Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog: expandable borders

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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.