Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog

Monday, February 4, 2013

Tickled Pink Challenge winners

Unknown 3:25 AM 2 Comments

Bj, owner of Cheery Lynn Designs had a hard time picking a winner

of our Tickled Pink challenge this week so congratulations to ....

#3 Holly, #8 Debbie Brownmiller, #14 Deb and #24 Anna Lilja

#3 Holly

#8 Debbie Brownmiller

#14 Deb

#24 Anna Lilja

Congratulations, Ladies. Please contact me for your $20 shopping spree to Cheery Lynn Designs. And thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge. We hope to see you again in this week's Add a Flourish challenge.

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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Pretty in Pink

Tamara Morton 3:54 PM 6 Comments

Hello all, Tamara here with your Sunday Cheery Lynn Inspiration. So sorry that I'm a little late with my posting. I had a bit of a disaster yesterday, came home to find my cat had decided to take a shine to my project and was sitting on it. Needless to say it was ruined and I had to start from scratch.
So here it is
Listed below are all the dies that I used..
Don't forget to head on over to the Challenge blog and join in our weekly challenge, the prize is a $20 voucher to spend in the Cheery Lynn Store. We are also on facebook stop by and like our page

I am so in love with these new daisy flowers they just go perfectly on any project..

The fanciful flourish was a bit big for what I wanted so I cut it down smaller and just used the parts that I wanted.

Tiny French Pastry Doily

Polynesian Sails Mini Doily

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Orchid Tutorial

Jodi 3:30 AM 8 Comments

Hello! Don't you just love the Winter Release dies at Cheery Lynn Designs?! I think the new Orchid is so beautiful! I created a simpler card because I really wanted the flower to stand out on it’s own.

I want to share with you how I assemble my Orchid. Remember, you can enlarge any photo just by clicking on it!

On the left I have arranged the dies in which I assemble them, on the right you see the my die cut petals in accordance with the dies. I’ve numbered the petals to make it a bit easier to follow along.

Once I have my petals inked it is time to shape them. I use a small foam block (from Stampin’ Up) and an embossing tool. I made a little clip of my process.

A close up of the shape of the center.

I’ve glued petals 2 & 3 to petal 1, overlapping 1 slightly.

Here you can see the curvature of the flower taking shape.

I’ve adhered petals 4 & 5 to the backside, angling slightly.

Holding the center in the curved position, I add a dab of glue to the end….I use Rangers Glossy Accents because it dries so quickly and has a strong hold.

I place the center so that it sticks straight out from the flower, just like the real flower.

Another angle so you can see the depth of the flower.

The flower completely assembled.

Please let me know if you have any questions, or if I can help in any way! I can’t wait to see your version!

To create the card, I started by cutting the base using the Scalloped Rectangle Reflections Mega die. The white matte was cut using the Mini Pearl Rectangle Reflections Mega die. I love that the Reflections dies have the added piercing and stitching, adding visual interest and texture. Next, I added the new Ankara Lace Doily, layering with a frame from Sentiment Frame #1. I chose to cut the matte, doily, and sentiment frame from the same color allowing the new Orchid to pop off as the focus. For a bit more texture, I tied a smaller Tag #1 to the flower. To the bottom I added the Best Friends Phrase, again cutting in white so not to take away from the flower. Gently resting on the sentiment is a Mini Dimensional Butterfly.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

# Build A Flower # Butterflies

Friday, February 1, 2013

It's a Girl!

Unknown 3:30 AM 16 Comments

Hi Everyone... and welcome to Friday! I am just "Tickled Pink" to share a fun little project with you today!

When I thought about our challenge theme, one of the first things that popped into my mind was all things 'baby girl.' So with "soft, pretty and pink" as my inspiration, I decided to create a "baby carriage" or a "pram" for everyone in the UK. I also thought that this could easily serve as a great little table centerpiece for a baby shower or even a topper for a baby shower cake. What do you think?

In an effort to make it even more useful, I decided that it should open so that a sweet little surprise could be placed inside.

To create this carriage, cut a large circle and then cut it in half for the two sides. Once the sides were made all you need is a strip of paper with a fold on each side to make the base complete.

For the sunshade of the carriage cut the Francesca Border seven times and put a small dot of glue in the middle of each one to have them all lined up and held together. Once the glue dries, start with one side and for each strip make it a little shorter where they all meet until you have the desired shape. I did this several times as a test holding all the pieces until I figured out the shape I wanted. Once you are satisfied with the shape, simply glue each one together where they meet and trim.

Here's a list of the dies used for this project:

B132 - Flower Chain Border
B159 - Francesca Border
B188 - Embellishment #2
B241 - Rose Leaf Strip
B250 - It's a Boy Girl Phrases
B254 - Mesh Border
B258 - Cutie Fringe IV
B259 - Daisy Strip
B278 - Lady Kate Edger
D138 - Mini Dimensional Butterflies w Angel Wings
DL140 - Dutch Scallop Square

I hope you can find some time to visit the challenge this week and put in your entry where the theme is Tickled Pink! With your entry you will have a chance to win a $20.00 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs!

Have a Cheery Day!

# Borders # Build A Flower

Confessions of a Flower Junkie

Lori 3:30 AM 7 Comments

Hi my name is Lori and yes, I am a flower junkie. LOL, I say this because flowers are my latest addiction. I'm having so much fun creating flowers as of late. I love to see what kind of flower I can make and what dies I can use to do it. The good news is I'm set with my Cheery Lynn Dies, that's for sure.

Today I made Poppies. Poppies are actually my favorite flowers. They are so rich and stunning with their colors yet are so delicate, almost fragile with their petals, lovely, just lovely.

In talking about being creative with the dies, can you believe I actually used one of our newest tags to help create the center of the flowers? Yeap, the Tags 3 made the perfect green dome for the center of my flowers.

I look forward to sharing with you in coming weeks some of the other flowers I've created. I know you're going to love them.

Here is my recipe for this card, so you can start making your own poppies.

Ankara Lace Doily Angel Wing DL232,
Build a Flower #3 B264,
Build a Flower #2 B187,
Build a Flower Embellishment #2 B188,
FancifulFlourishes B117, Tags 3 B262,
Build a Flower Embellishment #1 B181A

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