Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Happy Halloween Tag!

Hi everyone and Happy Halloween to you! It's yummy eat candy day! 😁 To celebrate with you today, I made this cute giant size tag with Cheery Lynn Designs dies, papers from Graphic 45's Hallowe'en in Wonderland Collection, Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks and Prima Color Bloom Mist.

The tag I used is a Tim Holtz medium size Etcetera tag. I love these giant 6.5" x 12" tags! To do the background, I first painted the tag with clear gesso and then I rubbed on different colors of Oxide Inks. Misting the inks with water allows the colors to blend together with a natural appearance. Then to simulate moon glow, I used Prima Color Bloom mist in Empress Gold.

On the left, near the bottom, I used the Spiderweb Die and a cat from the Witch's Brew 8 Piece Die Set.

Down in the corner we have a creepy black widow spider crawling about her web cut with Halloween Set #3. I layered some cheesecloth underneath that I dyed with black ink.

The sentiment and the bats were cut with the Happy Halloween 4 Piece Die Set. I cut two sentiments and offset one over top the other to make it really stand out.

This cute but frightful witch is part of the Witch's Brew 8 Piece Die Set. I love how she looks silhouetted against the moon. Of course I had to add a couple flowers because that is what I do! At the top I added two black Large Roses misted with gold.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

Halloween Set #3 2 Piece Die Set - CABD131

Spiderweb Die - DL162

Witch's Brew 8 Piece Die Set - B847

Happy Halloween 4 Piece Die Set - B829

Large Rose 7 Piece Die Set - B155

Other Supplies:

Graphic 45 Hallowe'en in Wonderland

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks

Tim Holtz Medium Etcetera Tag

Prima Color Bloom Empress Gold Mist

Really Reasonable Ribbon Black Netting

Thanks for visiting Cheery Lynn Dies today!

Maggi Harding

Monday, October 30, 2017

Happy Halloween with Cheryl Walker

Cheryl Walker 1:30 AM 0 Comments

Hello everyone and Happy Monday to you all! Today I have a super cute Halloween card I made using several dies from Cheery Lynn Designs. I love how they look, and how they turned out. All were colored using Copic markers, except the ghost and fence.

I used this darling design paper Tricks and Treats from Pebbles. Next I layered with a purple and black card stock, then did sewing with an orange color thread. The Happy Halloween was cut using the Cheery lynn die B905 Happy Haunts and then colored using an orange ink. I did add some black dots to all the letters, I thought it gave them some contrast. Next I colored the pumpkins using all Copic markers, 2 oranges, 3 greens, and a tan color. Next the twisted tree was cut in white, and then colored with Copic brown. The Wrought Iron fence was cut using black card stock. I glued everything using my favorite glue, Best Glue Ever, and it is! You just have to try to keep it off your hands....hehehehe. I used foam squares for the ghost.

Super fun and fast card to make, as I haven't been feeling so well, so this need to be quick.

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies & Supplies Used:
B905 Happy Haunts
B827 Fall Pumpkin Patch
B904 Twisted Tree
B885 Wrought Iron Fence
Big Sister Machine
Best Glue Ever

Thank you for stopping by and have a lovely day, and a Happy Halloween!

Hugs to all,
Cheryl

# Best glue ever # Big Sister Die Cut and Emboss Machine

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Jack O' Lantern Witch with Laurie Schmidt

laurie 3:00 AM 4 Comments

Laurie here from Stamping Up North sharing a spooky Jack O' Lantern witch card today....

just in time for Halloween!

I love this set...the faces are so fun! I added some sparkly green enamel dots for their noses. Then I stacked them up and added a Witch Hat and some arms from the Acorns and Leaves dies to make my witch.

I sponged some distress oxide inks onto watercolor paper for my background, sprinkled on a bit of water, and let it dry. Then I adhered the Aspen Forest die cut, the Jack O' Lantern witch I had made, and some spooky little bats.

The sentiment is cut out from the Happy Halloween Twiggy Wreath set. I layered it 3 times for some added dimension.

Here's a list of the dies I used:

Jack O' Lantern B594

Witch Hat B638

Acorns and Leaves B901

Aspen Forest FRM157

Happy Halloween B829

Happy Halloween Twiggy Wreath B469

Thanks for stopping by!

# Acorns and Leaves # Aspen Forest A2

Saturday, October 28, 2017

A Very Merry Christmas

cherry 4:30 AM 1 Comments

Happy Saturday! Cherry here with a fun card to share for Cheery Lynn Designs.

I used the Christmas tree die and also the curved border die at the bottom of my card.

I also used some ribbon along with some fun dimensional embellishments from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

Thanks for visiting, Cherry

Cheery Lynn Dies

Christmas tree

Curved Border Set

# Cards # Cherry Nelson

Friday, October 27, 2017

Hello Owl by Jenny Alia

Jenny Alia 3:30 AM 0 Comments

Hi Everyone! I'm back two days in a row to share an autumnal card. I had so much fun playing with this Whimsical Owl Die. Because of his detail it was really easy to cut him out of different colored card stock and then paper piece all the different elements. Next time I use him I'm definitely going to add patterned papers. I think he could use a little more flair.

I added black rhinestones for his eyes and layered the scene behind him layering different colored paper and the Dutch Scallop Square. The card needed more balance and interest so last I added the Hello form the Bohemian Word Die Set.

Cheery Lynn Dies

Whimsical Owl Die B789

Dutch Scallop Square DL140

Bohemian Word Die Set B871

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!

Hugs, Jenny

# Bohemian Word Set # Dutch Scallop Square

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Be My Valentine by Jenny Alia

Jenny Alia 3:30 AM 0 Comments

Hi friends, I'm back today sharing a CAS card using some of my Valentine's dies. I was in the mood to try something different and for me, this is. I love the look of Clean & Simple cards but rarely make them in practice. I love the stitched edge detail and shape of this adorable heart die.

I first cut a heart out using the Be My Valentine Heart die. I glued a piece of patterned card stock behind the cut out and then cut the heart die a second time using a darker pink paper. I cut Love out of glitter paper and then added the silver string to the top. The silver cord and glittered love added extra interest and balance.

Cheery Lynn Dies

Be My Valentine Heart B531

Love B227

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!

Hugs, Jenny

# Be My Valentine Heart # Jenny Alia

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Bats and Ghouls by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 0 Comments

Hi fellow crafters, it's JULIE here today and I'm sharing some Halloween inspiration with my spooky card. I always have great fun at this time of the year creating cards with scenes on them.

For this card I decided to make my own inky background using Distress Inks and mounted it onto white cardstock.

My spiders web was drop shadowed adding another inky layer on top with my sentiment which compliments the Twisted Tree Die so well. Finishing this area with a couple of scary ghouls.

My skeleton I cut his legs off and then placed all the parts behind the gravestone in a fun abstract way.

My Twisted Tree I decided to lay on its side to look like a spooky branch also adding a drop shadow to it. I then added my crow and attached my bats on to the branch by drawing a line with a fineliner pen.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you feel inspired to create a fun Halloween card.

Crafty Hugs,

Julie x

Cheery Lynn Dies Used :

B904 Twisted Tree - 3 Piece

B905 Happy Haunts

B836 Skeleton 8 Piece Set

B847 Witches Brew 8 Piece Set

DL162 Spider Web

B637 Tombstone

XL20 Pierced Stacker #2

# Happy Haunts # Julie Lavalette

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Cheery Lynn Designs October Blog Hop Winner

Bonnie Garby 11:00 AM 0 Comments

This is the second post of the day. Be sure to scroll down to see the beautiful project that Amy has shared with us today.

Thank you so much for hopping along with us this month on the Cheery Lynn Designs Blog Hop. We had so much fun and we hope you did too!! We'll be hopping each month, so be sure to join us again next month.

Don't you just LOVE the all the Winter Holiday dies??!!

I hope you loved all the samples showcased by the design team. Thanks so much for the wonderful feedback for the new release. I encourage you to hurry over to Cheery Lynn Designs NOW and order your favorites so you can get creating!

Now, on to our winner who will receive a $20 gift certificate to Cheery Lynn Designs.

Our randomly selected winner is:
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Mona Pendleton

Congratulations Mona. Please contact Bonnie by clicking here for your $20 shopping spree to Cheery Lynn Designs.

Now if you didn't win, don't worry!! We will be 'hopping' each month so you'll have another chance to win soon! We hope you stop by and visit our blog often.

# winners

You are Strong {hopeful} card by Amy Voorthuis

Amy Voorthuis 3:30 AM 0 Comments

Good morning lovelies.

How nice of you to visit the blog. Today it's my turn again to show you what I made using my precious Cheery Lynn Designs dies. This time I went for a card with some of the flower dies Cheery Lynn Designs offers {I love making my own flowers}. For this card I used the pretty NEW "Rose Quartz" collection by Prima Marketing and some of the Maja Design card stock for making the pink flowers.

You are Strong:

I was inspired by pink ribbon, because in the Formula 1 {yes I watch that ;-)} they made some pink highlights in the cars which I thought was amazing. In the centers of the flowers I added some metal embellishments and I also used some flairs by Cuts2luv. To finish my card I added some leaves, prills {those little pink beads}, dewdrops and a bow of thread.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

DL263 - Lilith Doily with Angelwing

B865 - Mehndi Botanicals #4

CABD-110 - Nesting Doll Tags #2

B259 - Daisy Strip

C184 - Judys Blooms

SF-3 - Stacker Flower #3

B241 - Rose Leaf Strip

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today!

I hope you enjoyed my post and I have inspired you to use your Cheery Lynn Designs dies. You could also visit my blog at Amy's Pretty Papers for more inspiration.
Have a wonderful day!

# Amy Voorthuis # card

Monday, October 23, 2017

Vintage Thank You Card

Debbie's Time Out 3:30 AM 0 Comments

Hello to all you Cheery Lynn fans. It's Debbie from Debbie's Time Out sharing a vintage card with you.

I am using a few of the newer dies from the vintage collection. In the center I have layered the Dusty Miller Square , Vintage Tile, and the Decorative Bird Cage in that order. I added one of the birds from the Birds of Earth and Sky set. To the corners I used the Dusty Miller Frame Corner. I stamped the Thank You sentiment onto one the of the Weathered Scrolls.
A couple of fussy cut butterflies finished off this card.

Thanks for visiting the blog today. I hope you have a wonderful craft day.

Dies Used
B884 Dusty Miller Square - 1 Piece Die Set
B883 Dusty Miller Frame Corner - 2 Piece Die Set
B886 Vintage Tile - 1 Piece Die Set
B880 Decorative Bird Cage - 1 Piece Die Set
Birds of Earth and Sky 7 Piece Die Set - B349
B890 Weathered Scrolls - 3 Piece Die Set

# Birds of Earth and Sky # Debbie Brownmiller

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Let It Snow With Lisa Blastick

Lisa 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hi! Is it snowing yet by you? Well here in the valley of the sun it is just beginning to cool down...meaning 80's....lol Today I wanted to share another new card using some more fabulous die cuts from Cheery Lynn Designs.

I die cut foam with "let it snow" so it pops off the card. The "wreath" I die cut once in green. I thought about cutting it out again but I thought it speaks for itself.

The "icicles" and "winter neighborhood border" I added some liquid appliqué to give it a realistic snow look.

Cheery Lynn Designs Used:

B914 Let It Snow

B472 Icicles Border

B481 Joy to the World Wreath

B323 Winter Neighborhood Border

Thanks again for stopping by today.

Have a great week.

Hugs Lisa

# Icicles Border # Joy to the World Wreath

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Christmas Easel Card by Maggi

Maggi 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Maggi here today sharing a pretty easel card that will display so prettily! I used several different Cheery Lynn Designs dies to make this card and I can just imagine how lovely it will look sitting on a mantle spreading Christmas cheer. I used Graphic 45's new Seasons and Winter Wonderland collections for my design papers.

I love dimension so I used lots of layers and popped up two of them. From the bottom there is a red square, then a holly print layer just peeking out cut with the Pierced Stacker 3. The next layer is popped up and consists of a square with a Quadrafoil Square Doily adhered to it. Then the final layer, also popped up, is a Seasons cut-apart.

To really make this card pop, I added handmade flowers. The red roses were made with the Large Rose and Medium- Rose die sets. The pretty cream flower was made with Judy's Blooms Die.

I used the Holly Corner underneath the flowers to add the perfect touch to my floral clusters.

Inside the card, the pretty band and popped up tag serve to hold the easel of the card upright. There's also plenty of room to write a personal message.

This side view shows you how the easel mechanism works.

Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

Holly Corner Die - B184

Pierced Stacker 3 6 Piece Die Set - XL21

Quadrafoil Square Doily 2 Piece Die Set - DL314

Judy's Blooms Die - C184

Large Rose 7 Piece Die Set - B155

Medium Rose 7 Piece Die Set - B154

Other Supplies:

Graphic 45 Seasons collection
Graphic 45 Winter Wonderland Collection

Bazzill French Vanilla cardstock

# Holly Corner # Judy's Blooms

Friday, October 20, 2017

Lollipop Card with Cheryl Walker

Cheryl Walker 1:30 AM 1 Comments

Hello crafty friends and Happy Friday to you all!
Today I have a super fun project I created for Cheery Lynn Designs using their beautiful dies. I love how this turned out, and really need to make some more. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my post for today!

So for the lollipop card you will need the DL184 Sophia's Heart die, it's the large one done in fuchsia card stock. Next I used Cheery Lynn's DL102 French Pastry Die. That was cut in white card stock. Next on top of that is a circle die cut in a design paper like the design paper that is on the top layer. Both of those circles were cut using LPC4 Circle Pierce and cut tool LG silver. Next on top of that is the Flourish Frames B888, Large frame cut in pink card stock, and the little one is cut in a white, then distressed with pink to match. Flowers are the B436 Tea Rose Medium flower , then the branches are from the B216 wreath strip. These are super fun and pretty easy to make. I love how they come together so nicely. You can layer as much or as little as you like, but for me I LOVE lots of layers.....hehehehe. I hope this inspires you and have fun crafting!!!

Cheery Lynn Dies/Supplies used:
DL184 Sophia's Heart die
DL102 French Pastry Die
LPC4 Circle Pierce and cut tool LG silver
Flourish Frames B888
B436 Tea Rose Medium flower
Wreath Strip B216
Big Sister Die cutting machine

Other Supplies Used:
Really Reasonable Ribbon and pearls
Stamps are The Project Bins BFF set
Lollipop sticks are from the store, used in baking I believe
Foam squares
Hot glue
Mini Misti tool
Black, pink and blue inks

I do hope you enjoyed todays post, and thank you so much for stopping by!
Have a nice day!

Hugs to all,
Cheryl

# Cheryl Walker # Circle Classic Silver

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Spooky Halloween with Laurie Schmidt

laurie 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hi everyone!

Laurie here from Stamping Up North with a spooky Halloween card to share with you today. Halloween is just around the corner and I finally bought my pumpkins and mums to decorate my front steps. On my door I also hung a Jack O' Lantern which my little neighbor girl loves...she looks at it and says,"spooky face, spooky face!" I think she would like this card, as this Jack O' Lantern has a spooky face too!

I started out with some fun Halloween paper for my background, and pulled from the colors to cut out my images. I cut the sentiment out from Happy Halloween and layered it in black and purple. Then I adhered it onto a green pierced circle.

I just LOVE the Jack O'Lantern set, it comes with 3 different sized pumpkins, here I used the largest one. I added two of the tiny white ghosts form the Happy Haunts set...I think they look pretty spooky too!

Here's a list of dies I used:

Happy Halloween B829

Happy Haunts B905

Jack O' Lanterns B594

Circle Pierce and Cut Tool LPC4

I hope you have a spooky Halloween!
Thanks for stopping by!

# Circle Pierce & Cut Tool # Happy Halloween

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Christmas Wish

cherry 4:30 AM 1 Comments

Happy Wednesday! Cherry here sharing a a shabby Christmas card created with dies from Cheery Lynn Designs.

I love the sentiment on this card. "Christmas Wish, as countless as the snowflakes, may your Christmas blessings be".

I used two die cuts, Christmas Tree and the Steampunk Clock.

Thanks for visiting, Cherry

Cheery Lynn dies-

Christmas tree

Steampunk clock

# Cards # Cherry Nelson

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

The Stocking Were Hung by the Chimney with Care Card with Bonnie Garby

Bonnie Garby 3:30 AM 3 Comments

Hello there fellow die lovers! Bonnie here today from Make Time to Craft and I'm sharing a scenic holiday card I created with several fun die sets from Cheery Lynn Designs.

These cards are very easy to make with the wonderful dies sets from Cheery Lynn Designs and you'll find that you can mix and match many of the sets to build different unique settings. Today I'm using several sets, but you can build a similar scene with sets that you have.

Cheery Lynn dies used:

CABD127 Fireplace

DL247 Christmas Star Tree

B912 Classic Christmas Tree

LPC-16 Rectangle Pierce & Cut Tool Lge Silver

I first created my fireplace scene by cutting the different pieces out of the colors of cardstock that I wanted. I had a leftover piece of orange Distress Ink paper from Halloween that worked perfectly for the fire. My Christmas tree was cut in some green Distress Ink paper along with red and silver and stacked together. I then created my card base and layers and laid out the fireplace and trees the way I wanted them. I adhered the fireplace and accessories first and then I added the tree using some foam adhesive squares to add some dimension. I then cut the presents and added them.

I finished my card off with a pretty bi-color bow made on my Bow-it-All V3.0 Tool using two of the ribbons from the Christmas themed October Ribbon Club Assortment from Really Reasonable Ribbon. I added a pretty flower shaped pearl embellishment to the center of the bow.