Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog: Holly Brown

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Friday, February 28, 2014

Follow Your Dreams

Hi friends! It's Holly posting today, and this is my last guest designer post for Cheery Lynn Designs. I have truly enjoyed creating my projects to share with you this month, and I hope you found some inspiration from my pieces. Many thanks to Bj and to Sandy for asking me to be a guest designer and for helping me out. For my final project, this piece really speaks to my heart. I was able to follow my dream this month as a guest designer, and it has been a blast.

I used the following dies on my project:

Circle Classic - Silver Stackers

Turkish Lace Doily with Angel Wing

Coved Rectangle - Classic LG Stackers

Hinges Set of 8

Fanciful Flourish

Fanciful Flourish Left

Sweet Williams Strip

Black Eyed Susan Strip

I covered the Hinges with Tarnished Brass Distress Stain, let them dry, and then lightly sanded them for that vintage look. I cut out the Sweet Williams flowers from white paper, rolled the edges of the petals into a peach-colored ink pad, curled the petals with tweezers and then assembled them with a small antique brass brad. I sponged the same peach colored ink onto the Black Eyed Susan flower petals and then curled the petals with tweezers before assembling the flower.

Here's hoping you have fun following your dreams! Thanks for visiting with me this month!

Friday, February 21, 2014

Vellum Leaves

Holly 3:00 AM 6 Comments

Hi again! It's Holly posting today as the guest designer for February, and I've got a delicate card to share with you. I had this idea in mind for several weeks, but I didn't want to add any greenery because it would clash with the colors I had in mind.. Then it hit me - vellum! By cutting out all the leaves and flourishes with vellum, it gives my card a sweet and delicate look.

I've used the following Cheery Lynn Designs dies on this card:

Fanciful Flourish Left

Concentric Circles Mesh border

Coved Rectangle Classic LG (XL-10)

Try using some vellum for some of your die cut pieces on a project. It's a great way to enhance the look of your project without changing your entire color scheme. Thanks for visiting with me today! I hope to see you again next Friday. :-)

# Concentric Circles Mesh border # Coved Rectangle

Friday, February 14, 2014

Valentine Hugs

Holly 3:00 AM 1 Comments

Hi everyone! It's Holly, your February guest designer, posting today. Happy Valentine's Day! I needed a masculine Valentine's card to give to my sweetie, so I pulled out my Cheery Lynn Designs dies to see what I could come up with. Obviously, since I wanted it to be more masculine, I didn't add a lot of frills and flowers. I kept this card sweet and simple by using these dies:

Celtic Heart
Sophia's Heart Border
Alison's Ribbons
Hugs Mix and Match
Coved Rectangle - Classic LG Stackers

I inlaid the die cut pieces of the inside of the heart. Because the background is so busy, I wanted the Hugs to stand out. Look at the Hugs sentiment. Can you see the shadowing there? I cut it out twice - once from dark brown paper and once from vanilla paper. I glued the vanilla Hugs on top of the dark brown Hugs, slightly offsetting the letters. That's how you get a subtle shadow effect. For the corners, I cut the pieces from the Sophia's Heart Border - they fit beautifully in the corners of the Coved Rectangles.

Thanks for visiting me here at the Cheery Lynn Designs blog. Come on back next Friday - I can't wait to show you what I created!! I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day!

# Alison's Ribbons # Celtic Heart

Friday, February 7, 2014

Pink Flowers with Feather

Holly 3:00 AM 7 Comments

Hi everyone! My name is Holly Brown, and I am thrilled to be the guest designer for Cheery Lynn Designs this month. I fell in love with Cheery Lynn Designs when I saw their dies a couple years ago, and I have had so much fun building up my collection and playing with all the different dies.

That's exactly what I did for this card today. I just pulled out some dies and started cutting. After mixing and matching and moving things around, I ended up with this. The tiny pink flowers on the sides are from one die - Cuties 3. I cut some of the Cuties 3 strips in half and rolled them up. I left the top two rolled up and didn't pull the petals out. The next two are the same thing except I pulled some of the petals out. The two at the bottom are the whole Cuties 3 strips with the petals partially pulled out.

I used the following dies on this card:

Chrysanthemum Strip

Cuties 3

Ivy Strip

Polynesian Sails Oval

Polynesian Sails Angel Wing

Quill and Ink Pot

Tiny Things with Wings

Wreath Strip

Thanks for stopping by to visit! I'll be back next Friday with another creation to share with you. Enjoy your weekend!

# Chrysanthemum # Cuties 3

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Patriotic Summer Scene with Guest Designer Holly

Holly 3:30 AM 5 Comments

Hi folks! It's Holly posting today, and I'm sad to say this is my last post as a Guest Designer. I have truly enjoyed coming up with these fun and creative cards to share with you this month. Many thanks to BJ, Lori, and Gini for asking me to be a guest designer and for helping me out with my questions. I have had a great time!!

For my card today, I was thinking about the upcoming 4th of July holiday, and I wanted to make a patriotic summer scene card. This Patriotic Swag die fit the bill perfectly. If you haven't checked out this die, it comes as one large connected die. There are three pieces connected by some very thin strips of metal. It's easy to snap them apart into three individual dies. Look at the picture below. You can see I separated the three pieces and then cut each piece with a different color of cardstock.

I used the following dies on my card:

Patriotic Swag
Victorian Picket Fence
Clouds and Rain
Grass Border

I started by sponging some blue and green inks on white cardstock and then I stamped the tree to one side. The clouds were adhered so that some of them were floating past the edges of the scene. The picket fence is actually some kraft cardstock that I distressed to look like a whitewashed fence and then I added the grass border to the bottom. Finally I put the swag together and glued it to the fence, and then I pulled some of the grass out so it would be "blowing" against the swag.

Thanks so much for checking out my artwork this month. It's been a wonderful experience, and I know the next Guest Designer will have a great time. I hope you all have a wonderful week and a Happy and Safe 4th of July! :-)

# Clouds and Rain # Grass Border

Sunday, June 16, 2013

A New Way to use Corner Dies with Guest Designer Holly

Holly 3:30 AM 5 Comments

Hi again! It's Holly back with another guest post today. I'm going soft and romantic with this card and I'll show you a new way to use your corner dies. You don't have to use them in the corners of your cards or layouts. Look at the white pieces under the flower. That is four corner die cuts set together with the points meeting in the center under the flower. With this particular die cut, the shape ends up more roundish, and it fits perfectly inside the circle of the Ankara Lace Doily.

If you were using a more triangular corner die cut, you might end up with a square shape. In the picture below, you can see how pairing these two corner die cuts would give you a large triangle shape. Just add two more of these and you'd have a square.

Play around with your corner die cuts and have fun with the resulting shapes. You never know what you might end up with - that's the fun of mixing and matching these dies! :-)

I used the following dies on my card:

Ankara Lace Doily
Lace Corner Deco F
Daisy Strip
Mini Dimensional Butterflies with Angel Wings
City Girl Edger

Thanks for stopping in to see what I've created. Please check back next week for my last guest post - I've created a fun summer scene for you! :-)

# Butterflies # Corners

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Awesome tip with Guest Designer Holly

Holly 3:30 AM 8 Comments

Hello again! It's Holly Brown back for another guest designer post today. I've done something a little different with this card. It looks clean and simple, right? Take another look at the red doily underneath the butterfly. Do you see what I did? :-)

The Cheery Lynn Designs dies that I've used on this card are:

French Pastry Doily
Small Exotic Butterflies #2 with Angel Wings

I used the whole French Pastry Doily even thought it looks like I only have half of it on here. I made one cut from the outside edge to the center of the doily. Then I put my doily on my trusty little Scor-Buddy and scored from the scallops in towards the center. The doily was then accordian-folded into this little half-rosette that you see here.

This was my first time trying this idea with a doily, and I was thrilled to see that it worked. Now if I want a full sized rosette, I can do this with two of the doily die cuts and glue them together. Wouldn't that be fun?? I hope you enjoyed this card today. I've got some more to show you, so come on back next week.

# Angel wings # Butterfly

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Thrilled to Share our new Guest Designer

Holly 3:30 AM 8 Comments

Today we have a special treat for you, we have a new Guest Designer for the month of June. I know you are going to find her work super inspirational and she'll give you some great ideas for cards you can make. So without further ado, let me introduce Holly Brown.

Holly has been drawn to the creative world since she was a little girl with a crayon in one hand and a coloring book in the other. From counted cross stitch to flower arranging to cake decorating and handmade Christmas ornaments to rubber stamped cards and scrapbooking, she has played with many creative outlets throughout her life. The art of creating something from paper and ink and dies never fails to amaze Holly. She lives with her husband and puppies in Texas.

You can view more of her beautiful work on her blog :

http://glitterstampsandink.blogspot.com/

Welcome Holly ....let's see what she has to share with us today.

Hello everyone! My name is Holly Brown, and I am thrilled to be here as the Guest Designer for June. I fell in love with the Cheery Lynn Designs dies when I first saw their gorgeous doilies and borders and flowers. Little did I know I'd be guest designing for them! :-) Many thanks to BJ and to Lori and Gini, the DT Coordinator, for this wonderful opportunity.

I tend to keep my artwork very clean and simple in order to keep the focus on one particular element. I love to try new things - sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. It's all about keeping things interesting and fun.

For my card today, I've gone with a slightly Oriental theme. I was inspired by the new Vase dies and I wanted to see what would fit into this particular shape of vase. The baby's breath branch from the Embellishments #2 set works perfectly! I cut some of the tiny baby's breath flowers (Embellishments #2) as well as some of the larger flowers from the Embellishments #3 set and glued them down on the branch. I added pearls to the four largest flowers.

For the vase itself, I wanted it to look like old crackled pottery. I stamped the vase with a stained glass background and then covered it with Glossy Accents. It was set aside to dry overnight and then glued down over the floral branch.

The Mesh Border provides the perfect little accent in the background. You can see that I kept this clean and simple so that the vase of flowers remains the focal point of this card. I hope you've enjoyed my first guest post today! Come on back next Sunday for a fun and colorful card. :-)

The Cheery Lynn Designs dies that I used today are:

# Embellishments #2 # Embellishments #3