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This week we are focusing on background stamps at Simon Says Stamp and Show.
I wanted to use lots of background stamps on my card and ended up using twenty different stamps, most of them from Hero Arts. When I use distress inks or distress stains on my craft sheet, I often wipe up the remaining ink with scraps of watercolour paper, so I have a pretty big stash of these colourful papers. I like having them ready to use on a project. After taking out a pile of papers from my scrap folder, I die cut them into small squares. Each square was stamped with a different background stamp using a slightly darker shade of Distress Ink, for a tone-on-tone effect. I stitched with a zigzag stitch in between all the blocks.
Maya Road canvas butterflies were stamped with a script background stamp and flutter over the card. I used the Simon Says Stamp exclusive Mini Hearts Set to die cut the tiny hearts, love this die since I am fond of adding tiny hearts as details on my projects. The sentiment was stamped with Simon Says Stamp Music 2 My Ears set. TFL!
Blogpost: layersofink.blogspot.com/2013/04/patchwork-background.html
Supplies:
Stamps: Simon Says Stamp: Music 2 my Ears; Hero Arts: Delicate Flower, Floral Vine Background, Grid Pattern, Number Pattern, Small Screen Background, Music Background, Magical Background, Lacy Background, Tiny Flower Background, Snow Dots, Antique Flower Background, Tiny Ink Spots, Graph Background, Thank you Definition, Friend Definition, Cling Dots, 19th Century French Script, Fly Away Newsprint, Alphabet Background,
Dies: Simon Says Stamp Mini Hearts Set; Sizzix Square Framelits
Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black; Distress Ink: Victorian Velvet, Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, Gathered Twigs, Scattered Straw, Wild Honey, Bundled Sage, Picked Raspberry, Dusty Concord, Peeled Paint, Frayed Burlap, Broken China, Shabby Shutters
Embellishments: Maya Road Mini Canvas Butterflies; Hemptique Thick Natural Hemp twine
Day 122 - Ranger - Wandering Orc
Well, I figured that if I was going to have a set of Ranger figures, I wanted to do something that i haven't seen too often. I decided to take a page from a game I used to love, Arcanum, and I decided to make a "more-educated" orc. I have armed him with some lightning imbued weapons and armor, and am happy with how it looks. I decided to make this figure because I got the Brickforge Great Helm free with a large order I recently made. Thanks!
Two years old Alaskan malamute male Hellerkantri Ranger. Best Of Breed on national dog show 12.09.2009 Tallinn.
Ranger, on Interstate Highway 20 between Abilene and Fort Worth in northeastern Eastland County, derived its name from the Texas Rangersqv, who in the 1870s had a camp in a valley about two miles northeast of Ranger on a prong of Palo Pinto Creek. This camp would have been at the south end of the present Hagaman Lake, earlier the Watson Ranch. By 1879 the beautiful valley housed a tent city with tent churches, schools, hotel, and general store, and was known as Ranger Camp Valley. In 1880 the Texas and Pacific Railway Company laid tracks a couple of miles west of the valley. In August 1880 I. G. Searcy deeded 160 hundred and sixty acres to Texas and Pacific Railway Company. The inhabitants of Ranger Camp Valley moved to the railway and established the permanent town of Ranger. On December 27, 1880, James M. Davis was appointed postmaster of the new Ranger post office. Between 1889 and 1904 Ranger grew from a town of 350 with two doctors to 750 with five doctors, a bank, a high school, and a women's literary club. It had become a trade center for Stephens County, an important wheat-producing area to the north.
As an agricultural center, Ranger was hit hard by the drought of 1917. Inspired by adversity, a few residents encouraged William Knox Gordon, vice president of the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, to begin testing for oil. The first well drilled, the Nannie Walker No. 1, was somewhat of a disappointment, as it first produced gas and only later blew in oil. But in October 1917 the McClesky No. 1 came in, reached a daily production of 1,700 barrels, and began a mammoth oil boom that drastically changed Ranger and Eastland County. The discovery of oil in Ranger led the oil industry to reappraise Texas as an oil-producing area and allayed fears of a nationwide oil shortage, which had been growing since 1900. In June 1919 the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, whose stock had skyrocketed from thirty dollars to $1,250 a share, was drilling twenty-two wells in the area. Eight refineries were open or under construction, and the city's four banks had $5 million in deposits. Later in the boom, work was begun on an eight-inch pipeline to carry oil to the Gulf Coast. Although census figures never went higher than the 16,201 recorded in 1920, Ranger may have had 30,000 residents at one time. With the arrival of the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad, Ranger a second railway line; trains running between Forth Worth and Abilene made five daily stops in Ranger. The city was incorporated in 1919.
Not all the effects of the boom were positive, however. At about the same time that oil began flowing, the drought broke, and torrential rains fell through the fall and winter, turning Main Street into a three-foot bog in which one man reported he saw a mule drown. The rains, coupled with crowded and jerry-built housing, led to an epidemic of typhoid and influenza that killed many. Pictures from the boom days show derricks sprouting up like trees throughout the town. Their proximity meant that residents could never escape the smell of oil. It also meant that when wells came in and caught fire, as they often did, they endangered the whole town. One fire, on April 6, 1919, destroyed nearly two city blocks. The boom also brought with it rapid growth in the number of gambling houses and brothels, and oilfield killings reportedly were common; many people considered Ranger to be a typical oil-boom town.
By 1921, after less than two turbulent years, the boom was spent. Eastland County wells, drilled into black lime, produced remarkably at first, diminished, and stopped after relatively short lives. A number of bank failures in 1921 put a decisive end to the boom, and by the time of the next census in 1930, the population of Ranger had fallen to 6,208. During the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan grew strong in Eastland County, with Ranger as the hub of activity. In the economic unrest after the oil boom spent itself, the Klan, with its anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic bias, claimed that it was formed to defend American values and that its picnics, baseball games, and rallies had attracted thousands. "Kluckers," as they termed themselves, published a newsletter, Ku-Klux in Round, and claimed to be good for business and society. Although its actual membership is unknown, the Klan soon attracted vigorous opposition. An Eastland Good Government Club was formed with a Ranger Club branch. In their declaration of principles the clubs quoted the United States Constitution on freedom and equality and denounced the Klan for boycotting Catholic and minority businesses. The Klan ventured into county politics, but after its defeat in the elections of 1924 it declined rapidly and by the end of the decade had virtually disappeared from the area. Although the town never recovered its former wealth, the postdepression era saw Ranger recover economically, saved by sheep and goat ranching and the cultivation of peanuts, cotton, and sweet potatoes. By the 1960s Ranger had fifteen industries. In the 1970s Eastland County became the second most important county for peanut culture in the state. At the same time Ranger Junior College, founded in 1926, was enrolling about 500 students. In 1980 Ranger had eighty-three businesses, a bank, and a population of 3,142. In 1982 the chamber of commerce established the Roaring Ranger Museum to depict the history of the oil boom and the community. In 1990 Ranger had a population of 2,803.
Texas State Historical Association
The Rangers are meant to operate in just about any kind of terrain. A sturdy roll cage protects the crew, while plates attached to its bull bar protects the front of the vehicle from getting smashed by boulders or digging itself into mudholes etc.
This is my entry for the Brickset BrickHeadz competition. I have built a National Park Service park Ranger and a bear. I figured the Fourth of July was an appropriate day to release these!
View the 3D model here: mecabricks.com/en/models/r0DvY6kZa9e
Diverse group of tourist listen to the ranger as she guides them through West Thumb Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The group has stooped near by pool and are looking out at west Thumb, a bay in Yellowstone Lake that was formed by a volcanic explosion. (It is a small Caldera).
Rangers from 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment conduct heavy weapons training at a range in Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2013
Head-on view from the underside offers a look at the VTOL features of the Ranger as well as the laser cannons.
Rangers from 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment participate in a live fire training exercise at Yakima – March 2013
A ranger with Gulf Island National Seashore stayed with the leatherback until rescuers arrived, and the ranger placed a damp towel on its shell to keep it cool. Staff from Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park responded to the turtle, and rescuers took it back to their facility in Fort Walton Beach to assess its condition and come up with a rehabilitation plan.
Photo credit: Diane Masterson
The ranger has numerous windows along the upper surface for maximum visibility. Here were some of the hardest angles to achieve.
Rangers from 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment await their aircraft at Lawson Army Airfield during training at Fort Benning, Ga., August 2012.
Ranger Bridge, between Wells River, VT and Woodsville, NH, is an arch bridge originally built in 1923.
Part of the Intercoastal Marine Inc. fleet of tugs and pushers. Second in that fleet with of a little different design. Her other fleet mate of similar design is the COASTAL TRADER. Not that powerful at 1280 HP both have a distinct rumble that can be heard over a mile away inside the house, outside further. Both are rather slow, they measure 72' in length.
In this picture the Ranger is pushing a scrap metal barge to the Nucor Steel Plant near Winton, NC on the Chowan River. Nucor purchases a lot of scrap steel for re purpose. It comes from Richmond, Chesapeake, Baltimore, I believe Philadelphia and points south not sure, but maybe Morehead City. Long trips by water and sometimes rough in the Albermarle Sound and Chesapeake Bay. Nice to see something staying in this country.
NPS Photo/ Carmen Aurrecoechea
Alt Text: A uniformed ranger wears a pumpkin carved with a jack o'lantern face and poses in a desert landscape of boulders and shrubs.
Boston Red Sox Kevin Millar wears a New England Patriots uniform with quarterback Tom Brady's number 12 during pre-game warmups at Fenway Park in Boston Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2005 where they will face the Texas Rangers. Millar said he is wearing the uniform in an attempt to break his homerun-less streak. Millar has not hit a homerun since June 4th. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)