Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Once Upon a Time with Jenny Alia

Happy Thursday! It's Jenny posting with a card I created using some new dies from the April Cheery Lynn Designs release.

I designed this card around the Royal Scandinavian Oval Doily and everything evolved from there. The Shasta Daisy was colored with distress ink and shaped using a molding mat and stylus tool. I added a shimmery embossing paste to the edges with a paintbrush for sparkle. The daisy was layered on top of the new Deutchland Super Doily. It was the perfect size to layer behind the daisy for added interest.

The blue layer was cut using the Rectangular Scalloped A2 Frames die. A pattern was cut into it using the second largest of the Dutch Daisy Boutique Stacker A2 Frames. The blue layer sits on a piece of patterned paper cut with the Deutschland Boutique Stacker A2 Frames which was then backed with a kraft A2 size card. I popped up the Scandinavian Oval Doily with foam adhesive for dimension and then glued the Shasta Daisy, Pumpkin Carriage, Leafy Flourish and Dripping Butterfly around the main sentiment.

The Once Upon a Time Set was cut twice, once in blue and then again in brown. I offset them so the blue shadow would be visible underneath the brown. The tag they are layered on was cut using the Pierced Stacker 4 from patterned card stock and the edges were painted with clear stickles.

Cheery Lynn Dies

Deutschland Boutique Stacker A2 Frames - DL294

Dutch Daisy Boutique Stacker A2 Frames - DL293

Dripping Butterfly - DL266

Once Upon a Time Set -B543

Pumpkin Carriage With Mice - B471

Rectangular Scalloped A2 Frames - CM-6

Shasta Daisy - B310

Deutchland Super Doily DL301

Royal Scandinavian Oval Doily (set of 2) L307

Leafy Flourish B571
Pierced Stacker 4 (set of 6) XL22

Thanks for visiting and be sure to check out Cheery Lynn's Anything Goes Challenge for a chance to win a $20 shopping spree to the Cheery Lynn Designs shop!

Hugs, Jenny

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Mickey's Birthday with Lisa Blastick

Lisa 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Hello, Its Lisa back this week sharing with you a new card using more new diecuts from Cheery Lynn Designs! Today, I wanted to make a card dedicated to boys out there... This first new diecut from this month's release is the main inspiration for my card today! It is the Castle Edge Square. As soon as I seen the Castle Edge I thought of Mickey Mouse and the Cinderella castle. It was perfect!

The Pierced Banners went perfect with my Disney theme. I printed "to you" on white cardstock and used only a portion of it under the Mickey Mouse face. The Shaker card was used with the two smallest Circles form the Silver Stacker Layers. I added yellow, blue and red beads in the center. A fun card for a young boy to enjoy!

New Release Cheery Lynn Diecuts Used:

DL296 Castle Edge Square (Set of 6)

DL303 Pierced Banners

Other Cheery Lynn Diecuts Used:

L-4 Circle Classic Silver Stacker Layers

Thanks for stopping by today and be sure to join this week's challenge "Anything Goes" for a chance to win $20 at the Cheery Lynn Designs Store.

Hugs, Lisa

# banner # castle

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

World Traveler by Karen Maldonado

Karen 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Hello there, it is Karen here sharing a World Traveler notecard!

Today's card was inspired by fabulous new Paris Signs #2!

I wanted to make a themed notecard to be able to capture those

lovely memories of one's travels!

I used the new Curved Border Set down on the bottom part

of the card. It's been layered twice using two different pattern papers!

Loving the versatility of this border set, and I think you will too!!

Then, I decided to die cut the new Pierced Stacker #4.

To the top of the stacker, I die cut the Paris Signs #2.

Each of these layers is popped up for added dimension.

Next, I made three Black Eyed Susan flowers, and Flourish Leaf

using my distress inks! The centers of the flowers were die cut in

black cardstock using the Embellishments #3 die.

I added the Queen Anne's Lace Border to the top of the card!

Lastly, using the Royal Scandinavian Super Doily, I die cut it

and tucked it beneath the flowers for a delicate touch.

Dies used:

B548 Paris Signs #2

XL22 Pierced Stacker #4

B569 Curved Border Set

DL298 Royal Scandinavian Super Doily

B160 Queen Anne's Lace Border

B338 Black Eyed Susan Strip

B178 Flourish Leaf Strip

B265 Embellishments #3

We'll be checking out your entries for this week's

"Anything Goes" challenge, so come and join in for the

chance at a $20 gift certificate to the Cheery Lynn Designs store!

Until next time, enjoy your day!

Hugs & Smiles,

Karen

# Black Eyed Susan Strip # Curved Border Set

Monday, April 27, 2015

Thinking of you by Eva Dobilas

Eva 3:30 AM 3 Comments

Hi there, this is Eva and I have a Thinking of You card to share with you today. I decided to create a card base with the A2 Frames Rectangular Scalloped dies using craft card stock. I die cut a Lattice Circle Frame out of turquoise color card stock and cut it down a little bit to fit it onto a smaller sized A2 Frames Rectangular Scalloped which I die cut out of white card stock.

Than I die cut my rose and leaves twice using Rose and Leaves out of water color card stock and a gold glitter card stock as well. I also die cut a Leafy Flourish using water color card stock again and painted it in along with my rose using water colors.

I tied a jute around my panel, added the flourish, the rose and the gold glittered leaves. Finally I die cut a tag using the Tags 4 out of cream card stock and stamped my sentiment onto it and tied it with the jute.

Here is the list of Cheery Lynn dies I used to create this card:

B571 Leafy Flourish

CM-6 A2 Frames Rectangular Scalloped

FRM116 Lattice Circle Frame

B263 Tags 4

B532 Rose and Leaves

Thanks for stopping by and good luck to everyone for entering our Weekly Challenge with a chance of winning a $20 spending spree here is Cherry Lynn Designs.

Hugs,

Eva

# background # Eva Dobilas

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 182 - Anything Goes

shulsart 3:30 AM 4 Comments

As always, the entries we had last week for our Mother's Day were wonderful. Thank you to all who entered, we enjoy seeing your creations with our dies. This week our challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs is

Anything Goes

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.

This is the last week that we have Nancy Hill designing with us. Nancy, your projects have been wonderful; thank you so much for helping us out. 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) .....

Debbie Brownmiller

7.25 x 8 inch layout

Dies used:

Fancy Bird House, Live Laugh Love, Pierced Stacker #3,

Royal Scandinavian Tag 2, Judy's Blooms, Embellishment #2

Nancy Hill

Dies used:

Build a Flower #2, Chrysanthemum Strip, Baby's Breath Flower Kit,

Lace Corner Deco E, English Tea Party Doily, Francesca Border

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

# challenge # Debbie Brownmiller

Mother's Day Challenge Winner

shulsart 3:25 AM 3 Comments

What fabulous entries we had last week. Using Random.org, the winner of our Mother's Day challenge is

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

Timestamp: 2015-04-26 04:24:23 UTC

#17 Mee

Congratulations, Mee. 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 Anything Goes challenge.

# winners

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Springtime Card by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 5 Comments

Hi Everyone, It's Julie here. Today I am showcasing four of Cheery Lynn's new dies on my card. Let me show you how I built my layers on my 5.75 x 5.75 card.

On a length of patterned paper I placed my Curved Border set with the little pierced holes about half an inch in from the edge. I then added my cutting strip to the edge of my paper matching up with my pierced design, holding down with some low tack tape to keep in place. Inking the edges and adding on my lace strip edge.

I sprayed a little water onto my paper and gathered it into folds. I dried with my heat gun, highlighting the folds with Distress Ink. I then stitched around the edges for more detail.

You will notice my pierced stacker had the middle section cut out to fit neatly into the space available on my card and to compliment my oval doilies shape.

On my image I coloured her dress with Distress Pens and mounted onto my doily frame. I die cut my frame in white cardstock and then pressed into my Versamark Ink pad and heat embossed some Aged Aqua Frantage powder.

My branches I shaded with Copic Pens. My Cherry Blossom was shaded with Distress Ink and a Pearl added to the centre which I coloured with Alcohol Inks.

My sweet little Blue Tit was shaded with Distress Inks and edged with a Black Fine Liner Pen around his face and a diamante added for his eye. I absolutely adore these new birds from Cheery Lynn which come in a set of four ....... a must have !

Thanks for stopping by to see my post today and good luck to everyone entering our weekly challenge.

Cheery Lynn New Release Dies Used:

Other Cheery Lynn Dies Used :

Julie x

# Branches # Cherry Blossom

Friday, April 24, 2015

Happy Card with Corina Finley

Corina 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hello!

So glad you can join me, Corina, for today's blog post! I have used three New Release dies on this weeks card - so lets jump in and take a closer look!

The three New Release dies that I used are the Royal Scandinavian Super Doily, Pierced Banners and Leafy Flourish.

Above is a close up of the Royal Scandinavian Super Doily die, cut from white cardstock. I backed it with dark blue cardstock and add rhinestones for sparkle! This die is so elegant and can be used in so many ways.

In this next picture, I used the Pierced Banners and the Leafy Flourish dies.

I layered the large and small Pierced Banners die to the card base and added the Tags 4 die with my sentiment to the top right in the picture above.

I then added the Leafy Flourish die on top which was cut from white cardstock. I wanted more layers so, I added two petal layers of the Sweet Christine to the larger flower and two petal layers from the Embellishment #2 to the smaller flower. Added a rhinestone to the flower centers and down the side of the large Pierced Banners.

New Release Dies:

Leafy Flourish (Set of 2) - B571

Pierced Banners (Set of 3) - DL303

Royal Scandinavian Super Doily - DL298

Previous Release Dies:

Sweet Christine - B434

Embellishment #2 - B188

Anastasia Border - B136

Tags 4 - B263

I hope you will play along in our weekly Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 181 - Mother's Day. You could win a $20 shopping spree at the online Cheery Lynn Design Store.

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create

# Anastasia Border # Corina Finley

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Mother's Day Card with Jenny Alia

Jenny Alia 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hi, it's Jenny posting today with a Mother's Day card. After seeing the beautiful flowers Julie made with the Black Eyed Susan Strip die I couldn't wait to play with this die. The leaves are all from the Ivy Corner Flourish cut with the same background paper. I also tucked in some Dandelions.

I cut the Concentric Circles Mesh Border out of the background card stock, layered patterned paper behind the negative space and then glued another concentric circles border in blue on top. I kept some of the white negative cut outs and glued them back into the center of the border in a pattern.

Stickles were added to the edges of the Black Eyed Susans and I used a little gold paint on the edges of the dandelions.

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies

Happy B226
Mother's B232
Day B236
Ivy Corner Flourish B315
Dandelions B453
Black Eyed Susan Strip B338
Concentric Circles Mesh Border B402

Thanks for visiting and be sure to check out this week's Mother's Day Challenge for a chance to win $20 towards shopping at Cheery Lynn Designs!

Hugs, Jenny

# Black Eyed Susan Strip # Concentric Circles Mesh border

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Your Kindness...with Lisa Blastick

Lisa 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hello, Its Lisa back this week sharing more New Cheery Lynn Diecuts from this month's new release! I was in the mood for yellow this week and found these beautiful papers to go with all the new beautiful diecuts. First, I love the A2 Step Card Bundle Set. It's so easy and fast to use, plus it has beautiful intricate swirls to add to your card.

I used the Dutch Daisy Oval Doily onthe side of the step card. Then I traced the inside oval that comes with the Dutch Daisy Oval Doily and added pearls along the edges. The sentiment was printed on cardstock and then diecut with Royal Scandinavian Tag 2. I layered it on top of the Dutch Daisy Oval Doily. The edges of the tag are pierced and it really is a wonderful addiction to your collection.

The side view of the Step Card. I added 2 layers of the Feathered Friends to make the bird study attached to the front and in the background corner I used the Royal Scandinavian Tag 1. Last but not least, I added some flowers made with Medium Rose and Miniature Rose.

New Release Cheery Lynn Diecuts Used:

B557 Feathered Friends (Set of 4)

B545 Royal Scandinavian Tag 1 (Set of 2)

B546 Royal Scandinavian Tag 2 (Set of 2)

B587 (A2) Step Card Bundle Set 4 (Set of 4)

DL 306 Dutch Daisy Oval Doily (Set of 2)

Other Cheery Lynn Diecuts Used:

B152 Miniature Rose

B154 Medium Rose

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out this week's challenge Mother's Day for a chance to win $20 at the Cheery Lynn Designs Store!

Hugs, Lisa

# Birds # Doilies

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Wish Big with Karen Maldonado

Karen 3:30 AM 3 Comments

Hello Cheery Lynn friends, Karen here sharing

a sweet birthday card with you today!

First, I used two of the stackers from the

NEW Heart Edge Square (set of 6) and die cut

them in two different designer papers!

Then, I layered the pink designer paper,using the Square Classic Silver Stackers,

onto grey designer paper to create a subtle backing!

This layer has been popped up using pop dots!

Next step was to die cut the most adorable NEW Eloise the Elephant die.

To make the "HAPPY" part of Eloise's tummy stand out, I backed

it with blue designer paper.

You'll see I also backed the toes, eyebrow, and eye with

designer papers too!

I also wanted her to stand out, so I added pop dots beneath!!

Lastly, I used the NEW Leafy Flourish (set of 2) with green designer paper

and tucked them behind the elephant.

I then layered four tiny flowers I created using

the Embellishments #3 die set, and added pearl centers to each flower!

To finish my card, I used the Sentiment Frame #2 die set

and stamped the sentiment!

List of dies I used:

DL295 Heart Edge Square (set of 6)

L1 Square Classic Silver Stackers

B562 Eloise the Elephant

B571 Leafy Flourish (set of 2)

B190 Sentiment Frame #2

B265 Embellishments #3

Thanks for stopping by today!

For a chance at winning a $20 gift certificate,

come and join in on this week's challenge 181 - "Mother's Day"!!

Have a fabulous day!

Karen

# Eloise the Elephant # Embellishments #3

Monday, April 20, 2015

Happy Mother's Day from Eva Dobilas

Eva 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Hello, this is Eva here today with a pretty Mother's Day card using this week's challenge theme!

To start my card I used the Horizon Rectangle Boutique Stackers Frame to create my card base out of pink card stock. Than I found a pink patterned paper, which I cut to fit inside the card base and embossed with the Hearts and Rose Leaves Embossing Plate and layered it on a gold paper.

I than die cut a gorgeous Fleur De Lis Doily out of light blue card stock. Also die cut a Royal Scandinavian Tag 2 out of cream color cardstock. Also die cut the pretty flourish pieces that come in the same tag set out of gold paper and adhered it on top of the cream color tag and finally gold embossed my Mother's Day sentiment.

And of course since it's a Mother's day card, how could I not add flowers? I created a beautiful Chrysanthemum and two cute Sweet Christine flowers. I also added the brand new Leafy Flourish. Finally I aded a cute butterfly using Mini Butterflies with Angel Wings.

Here is the list of the dies I used to create today's card:

DL304 - Fleur De Lis Doily

B546 Royal Scandinavian Tag 2

DL270 Horizon Rectangle Boutique Stackers Frame

B311 Chrysanthemum Strip

B434 Sweet Christine

B571 Leafy Flourish

E134 Hearts and Rose Leaves Embossing Plate

D138 Mini Butterflies with Angel Wings

Thanks for stopping by and good luck to everyone for entering our Weekly Challenge with a chance of winning a $20 spending spree here is Cherry Lynn Designs.

Hugs,

Eva

# Doily # Eva Dobilas

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 181 - Mother's Day

shulsart 3:30 AM 4 Comments

As always, the entries we had last week for our Pretty in Purple were wonderful. Thank you to all who entered, we enjoy seeing your creations with our dies. This week our challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs is

Mother's Day

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.

We have a guest designer with us for the next 4 weeks, Nancy Hill. Please make her feel welcome. 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) .....

Debbie Brownmiller

Dies used:

Curved Border Set, Dutch Daisy Super Doily 1, Paris Signs 2,

Pierced Stacker #2, Arizona Cowboy, Baby's Breath Flower Kit,

Tiny Flower Kit, Tiny Fanciful Flourish Right & Left

Nancy Hill

Dies used:

Anastasia Border, Dainty Dutch Deco Frame, Build a Flower #2,

Victorian Romance Flourish, Mexican Tile Pattern, Rose Leaf Strip

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

# challenge # Debbie Brownmiller

Pretty in Purple Challenge Winner

shulsart 3:25 AM 3 Comments

What fabulous entries we had last week. Using Random.org, the winner of our Pretty in Purple challenge is

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

Timestamp: 2015-04-19 01:25:51 UTC

#19 - ionabunny

Congratulations, Gail. 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 Mother's Day challenge.

# winners

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Ballerina Girl by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Hi Everyone, It's Julie here today hosting the blog. I think we all have dreamed of becoming a Ballet Dancer at some point in our lives and today I am showcasing the beautiful Arabesque Ballerina from the April 2015 New Release.

I die cut my frame, inking the edges with Tattered Rose Distress Ink. I stamped a script stamp and also inked the edges of the centrepiece, finally mounting all onto a peach/pink coloured cardstock.

My Ballet shoes were cut out twice in white Cardstock, I coloured them with Copic Pens and a layer of Mica Powders to give them a look of Satin. I double layered my bow for added dimension.

My Ballerina was cut out in white cardstock and coloured with Copic Pens and Distress Ink onto her dress, with a touch of Mica Powders on her shoes. The bottom part of her dress was layered up 3 times to give added dimension and some tiny flowers added to the waist band.

Tiny flowers were added onto my flourish, finally finishing off my card with some bling. My finished card measures approx - 41/5" x 6"

Cheery Lynn New Release Dies Used:

Other Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

Hope you have a lovely weekend and good luck to everyone entering our Weekly Challenge. Thanks for stopping by.

Julie x

# A2 Frames Rectangular Classic # Arabesque Ballerina

Friday, April 17, 2015

Thinking of You Card with Corina Finley

Corina 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Hello Fellow Crafters!

Welcome to another Friday Card.

Have you seen the Cheery Lynn's April New Release! What do you think? Which dies are your favourites? Sooo many new wonderful dies to choose from! I am loving all the new creative possibilities these dies bring to my craft table!

Now to this weeks card!

I used all New Release dies except for the Cattails and Reeds. There is always an exception!

The photo above, features the new Royal Scandinavian Tag 1 die in blue cardstock and I layered my sentiment stamped on white cardstock on top. It comes with the extra filigree which I adhered to the top right corner of my card. You can use the extra filigree to layer on top of the base or on its own. You can use this die vertically or horizontally which is also very useful!

The Cattails and Reeds die went so well with my pattern paper, I just had to use it! I cut it out twice from the same blue cardstock as the card base and the Royal Scandinavian Tag 1 die. To create a dimensional look on the cattails I used flower soft.

Above you can see the New Release Pierced Stacker #3. I used 1 of the 6 dies in the set to cut the Heron pattern Paper. To create the thin blue card stock mat, I simply flipped the die over, traced it onto blue card stock and then hand trimmed it out. I really think this die creates an elegant feel to my card.

I used two dies from the New Release Curved Border Set for the bottom layers of my card. The set has four dies to create a mix and match design details to your card.

New Release Dies used:

Curved Border Set (Set of 4) - B569

Pierced Stacker #3 (Set of 6) - XL-21

Royal Scandinavian Tag 1 - B545

Previous Release Dies used:

Cattails and Reeds - B389

I hope you will play along in our weekly Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 180 - Pretty in Purple. You could win a $20 shopping spree at the online Cheery Lynn Design Store.

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create

# Cattails and Reeds # Corina Finley