Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Have a Magical Night

Happy Tuesday everyone! leslierahye here with a fun Halloween card with some of my favorite festive dies. I chose dies that would echo the circles in the image. The dots in the Horizon Square Boutique Frame, the Tiny Bubbles Border and the Dots in the Embossing plate all bring focus back to the little frog and his spots! The bats and Spider Web Mesh Border were both cut from Glitter card stock for that added glitz. A bit of pen stitching on the focus square and some 3 dimensional bats finish off the card.

Cheery Lynn Dies used

Spider Web Mesh Border - B322
Going Batty - A194
Tiny Bubbles Borders - B296
Horizon Square Boutique Stacker Frames - DL253
Dots/Lines - E120
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my project!

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Remember there is still time to join the new challenge!!! Challenge #152 is Lace There is a chance to win a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs. Thank you for stopping by today!

Monday, September 29, 2014

Happy Holidays Tag with Rhonda

Rhonda Van Ginkel 3:30 AM 3 Comments

Happy Monday to you, it's Rhonda here today to host the blog.

I have a little holiday tag inspiration for you today featuring one of the newer release dies, the Happy Holidays Hanger.

For fun I used a bit of non traditional holiday color scheme.

I used the Scalloped Rectangle die to create my tag base. Next I added the Horizon Coved Rectangle, cut it apart and layered the Swedish Spring Oval Frame in a horizontal position.

You'll see some delicate snowflakes cut from vellum and accented with tiny bling. The Happy Holidays Hanger sentiment in a bright color and the Pretty Pretty Bow finish the design along with some seam binding ribbon and hemp bow.

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies Used:

Happy Holidays Hanger - B476

Snowflakes - C146

Swedish Spring Oval Frame - FRM135

Pretty Pretty Bows - B422

Horizon Coved Rectangle Boutique Stacker - DL251

Scalloped Rectangle - DL199

Please join us this week for our all new challenge - Lace (real or faux). You could win a $20 gift certificate to the Cheery Lynn Designs online store just for playing along! You can't win if you don't play, so let's see those entries!!!

Thanks so much for stopping on over today. Have a fantastic week!

~ Rhonda

p.s. I did want to mention that I am going to be taking a short break, but will be back soon. Thanks so much!

# Horizon Coved Rectangle Boutique Stacker Frames # Ovals

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 152 - Lace

shulsart 3:30 AM 3 Comments

What wonderful entries we had last week for our Die Cut Flowers challenge. Thank you to all who entered, we enjoy seeing your creations with our dies. This week our challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs is

Lace

(real or faux)

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.

The winner will be chosen randomly. They will receive $20 towards shopping at the Cheery Lynn website. The challenge will end on Saturday night at 18:00 Eastern time.

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

Debbie Brownmiller

Dies used:

Kaleidoscope Lace French Flair Stackers, Darling Daisies,

Dancing Doily Lace Border, Grass Border, With (set of 2)

Sympathy (set of 2), Tiny Things with Wings

Karen Maldonado

Dies used:

Sweet Christine, Build a Flower #1, Cheery Blossom,
Fanciful Flourish Left, Shasta Daisy, Sweet Williams,
Dimensional Small Leaves #2, Silver Oval Stackers,
French Pastry Tiny Doily, Merry Christmas Hanger (set of 2)

Remember, you MUST use a Cheery Lynn Designs die to enter this challenge.

# challenge # Debbie Brownmiller

Die Cut Flowers Challenge Winner

shulsart 3:25 AM 2 Comments

What wonderful entries we had last week. Using Random.org, the winner of our Die Cut Flowers challenge is

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

Timestamp: 2014-09-28 00:54:01 UTC

#11 - Mrs. A

Congratulations, Mrs. A. Please contact me 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. And thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge. We hope to see you again in this week's Lace challenge.

# winners

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Vintage Layered Card by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 5 Comments

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Hi Everyone, Julie here today hosting the blog. This week I thought I would share a vintage style card with you.

I thought I would show you previous layers on my card as it makes it easier to see. The first 2 layers glued onto my card were torn at the edges and some distress added to the edges and I placed my tiny doily onto both sides. My next layer, I die cut out the Horizon Square Frame, distressed the edges and added some creases onto the paper and placed my die cut heart.

My image I glued lace around and added to my Magic Mirror die which I had distressed the edges on and added some gilding wax too.

Layers of different leaves and flourishes were added which I cut out in different coordinating papers. My roses were die cut from white cardstock. I shaded the paper with my Copics before building my roses. Finally adding a few pearls on my card to finish.

Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

Good luck to everyone entering our challenge this week and thanks for stopping by.

Julie x

# Celtic Heart # Dimensional Leaves

Friday, September 26, 2014

Copy Cat Card with Corina Finley

Corina 3:30 AM 3 Comments

Hello Everyone,

Corina here with you today with a Question!

Do you remember the card below that I posted back on Friday, July 25, 2014? The card was called Christmas in July!

Do you see the similarity between the two cards? The Card "Map" or sketch is the same. A flip of the large flower, another flower instead of the snowflake and created using a different colour palette.

I love how using the same Cheery Lynn Design dies in different colours can create spectacular results! Try doing this with a favourite card of yours!

As you can tell the Fishtail Banners are a favourite of mine! I find them so versatile. I even used pieces from the top of the largest Fishtail banner to tuck under the tears of the pattern paper.

I also mimicked the writing on the pattern paper to my Shasta Daisy flower by stamping on each layer before assembling them. Applied a little ink to the edges and a rhinestone!

So next week I am challenging myself to work with the colour pink. So make sure to check in next Friday and see what I have come up with!

Dies used:
Shasta Daisy - B310

Sweet Christine - B434

Coved Rectangle - XM-10
Scalloped Coved Rectangle - DL195
Horizon Fishtail Banners (3 Dies) - DL278

Tiny Fanciful Flourish Right & Left (Set of 2) - B387

I hope you will play along in our weekly Challenge 151 - Die Cut Flowers. You could win a $20 shopping spree at the online Cheery Lynn Designs store!

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,
Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create!

# Corina Finley # Coved Rectangle

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Autumn card with Irina Gerschuk

Irina Gerschuk 3:30 AM 5 Comments

Hi my dear friends!
It's Irina Gerschuk with you today. And I'd like to share with you my new card:

Some close-ups:
Here you can better see different layers of die-cuts

I used decorative berries, natural elements and liquid pearls to highlight the die-cutting

Dies used:
- Horizon Rectangle Boutique Stacker Frames - DL270
- Lace Circle - DL188
- French Pastry Doily - DL102
- Dimensional Small Leaves #2 - D134
- Dimensional Large Leaves #1 - D135
- Sentiment Tag 1 (Set of 3) - B424
- Pine Branches - B146

And don't miss our new challenge - the theme is so versatile, and the price is yummy)))))

Thank you for stopping by!
Have a lovely day!
Irina

# Branches # card

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

MY HEART IS FULL OF LOVE.....

Anita Kejriwal 3:30 AM 4 Comments

HELLO !!!
My dear friends, I am Anita with my favourite cheery lynn dies this wednesday. I,m so thrilled because this week we are asking you to play with die cut flowers. Isn't that fabulous !! Now that you all know me, you can very well guess, why this is my favourite, I love playing with wide range of flower dies with Cheery Lynn and here I will show how one single die can be used to create a variety of flowers. Here I have used the Rose die to create two types of blossoms instead of using it to make the rose. And of course , there is the shasta daisy strip die, which I have used to create a zinnia type of flower instead of regular daisy. The point I want to make is that you can use your imagination to make numerous flowers from one single die. Now here is my card, with all the supplies listed below.

Large Rose B155
Shasta Daisy B310
Big leaves from Build a flower #3
Flourish Leaf Strip B178
Heart to Heart Doily DL 106
Horizon square boutique stqcker frames DL 253
Clock w/angel wing (steampunk series) B357
heat embossed the edges with stampendous embossing enamel powder
stamps frpm Penny black and Justrite
Inks-versfine onyx black, Distress markers, Bundled Sage

Now to our challenge----DIE CUT FLOWERS, You can play along this challenge and win for yourself a 20 $ shopping spree. So take out your cheey lynn flower dies and play along.
Have a great day ahead.. See you next week.

# Anita Kejriwal # flowers

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Happy Fall Y'all!

LeslieRahye 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Happy Tuesday everyone! leslierahye here with a Autumnal Equinox greeting. Fall is my favorite time of the year...crisp mornings, colorfuln leaves, pumpkins!!! Naturally I wanted to share this fall greeting! I distressed some kraft core card stock and crumpled up the papers. I diecut my leaves and brought out veins with chalks. I layered my sentiment on leaves and a doily and a distressed background. I created a focal flower with the sunflower die and used the fringe strip of the black-eyed susan for the center. Some burlap string and a molded bee embellishment completed the card

Cheery Lynn Dies used

Sunflower - DL121
Dimensional Small Leaves #1 - D133
Black Eyed Susan Strip - B338
Lilith Doily w/ Angel Wing - DL263
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my project!

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Remember there is still time to join the new challenge!!! Challenge #151 is Die Cut Flowers There is a chance to win a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs. Thank you for stopping by today!

# Dimensional Leaves # Doilies

Monday, September 22, 2014

All About Flowers with Rhonda

Rhonda Van Ginkel 3:30 AM 3 Comments

Happy Monday to all of our Cheery Lynn Designs crafty friends! It's Rhonda here today to host the blog for you. If you're new to Cheery Lynn Designs, welcome!

Have you seen the new challenge theme for this week? It's all about Die Cut Flowers! I wanted to feature some of my favorite floral dies on my card this week.

"Always" (A2 Vertical Card)

My card features our Dandelions, Tea Rose Small, Tea Rose Medium and Sweet Christine flowers. The anchor of my design is the Ankara Lace Doily with Angel Wing.

I used a bit of Diamond Stickles on the Dandelion tips for interest. Some cheesecloth and a raffia bow were final touches along with the Add A Flourish that I tucked between my Sentiment Tag 2.

A few little pearl accents complete my card.

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies Used:
Dandelions (Set of 2) - B453
Sweet Christine - B434
Tea Rose Small - B435
Tea Rose Medium - B436
Ankara Lace Doily with Angel Wing - DL232
Ankara Lace Border - B332
Sentiment Tag 2 - B425
Tags 4 - B263
Horizon Fishtail Banners - DL278
Add A Flourish - B456
Card Maker Rectangle Classic - CM-1
Fancy Corner Cuts 4 - B431
Ivy Strip - B304

We would love to see your Die Cut Flower creations too! Why not play along with this week's challenge? You can check out all of the details here and be in the running to win a yummy prize.

Thanks so much for stopping on over today, have a fabulous week!
~ Rhonda

# Add a Flourish # Ankara Lace Border

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 151 - Die Cut Flowers

shulsart 3:30 AM 4 Comments

What wonderful entries we had last week for our Things with Wings challenge. Thank you to all who entered, we enjoy seeing your creations with our dies. This week our challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs is

Die Cut Flowers

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.

The winner will be chosen randomly. They will receive $20 towards shopping at the Cheery Lynn website. The challenge will end on Saturday night at 18:00 Eastern time.

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

Debbie Brownmiller

Dies used:

Matchbox Large, Large Rose, Add a Flourish(set of 2),

Alison's Ribbons, Tea Rose Medium

Karen Maldonado

Dies used:

Silver Square Stackers, Silver French Flair Stackers, Tags #1

Build a Flower #2, Sweet Christine, Fanciful Flourish Left

Remember, you MUST use a Cheery Lynn Designs die to enter this challenge.

# challenge # Debbie Brownmiller

Things with Wings Challenge Winner

shulsart 3:25 AM 5 Comments

What wonderful entries we had last week. Using Random.org, the winner of our Things with Wings challenge is

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

Timestamp: 2014-09-21 01:55:52 UTC

#4 - Theresa P

Congratulations, Theresa. Please contact me 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. And thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge. We hope to see you again in this week's Die Cut Flowers challenge.

# winners

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Flutterby Butterfly by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Hi Everyone, Julie here hosting the blog today. Hope you are having a nice weekend and getting some crafty time to yourself. I love the elegance of white on white cards and with this weeks challenge being Things with Wings, I felt inspired to combine both together.

My corners I creased slightly down the middle and glued at the edges to give a 3D effect. I also layered up my dies but rather than gluing totally flat onto my card, I layered with silicone glue to encourage the light to reflect in between the layers to show the beauty of my die cuts.

My butterflies I sprayed some glue onto and added an extra fine glitter to also capture the light and give some sparkle.

Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

Good luck to everyone entering our challenge this week and I will see you all next Saturday.

Julie x

# Circle Classic Silver Stackers # Circle Inverted Scallop

Friday, September 19, 2014

Just for You Card with Corina!

Corina 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hello Friends,

It is Corina here with you today, to share my 'Regal' red toned card made for You! I am very pleased how this card turned out. I hope you like it too!

I enjoy using the small Gardenia Flower die. Such beautiful layers. To create the center of the flower, I used my tweezers to roll the center - the four petal layer. I formed and curled each petal with a stylus on a piece of foam. I then adhered each layer together.

The layering of the Ambergris Doily and the Polynesian Sails Mini doily worked great! Each and every layer adds depth, richness and detail.

Dies used:

You (Set of 2) - B235

Sentiment Frame #1 - B189

Small Gardenia - B433

Flourish Leaf Strip - B178

Small Exotic Butterflies #1 w/Angel Wings - DL112AB

Ambergris Doily w/ Angel Wing - DL241

Horizon Fishtail Banners (3 Dies) - DL278

Polynesian Sails Mini - DL237

I hope you will play along in this weeks Challenge on the Cheery Lynn Site - Things with Wings

You could win a $20 shopping spree at the online Cheery Lynn Designs store!

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create.

# Ambergris Doily # Corina Finley

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Wedding card with Irina Gerschuk

Irina Gerschuk 3:30 AM 5 Comments

Hi my dear friends!
It's Irina Gerschuk with you today. And I'd like to share with you my new card:

Some close-ups:
Here you can better see different layers of die-cuts

I highlighted pennants with stamps and Heart Chain Border with pearls

I used 3 different shapes of dies and crepe paper to create the flower

Dies used:
- Fiona’s Magic Mirror - FRM140
- Dimensional Small Leaves #2 - D134
- Heart Chain Border - B115
- Snowflake Doily w/Angel Wing - DL279
- Horizon Fishtail Banners (3 Dies) - DL278
- Sweet Williams - D137
- Sweet Williams Strip - B307
- Polynesian Sails Oval - DL153
- Daisy Strip - B259
- Pennant Die - D103
- Wine a Bit - B495

And don't miss our new challenge - the theme is so versatile, and the price is yummy)))))

Thank you for stopping by!
Have a lovely day!
Irina

# banner # Borders

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

MONEY GIFT ENVELOPES WITH ANITA KEJRIWAL

Anita Kejriwal 3:30 AM 3 Comments

Hello friends,
I,m Anita back with my weekly wednesday post. The festive season and the wedding season is right there in India and I like to give gift vouchers or money as gifts to my friends and relatives so that they can buy whatever they like and for this purpose, I like to make lots of envelopes in different shapes and according to the ocassion. Here I bring to you a very special wedding envelope and I loved the soft shades of this .

All the flowers are handmade using the build a flower die and even the envelope is handmade.

So do have look and one can change the colour of the flowers and the envelope according to one 's own choice.

List of supplies

Build a flower#2
Lilith Doily with angel wing
Wedding vows FRM 138
Fanciful flourish B118
Dancing Doily lace border DL 134
Heart to Heart doily DL106
Deco lace corner F B166
Best Wishes Phrase B244
Faded jeans distress inks
stamp from Fiskars
Paper-Papermania
pearls from stash

Did you see the new challenge?? Its Things with Wings !!! So get going and use all your imagination to come up with beautiful projects using cheery lynn dies only. The prize is a 20$ shopping spree at the cheery lynn store.

# Build A Flower # Envelope. anita kejriwal

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Winter Card

LeslieRahye 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Happy Tuesday everyone! leslierahye here with a winter card using the Birch Tree and the Fancy Deer. I began by making an embossed snowflake background with a piece of vellum. I layered snowflakes and fancy deer with torn pieces of "snow". I created depth by using foam tape. I added "shimmer" to the snow background with pan pastel. A bit of "snow" in the front and on the branches collected as glitter. My focal panel was mounted onto a matte with a bit of Snowflake Mesh Border. A bunny from the Birch Tree set and a wee Hello finish off the card.

Cheery Lynn Dies used

Birch Tree with Cute Critters - B370
Dancing Doily Lace Border - DL134
Snowflakes - C146
Fancy Deer - B485
Snowflake Mesh Border - B372
Hello (Set of 2) - B346

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my project!

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Remember there is still time to join the new challenge!!! Challenge #150 is Things with Wings There is a chance to win a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs. Thank you for stopping by today!

# Borders # leslierahye

Monday, September 15, 2014

Patriotic Page with Rhonda

Rhonda Van Ginkel 3:30 AM 3 Comments

Greetings and welcome to the Cheery Lynn Designs blog! It's Rhonda here today to host the blog.

I made a patriotic page today featuring a photo of Mt. Rushmore that I took when we were on vacation this summer. There was something so patriotic and majestic about seeing the monument in person.

I started with an 8x8 piece of white cardstock and used Fancy Corners #4 on the corners. Next, I used the Scalloped Rectangle and aligned it to cut a 7x7" square. (This is one of the Reflections Boutique dies.) At the top I used a Victorian Romance Flourish as a hanger type of element in between my layers. Lace Heart Square is next.

I had some pieces left from my project last week, so you will see the Foliage Embossed white cardstock and French Lattice on top, tucked under the Southern Charm Valance on the right.

To anchor my photo I used the Polynesian Sails Oval, then layered a medium Horizon Oval Boutique Stacker with foam squares. The photo is then attached with foam squares. This gives me a lot of area to layer my cuts. On the bottom you'll see a snip of Sophia's Heart Border, another piece left over from a previous project.

Layered on the right are the Quills and a Wheat cluster, topped with the Star and Birds of Earth and Sky. To the left of that is a Branch. There are Cloud cuts layered under the photo and one attached with foam squares.