Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog: Gabrielle Pollacco

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

A Special Anniversary Card

Hi everyone! It's me Gabrielle Pollacco here with my last project as guest designer this month here at Cheery Lynn. My Mom and Dad's 55th anniversary is coming up in a few weeks so I thought I'd make up a special card for them. Ever since I was a little girl, my parents always treasured the cards the most from us kids, especially if they were handmade.

I used a bunch of pretty papers from Maja Design Winter collection with some of my favorite CL dies to make this card. Can you tell I'm fascinated with the lattice die? I can't seem to get enough of that one! For this layout I mounted it behind a circle I cutout using 2 cups to trace out my circles. For the flourishy leaf design I just had to use my favourite flourish die (I'll tell you a secret....I thought I had lost this die and was so upset, it's seriously my all-time favourite leaf/flourish die, I was ready to order myself another!....then I found it about a week ago, it was in the case for my Revolution machine (I finally remembered I put it there because I pretty much always use that die when I pull out my machine :)

I also used a couple of the lace border and lace doily designs to accent the circle design as well as the edge of the corrugated cardstock I used. And I just love to use those lace corner designs to finish off my cards.

For the flowers I used the beautiful Gardenia strip die. I just love the pretty rosy design this die gives. The petals were cut from white cardstock and I just used some Victorian Velvet distress ink by Tim Holtz....I just randomly tinted parts of the petals using a soft make-up sponge, leaving some parts white. I wanted a small 3rd flower for this floral cluster so I used a few of the smallest Sweet Williams die cuts to make a little rose.

Cheery Lynn Products used for this project:

~ Fanciful Flourish B117

~ Lattice 2 FRM115

~ Gardenia Strip B339

~ Sweet Williams Strip B307

~ Turkish Lace Doily w/Angel Wing DL231

~ Ankara Lace Border B332

~ Lace Corner Deco B162

I hope you enjoyed seeing my projects this month as Cheery Lynns guest designer, as always it's been an absolute delight working alongside all lovely ladies on this design team and working with the amazing Cheery Lynn dies!

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Saying Thanks in a Whimsical Way

Gabrielle Pollacco 7:30 AM 12 Comments

Hi everyone! It's me Gabrielle here with you today to share a couple more projects with you as January's guest designer for Cheery Lynn! I don't know about you but I find I am always in need of thank-you cards, I like to take the time to send a card to show my appreciation to someone.

I wanted to get some extra use out of that cute lattice piece I got in my last CL order so I thought I'd use it like a window design on a whimsical style card featuring fairies and flowers.

For my flowers I just layered a couple of the Sweet Williams floral dies, inked the edges with a little chalk ink and glued some flower stamens to the centers. I wanted to continue the light filligree look so I used the leaves from the Flourish Leaf strip in white and the Lace Corner Deco in white. I used papers from Graphic 45, Prima and Bo Bunny. I gave the whole thing a more tattered look by tucking in bits of muslin (cheese-cloth) here and there.

Cheery Lynn Products used for this project:

~ Lattice 2 FRM115

~ Lace Corner Deco B - B162

~ Flourish Leaf Strip B178

~ Sweet Williams Strip B307

The funny thing is, once I get started playing with my pretty Cheery Lynn dies, I more often than not find that I can't just stop at one card! I get a few ideas going at once and therefore ended up with an extra card this week! :)

For this card I wanted to play up the delicate gate die! I just love the super fine design on the Ornamental gate and I thought it again played well with the Graphic 45 window design in their patterned paper.

I used adhesive foam dots to create pocket design behing the gate, I find the shadow this creates gives a nice 3D look to the card. I also used another one of the Lace Corner designs I used in the top card for this one.

I used one of my all time favorite CL dies, the Fanciful Flourish as a 'stem' for my floral arrangement and again used the Sweet Williams Strip for my handmade flowers but in this case I curled the petals to create more of a rose look tothe blooms.

Cheery Lynn products used for this project:

~ Ornamental Gate - B196

~ Fanciful Flourish - B117

~ Sweet Williams Strip -B307

~ Lace Corner Deco - B162

I hope you enjoyed my projects today and hope that I've inspired you to get out your Cheery Lynn dies to play today! I look forward to sharing another project with you all next week! xo

# card # Fanciful Flourish

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Little Wishes {Spring Layout}

Gabrielle Pollacco 7:30 AM 8 Comments

Hi there! It's me Gabrielle here with you all again today to share my second project for the month with you as Cheery Lynn's guest designer! I had a lot of fun using the Clock w/Angel Wings die last week in a steampunk design. But I thought it would be cool to show how versatile this die is for other designs as well. In my l/o above I changed up the look of the clock a little by adding some flower accents to the middle of the clock design, playing up a more feminine design for the page.

I used the Sweet Williams die to make the the cream color flowers in the center of the clock. I created a flower bud for the center using a couple of the smallest cuts from this flower die and then layered a few of the next sizes up (giving them a little water misting and a wrinkle) for the other layers.

I made a heart embellishment for the page using the Celtic heart die on white cardstock and then with a pencil marked out the heart design on some patterned paper from Maja Design to create an underlayer for the heart.

I often like to create a counter balance on my page design, for this page I put a lattice design in the top left corner. I used the Lattice 2 die and gave it a random angle cut to appear like broken lattice. I then finished the design with more of the Sweet Williams blooms and using portions of the Ivy Corner Flourish dies.

TIP: I wanted to attach my lattice so that it stands away from the page a bit, but felt that adhesive foam dots can be a little tricky to apply to finer cuts and might be a little to thick. So I used some 3D paint like Perfect Pearls to the back of the die cut piece. When dry, I added some adhesive to the dried perfect pearls and stuck it to my page. This gave my lattice just enough 3D effect that I was going for.

Cheery Lynn Dies used for this project:

~ Clock w/Angel Wings (Steampunk Series) B357

~ Sweet Williams D137

~ Celtic Heart B144

~ Lattice 2 FRM115

~ Ivy Corner Flourish B315

I hope you enjoyed my project for today! I look forward to sharing some more fun projects with you all in the weeks to come! xo

# 12 x 12 Layout # 2x3 Dies

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Video Tutorial: Steampunk Journal Cover

Gabrielle Pollacco 7:30 AM 12 Comments

Hi there! It's me, Gabrielle Pollacco here with you today with my first project for this month as Guest Designer here at Cheery Lynn Designs! I've been admiring the beautiful new steampunk designs CL came out with recently so I'd been itching to try a mixed media style journal cover using a few of the new die cuts. I was thinking to make a 'diary' style journal, something that would be handled more as opposed to an 'art journal', so I wanted to get a nice embossed look to the cover and not go too 3D with the embellishing. So using the CL steampunk die cuts seemed like the perfect solution to getting that subtle embossed design for my cover.

I thought I would record my process as I created the cover so that you all could watch the process, I always think a visual is sometimes a lot easier to follow than writing down the instructions, right? So grab yourself a cup of coffee (or tea) and take out a few minutes to watch the process :)

I hope you enjoyed my video tutorial! Here are a few close-up photos of the cover design as well as a photo of the back of the cover....

Cheery Lynn Design Products used for this project:

~ Clock w/Angel Wing (Steampunk Series) B357

~ Gear Mesh Border (Steampunk Series) B361

~ Gears (Set of 9) B340

*mists and other products used for this project can be found listed in the descriptions at my youtube channel.

I hope you enjoyed my project as much as I enjoyed making it! I'm looking forward to sharing more fun Cheery Lynn Design projects with you in the upcoming weeks! xo