Tim's Tag for March

It's March first and you know what that means!!!

Tim' Tag Time!!!!!!!!!!!

This one was such fun to make...even without 90% of the supplies Tim used on his tag!  =D


Check it out:

 

The sailboat, water and bird stamps are by Stacy Stamps.  I used Distress Inks in Salty Ocean (of course!) and Gathered Twigs for those.  The numbers are a Tim Holtz Stamp and I brushed it with a Distress Marker in Walnut Stain.

The stencil I used is (I think) an old Doodlebug die cut sheet of paper.  And I sprayed the stencil with Dylusions Ink because I haven't purchased the awesome Tim Holtz Spritzer yet!  ;-)

I added a bit of tissue tape--so love that stuff!  A bit of distressed seam binding at the top,  a bit of distressed hemp cord attached with the Tiny Attacher, and a fun piece of Studio Calico anchor wood veneer finish off the tag.

And there ya go!  :-)

Thanks so much for dropping in to take a look.  And if you haven't given one of Tim's Tags a try, join in!!  =D

~Cynthia

Still Here!

I've seen lots of posts around the blogosphere this month saying something along these lines:  I'm still here, I'm still alive, yeah it's long-lost me.

And, bad blogger that I am--I'm saying the same thing here!

Oops.

But the truth is pretty cool:  I've had a TON of opportunities for some great hiking.  The weather here--after the 5 inches of snow melted and the earthquake stopped shaking--has been outrageously awesome.  I mean like record-breaking high temperatures awesome!

You just can't pass up days like that!

In addition to just not being here to blog, Mr Blogger and the rest of the Internet haven't been getting along.  I really do visit, it's just that my comments fly off somewhere and never show up on your blogs!  So frustrating!

So.

Add great weather and huge frustrations and what do you get?

Yeah.  A post apologizing for my absence.  Heh.


To make up for it, I leave you with this scene, from Charles Towne Landing State Park in Charleston, SC, along the Ashley River, where it was 83 degrees.....

And yes, it was as gorgeous of a day as it looks like in the picture.



What does Tim Holtz say..."Remember the Now"?  Yeah, well, I'm living the Now!  =D


Enjoy your day!!!!


~Cynthia

February Tag Time!

Happy February 1st!

Er.

I mean THIRD!!  ;-)

Yes, I'm a bit behind, but I was out of town and then had a day to recover from being out of town and now I have a day to....that's right....create Tim's February Tag!!!!  =D

And, as ALWAYS, I've done nothing like Sir Tim did.  Basically because I don't have the sweet warehouse o' stuff that he has!  HA!

But here's my take...

Taken in the sun and everything!!

I used a Crafter's Workshop stencil for the background, using Distress Inks in Worn Lipstick, Barn Door and Fired Brick.  I dumped clear embossing powder over that.  I may have waited just a teensy bit too long on that step--the mottled texture of the melted powder is so cool though!!  I scruffed the edges and added Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

Then I made the heart.  I used a Grunge Board heart and Ice Stickles.

For the "sentiment" part I stamped three stamps using VersaMark, then scribbled with chalk.  Love that technique!

The arrow is wood veneer covered in Brushed Pewter Distress Paint.

And the border is a Die-namics Faux Crochet Border die cut from HVAC silver tape.  Love that stuff.  ;-)

Finally I added a bit of crinkle ribbon (seam binding, Walnut Stain Distress Ink and water.)

And there ya go!  Another tag done!!



Be sure to stop by Tim's blog--there are many talented Tag Makers out there!!


~Cynthia

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