Hi everyone, it's Friday and I am happy to be here with you to share a cute little Christmas card with some non-traditional colors which fits right in with our challenge this week!  : )

I saw this adorable little Christmas kitten stamp by Stampendous at one of our local scrapbooking stores and I just knew I had to have him.

The Swedish Spring Oval Frame die is one of my favs and I thought it was just the perfect frame for this sweet little image.

Here is a look at my card:




For this project I used the following dies:

B151 - Cuties 3
B183 - Holly Leaves
DL189 - Lace Square Heart Mega Dolly
FRM135 - Swedish Spring Oval Frame
XL-7 - Oval Classic Large Stacker Nesting Die
XM-7 - Oval Classic

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

As always, if you are in need of more inspiration, why don't you take a moment and pop-in to see what my fellow Team mates have been up to.  I know you will be glad you did!

8" X 3"

Karen Wallace has stepped in today to design for us as Kianel needed a week off.  In keeping with our Non-Traditional Christmas Colors challenge theme, she has made two wonderful cards using the beautiful Lace Christmas Tree die and mirror card.  For this first card, she added a beautiful bow from the Ornamental Wreath and Bow die set to the top of the tree.  Across the top of the card, she added Lace Light Deco border.   And then she used Holly Corners embellishments. 


For this second 6x6 card created with the Scalloped French Flair, then added a layer of embossed paper with the Silver French Flair.  She used the new Lace Christmas Tree, die cutting 3 of them for a 3-D look.  The corners are holly leaves from the new Holly Leaf Strip.

Thanks Karen for stepping in and helping us out.  Be sure to visit the Cheery Lynn Designs challenge blog for more inspiration and to join in on this week's Non-Traditional Christmas color challenge for a chance to win $20 to the store. 

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.

This week our challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs is

• 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 our blog in your post
• You may only enter the challenge ONCE per week.

The winner will be chosen based on merit by Cheery Lynn Designs. They will receive a $20 coupon for shopping at the Cheery Lynn website. The challenge will end on Sunday night at 22:00 Eastern time.  And now to our inspiration for today......

Hi, it's Sandy with you today, Tamara will be back on Wednesday.  For my card I just had to use this new image called Christmas Hamster from Sylvia Zet.  I printed her onto Cryogen paper and then die cut around her with my Polynesian Sails Angel Wing.  I used a wonderful metallic red paper to cut my Polynesian Sails Oval frame, using spray adhesive to stick it down.  I colored the image with Copic markers, adding sparkly accents with Smooch ink and Viva Deco Pearl pen for the snowflakes.  I also added some gold leafing pen around the edges of the angel wing.  Across the bottom of my card, I added the lower part of a Tiffany Border. 


Because the frame is so large, I wanted a smaller poinsettia on this card.  So I created one using the two smallest petals on my Mega Fanciful Flourish; I cut 5 of each of them.  I love all the veining on the petals.  The flower measures about 1.75 inches wide.  Below the flower I added some pine from the new Wreath Strip die.  The DP is from Little Yellow Bicycle.  Finished size is 5 x 7 inches. 

Be sure to visit the Cheery Lynn Designs challenge blog for more inspiration.  You still have time to join in on this week's Tag you're it! challenge for a chance to win $20 to the store.  

Hello! Today I have a fun Thanksgiving card for you!

I created the fun scallop edge of my card using the English Tea Party Doily Angel Wing!

I cut the strip for my card base, then taped the angel wing to the end of the strip so that it wouldn’t move as I cut it.

Whaaala!! A fun decorative edge on your card!

The frame was cut using the middle size Classic Coved Rectangle Silver Stacker. I then cut out a portion of the coved rectangle block using Classic Square Silver Stacker making a fun frame for my sentiment! I finished off the frame with Lace Corner Deco B. I cut two layers of Fall Pumpkins, trimming off the outer edge of one layer and adhered it to the center of the pumpkin with foam adhesive for dimension to my pumpkin. I layered the pumpkins atop the larger of Two of Hearts tucking in leaves and foliage from Mini Fanciful Flourish, Wreath Strip, Small Leaves #2.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Welcome to Friday everyone! 

Today I wanted to share with you a couple of tags that I have made.  I used the DL193 - Horizon Coved Rectangle die to make the base of the tags instead of using a pre-made tag.  This gave me the flexibility to make the size I wanted.

If you have not had the chance to use these Reflection dies yet I highly recommend that you try them out.   They are so versatile and I keep finding another use for them.

There is a post by my very talented team mate Kianel here that shows you how these dies can be combined to make different shapes.  Check it out for more cool ideas : )

Here is a look at my tags:




For my first tag I layered 3D DL225 - Snowflowers Set One on top of the B238 - Love You More and used the B215 - Expandable Tiny Borders to hang the Snowflowers as ornaments.

A close-up of Tag 1:


For my second tag I made a 3D DL228 - Lacey Angel and finished it off with some of the pieces from B242 - Special Occasions.

A close-up of Tag 2:



For this project I used the following dies:

Tag 1 - Red Ribbon
B183 - Holly Leaves
B190 - Sentiment Frame #2
B215 - Expandable Tiny Borders
B216 - Wreath Strip
B238 - Love You More
B241 - Rose Leaf Strip
DL193 - Horizon Coved Rectangle
DL225 - Snowflowers Set One
XM-5 - XM Scalloped Circle

Tag 2 - White Ribbon
B189 - Sentiment Frame #1
B242 - Special Occasions
DL193 - Horizon Coved Rectangle
DL228 - Lacey Angel

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

Of course, if you would like more inspiration be sure to pop-in to see what my fellow Teamies have been up to!
Have a Cheery Day,

I started out making a tag, which evolved into an ornament which evolved into a tent card, lol.  I love mixing Cheery Lynn Designs dies.  For this I used two doilies, two snowflakes and a border die.

I began with the beautiful Pinwheel Doily with angel wing.  I found that you can spin the die cut in the die and add extra cuts to all the fins of the doily, so that is what I did using white card stock.  Then I cut the angel wing out of red card stock.  I rotated the angel wing to see more of the red.  Next layer up is the Notre Dame Cathedral Doily with angel wings.  I trimmed off the outer ring of the red card stock doily then added a DP angel wing.  Next up is Snowflake #7 in white with one of the smaller flakes from the new Snowflowers Set Two die cut from red in the center.   I used Tiffany Border along the bottom of the card. 


I used pop dots between each of the layers for some added dimension.  The last step was to add a bunch of pearl accents.  Finished size is 5.75" square.

I was asked to explain what I meant about spinning the paper in the die to add more cuts.  Here is a pic of the Pinwheel Doily die.

 
As you can see, every other fin of the doily has expanding circles on them.  Here you can see the doily after it is cut but still in the die.


So what I did was rotate the doily one fin to the right as shown in this next pic.  This will die cut the circles in the blank fins.


And here is the result, the white doily on the left is a normal cut, the red doily on the right is a rotated cut.  Two beautiful looks from one die. 


Be sure to visit the Cheery Lynn Designs challenge blog for more inspiration and to join in on this week's Tag you're it! challenge for a chance to win $20 to the store.