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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Trick or Treat by Karen Maldonado

Karen 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hi there Cheery Lynn friends! It's Karen sharing another

new release card with you today!

I first started by creating my card base in orange designer paper.

Then, layered a black and white designer paper to that top.

Using the Expandable Tiny Borders and Border Carnivale,

I added these layers and tucked them under the main

small diamond designer paper!

Next, I die cut the Trick or Treat die, and distress inked the

sentiment in several colors. I poured some distressed crackle, and once dried,

I distressed inked in some walnut stain distress, so that cracks

would really stand out!

Then, I cut out the Rose Leaf Strip,

Build a Flower #1 (for center of flower), and the Daisy Strip! Each piece

was distress inked and I also added some distress glitter to the flower center!!

Finally, I die cut the Horrible Cat and two of the Jack-O'-Lanterns!

Then, poured some distressed glitters to the top of each of these dies.

I just love the sparkly and amazing texture this adds to the dies!

I also added a few Ivy Strip die cuts to the top of the smaller pumpkin and

also to the top of the medium size pumpkin.

I added some Glossy Accents to each of the ivy leaves for some added shine!

You would be amazed at the sparkly, shiny and crackly texture on this card!

Here's the full list of dies used:

B594 Jack-O'-Lanterns

B181 Build a Flower #1

B259 Daisy Strip

B215 Expandable Tiny Borders

DL129 Border Carnivale

Still time to join this week's challenge for a

chance at a $20 shopping spree to the Cheery Lynn on-line store!

Have a great day!

Hugs,

Karen

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Birdhouse Card by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Hi Everyone, It's Julie here today. I immediately fell in love with the new Fancy Birdhouse die as soon as I saw it and gathered inspiration for my 7 x 7 card from feeding all the birds that visit my garden.

My background was made with shading Distress inks over cardstock, stamping on feathers to give a cloud effect and spritzing with water. I tattered the edges with a Distress Tool.

I layered my grass in two shades of green and shaded a little Distress Ink onto my fence to shabby it up a bit.

My Birdbath was layered twice with a little Silicone Glue added into the bath part to give some extra dimension and Distress ink added to it and my birds for shading.

My sign was cut out in white and the pole area coloured with a Black Copic Pen. I layered the oval area twice with Silicone Glue and stamped on my sentiment and added a little bird.

My branches and leaves were all shaded with Copic Pens and my Blossom had a little Distress Ink added into the centre with a little yellow Stickles.

My sun is made using the Sunflower die, colouring also with Copics and adding a little orange Stickles. My Birdhouse was cut out 3 times and shaded with Distress ink. I paper pieced the fence area twice and my roof three times to give the effect of being 3D.

Well I do hope you like my card which was a lot of fun to make. I have another few plans for the Fancy Birdhouse die which I will share with you over the coming months.

Cheery Lynn New Release Dies Used:

Other Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

Thanks for stopping by today and good luck to everyone entering our weekly challenge.

Julie x

# Bird Bath # Branches

Friday, February 13, 2015

Love Card with Corina Finley

Corina 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Happy Early Valentines!

Corina here with you today and I have a Valentines Card to share.

I created this card a little differently then I normally do. The majority of the time I create a card with a technique in mind, that I want to try and play with. For this card the Lattice Heart & Vines die cut was my starting point:

I then went into my container of previously cut die cuts and pulled out other Valentines themed items. I had a lot of small hearts from the negative (part that cuts out) of the Sophia's Heart Doily and also a portion of the Doily. Also a small and x-small Heart Chain Borders.

I chose a Love Stamp for my Sentiment and a 6 x 6 pattern paper pad.

Created the base using a medium grey cardstock. Matted with a light grey cardstock and then pattern paper next. I adhered my border with the Heart Chain border across it.

I cut a Coved Rectangle from pattern paper and the matching Scalloped Coved Rectangle from red cardstock. I stamped my Love Sentiment to the bottom portion and used pop dots to secure the matted Coved Rectangle.

I cut the Vines off the Lattice Heart and inked the heart red. I coloured the vines black and added Glossy Accents to them. I used the vines as my foliage under my Sweet William flower with a red enamel rose bead in the center.

Added the tiny heart border and the small hearts to the card and glossy accented each of them.

Dies used:

Lattice Heart & Vines - B368

Sophia's Heart - DL184

Heart Chain Border - B115

Expandable Tiny Borders - B215

Coved Rectangle - XM-10

Scalloped Coved Rectangle - DL195

Sweet Williams Strip - B307

A2 Frames Rectangular Classic (Set of 7) - CM5

I hope you will play along in our weekly Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 171 - Tickled Pink. You could win a $20 shopping spree at the online Cheery Lynn Design Store.

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina Finley
Live, Laugh & Create

# A2 Frames Rectangular Classic # Corina Finley

Monday, January 26, 2015

Vintage Themed Card with Rhonda

Rhonda Van Ginkel 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Monday greetings to you! It's Rhonda here today to host the blog for you.

I have a vintage themed card to share with you today as it's one of my favorite style of card. There are several layers of our stackers as you can see, from our A2 Frames in Classic and Scalloped to the Coved Rectangles in Classic and Scalloped.

The Alpine Flourish Doily was the perfect size to layer into the design here. You can also hopefully see the subtle hint of snowflakes which are cut from vellum here.

Since the vintage image I've used includes thread spools in it, I used a tiny wooden one I had found in my local craft store. It is wrapped with a cut from one of our Tiny Expandable Borders and secured with glue. I then used it with a stick pin for an embellishment with my florals.

Details of the floral cluster.

I finished the interior of my card simply with our new Dutch Daisy Boutique Stacker, then cut it again using the A2 Frames Rectangular Scalloped die to create the border. The Thank You #2 was added as the final step.

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies Used:

Cherry Blossom - B129

Miniature Rose - B152

Medium Rose - B154

Flourish Leaf Strip - B178

Expandable Tiny Borders - B215

Alpine Flourish Doily (Set of 2) - DL282

Dutch Daisy Boutique Stacker A2 Frame - DL293

A2 Frames Rectangular Classic (Set of 7) - CM5

A2 Frames Rectangular Scalloped (Set of 7) - CM6

Coved Rectangle Classic LG - XL-10

Coved Rectangle Scalloped LG - XL-11

Thank You #2 - B540

Snowflakes - C146

Please be sure to join in this weeks challenge "Anything Goes!"! It's always really fun and just so inspirational to see all of your creativity!!! You could be the lucky winner of a $20 gift certificate just for playing along too!

Thanks so much for stopping on over to the blog today. Have a fabulous week!

~ Rhonda

# Alpine Flourish Doily # Cherry Blossom

Friday, November 21, 2014

Holly Christmas Card with Corina Finley

Corina 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hello! Corina here with you today with my Holly Christmas Card. I wanted to share a technique that I use when I have pattern paper or an image that does not fit the size/die shape that I want to work with!

I wanted to use the piece of pattern paper that you see in the picture above. I selected 2 of the 3 dies from the Madrid Flourishes Rectangle Boutique Stackers Frame set and card stock to match.

I die cut one medium and two of the small Madrid Flourishes Rectangle Boutique Stackers Frame. I set the medium Kraft die cut aside.

I overlapped the 2 small Madrid Flourishes Rectangle Frames to the size of my image. I marked with a pencil and then used a Craft Knife and a ruler to trim away excess/overlapped card stock.

I used a piece of the excess scrap card stock to adhere both beside each other. I did allow the very outside border to stay overlapped. It allowed me to glue them to each other and stay stable.

Perfect sized border - it is hard to see that it started off as 2! I die cut the Christmas sentiment and embossed with vintage copper embossing powder. I finished the card off by creating Holly which I used rhinestone for berries.

Dies used:

Madrid Flourishes Rectangle Boutique Stackers Frame (Set of 3)

Holly Leaves - B183

Merry Christmas Set - B186

Expandable Tiny Borders - B215

I hope you will play along in our weekly Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 159 - Tag You're It. You could win a $20 shopping spree at the online Cheery Lynn Design store.

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create!

# Corina Finley # expandable borders

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Stitching Time by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Hello Everyone,

It's Julie here hosting the blog today. I have a small sewing machine I bought in a sale a few years ago and it lies neglected in my craft room so this week's challenge was the perfect inspiration I needed to use it.

I love the Tiny French Pastry Doily die and it's versatility of using complete, to compliment the other sizes it comes in or cutting it into sections. On this card I cut it out in black card to accent on layers of my card and also in brown card to use as photo corners on my topper.

My flower has been made by cutting out an old lint bandage with the Gardenia strip, I then sprayed my petals with some water and coloured with distress stain. Scrunched the material and dried with my heat gun. Once dry I unravelled them and layered a few together with a couple of stitches and a little lace.

My zig zag is made by cutting out the Expandable Tiny Borders in Kraft paper. I put a little faux stitching in the centre before spraying with a little water to scrunch it up for texture and only put a little glue in some areas so it didn't lie flat on the card. I stitched some lace into the layers using my machine. Adding on my other embellishments and die cuts to finish.

I'll be back on Tuesday next week to share the post with my other Teamies as we showcase the exciting New Release at Cheery Lynn Designs.

Cheery Lynn dies used:

Good luck to everyone entering our Weekly Challenge and I'd love if you have time to leave me a comment.

Julie x

# expandable borders # Flourish Band

Saturday, June 28, 2014

On Your Special Day by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 5 Comments

Lovely to have you stop by today. It’s Julie here hosting the blog. This week my Mojo was at an all time low... don’t you just hate when that happens. So I decided I would play along with our Wedding Theme Challenge for this week and I was soon back on track.

I decided to make a 6x6 card and thought it would be nice to have colours resembling the bride, groom and bridesmaid on my card, so I chose White, Grey and Lavender to work with. I cut out my French Lattice die twice in grey card and pieced them together to fit over my lavender paper to form a square. When doing this I found it easier to have my lilac paper cut roughly to the size I needed. I then worked out where my crosses matched best to make my join and re-align the 2 pieces together and glued onto my lilac card, finally trimming around the edges. My topper is two stamps stamped onto a pearlised linen card and die cut out with a little grey card mounted behind to make the design POP.

You will see I have used my Cuties Strip around my card. This die makes gorgeous flowers but is also great to use as accents onto your card. I die cut out in white card and inked the edges with a lavender shade. On the reverse of the paper I pressed my embossing tool into each petal, this gives a little more dimension to your card as doesn’t look flat when glued on.

I placed the Victorian Flourish die onto my card and used a couple of the waste pieces onto my design too. My miniature roses were cut out from linen card and when the glue had dried I rubbed over some lavender ink. Everything was placed onto my card along with my final touches of bling.

Cheery Lynn dies used -

Thanks for looking at my card and I’d love if you have time to leave me a comment. Good Luck to everyone entering our Weekly Challenge. I will see you all next Saturday.

Julie x

# Cuties 3 # expandable borders

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Sew Simple by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hello, it's Julie Lavalette here again today. It was so lovely to read all your comments on my Keepsake Box last week. I appreciated each and every one of them, thank you for taking the time to leave them for me. Well I think Spring is finally starting to show itself here in Scotland at long last. We have had a couple of sunny days this week. The Daffodils are all in full bloom, Lambs are in the fields huddled next to their mums and to my delight we have a Blackbird starting to make a nest in the bushes of our garden.

I decided this week it would be nice to show you a technique on a card. I had been watching a demonstration on the TV and Sheena mentioned using a mix of water and glycerine for a faux leather technique, and talked about how it made the paper more pliable and didn’t cause the fibres to break down into the usual flimsy manner. Thinking cap on I thought I would use this spritz mix in another way with my die cuts.

First of all, using a spritz bottle, mix 6 parts water to 1 part Glycerine (available at chemist/drugstore) and give it a shake before placing spritz lid on, otherwise the glycerine can clog your spritz top. I die cut my Anastasia Border out with white cardstock and inked the edges with distress. My Sweet Williams strip I distressed edges on both sides and stamped an alphabet image with Archival ink. On the reverse side of both die cuts I started to spray some of the spritz mix to dampen the paper leaving it for about 20 seconds to seep through the fibres. I then resprayed a little more to the front and the back of the paper this time. I then started to fold and crush the paper into a tight ball. Next step carefully unravel and spritz a little bit more of the mix on and repeat this process crushing the paper and unraveling. I used my heat gun to dry the unraveled paper. You will notice it starts to shrink and curl a little more at this point, be careful not to burn your paper. Applying the heat makes it dry firmer but with the Glycerine being used the paper is not brittle. Just remember the secret is to not over-soak your paper. Build it up gradually, adding the mix until your paper is wet and pliable enough to crush. As you can see this now gives your die cuts a lovely shabby vintage feel.

With the flowers I did the same, but folded and crushed the paper from the edges towards the centre as the paper is a little more fragile here. Just before the paper was dry I placed my embossing tool into the centre to curve the middle then carried on drying. I then built my flowers up and placed some little white washed snap on’s into the centres.

The reason I called my card Sew Simple ...... I took a pen and drew little lines on my paper to give a faux stitch effect.

Cheery Lynn Dies used

B136 - Anastasia Border

DL234 - French Pastry Tiny Doily

B307 - Sweet Williams Strip

B387 - Tiny Fanciful Flourish Left and Right

B215 - Expandable Tiny Borders

I do hope you feel inspired to give this a go and there is still time to enter our Challenge this week – Anything Goes.

Hope you all have a creative weekend and see you all next Saturday.

Julie x

# Anastasia Border # Doily

Friday, March 28, 2014

Spring Friend Card

Corina 3:30 AM 5 Comments

Hello Everyone!

Corina here for the my last week as March Guest Designer! Time flew by so quickly! In this last week I travelled south to Vancouver BC, where Spring has sprung! Only to return home to a winter Storm and more snow! So this week, my inspiration came from the few days I spent in "Spring"!

I thought that I would share a picture of my work process when I made this card. I started off with white cardstock for my die cuts (except for Friend, I knew I wanted the sentiment dark!). I proceed by arranging the die cuts to form my scene. From there, I painted, spritzed, glittered, coloured and inked to create my chosen colour palette.

The finished card is always a little different from my concept at the beginning! But that is okay! I always enjoy my creative journey with each and every craft project I do!

Judy's Blooms - C184
Ivy Strip - B304
Baby's Breath Flower Kit (Set of 3) - B364
Small Exotic Butterflies #1 w/Angel Wings - DL112AB
Japanese Garden Lace Oval with Angel Wing - DL136AB
Tiny Things with Wings - B266
Expandable Tiny Borders - B215
Friend (Set of 2) - B285
Two Of Hearts - DL128

Thank you for sharing this last month with me, I appreciate every comment that was left and had a wonderful time! Also a huge Thank You to BJ & Sandy for giving me this opportunity to share my passion with all of you!

Hope you enjoyed!

Corina Finley
Live, Laugh & Create!

# Corina Finley # Exotic butterflies small

Friday, March 21, 2014

Nana's Card

Corina 3:30 AM 6 Comments

Hello Everyone!

Corina here once again to share with you my latest card creation using Cheery Lynn Dies!

Using the dies with white cardstock allows me the flexibility to ink to match my pattern paper. I used distress ink at first and did not get the intensity that I wanted. So I grabbed three of my new Inka Golds and tried them out. It was so easy to colour my die cuts! I know that this will be a technique I will use frequently!

As you might have seen, I have been loving the look of pearls to enhance the elegance of the die cuts. On the Butterfly, I used Inka Gold in Apricot & Pink, applied a layer of Glossy Accents and then added the pearls for a finishing touch.

My mother keeps asking when I was going to make a card for her - so here Nana, this one is for you!

Cheery Lynn Dies:
Rose Leaf Strip - B241
Miniature Rose - B152
Medium Rose - B154
Large Rose - B155
Chicken Wire - FRM144
Ankara Lace Border - B332
Expandable Tiny Borders - B215
Exotic Butterfly Medium #2 - DL115

Thank you so very much for the wonderful comments last week. I absolutely love reading them.

Take care,

Corina Finley
Remember to Live, Laugh & Create!

# Ankara Lace Border # Chicken Wire

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

White on White Daisy

xxxtglxxx 3:30 AM 9 Comments

Hi and Good Morning Everyone :) Alison here again today.

My card for this week is a WoW creation, showcasing the elegance and intricacy of Cheery Lynn Dies to their best!.

This card has a very simple, but effective layout, and works well with an combination of borders and frames.

I started off with a 6 x 6 inch blank card base, and all dies and layers were cut from American Crafts white textured cardstock.

The centre panel is the stunning Daisy Lace Frame die, and I tucked behind it 2 layered lace borders, Border Carnivale and City Girl Edger. To hide the join I used one of my favourite expandable dies as I really think this finishes it off.

I made the centre flower from the Daisy Strip die, and added 3 gorgeous butterflies and some card candi to finish.

All dies used on this card are:

FRM 118 - Daisy Lace Frame
DL129 - Border Carnivale
B308 - City Girl Edger
B215 - Expandable Dies
B259 - Daisy Strip
DL112 AB - Small Exotic Butterflies

Thanks so much for visiting our blog today and dont forget you still have plenty of time to enter our challenge this week where our theme is 'in stitches'. As always the lucky winner will receive a $20 shopping voucher for the Cheery Lynn Store, so well worth playing along.

Have a smashing week!

# Alison # Borders

Monday, June 17, 2013

Masculine Birthday Card with Cheery Lynn Designs

Unknown 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Since we celebrated Father's Day yesterday, I thought this would be great timing to share a masculine birthday card with you. I love adding flowers to everything I do - but, I will admit, they aren't really manly. Greenery however, is perfect for those outdoorsy guys. I also love the look that I achieved using the Rock Embossing Plate. I inked the plate before running it through the machine, and it makes my Kraft paper look like cork.

Speaking of Kraft paper....that's the challenge this week. Be sure to link up your project using Cheery Lynn Designs dies and kraft paper, for your chance to win a $20 store credit.

Directions:

1. Make card from cardstock; adhere patterned paper.

2. Ink embossing plate with dark brown ink and run through machine with kraft paper rectangle. Adhere to patterned paper and machine stitch.

3. Die cut chicken wire and adhere to card. Layer a frayed piece of burlap ribbon over the bottom portion of the die cut.

4. Die cut two French Flair squares. Stamp sentiment on the smaller one. Adhere with foam adhesive.

5. Decorate the sentiment with die cut ferns and Dew Drops as shown.

6. For the inside of the card, add a square of patterned paper with edges inked.

7. Adhere a stamped, trimmed sentiment and die cut ric-rac trim.

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies: Pine Branches B146; Expandable Tiny Borders B215; Chicken Wire Frame FRM144; Rock Embossing Plate G12; French Flair Stackers L-12

# Chicken Wire # Embossing Plate

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Honey, Honey - Shabby Chic

Tamara Morton 3:07 PM 5 Comments

Hello Cheery Lynn Fans, Tamara here. So sorry I'm a little late with my inspiration today, but better late than never.

I'm going through a purple faze at the minute, can't seem to get enough.. lol

I decided to try my hand at the shabby chic style and came up with this card. Unfortunately the photograph's haven't come out every good as the weather today is rather dull..

I will list and link all Cheery Lynn Dies used at the end of the post so all you have to do is click..lol

The border on the side is a favourite of mine and seem to reach for it all the time, its called the Frills and Hearts banner and is simply divine. I used a crimp machine to create that cardboard effect and then applied white paint.

The smaller border on the other side of the card is the part of the frills and hearts border that you would normally throw away but I think its to pretty so in actual fact you get two borders for the price of one. You will find that with Cheery Lynn Dies you can sometimes use the positive and negative cuts..

Here is a close up of the Cutie Fringe flower and the metal butterfly that I heat embossed with Shabby Chic Fantage embossing powders..

I absolutely adore these new daisy strip flowers and the Rose leaf strip is also one of my favourites.. I have also used the Tiny things with wings die for the cute little bumble bee, see if you can spot it between the flowers. I have again embossed using Fantage embossing powers. On the corners I embossed one of the corner dies and believe me when I tell you they look like metal..

Don't forget to head over to the Challenge blog and join in this week's challenge but you better be quick as it ends later today. If you missed it don't worry a new challenge theme starts tomorrow and the theme will be... "Back to Nature" and your chance to win $20 coupon to spend in the Cheery Lynn Store.