Hawk at Lunch

I've got a few pages of pictures I took of a Red-shouldered Hawk eating lunch in a tree.

Let's just pretend he's a vegetarian eating a salad, shall we?

 

I did have lots of inky fun making the page...as you can see!  ;-)

I splattered ink and dragged (or is it drug?) Distress Paint across the page.  Then I used up scraps of paper and a bunch of enamel dots.

And that's it for me today.  Stay warm wherever you are!  =D

~Cynthia

One

Here's the companion page to the one I posted previously.  I continued to shoot early morning dew in black and white.

I love this photo because it's so still and calm.  The droplet hung on to the leaf as I continued to shoot.

This was one photo, one droplet, one serene moment in time, one memory captured.

I used a stencil for the script background, spraying it like crazy with Dylusions spray ink in black.  (I totally love the overspray and the smears--so cool!!)  I added a hacked up piece of black cardstock and a smaller piece of velum under the photo.  Then I stuck Tim Holtz's tissue tape all over.  I finished with some of Amy Tan's sticker letters in a dark gray.

Super simple page.  So much fun to do.  Love the way it came out!



Thanks for visiting today!


~Cynthia

Ephemeral

Here's a second photo of my adventures in dew on spider webs.  I shot it in black and white and decided to keep the page black and white too.

I used two pieces of white cardstock, one cut smaller than the other.  I sprayed the small one with Mr Huey's Warm Calico.  It's kind of a super dark gray--like dark gray flannel.  I also did some drippage too.  I cut a gray piece of cardstock for behind the photo. I also added a few pieces of Tim Holtz's tissue tape on the larger piece of cardstock.  The limited journaling is at the bottom.  Some fun rubbery gray letters by Amy Tangerine finished the page.


And that's it for me today.  Thanks, as always, for dropping by!


~Cynthia

A series of dew

Here's hoping that Flickr and Blogger play nice today!

Way back in December we had a lovely warm night, followed by a lovely warm morning, complete with dense lovely fog.

Naturally, I took pictures.

We have one small blueberry bush hutch and the spiders love to make their webs all over it.  I didn't know this until the fog settled on the webs and made them sparkle like diamonds!

Naturally, I took tons of pictures.

Here's one...

 

And Jules would be so proud of me--I used lots and LOTS of snippets!!  =D

I've got sewing and washi and bits of leftover Hambly screen prints and washi feathers and and wood veneer and a frame and a brad and all sorts of other little bits and  pieces.  FUN is what I call it!!  =D

Thanks for dropping by today!  I hope you have a very crafty one!  ;-)

~Cynthia

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