Welcome Ann, Guest Designer for June

Hello Cheery Lynn fans,
 My name is Ann McLachlan, i'm honored to be a guest designer with my favorite company for June.
Thank you BJ, Gini and Lori for giving me this amazing opportunity.....So exciting!

I live on the Hibiscus Coast North of Auckland in New Zealand.
I have been scrapbooking and card making for the past twelve years and over that time i have been fortunate to have been published in several magazines, designed for four design teams (as a coordinator on three). I have worked as a demonstrator for two different companies and taught classes at two retreats.

I love playing with paper craft goodies and hope you enjoy my creations.

For my first project as guest designer I have designed a gate fold card in pink & cream, i really love the softness and femininity of the colors but it also has lots of layers for visual  interest.

I started with a metallic pearl gate fold card, adding patterned paper edged with strips of  lace light deco border in cream and embellished them with pink rhinestones for added bling.  

I then added a layer of chicken wire cut in metallic pink. 

This is one of my favorite dies for adding background texture.

I  die cut a french pastry doily in cream, cut it in half and centered them on each side of the card.

To embellish my card I added velvet blooms in opposite corners with rose leaf and leaf flourish foliage. I finished the front off with a sentiment frame on topped with another tag and a hugs sentiment.

To decorate the inside of my card I covered each panel with patterned paper.

In the four outside corners I placed a die cut from the lace deco corners I set 

and finished off the center with strips of light lace deco border cut in metallic pink card.

I hope you have enjoyed my first project, I will be back with another project next week.

Cheery Lynn Dies used:
Chicken Wire Frame
French Pastry Doily
Light Lace Deco Border
Rose Leaf Strip
 Hugs Sentiment
 Sentiment Frame #1 
Lace Deco Corners I
Leaf Flourish Strip