Bird Fight!

So.

I've had "blog" on my To Do List since Tuesday.  Sometimes life just gets in the way, you know?  But in a totally good way!  I've been hiking and got snowed in and went shopping at Michael's.

I've got priorities, ya know??

But here's the second Bluebird photo.  I caught these two fighting in our stream.  It's not like they're tiny birds and it's not like there's room for everyone in the stream.

Crazy birds.  ;-)

 

Sorry about the weirdly shaded page.  Apparently the photographer was asleep at the lens when she took this shot.

Ahem.

Anyway.  I've thrown in some Chic Tags, a bit of Studio Calico and some snippets here and there.  I used the Doodlebug Designs letters again.  At first I wasn't too sure about the font, but when you take it off the sticker sheet and put it on a scrap page, it's like magic.  Love those i's!

OK, that's it for me tonight.  Short and sweet.  =D

Have a wonderful weekend!!

~Cynthia

Bluebirds of Happiness

So after the hawk eating his...um...salad I posted the other day, I thought I should show you some happier photos!  We usually have a pair or two of resident Eastern Bluebirds during the winter.  They love to get a drink from our man-made stream.

I used a bit of leftover paper and a piece of BasicGrey's Carte Postale paper which I cut apart to make little stamp-looking snippets.  The letter stickers are by Doodlebug Designs, Loopy Love.  So love that font!!  I added gems to dot the i's.



Have a wonderful weekend!!

~Cynthia

Hawk at Lunch--Part Deux

Here's another shot of the hawk eating his...er...salad in a tree in my backyard.  They visit quite often because we have a bunch of bird feeders and the area has become somewhat of an all-you-can-eat buffet.

For the hawks, I mean.

And the owls.

And the occasional Bald Eagle.

I digress...

I used a LOT of snippets on this one.  Some from Little Yellow Bicycle, some from BasicGrey and one from KaiserCraft.  I pulled a page from a German language book.  Then I added tons of enamel dots.  (I may or may not have an infatuation with them.)  The brownish half-circles above and below are actually one large chipboard sticker.  It's a record--you know, the kind you play on a record player.  That's from BasicGrey too.

The title comes from a famous sandwich here in the Southeastern US--pulled pork. It's shredded smoked pork on a bun.  This Red-shouldered Hawk shredded his lunch...thus the title..."pulled porkbird."

I found it immensely funny at the time.

No, really I did.


Thanks for laughing along with me!  =D


~Cynthia

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