Tim's June Tag!!

Yep, it's June 1st and Tim Holtz is on the ball with his latest tag!  Check it out--love the colors and the technique he used with stencils!

Here's my take....

Sorry about the horrid photo.  The sun went down hours ago!  ;-)

It took me a few tries to find a stencil I liked.  The first ones didn't have enough "blank" space to get much color on the tag.  I love the Dylusions circle stencil.  Perfect for a summery/oceany tag!

I used lots of Distress Inks too.  Mustard Seed, Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey and Broken China.  The Broken China mixed with all those yellowy colors and made a beautiful green!  I misted the stencil and pressed it on a piece of watercolor paper.

The effect is just SO. COOL.

Then I totally held my breath and stamped the seahorses in a row.  Not too bad!  :-)

Next I stamped the seahorses again, on watercolor paper, and cut them out.  (ETA:  And used pop dots for some dimension.)

Then I held my breath AGAIN and stamped the Serenity on the side.

Whew!  Got it straight-ish!!  =D

I distressed the edges with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

I added the token and the stars, plus the Distress Ink-colored seam binding.

And then I called it a day...er...night!


So that's it for me.  I'm headed to wash the ink off my very ink fingers!!  LOL!!



Thanks so much for dropping by!

~Cynthia

Playing Catch Up

Still working on catching up with all my NSD challenge pages.  That was like...what?...three weeks ago now??  Sheesh.  Time flies when you're having fun!  ;-)

Here's another page....

For this challenge, we were supposed to use large numbers and stencils and ink and paint.

As you can see, I used no large numbers and a stencil with ink.

(Excuse the odd yellow paper there.  My mom is hiding under it!  I didn't feel comfortable blasting her lovely face all over the web during (Inter)National Scrapbook Day, you know what I mean??)

Anywho....

I used stenciled images on a few of the circles.  Then I borrowed one of Dyan Reaveley's tricks and laid the wet stencil on the paper for the opposite image.

I loved the outcome.  Not so sure I like it on this page.  :o

And the random pink dots perfectly match the hot pink shirt my mom was wearing that day.


Also...totally loving those Thickers.  I think it's called Rainboots.  They are lovely glossy black letter stickers.  And Jones Gap is the name of the state park we were hiking in when I took my mom's photo in front of that ridiculously huge rock you see there.  Such a gorgeous place!


Thanks so much for dropping by!  Catch ya later!!


~Cynthia

Celine Navarro Inspiration

This page is another NSD creation.  Celine Navarro challenged us to get our mixed media on by using paints, inks, and a bit of gesso along with added textures.  She ran several of her journaling tags through embossing folders then covered them with gesso and added watery paint on top of that.

Let me tell you....FUN is the word on this one!

So out of my comfort zone but I so enjoyed the messiness!!

The photo is another shot from Santee State Park.  Most of the tags are from We R Memory Keepers.  A few splots of ink and a couple embellishments and I called this one FUN AND DONE.  LOL!!  =D

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope all you East Coasters are surviving this crazy weather!


Scrap on!

~Cynthia

Another NSD Page

This page is from a challenge Cathy Zielske gave us during National Scrapbook Day over at Big Picture Classes.  Her challenge was to not let comparison rob you of your joy in creating and scrapbooking.

So I created a page like I like to create a page!  ;-)

Lots of ink splatters, a few layers, one photo, kraft paper, a picture of something outdoorsy, Distress Ink and tiny dots of embellishment.

Yep, that's me!  =D

The photo is of a dragonfly at Santee State Park.

Scrap on!!


~Cynthia

NSD Happenings

Did you do any scrapping for National Scrapbook Day on May 3?

I DID.

I scrapped my little fingers off!!!  =D

Here's one of the pages I made....

I played along with Big Picture Classes' NSD class/challenge.  Ten different teachers gave a mini lesson or idea or layout to inspire us.  The idea here was to create a page along the lines of Project Life, or pocket scrapping.

Totally not my style, but I had lots of fun on this page.  These are some random photos from a state park I visited last month.

A bird.  A grist mill grinding stone.  A canal wall.

And Jules, you'll be proud of me--I used up lots of snippets!!  =D



Scrap on!

~Cynthia

Tim's Tag for May

Yep, it's the first of the month again!  How did THAT happen??!!  =D

And as always, Sir Tim Holtz has created a gorgeous tag to challenge us to get all inky!  Click here for Tim's tag and his step-by-step instructions.

I do have to say....this tag probably took me the longest to make and this tag is probably the heaviest one I've ever done!  =D  Lots and LOTS of Grungeboard!!  (Man, I love the way that stuff smells!!!)  Lots of ink, lots of found things too...

 

I went with a May/nature kind of theme.  The five is for the fifth month.  If you squint, you can see a calendar behind the 5 with Thursday on the top.

It *is* Thursday, isn't it??

Then I added a feather from my yard and some stars I really did find outside on a hiking trail!  I guess someone was celebrating something.

The heart and the key symbolize my love for the outdoors and all things hiking...the key to my heart.  Get it?  Ha.

The butterfly stamp is...well...for butterflies.  :-)

And the "HERE" piece of paper is for the idea that Tim has of "Remember the Now."

Each Grungeboard piece is covered in paper from one of Tim's paper stashes--Lost and Found.  Then everything got sanded and inked and distressed.  All the metal bits got hit with Alcohol Inks.

FUN, I tell you!!  And I have the inky fingers to prove it!!  =D

Come play along!  There's always so much inspiration flowing from Tim and the other tag makers!!

Thanks for dropping in!

~Cynthia

Tim's Tag for April

As always, on the first of every month, Tim Holtz posts another amazing tag for us to grab some inspiration and create!  Check out his tag here.


And, as always...I have none of the supplies Tim used!  I really had to go all MacGyver on this one!!  =D

I used a branch die cut and a floral die cut set instead of the die cuts Tim has.  But other than that, I used his recipe for the tag.  ;-)

 

And there ya go!

Thanks so much for dropping in for a visit!!  Come play along with Tim and his horde of crafty minions!!  =D

~Cynthia