Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

If The Shoe Fits....with Lisa Blastick

Hi. It's Lisa back today sharing a new card for Cheery Lynn Designs! I really had NO idea what I wanted to do this week since the challenge is "Anything Goes". However, I recently received the "Dainty Dutch Deco Frame" and I wanted to use it soon. I actually wasn't going to make a Halloween card even though it is really right around the corner....but then I received the beautiful "Women's Shoe" and thought of making it red. Hence the title"If The Shoe Fits". I printed up the sentiment and then die-cut it out with "Royal Scandinavian Tag 2". I die-cut it out again in black and placed it behind the white for a shadow.

The background paper has bats with red eyes. So I thought why not red bats with black eyes? The bats are part of the "Bat Family" I die-cut three to balance the red of the elegant high heel shoe. I then found this witch online with height heels on her feet and fussy cut her out.

A closer view with some pop dots under the shoe, witch, sentiment and bats.

List of Cheery Lynn Designs dies Used:

CABD-68 Women's Shoe

B596 Bat Family

B546 Royal Scandinavian Tag 2

DL Dainty Dutch Deco Frame

Be sure to check out this week's challenge "Anything Goes" for your chance to win $20 from the Cheery Lynn Designs Store.

Have a great day!

Hugs, Lisa

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Wishing You Sunny Days by Karen Maldonado

Karen 3:30 AM 7 Comments

Hello there sweet Cheery Lynn friends!

It's Karen here, sharing my "anything goes" challenge car. Today, marks two years since I became a Cheery Lynn Designs Team Member. It's very bittersweet posting my last blog entry for this amazing company! On that note, I thought this sentiment was fitting for expressing my gratitude for all your lovely comments throughout my term here as DT member. If you happen to follow my blog, I will still be promoting the use of these gorgeous and intricate dies!

I love to layer, so basically, I started with the French Flair Classic Silver Stacker die as my base. Next, layered the Horizon Fishtail Banner right on top of the French Flair piece. Then, I die cut the Pierced Stacker #2 and stamped my sentiment. I layered this onto the Circle Classic Silver Stacker,

and then place it onto the Daphne Doily! You will notice that I intentionally left some of the pieces within the doily for a slightly different look.

Then, I made a blue daisy using the Daisy Strip! I die cut the Leafy Flourish and Leaf sets and placed them both underneath my flower. I added a sweet rhinestone flourish as well! Lastly, I cut out one of the butterflies from my Small Exotic Butterflies set, and added a few shiny pearls.

List of Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

French Flair Classic Silver Stacker

DL278 Horizon Fishtail Banner

XL20 Pierced Stacker #2

DL264 Daphne Doily w/Angel Wing

L4 Circle Classic Silver Stacker

B259 Daisy Strip

B571 Leafy Flourish

SF1 Leaf

DL112AB Small Exotic Butterflies #1

Come join in the fun playing this week's challenge for the chance at a $20 gift certificate to the on-line store!

Hugs & Smiles,

Karen

# Circle Classic Silver Stackers # Daisy Strip

Monday, September 28, 2015

Thank you card by Eva Dobilas

Eva 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hi there, this is Eva, and I have a pretty fall related card to share with you, since the season is here. This week's challenge is anything goes, so I figured, it's perfect time for this.

To create this card I started with an A2 size card out of black card stock, than cut a smaller sized patterned to fit on it. Next I die cut a Royal Scandinavian Doily out of black card stock and backed it up with the same size patterned paper. Next I die cut a Curved Border Set out of red card stock and added it the bottom and top of the patterned paper and added my doily.

Next I die cut two Sunflower dies and colored the flower petals in. I die cut a Flourish #14 and a Leafy Flourish and added it to my flower. Finally I die cut a Thank You #2 sentiment and added to my card front.

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

DL280 - Royal Scandinavian Doily

DL121 - Sunflower

CAFLRS - Flourish #14

B571 - Leafy Flourish

B569 - Curved Border Set

B540 - Thank You #2

Thanks for stopping by today and Good Luck to everyone entering our Weekly Challenge.

Hugs,

Eva

# Doily # Edgers

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 204 - Anything Goes

shulsart 3:30 AM 1 Comments

As always, the entries we had last week for our Lace challenge were fabulous. 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. 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:

Chrysanthemum (Set of 4), Flourish #13, Your Dream,

Choo Choo, Pierced Banners (Set of 3), Circle Stackers,

Scalloped Circle Stackers

Sandy Hulsart
Dies used:
Card Cover Maker #1, Poinsettia Strip

An InLinkz Link-up

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

# challenge # Debbie Brownmiller

Lace Challenge Winner

shulsart 3:25 AM 1 Comments

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

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

Timestamp: 2015-09-27 01:00:05 UTC

#17 - Zelda

Congratulations, Zelda. 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, September 26, 2015

Make a Wish by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hi Everyone, it's JULIE here today. Thanks so much for all your lovely comments on my Halloween card last week, it was lovely to read them. This week I was inspired by the image of this little Sailor boy to make a nautical themed card.

My Lighthouse was cut out twice in blue Cardstock and once in white. I layered the White cardstock on to the blue, slightly offsetting for a shadow effect and distressed with ink at the edges. Next I fussy cut my blue stripes out and glued in place. I coloured the roof on the house with a brown Copic pen.

My Anchor was coloured with a brown and gold pen and a little Distress powder added for a rust effect.

I love the different designs you can get from the Lady Kate Edger and you can move it right along whatever your length of paper matching up as you go.

Finishing off my card with some Pearls.

Cheery Lynn Dies used:

Thanks for stopping by and good luck to everyone entering our Weekly Challenge.

Julie x

# Double Scalloped Border # Julie Lavalette

Friday, September 25, 2015

Be Bold Card by Corina Finley

Corina 3:30 AM 1 Comments

Hello Cheery Lynn Crafters!

Corina here with you today to host the blog and share this weeks card! So lets get to the steps I used to create this card.

I started with a white cardstock base, added a layer on top using a die from the A2 Frames Rectangular in grey polka dot pattern paper, and corner rounded the right top and bottoms corners of each. I cut a layer from white text pattern paper and cut my matte using a die from the A2 Frames Rectangular in black cardstock. The vertical strip was from the same text pattern paper and matted in black cardstock.

I cut three circles using the Circle Classic - Silver Stackers die set. One in black cardstock, one in floral grey & white pattern paper and one in the turquoise small polka dot pattern paper. I cut the Candy Hearts Doily also from the turquoise small polka dot pattern paper, added the larger black cardstock circle to the back of the Doily and the turquoise small polka dot circle to the front.

On the black Polynesian Sails Mini Doily, I added my flowers and leaves. I layered these elements on to the card front and tucked in the thin border from the Deutschland Border Set. I added my sentiment to the circles and I was finished!

Dies Used:

Circle Classic - Silver Stackers - L-4

A2 Frames Rectangular Classic (Set of 7) - CM-5

Sweet Christine - B434

Tea Rose Medium - B436

Polynesian Sails Mini - DL237

Black Eyed Susan Strip - B338

Dandelions (Set of 2) - B453

Deutschland Border Set (set of 3) - B523

Candy Hearts Doily - DL265

I hope you will play along in our weekly Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 203 - Lace. 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!

# Black Eyed Susan Strip # Corina Finley

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Fall Thank You by Jenny Alia

Jenny Alia 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Good Morning! It's Jenny posting today with a fall card. I was planning on using a lace die for this week's challenge but this Mesh Border die just called to me instead. It reminded me of a fall table runner my sister had on her table recently.

I used an A2 dark red card base and then glued a piece of white card stock on top. I used the Mesh Border die that I cut with kraft paper and glued it down. The I added leaves cut with the Dimensional Small Leaves #2 die. The shading and color blending was all done with a cosmetic sponge and distress ink. I arranged the leaves and tacked them down to the card with double sided adhesive tape.

I then cut the Thank You #2 three times and glued the layers together. The dark red paper is heavy weight and three layers together make the die cut look like chipboard.

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies

Dimensional Small Leaves #2 D134

Mesh Border B254

Thank You #2 B540

Thanks for visiting today and make sure to check out this week's lace challenge for a chance to win a $20 gift card to Cheery Lynn Designs!

# Dimensional Leaves # Jenny Alia

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Hello Pumpkin With Lisa Blastick

Lisa 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hello Everyone! Its Lisa here today sharing with you a new card inspired by this week's challenge "Lace" with Cheery Lynn Designs. I wanted to make a pumpkin and well, it kind of turned out a bit different than I imagined. You every have that happen to you? The colors are a bit bright but I wanted it to match the background papers. The pumpkin was made using 5 of the smallest ovals from "Oval Stitch and Cut Tool" I just layered them together and Ta Da Large Pumpkin. The Leaves in green and the cream leaves on the bottom are "Flourish #14" along with the large "Flourish #4"

On the bottom, I used "Grass Border" and I added a few stamps with Kraft Cardstock. The stem for the pumpkin was clip art off the internet. I resized it to match my pumpkin size. Real "Lace" was placed in the center of the card.

Here you can see a closer view of the beautiful details of the ovals, grass and leaves.

Cheery Lynn Diecuts Used:

CAFLRS-14 Flourish #14

B593 Grass Border 2

CAFLRS-4 Flourish #4

LSC-7 Oval Stitch and Cut Tool LG Silver

Thanks for stopping by today and be sure to check out this week's challenge "Lace" for your chance to win $20 at the Cheery Lynn Designs Store.

Hugs, Lisa

# Autumn # Crafty Ann

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

A Lifetime Together by Karen Maldonado

Karen 3:30 AM 0 Comments

Welcome Cheery Lynn friends! It's Karen here sharing my version

of this week's challenge "Lace (real or faux)" Anniversary card.

I started by layering several strips of paper across my 4.25 x 7 card.

I tore some of the top and bottom pieces and ink distressed.

Then, I tucked layers of the Dancing Doily Lace Border

and Siena Double Edge Border (which are both my faux 'lace strips')!

Then, I made a big Stacker Flower 6, and using the long strip from the

Black Eyed Susan Strip die, I made a center of my flower!
I tucked two of the Dandelions flowers beneath the flower,
and layered a few Tropical Leaves, and that's it!!

List of dies:

DL134 Dancing Doily Lace Border

B373 Siena Double Edge Border

SF6 Stacker Flower 6

B338 Black Eyed Susan Strip

B453 Dandelions

B119 Tropical Leaves

Come and play along in this week's challenge for a chance
to win a $20 gift certificate to the on-line store!!

Have a terrific day!
Hugs & Smiles,
Karen

# Black Eyed Susan Strip # Dancing Doily Lace

Monday, September 21, 2015

Lacy card by Eva Dobilas

Eva 3:30 AM 0 Comments

Hi there, it's Eva again and this week's challenge is Lace, so I have a lacey doily card for you.

To create my card I started out with a card base of a 5.5" square. I die cut the largest die using the Square Stitch and Cut Tool out of black card stock, than I cut a 5.5" square panel using a kraft corrugated card stock. Than I die cut a Dutch Scallop Square out of light blue card stock and laid it on the middle. I die cut the Faith Hope & Love sentiment out of cream card stock and placed it in the middle of my frame.

Next I die cut two Chrysanthemum Strips out of a light and dark pink card stock and created my flower and added a pearl in the middle. Than I die cut Flourish #14 out of green card stock and the flourish part of the Japanese Garden Lace Oval with Angel Wing die out of black card stock and built my flower cluster.

Here are the dies list I created this card with:

LSC1 - Square Stitch and Cut Tool

DL140 - Dutch Scallop Square

DL136AB - Japanese Garden Lace Oval with Angel Wing

B565 - Faith Hope & Love

B311 - Chrysanthemum Strip

CAFLRS14 - Flourish #14

Thanks for stopping by today and Good Luck to everyone entering our Weekly Challenge.

Hugs,

Eva

# Doily # Eva Dobilas

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 203 - Lace

shulsart 3:30 AM 1 Comments

As always, the entries we had last week for our Things with Wings challenge were fabulous. 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.

Debbie Brownmiller

Dies used:

Hearts (set of 4), Love Tags (set of 8), Sweet Christine,

Dancing Doily Lace Border, Tea Rose Small

An InLinkz Link-up

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 2 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: 2015-09-20 01:38:24 UTC

#3 - Neva Cole

Congratulations, Neva. 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 (real or faux) challenge.

# winners

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Who Ate The Spider ! by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 6 Comments

Hi Everyone, It's JULIE here today. I am having so much fun with the Halloween Dies creating little scenes on my cards that I just had to share another one with you.

My background was created with Hickory Smoke and Stormy Sky and a Spiders Web Stencil.

My Washing Line and Moon were cut out in White Cardstock and coloured with Copics adding a little bling on to the Witches shoes.

My Tombstone was also cut out in White Cardstock and shaded with Distress inks. My Barbed Wire was heat embossed with Silver Embossing Powder and a little Rust Coloured Stazon ink added to it.

As you can see my very naughty Horrible Cat ate the Spider off the web ! I cut my cat out in Black Cardstock and trimmed his head and front legs off. I then glued the body part in to a sitting position and placed a little Silicone Glue on to the back of his head and re positioned it for added dimension. My Spider I trimmed his legs down a little bit in an uneven way so they had a chewed look to them.

Cheery Lynn Dies used :

Thanks for stopping by today and good luck to everyone entering our Weekly Challenge with a chance of winning a $20 spending spree.

Julie x

# Barbed Wire # Bat Family

Friday, September 18, 2015

Hello Card with Corina Finley

Corina 12:30 AM 1 Comments

Hello! Happy Friday!

Corina here with you today to host the Cheery Lynn Blog. I have been showcasing Christmas Cards and Well Wishes Cards these past few weeks. Today is an "All Occasion" type card which was inspired by this weeks challenge Things with Wings - here on the Cheery Lynn Blog.

When I saw the pattern paper - I just knew I wanted to use the cute Bee Die. Perfect Combo! I pulled a few more dies from my Die albums (how I store my dies - which I will share in the future!) and started to create!

I layered the Italian Flourish Tiny Doily on top of the Polynesian Sails Mini Doily. I then die cut a small and medium Tea Rose - inked and sprayed each and added the trio leaf that cuts out with each of the Tea Rose strip.

I think that Bee works perfectly! So easy to colour because it comes with the coordinating solid background die. I cut the top detailed layer from black cardstock and cut the back die in white. I coloured the white die cut and adhered the black detailed die cut on top. Added some glitter to make the wings sparkle!

My top right hand corner needed something! I cut the Tag from scraps left over of the pattern paper and cut the smallest of the Horizon Fishtail Banners. I trimmed the banner to fit and added the flower, leaf and rhinestones.

Here is a closer view of the floral arrangement, Bees and sentiment banner.

Dies used:

Tiny Things with Wings - B266

Horizon Fishtail Banners (3 Dies) - DL278

Deutschland Border Set (set of 3) - B523

Tags 4 - B263

Tea Rose Medium - B436

Tea Rose Small - B435

Italian Flourish Tiny Doily - DL233

Polynesian Sails Mini - DL237

Embellishment #2 - B188

I hope you will play along in our weekly Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 202 - 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!

# Corina Finley # Deutschland Border

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Dream Big with Jenny Alia

Jenny Alia 3:30 AM 1 Comments

Hi, it's Jenny posting today with a card that evolved from a piece of patterned paper. The paper is covered in blue-green, orange and pink circles. I tried to match the same colors in the flowers, words and butterfly.

I first cut the Mirror Mirror Doily Frame with green patterned paper and turned it sideways. I cut a center out of a cream card stock that matched the 5.5" card base and layered it on top, popped up with foam adhesive. I added the Dream Big Phrase and the butterfly from Small Exotic Butterflies #2 and colored them with pink distress ink.

The white flowers were cut using the Shasta Daisy die and shaped by using a stylus and molding mat on the centers.. The little orange-pink Sweet Christine flowers were tucked into the arrangement and glued using a double sided tape. I added rhinestone and pearl centers to the flowers. The leaves are from the Flourish Leaf Strip and were colored with distress ink.

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies

Shasta Daisy B310

Dream Big Phrase B245

Mirror Mirror Doily Frame DL286

Flourish Leaf Strip B178

Sweet Christine B434

Small Exotic Butterflies #2 DL113AB

Thanks so much for visiting today and don't forget to join in this week's Things With Wings challenge for a chance to win $20 towards shopping at Cheery Lynn!

# Dream Big # Flourish Leaf Strip

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Tombstone With Lisa Blastick

Lisa 3:30 AM 1 Comments

Hi, Its Lisa back this week with a new and easy card to make for Halloween! I used only 2 pieces of plain cardstock too. I wanted to make something for this week's challenge "Things With Wings", I thought, why not bats! LOL I have seen a few tombstone shaped cards out there and I thought again...you don't need a special diecutting machine. All you need is a large circle diecut from Cheery Lynn Designs. I used the largest of the "Silver Stackers" I placed just part of the diecut on top of my paper and ran it partially through the diecutting machine to give it the top curve. I did that in black and once again in grey, .25 inches smaller each time. This card was originally cut at 5 x 6 inches, and now it is bit smaller, 5 x 5.75

I added "Home Sweet Home", "Spooky Tree", "The Raven" from "Tomb Stone" "Bat Family" in black cardstock. The the smallest circle from "Silver Stackers" for the moon and 2 "Ornamental Gate" (partially cut off the bottom) in white cardstock. Lastly, I added a small sentiment and fussy cut it out and placed with pop dots on top of the "Spooky Tree" I love how the "Spooky Tree" and the "Home Sweet Home" small tree compliment each other.

A closer view, NO patterned paper...only dotted embossed grey cardstock.

Easy and fast to make!

Cheery Lynn Diecuts Used:

L-4 Circle Classic Silver Stackers

Thanks for stopping by today and be sure to check out this week's challenge "Things With Wings" for your chance to win $20 at the Cheery Lynn Designs Store.

Have a great week!

Hugs Lisa

# Bat Family # Circle Classic Silver Stackers