Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog

Friday, April 1, 2016

Believe by Debbie Brownmiller

It's Debbie here from Debbie's Time Out welcoming you to the CLD blog. It is nice to see you here. Today I am going to share a card with you featuring the Quadrafoil Tag and the Fleur De Lis Border from the last new release. They are both such pretty and intricate designs.

My base was started with black cardstock. I cut two pieces of mauve paper and then cut one edge on each piece with the Fleur De Lis Border Set - B680. I cut a strip of the pattern paper and layered the two pieces of mauve paper on each side of it with the cut pattern facing each other. I then layered the French Lattice Small at the top. This gave me my base that I wanted to build on.

I used the Quadrafoil Tag cut in both purple paper and white paper. I fussy cut the oval from the white which was only a couple of short easy snips. I then layered the sentiment Believe to the center of the tag. I cut another tag in purple and cut the top and bottom flourish design from it to use as my corners. This set does come with a separate flourish design but I wanted bigger corner pieces so I chose to cut them from the tag itself. For the One Free Wish fairy I cut it in three different colors. Skin tone, flower pattern paper for the dress and purple pattern patter for the wings. The glitter on the wings give her the finishing touch. I did cut the fairy from the rest of the design as well.

For the bottom left corner I used the Small Gardenia to create a beautiful flower and fussy cut some of the leaves from the paper to place under it.

Here is a closer look at the bottom half of the card showing the pretty borders.

I would like to invite you to come join our bi-weekly challenge @http://cheerylynndesigns.blogspot.ca/search/label/challenge . The theme is "Back to Nature". So anything associated with nature . You can join once each week to double your chances of winning a $20.00 store certificate as well you could be chosen one of the TOP THREE.

Thank you for visiting the blog today and for comments that you leave. Each comment is so important to me and appreciated. Have a crafty week my friends. Wishing you a sunny week.

Dies Used
French Lattice Small - FRM132
Fleur De Lis Border Set - B680
One Free Wish - DL216
Small Gardenia - B433
Quadrafoil Tag - B682
Believe - B612

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge #226 - Back to Nature Theme

Bonnie Garby 3:31 AM 1 Comments

As always, the entries we had for our Anything Goes challenge were fabulous. Thank you to all who entered, we enjoy seeing your creations with our dies.

Our new bi-weekly challenge theme is

Back to Nature
Add a butterfly, dragonfly, hummingbird or something from nature

Here are the rules:

You MUST follow the theme and use at least one Cheery Lynn Designs die, of course, we would love to see more than one.
You MUST add a link to your blog post in the InLinkz at the end of this post; no back posting, only new projects are allowed
You MUST link to this challenge in your blog post or on your gallery post
You may only enter the challenge ONCE per week for a total of 2 entries per bi-weekly challenge.
Be sure to let us know which Cheery Lynn Die or Dies you used on your project.

The winner will be chosen randomly. They will receive $20 towards shopping at the Cheery Lynn website. The challenge will end on Wednesday afternoon April 13th at 15:00 Eastern time. We will also showcase the Top 3 picks from our Design Team.

And now to our inspiration for today (for details on each project, click on the designer's name and it will take you to their blog).

Corina Finley

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies used:

Coved Rectangle Classic - Silver Stackers - L-10, Horizon Coved Rectangle Boutique Stacker

Coved Rectangle - Scalloped LG Stackers Nesting Dies - XL-11, Tiny Things with Wings - B266, Sentiment Frame #2 - B190

Bonnie Garby
Cheery Lynn Designs Dies used:

CABTRF-15 Butterfly #15
DL321 Fleur de Lis Boutique Stacker A2 Frame,

Remember, you MUST use at least one Cheery Lynn Designs die to enter this challenge.

# challenge

Cheery Lynn Designs Anything Goes Themed Challenge Winner and Top 3 Picks

Bonnie Garby 3:30 AM 4 Comments

What wonderful entries we had last week for our Anything Goes themed challenge.

Our randomly selected winner is:
Random Integer Generator
Here is your random number:
32

Crafts and Beyond

Congratulations Crafts and Beyond. Please contact Judy by clicking here for your $20 shopping spree to Cheery Lynn Designs. Be sure to grab the winner's badge from the right sidebar for display on your blog.

Our Top 3 Picks for Challenge #225 in no particular order are:

Kathy Krug

Laura C

HydeParkHill.com Eileen

Great job! Be sure to grab our Top 3 badge from the right sidebar for display on your blog.

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge. We hope to see you again in this week's Back to Nature challenge.

# winners

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Dream with Lisa Blastick

Lisa 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Today, I wanted to make a beach card for Cheery Lynn Designs. I recently was in Mexico on the beach and I truly love the sound of the waves. So, I'm dreaming that I want be back on the beach today. I used "wave edger", "sand dollar and starfish", and "seahorse" with some "clouds" dies. I stamped some seagulls to give a more beach feeling with the sentiment Dream. It is my serenity.

The beautiful "alpine flourish doily" is so whimsical. It seemed perfect for my Dream!

There are pop dots under several dies to finished this 4 x 5 inch card.

Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

DL282 Alpine Flourish Doily

B267 Seahorse Family

B320 Clouds and Rain

B279 Sand Dollar and Starfish

B341 Wave Edger

Be sure to check out this week's challenge and your chance to win $20 at the Cheery Lynn Designs store. Have a great day!

Hugs Lisa

# Alpine Flourish Doily # Clouds and Rain

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Cheery Lynn Designs March Blog Hop Winner!

Bonnie Garby 10:00 AM 3 Comments

This is the second post of the day. Be sure to scroll down to see the beautiful project that Bonnie has shared with us today.

Thank you so much for hopping along with us this month on the Cheery Lynn Designs Blog Hop. We had so much fun and we hope you did too!! We'll be hopping on the 15th of each month, so be sure to mark your calendars and join us again next month.

Don't you just LOVE the new Frame It Embossing Folder and Oval IOE Plate Set??!!

I hope you loved all the samples the design team shared. Thanks so much for the wonderful feedback for future product. I encourage you to hurry over to Cheery Lynn Designs NOW and order your own set so you can get creating!

Now, on to our winner who will receive a $20 gift certificate to Cheery Lynn Designs.

Our randomly selected winner is:
Random Integer Generator
Here is your random number:
43
Diane17Lynne

Congratulations Diane17Lynne. Please contact Judy by clicking here for your $20 shopping spree to Cheery Lynn Designs.

Now if you didn't win, don't worry!! We will be 'hopping' each month so you'll have another chance to win soon! We hope you stop by and visit our blog often.

Follow Your Dreams with Bonnie Garby

Bonnie Garby 3:30 AM 1 Comments

Hi there friends. It's Bonnie here today from Make Time to Craft filling in for Amy.

I was really in a Spring mood when I was working on Saturday, even though the temperature didn't really support that. I went with a lavender, pink and white color combination. Beautiful roses and butterflies are a great addition to any card and I just love this new Dutch Daisy Oval Doily die for Spring themed projects.

I stamped my beautiful sentiment from Quietfire Design on white card stock and cut that out with one of the XM7 Oval dies. I wanted to mat that with a purple layer just a little larger and I didn't have a die for that, so I used my Magic Matter tool from Puzzle Mates and traced around it with the 1/8" wheel and fussy cut it out. Where there's a will, there's a way!

Then I added some Stick It adhesive to the back of a white piece of card stock and cut my Dutch Daisy Oval Doily. I adhered that to a lavender oval cut with the Oval Classic Stacker and then I added a layer of white mulberry paper. I wet the edges of the mulberry paper to tear it and leave the fuzzy, feathery edge. Then I added that to another purple oval.

The dots on the white background were created with the Large Parallel Rectangle Pierce Plate and I just love the texture it gives. I used one of the pieces from the Dutch Daisy Accents set to fill in some of the white space in the corners of the card.

My roses were made using the Medium Tea Rose die. I cut the layers, inked them and shaped them with a stylus and then adhered them to create the pretty roses.

The final touches were the pretty sparkly butterflies and the gorgeous bi-color double loop bow made on my Bow-it-All Tool using Grape and Sherbet Delicate Stitched Satin from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

Cheery Lynn Dies used:

PS101 - Pierce Plate Large Parallel Rectangle

DL306 - Dutch Daisy Oval Doily

XM-7 Oval

XL7 - Oval Classic Stacker Large

B689 - Dutch Daisy Accents

DL112AB - Small Exotic Butterflies #1

B436 - Tea Rose Medium

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Don't forget, there is still time to enter our current 'Anything Goes' themed challenge for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to Cheery Lynn Designs.

# Bonnie Garby # Cards

Monday, March 28, 2016

Cherish Card by Eva Dobilas

Eva 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hi there, this is Eva. Hope you had a beautiful Easter celebration. Today I have a spring card to share with you with a pretty butterfly.

To start out this card I cut an A2 size card base out of white card stock. Next I die cut the front of it using Card Cover Maker #1 and colored it in with green/blue/brown inks. I added a yellow piece of card stock underneath to show the design of the die cut. Next I die cut an Ankara Lace Doily with Angel Wing out of light blue card stock and added some green and brown ink. I also die cut the wing that comes with the same die out of cream card stock and glued it to the lace die and using pop dots I adhered it to the card front.

Next I die cut the angel wing from the Whimsical Butterfly with Angel Wing die set and sprayed it with shimmer ink and then die cut the actual butterfly from the same set and glued it together and adhered it to the doily. Finally I die cut the sentiment Cherish out of pink card stock and added it below my butterfly.

Hope you like this card and here is the list of the Cheery Lynn Designs dies I use on this card:

CAFR-3 - Card Cover Maker #1

DL232 - Ankara Lace Doily with Angel Wing

B535 - Whimsical Butterfly with Angel Wing

B415 - Cherish

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see your creations in our newest challenge.

Hugs,

Eva

# background # Butterly

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Easter Basket by Jenny Alia

Jenny Alia 3:30 AM 2 Comments

For our March Blog Hop featuring IOE Plates and Embossing Folders please click HERE.

Hi Cheery Lynn fans, it's Jenny here today wishing you a Happy Easter! This card was centered around this fun Easter Basket. I cut out the Easter Basket twice and colored the first one. Using as scissor I cut the eggs and bow off the second basket, colored them individually using distress ink and the glued them on top of the first basket. To further embellish the eggs I added glitter glue. The basket is popped up with foam adhesive. I like how the glitter glue made some of the ink run and the eggs look as though they'd really been colored with dye.

This is a step card using the Step Card Bundle Set #3. You can see a video HERE explaining how the step card die works. I glued rectangular strips of green card stock to each of the steps before adhering grass to each. The shorter Grass Border 2 was glued to the first two "steps" and the Grass Border on the two background steps.

I cut a top fold A2 size card with the step die and then used the main die in the Step Card set to cut a piece of dotted patterned paper. It was easy to then fold the paper and cut away the bottom portion of the dotted paper with an Exacto knife. The background panel was made with a piece of patterned card stock with a Lattice #2 overlay.

Cheery Lynn Dies

Step Card Bundle Set #3 B586

Thanks for visiting the blog today. There's still time to enter the current Anything Goes challenge, join in for a chance to win a $20 gift card to Cheery Lynn Designs!

# Easter # Easter Basket

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Happy Easter by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 4 Comments

For our March Blog Hop Featuring IOE Plates and FRAME-IT Embossing Folders, please click HERE.

Happy Easter Weekend to all our lovely followers. It's JULIE here today hosting the blog. Thanks so much to everyone for stopping by my own Blog for our current Blog Hop, I was overwhelmed with all your lovely comments. This week I have made a Spring card filled with Easter inspiration.

I started by layering 2 layers of paper onto my base card adding Stickles at the edge for a touch of sparkle. I layered on part of my doily as an accent, this helped my Basket pop from the design against the busy floral paper.

My Happy Easter was layered twice for a shadow effect, adding my branches and flowers which had been shaded with Copics.

My sweet Easter Chicks were shaded with Distress Inks. I coloured their feet and beaks with Copics and finished them by adding a little black liquid pearls onto their eye. Mounting them onto the Grass Border Strip.

My Basket I die cut in purple cardstock and then used our Special Effects technique demonstrated HERE to get the background. Layering in my Eggs with a touch of Silicone Glue and adding a little Satin Bow.

Thanks for stopping by today and good luck to everyone entering our Current Challenge - Anything Goes and please check out our current Blog Hop HERE.

Crafty Hugs,

Julie x

Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

# Branch # Chicks

Friday, March 25, 2016

Miss Easter Bunny and her Chicks

Debbie's Time Out 3:30 AM 3 Comments

For our March Blog Hop Featuring IOE Plates and FRAME-IT Embossing Folders, please click HERE.

A warm hello to you. It's Debbie here from Debbie's Time Out wishing you a Happy Easter. It is cool and rainy here today but at least we have no snow left in our yard so it should be a good weekend for an Easter egg hunt. With Easter weekend here I wanted to share a cute Easter card with you.

My base is black cardstock, Rectangle Scalloped LG Silver Stackers pierced using the Pierce Plate Large Parallel Rectangle and then the Dutch Daisy Boutique Stacker A2 Frame .

I offset the Happy Easter sentiment after cutting it in two different colors to give a shadow effect and added some stitching to it with a black marker. I thought the cute bunny would look good standing on the letters and holding a bouquet of tulips created from the negatives of the Dutch Daisy Boutique Stacker A2 Frame . Two of the cute chicks from the Chicks (set of 3) stayed in the grass cut from the Grass Border while the other chick hopped up on the letters with the bunny. These chicks really are priceless.

Here I have used the Mini Fanciful Flourish Right and added some flowers to it from the Tiny Flower Kit . On this close up, you can really see what a nice textured background the Pierce Plate Large Parallel Rectangle makes.

I want to thank you for visiting the blog today and for the comments you leave. I enjoy reading them and hearing from you.

I invite you to come join our bi-weekly challenge @ http://cheerylynndesigns.blogspot.ca/search/label/challenge for your chance to win a $20.00 store certificate. I would love to see your creations.

Have a crafty week and a great Easter weekend with your family and friends.
Debbie

Dies Used

Rectangle Scalloped LG Silver Stackers (Set of 6) - L-15

Pierce Plate Large Parallel Rectangle - PS101

Dutch Daisy Boutique Stacker A2 Frame (set of 4) - DL293

Happy Easter - B529

Chicks (set of 3) - B528

Grass Border - B126

Mini Fanciful Flourish Right - B291

Tiny Flower Kit (Set of 3) - B376

# Debbie Brownmiller # Dutch Daisy Boutique Stacker A2 Frame