Hello everyone and welcome to June 2016 New Release Blog Hop at Cheery Lynn Designs!


This release is absolutely adorable!!  I can't believe how many fabulous new dies there are.  You will want  NEED them all!  Be sure to head on over to the Cheery Lynn Designs website when you are done hopping to view all of the new release dies.

Hello! I want to give a huge thank you to Hampton Art for sending us such a wonderful package of goodies to play…um, I mean work with! I really enjoyed using their products!!

This week, the designers from Hampton Art and Cheery Lynn Designs have teamed up to share with you some beautiful Christmas projects to help you get into the holiday spirit!

The blogs will be sharing new projects throughout the week - plus each company is giving away a fantastic prize to one lucky commenter.

From Hampton Art one lucky winner will recieve this fun bundle of goodies

and from Cheery Lynn Designs one lucky commentor will recieve a

$25 Gift Certificate

I created a holiday card with the stamps and inks I received.

Hi and Good Morning everyone, Alison here today, sharing a card inspired by this weeks challenge theme of 'Non Traditional Christmas Colours'.  As always there is a fab prize on offer and you still have plenty of time to enter HERE:

Now I love to see light and fresh looking christmas cards, they can really stand out amongst the darker, more traditional colours and its quite nice to have a break from all the reds and greens too.

I started off with a 6 x 6 scalloped card base and layered K&Co papers from my scraps box onto American Crafts white textured cardstock.

This stunning Lace Christmas Tree die cuts beautifully and is so ornate and swirly it has a real wow factor!  I layered it on top of the matching Angel Wing for dimension and then added lots of sparkle and bling.  The gorgeous snowflakes were layered snowflowers from set 1 and 2 held together with moonstone brads, and the smaller snowflakes were made using embellishments from the BAF embellishment sets.

The beautiful border is the Anastasia die with 2 staggered layers and topped off with pink dotty satin and organza ribbon.  This was a pretty quick card to make, and would work well with any colour combo and scraps of papers :)

All dies used on this card are:

Lace Christmas Tree + A/W
Anastasia Border
Snowflowers #1
Snowflowers #2
Snowflakes plate (the 3 mini snowflakes, top left)
BAF - Embellishment set  #1
BAF - Embellishment set #2
Square Classic Silver Stackers
Scalloped Square Stackers

I cant wait to see how you interpret this  weeks challenge and dont forget this is always fresh and inspirational projects uploaded daily by the rest of our talented DT over on the Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog.

Have a smashing week and thanks so much for visiting today.

Hello! Jodi here with a fun Halloween card.

There is still time to play along with this weeks challenge for your chance to win the $20 shopping spree! Details Here

Thanks for stopping by!!

Hello Cheery Lynn Designs lovers!
Kianel here with you today. Have you seen that Cheery Lynn Designs is having a wonderful challenge this week??? Yes, that's allright! To enter the competition you have to make a tag and use at least one Cheery Lynn Designs die. You will find all information here. And if you are the winner, you receive a $20 shopping spree at the shop.

I thought i would make a tag to illustrate that challenge and used several Cheery Lynn Designs dies on this one. The stamp is a Sugar Nellie and coloured with Distress inks and Creative Inspirations paints.
 To make my layers i used the A6 Metric rectangle scalloped card stackers  and the A6 Metric rectangle classic card stackers. I took a ready made tag that i embossed with the "dotted swiss XL embossing plate" and slightly covered with ink to enhance the dots.
 I also used a small exotic butterfly die that i inked and covered with shimmer paint and glued some pearls to.

I am also going to show you how to quickly build a flower out of a die. For that one i used the large base of the "O Tannenbaum X-mas tree" that i cut twice. I inked the borders and glued the sides together.


 I then passed a thread through the small holes and tightened the whole thing a little to get a sort of napkin.
I added a rose and a part of the tropical flourish die plus the marvellous olive branches.


I took other parts of the O Tannenbaum X-mas tree. The top to put at the base of my tag with the star down and 2 smaller parts of the tree to add to each side.


To create a border i used the flower chain border that i painted with shimmer paints and a touch of ink and placed it under my tag so only half of it is visible. To give the final touch, i added some half pearls. I also took 2 of the flowers that were left over. I cut one and glued one petal on another and placed it over the other flower. I added a stamen inside and there you have a beautiful flower to decorate your tag with.


I also wanted to show you some of the cards i made with a Christmas kit i am part of here in France. the whole kit is very vintage and it was a pleasure to use my Cheery Lynn Dies to illustrate it.
Here i used the Tropical flourish die and the Cherry blossoms, the XL square stackers, the XL inverted square stackers, the Cardmaker's stackers dies.


I also made this book card and to decorate it, i used the following dies: small exotic butterfly, tropical flourish, Judy's blooms, olive branches and holly flourish. and here under you can see the book card open where i used the tropical flourish again but cut in a printed paper.

And on these 2 ones i used the pine branches dies. This one uses the A6 Metric rectangle scalloped card stackers .
 This one also uses the XL oval scalloped stackers and the XL silver oval stackers. The base is an XL square stackers.

I hope that you liked it and don't forget about our challenge! See you next week to discover the exciting new release of Cheery Lynn Designs!!! Love from France, Kianel.

It's no secret...I love flowers!
Cheery Lynn Designs makes it so easy to create lush outdoor scenes full of flowers, trees and vines.
I made the following layout of my husband's favorite hobby (dare I say obsession) and though there is a lot of detail work it may look like it took a long time to put together but it really didn't.


As soon as I have the vision in my head of what I want to do, I cut several pieces from the Pretty Petal dies, Sweet Williams flower dies, Floral Heart die and the flourish die. After I have several cut from each, I arrange them on my LO and it comes together so quickly.




I also used these dies on my layout:
Cardinal in a Tree
Christmas Tree
Micro Mini Alphabet
Heart Chain Border

Have your filled eggs and baskets ready because Sunday is the big day...Easter! I thought I'd fit in one more Easter layout before the holiday is over.
I love to create scenes on my LOs so that is just what I did today. I duplicated the tree my daughter {is about to break looking for an Easter egg} using the Cardinal In A Tree die. ;) I trimmed off the bottom branches and added blossoms to get the look I wanted.



I thought it would be fun to hang some clouds on my LO. To give the clouds interest and dimension I embossed them using the Petite hearts embossing plate. I filled in each tiny embossed heart with glitter glue for a little sparkle.



Here is my complete list of dies used:
Cardinal In A Tree
Floral Heart
Bird on A Branch die
Spring Fling
Little Stacker Nesting Circle die
Pretty Petal
Picket Fence
Micro mini Alphabet dies

Baby, its cold outside!
Hello crafters, Liz here to bring you a cute Christmas card idea using lots of goodies from Cheery Lynn Designs. First off let me tell you that I do not consider myself a card maker but when my wonderful "welcome" box arrived and I saw the window die, I knew exactly what I wanted to create...and it was this card.



I cut out the inside of the cover of the card out and replaced it with my window image using the large window die. I wanted to give it a frosty look outside so I used the beautiful snowflakes dies and touched them up with a bit of glitter. I add some tied ribbon to to the inside cover to resemble curtains.



For the inside of the card, I created a living room scene complete with a decorated Christmas tree and presents (see note below about dies you can substitute).



There you have it, I'm feeling warm and fuzzy already.

Here is my complete list of dies used for this project:

Large window



Snowflakes

*Note: 'Cardinal in a Tree' and 'Presents' dies were discontinued.
If you are looking for a substitute, you can find them here.

Have a great day!
~Liz