down to 1/2 inch so it would fit in one of Tim's brads.  It's really cool in real life!  ;-)

I added a bit of seam binding/crinkle ribbon and called it DONE.

Happy New Year to you and thanks so much for visiting today!!

~Cynthia

 

Catching Up

Hiya!  I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!  I managed to do a bit of scrapbooking since we didn't travel this year--the family came here instead.

I'm trying to catch up a bit on pages.  And I hope the sun comes out so I can photograph the (almost completed) December Daily album.

So here's a picture I took a while back.  I needed plenty of space to tell the hilarious (to me!) story.

So I see this snake stretched across the trail--a totally harmless little 4-foot guy--and I also see two runners headed for the snake.  I stopped the runners and told them I had passed the snake with no problem, but the ensuing conversation between the two guys was so funny.  It was kinda like..."We should totally act cool and all so we don't embarrass ourselves, but no way I'm walking past that snake...what do YOU think??"  In the end, they took a different trail, but I was trying so hard not to laugh at them.  I mean, they're big, bad runner DUDES and they're scared of a harmless, sleepy snake!!  =D

Ah, trail memories!!  ;-)



Ali Edwards has a blog post on her One Little Word project for 2014.  I've chosen the word NEXT.  A month ago, my church had a 4-week series on the idea of God always having a NEXT for each of us.  My goal in 2014 is to apply that--finding out what's NEXT and going in that direction.  Are you joining in on the fun of One Little Word??


OK, I'm off to work on my To Do List.  :-)  Have a wonderfully crafty day!

~Cynthia

Merry Christmas!

Evergreen Bough

Here's the last of my Christmas cards...I think.  ;-)

I shamelessly copied borrowed the idea from Loll over at Stamping With Loll.  She makes some seriously gorgeous clean-and-simple cards.  I saw this one in her Splitcoast Stampers' gallery and loved it.

I kept it really super simple and streamlined.  I die cut the branch (Impression Obsession)and dotted it with Christmas Red Stickles.  Then I used an old Cuttlebug die cut for the ornament.  I used glossy gold cardstock for those.  Then I die cut the frame using a Nestablitities set.  And then the sentiment is a cute one from a set by Penny Black called Crystalline.  That set has seen LOTS of use!



And that's it for me tonight.  It's late and I'm starving!!  I made those awesome Peanut Butter Blossoms--you know the cookies with the Hershey's Kisses smooshed into them?  THEM.  I may have eaten quite a few!  ;-)  So I guess I had better make a nutritious dinner then, right??  Or is it that Christmas calories don't count??  I can never remember what I'm supposed to do......


~Cynthia  ;-)

It's a Baby!

No, not MY baby!  HAHA.  NO.  :O

My friends had a baby in November, and bad friend that I am, I didn't know!  Gratefully, they sent an adorable photo of the little guy as their Christmas card.

Naturally, I had to whip up a baby card for them.  And here it is:

 

Sorry for the odd texture of the card base--it's really just the glorious morning sun on a regular piece of Bazzill.  ;-)

I used an old Hero Arts baby stamp set with Faded Jeans Distress Ink.  I wanted the lovely blue to be a bit lighter, less intense, so I stamped off the image each time.  The yellow enamel dots are from Freckled Fawn.  The sentiment is from Studio G and I used a Marvy 1-inch square punch to make the banner tails, which I popped up on 3D Dots from EK Success.  I also dusted the edges of the panel and the banner with more Faded Jeans before adhering.

Super simple!  And quick.  Yes, I need the quick part!  =D

 Better get this in the mail before the letter carrier gets here!  Have a crafty day!!

~Cynthia