Coffee Cup Album--Page 3

Page 3
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

These are two seriously busy pages!! =D

One the left, I cut up an American Express mailer which looked like a passport. I cut out some of the cancellation/visa type stamps and randomly stuck them on the page. The coin in the middle is from East Germany.

The right side of the page has a chipboard Journey piece, which I sanded a bit. The rest of the page is covered with old stamps from countries I've been to. I tried to keep the color scheme the same--which was probably the hardest part of the whole album!! LOL!!!

Across the top is a quote from William Least Heat-Moon: "...horizons are visual invitations to the curious, the restless, and the unsatisfied."


Here's the link to the album...or you can just search Two Peas in a Bucket for CoffeeCupAlbum: http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/shop/wilna-furstenberg/96231-digikit-coffeecupalbum-cupcakes-coffee/?filters=_coffeecupalbum_%2Fdigital-kits

I see Wilna has other albums available too! SO CUTE.


~Cynthia

Coffee Cup Album--Page 2

Page 2
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

I had a lot of fun making this layout. I went through all the little 'onesies' from other projects that were laying around and thought about how I could fit them together and what I wanted to say.

I used a few pieces that were punched out, a few embellishment pieces, and I also cut out some words from the Stampin Up paper I used on the cover. I sanded a few of them because I wanted the whole album to have a shabby, worn look. I adhered a ribbon bow on the left and a handprint sticker on the right. (When I visit a lighthouse that I can actually touch, I put one of the handprint stickers next to the photo of the lighthouse in my scrapbook.) Then I added a bit of torn map and a piece of torn Tim Holtz paper.

The quote on the left says, "My heart's in the highlands wherever I go," from a Robert Burns poem. The quote on the right is from an online Intellicast ad that said, "Rough seas ahead. Grab your gear and let's get going."


Thanks for stopping by today!

~Cynthia

Coffee Cup Album--Page 1

Page 1
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

Yeah, it's a Coffee Cup Album!! I was so excited to try this art journal from Two Peas in a Pod. And the totally best thing is it's FREE!

This is a digikit called Coffee Cup Album: Cupcakes and Coffee, by Wilna Furstenberg. You get the pages already done (6 of them!) and easy to understand instructions.

So thus begins my first foray into art journaling!! I totally changed the whole theme of the album because I don't drink coffee....but I love to travel so my art journal is more like Cupcakes and Travel! LOL!!

I adhered some newspaper-type designer paper from Stampin Up to all the covers, distressed them with Walnut Stain Distress Ink, then sanded them to create an old, worn, used look.

On the left side, I adhered a clear One Way arrow and the Air Mail symbol from an Air Mail envelope.

On the right side, I have letters (MY) that I stole from another project, a clear airplane embellishment peaking through, and an Air Cargo sticker I ripped off a box at work. I also added a metal butterfly.

The one thing I would have done differently here is that the page kinda says "MY Air Cargo" because the word HEART is part of the page. It really says...well, in my mind anyway...MY HEART.

I handwrote the quote from a Love and Theft song called "Runaway": It's crazy, I know, to count on the road to give me what I need. But with every state line, somehow I find another part of me.

That pretty much sums up my life! ;-)


~Cynthia

Cover of ???

Cover
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

Yeah, I'm gonna be like those other crazy bloggers out there and just say, here is your little snippet of a project I finished over Christmas.

Stay tuned to find out what I've been up to! ;-)


~Cynthia

December Daily--"The End" 2010

"The End" 2010
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

Yep. This is the very very absolute last page of my Dec Daily. This is the back cover. The end. No more. Done. Gone. Finito.

A moment of silence, please.


So. Some of the things I've learned.

1. I totally should have started doing Dec Dailys years ago. They are a great idea!
2. Start earlier.
3. Be more cohesive throughout. I felt like what I wanted to do changed around Day 10 or so. The beginning is different from the ending.
4. Use the same papers throughout to achieve that cohesiveness.
5. Don't use chipboard for the inside pages.
6. Don't paint the chipboard then paint it with Distress Inks and glue paper over it because none of it will STICK.
7. Use more pockets.
8. Use more postcard type journaling tags.
9. Skip the baseball card type pages.
10. Writing the 'daily' stuff on the left page and the Advent devotional stuff on the right side works very well.
11. Using just three colors of cardstock works very well.
12. Leave some pages blank to allow for creativity.
13. Did I mention start earlier?
14. Some of my favorite pages are the simplest.
15. Use more little envelope pockets.
16. Definitely start earlier.


~Cynthia

December Daily--End Page

Dec Daily End Page
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

Here's the very last page of my Dec Daily. Just a simple piece of Cocoa cardstock with a simple snowman stamped tone-on-tone style with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

He's very appropriate for the end of this project. Yesterday at 4:30 PM, the snow started here in SC. So far we've gotten at least 3 inches and it's still coming down. I'm a Yankee by birth so I really love it as it reminds me of where I'm from. :-)


~Cynthia

December Daily--End Page

Dec Daily End Page
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

And so we've come to the end of our journey.

I really can't believe how time has flown by. I once heard a lady say that time drags until you're about 30 and after that time just flies by. That is so true. When you're a child, you have to wait for everything, but after you turn 30 it's like stuff just zooms toward you at top speed.

But I guess that's what things like Advent, Christmas and New Year's Eve are for--time to slow down and contemplate the future and the past.

Just two more pages of contemplation in the Dec Daily for me. This one is the final piece of red cardstock, stamped with Merry Christmas in Fired Brick Distress Ink.


~Cynthia