Hi Everyone,  this weeks Cheery Lynn Designs project is a creation I can use on my work desk for all my pens, rulers, and odds and ends.  The purse is a wood kit  made by Kaisercraft, and stands at 6 inches tall.  I adhered gorgeous My Minds Eye papers to the inside and outside.   As this project is going to be used I did not decorate any of the sides or back - just highlighted the front.   

I have many favourite Cheery Lynn Design dies.... but the Lace Rose and Flourish has the most adorable swirls, leaves and curls.  This die can be cut into smaller pieces to decorate, or used in one long flourish.  As you can see with my project I cut my pieces to 'fit' my project.

The flowers were created from tissue paper, and the Scalloped Window Stackers. You can create a variety of flower sizes using the Scalloped Window Stacker dies and various paper mediums.  All I did to create the two on my project was cut multiple layers of tissue paper, from the varying sizes of each die.  Each layer was crunched up in my hands to 'crinkle' and a brad put through the middle to hold each layer together.  I separated some of the layers to give a little more dimension.  On the smaller flower, I wet a few petal edges with water lightly and curled the edges in slightly.

The leaves I used for this project are the Judy's Blooms die set, which comes with the flower and leaves. Also, Pine Branches were added to give a little more character to the flower.  AND, I just had to place a Small Exotic Butterfly onto the project .... I so love them!

To complete the project, a small amount of stickles was applied to highlight the die cuts.

Dies Used:

B135 Lace Rose and Flourishes

XMC-5 Scalloped Window Stackers

C184 Judy's Blooms

B146 Pine Branches

DL113 Exotic Butterfly Small

This weeks challenge at the Cheery Lynn Designs Blog is "Lots of Layers" - call on over to see what Bonnie and Sandy have created as examples for the challenge, they are both cute!  You can find all the challenge information "HERE".

Till next week

Sandie

Bonnie Brown

Dies used:  Doily Stacker Circles, Silver Circle XL, Anastasia Border, 

Stacker Flower 3, Stacker Leaf, Small Exotic Butterfly and Angel wing,  

Tropical Flourish , and Grass Border

Sandy Hulsart

Dies used:  Mini Pearl Square Reflections, Mini Pearl Rectangle Reflections, 

Victoria Garden Doily Frame, Cheery Blossom

Bonnie Brown

Dies used:  Doily Stacker Circles, Silver Circle XL, Anastasia Border, 

Stacker Flower 3, Stacker Leaf, Small Exotic Butterfly and Angel wing,  

Tropical Flourish , and Grass Border

Sandy Hulsart

Dies used:  Mini Pearl Square Reflections, Mini Pearl Rectangle Reflections, 

Victoria Garden Doily Frame, Cheery Blossom

The votes are in; there were so many amazing entries but the winner of our Pretty in Pink challenge  and a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs is

#40 Dawnll

Congratulations, Dawn  Please contact me for your winning prize.  And thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge.  We hope to see you again. 

The votes are in; there were so many amazing entries but the winner of our Pretty in Pink challenge  and a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs is

#40 Dawnll

Congratulations, Dawn  Please contact me for your winning prize.  And thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge.  We hope to see you again. 

  Dies used:

Inverted Scallop Oval Stackers, Oval Stackers, Polynesian Sails Oval Frame,

 Fanciful Flourish , flourish from the Celtic Oval Frame

Thank you Karen for filling in for us.  Today is the last day to enter the Frame It challenge for a chance at a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs.

Hello! Jodi here today! How’s the weather in your area? Being from Minnesota, I can say we have had an exceptionally warm, snow-free winter! However, the days have been a bit cloudy and dreary lately so I thought I would bring you some Winter Sunshine!

There is still time to enter this weeks challenge for your chance to win a $20 gift card to the Cheery Lynn Designs Store! Details Here

Here are the same papers, opened up at their full size.

Can you believe how big those are and that I cut something that big from a Big Shot?

Once again, here the oval has just been cut, the paper in folded down the middle...

...voilà, here the same paper from above has been opened to it's full size, it's like magic!!

I am making 2 different shapes for my banner.  To make the flower shaped base, I need 3 of the largest ovals.

Here they are cut, and scored at 1/2" increments.

Here the same ovals are, folded accordion style on the scored lines.

Fold the accordion folded ovals in half.

Hot glue the centers of each oval.

Then hot glue the 3 ovals together, they will look something like this.

Fan the outer edges open to meet each other on the other side and hot glue the remaining edges to form the flower shape.

The other banner shape I created is a butterfly shape.  For the butterfly you will need 2 ovals, folded, scored and glued in the same manner as the flower shapes.

Because we I only have 2 ovals, when I flair the ovals around to glue, the ovals create this butterfly shape instead of the flower shape.

To string all the shapes, I cut a paper towel tube up and glued them to the back of each shape.

After embellishing the fronts, I strung 2 layers of tulle through all the shapes to create the SPRING banner.

To embellish the fronts, I used the SWEDISH SPRING OVAL in the centers of each shape.

I had some large letters that I used to spell the word SPRING and then added lots of Cheery Lynn Designs flowers from The Floral Shop.

All the bright and Cheery paper is from Momenta.

Here you can see the letters more close up.

I just love all the colors and patterns!

I hope you have enjoyed this post today.

Hopefully you can see just how versatile the REFLECTIONS dies are.

You can just do anything with these dies, at least it seems like that to me!

Have you checked out or current challenge?

The theme is FRAME IT.

You can read all about it HERE.

This has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana with today's post.

Hello dear Cheery Lynn designs lovers,

Kianel here with you today to show a booklet card i made using Cheery Lynn designs dies. I also used the Diamond Card Craft scoreboard to create the structure.

The base of the card is square but i used the french flair stackers to make a cool opening. The french flair doily stacker adds an amazing elegant touch to it and then the printed paper is cut using the large silver french flair stacker.

 I used a tag that i embossed with the dotted swiss embossing plate. I then cut out the two of hearts die and used the large one that i slightly inked. I then decorated with a pearl bucket and an exotic small butterfly die.

 I used the Heart key die that i inked, stamped with a text and finally embossed in clear and tied up together with the ribbon.

And the card when it's opened:

 On the inside, i also used the french flair doily stacker and then the large silver french flair stacker to coordinate the paper.

 

  The little heart is coming from the two of hearts die and used together with an embossed exotic butterfly small. Under it, i added a tropical flourish die.

 I used the Judy's blooms die that i colored with ink and shimmery paints. In the center of the bloom i tied up a button die from the Buttons 3 dimensionnal dies set.

  

There you can see the details of the Circle lace Mega doily die from the Reflections Boutique. See that i sewed the details of the die, pretty cool isn't it?

The papers are from TOGA, the shimmer paints and embossing powders are from Creative Inspirations paints, the dies are from Cheery Lynn designs, the stamp is a Whimsy Stamps. 

Well, i hope you'll like it. Don't forget our weekly challenge and the DT call we are having.

See you next week, love from France, Kianel.

Hi Everyone,  this week for Cheery Lynn Designs I have created a mini canvas (6" X 6").  The photograph is a recent photograph of my two grown up daughters, Amanda and Tayla at Aldinga Beach, in South Australia.

The base of the canvas is corrugated cardboard, which I gessoed, and distress inked (Black Soot) to achieve a corrugated iron appearance.  Maybe I should have added some silver, but I'm happy with the results.  The photograph base was cut from the French Flair Classic Stacker Series. Beneath the photograph is the Spiderweb which I brushed lightly with stickles to give a shimmery appearance. 

The flower and flower buds were created using the Judy's Blooms die.  I cut two die-cuts of each die, misted lightly the petals with water, and curled the leaves using a kitchen skewer.  After assembling the flower, the curled edges were inked using Victorian Velvet distress ink, and a pearl added to the centre.  The flower buds were created using single cut petals from the Judy's Blooms larger flower die cut - the green bud casing was created using the leaves from the Pair of Ferns.  The foliage consists of the Fanciful Flourish, and Olive Branches.

Several brass charms were used from my stash.  I adore the detail in the bee and spider!  Stickles was applied to the outer edges of the flower petals, buds, and butterfly - just enough to highlight the applied distress ink.  Stickles tends to really draw out the colour of distress inks.

..and one of my very favourite dies - it is one that introduced me into Cheery Lynn Designs, the Exotic Butterfly Small.

 Before I sign out, this weeks challenge theme on the Cheery Lynn Designs blog is 'Frame It' - all the details can be found "HERE". You have a chance of winning a $20 shopping voucher to spend in-store.

Have a wonderful week...
Sandie

Dies Used:

DL112 Exotic Butterfly Small

B147 Olive Branches

B118 Pair of Ferns

C184 Judy's Blooms

XL-12 French Flair Classic Stacker Series

B117 Fanciful Flourish

DL162 Spiderweb