CASEing Jen

CASEing Jen, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Hurrah for Flickr behaving today!! ;-)

I saw this card over on Jen Nelson's blog The Tiny Blue Butterfly. She went the manly route, I went the girly route.

Super easy. (Do I say that a lot or what???!!)

Stamp the flower on patterned paper, then stamp again on a card blank. Fussy cut the patterned one and use Pop Dots to adhere.

Cut a banner shape, stamp the sentiment, then use more Pop Dots.

Done.

I purposefully adhered the banner off-center. Tell me what you think. Does it look edgy or weird? I can't decide, but I'm putting it in the mail anyway. ;-)



Supplies:
Paper: GinaK (white cardstock); Recollections (white card blank); snippets from somebody or other
Stamps: Stampabilities (Sketched Flower); Hero Arts (sentiment)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Black Soot)
ETC: EK Success (3D Pop Dots)



Have a great weekend, everyone! And a happy Memorial Day too!


~Cynthia

Over the Fence

So Day Two of Flickr being bad.  NOW I can't even blog my photos!!  You should read....OK, you should NOT read the comments Flickr users are posting on the Flickr blog.  None of it good.  So this time Flickr has not only prevented me from connecting to Blogger, they have once again hidden Aviary--that's the photo editing tool.

Well, I hope they wake up and smell the coffee, is all I can say.  :-p


Let's try a card, shall we??

 

Wow.  That only took like 10 minutes to upload!

Oh, Flickr, Flickr, Flickr.

You makin' me mad, mon!

Anywho.

I got the idea for this card from Crafting in the Country--check out Jenny's card here.

I changed it up a bit and used a smaller die cut.  But I love the idea of flowers over and through a garden fence, don't you?  So sweet!  =D

Super easy.  Die cut the fence, punch the flowers, cut some stems and leaves, cut some border paper, punch more border paper, and stamp a sentiment.

Easy!  ;-)

Supplies:

Paper:  Bazzill (blue and green cardstock); Core'dinations (whitewash paper); Gina K (white cardstock); We R Memory Keepers (red snippets); The Paper Studio (kraft card blank)

Stamp:  Endless Creations (sentiment)

Ink:  Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Chipped Sapphire)

ETC:  Impression Obsession (fence die cut); Punch Bunch (flower punches); Fiskars (border punch); EK Success (3D Pop Dots); Glue Glider Pro; Zig Two-way Glue pen

So now I'm crossing my fingers that this post goes....

~Cynthia

Butterfly: Invasion or Obsession?

Butterfly: Invasion or Obsession?, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

I thought today was going to be better than Monday...and then I clicked on Flickr. If you use Flickr, you are in for one rude surprise :-(

They updated it and then hid everything.

But the sun is shining and here's a cool card and I promise to stop whining.

I got the idea from this card over on Catered Crop's Pinterest page. The crafter used FABRIC to make one seriously cool apple!

I used a snippet of lovely paper instead.

And no sewing.

Heh.

Pretty simple (if you don't sew and don't use fabric!) I just die cut the butterfly, corrugated a piece of kraft paper and then layered everything.

I used a Picket Fence Distress Marker to make the faux stitches around the butterfly.



Supplies:
Paper: Bazzill (kraft and cream cardstock); Recollections (cream card blank); unknown snippet
Stamp: Endless Creations (sentiment)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Walnut Stain); Distress Marker (Picket Fence)
ETC: Fiskars (corrugating thing); Recollections (tiny pearls for butterfly body); lots of Glue Glider Pro



Over on Moorea Seal's blog, a list project is going on. Moorea gives us a prompt and we list as many things as we can think up. This week's is "List Your Summer Goals." One of my goals is to do a better job of blogging.

There.

I said it out loud.

Now I *HAVE* to do it!! ;-)


Thanks so much for dropping by!!


~Cynthia

Butterflies and CASEing

Butterflies and CASEing, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

So today has not been a good day.

Cuz like it's all Monday and everything.

And to top it off, I can NOT find the blog for the card I CASEd. I've looked everywhere! I'm pretty sure it's a DT member's blog....but which one I have no idea.

Seriously. Why can't Mondays play nice?? :P

Anyway. This unknown crafter used black, white and a gorgeous pale green on her card.

I wanted my card a bit more manly...so I used a dark, polka-dotted green.

Love the thin washi tape behind the butterfly too. I had a wider tape, then realized it overwhelmed the butterfly. I think the black and white tape works much better.


Supplies:
Paper: Recollections (white cardblank); Gina K (white cardstock); BoBunny (green polka-dotted paper snippet)
ETC: Martha Stewart (butterfly punch); Crop-a-dile (corner rounder); Cuttlebug (dots embossing folder); somebody's washi tape (I'm just too tired to get up and look); somebody else's twine; and some glue-like stuff too


I hope your Monday is better than mine. I'm just going to hang on til Tuesday gets here. Gotta be better than today, right??? ;-)


~Cynthia

Thinking of You

Thinking of You, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

I saw this card by Michelle over on The Card Grotto blog and knew I had to CASE it! Love her balloon!!

**(Note to self: BUY A BALLOON DIE CUT OR PUNCH!!!)**

I die cut the rectangle and adhered the patterned paper behind it. Then I punched the butterfly out of some paper I had practiced spraying Heidi Swapp's Color Shine on--such a gorgeous teal color!

I drew the butterfly trail by hand. And dang it, I'm OK with it. ;-)

I stamped the sentiment, then cut the banner shape out of white cardstock--the same CS I used for the large panel.

The banner is popped up a bit using Pop Dots.

Super fast to make. Now the ideas are forming! I noticed a kite die cut in my LSS that I might have to snag!



Supplies:
Paper: Recollections (white card blank); GinaK (white cardstock); snippet (unknown pattern paper--might be BoBunny)
Stamp: Hampton Arts (sentiment)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Black Soot)
ETC: Martha Stewart (butterfly punch); Nestabilities (rectangle die cut); Marvy-Uchida (square punch to make banner tails); American Crafts (Pigment Pro for butterfly trail); Heidi Swapp Color Shine (teal); EK Success (3D Pop Dots)



I tried to make this card manly, as it's headed to the husband of a friend of mine. I'm not sure it's all that masculine, but at least the butterfly isn't PINK!! =D

Happy weekend, y'all!!


~Cynthia

Kayak Part Deux

Kayak Part Deux, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Back during National Scrapbooking Week, I made a page with some photos of an unknown guy kayaking. There were actually two guys running the "rapids" that day and these photos are of the first guy.

One of new products over at Studio Calico is cork stickers with images stamped on them.

So...I can make that.

And I did!

I had purchased a sheet of sticky-backed cork and shoved it on a shelf. Sadly, there it sat.

Until I saw the cork stickers and fell in love!

I used Tim Holtz's Distress Paint to stamp the letters and small shapes.

Seriously. FUN.

A few words of advice though...solid images work better than intricate or thin-lined images.

And the Distress Paints work really, really well. Better than Distress Ink or Distress Pens...which, um....never dry on cork. :-0 The Paint dries quickly, especially with a heat gun.

And darker colors of Distress Paint work better than lighter ones. Fired Brick and Black Soot rock. The blues are awesome. Mustard Stain and Rusty Hinge...not so much.

I punched all these shapes with Marvy-Uchida punches. Punch like buttah.



Happy crafty week!


~Cynthia

NSD Challenge #The End!!

NSD Challenge #The End!!, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Challenge #24.

The.
Very.
Last.
One.

Wow.

This final challenge over on Shimelle's blog is to "scrap a milestone!"

I guess I had better explain why there's a photo of a river on this page, eh?

April began my sixth year here in my current city in South Carolina. I've only lived longer in one other place.

Milestone.

I celebrated an important birthday here.

Milestone.

I went back to college for a second degree.

Milestone.

My oldest niece started college.

Milestone.

It's been 30 years since I became a believer in Jesus Christ.

Milestone.

In each of the places I've lived, there has always been water nearby...an ocean, a lake, a pond, a stream. And that's true of this city as well.

It's been the one constant.

In an odd way, the lakes and rivers have become measuring devices. Symbols of moving forward, of moving on in my life, of life moving on, of life moving forward.

This river *is* my milestone.




Thank you so much for joining me for Shimelle's challenges!!


~Cynthia