Greetings and Happy Monday to you!  It's Rhonda here today to host the blog and share a project with a few of our new release dies.

My project today is a spring themed Happy Easter Card (A2 size).  This card is a tent fold which I cut from some patterned paper. To begin, I trimmed the card (11" long x 4.25" wide), then folded in half.

Once I had the base prepared, I used the striped pattern section on the left to feature the Dutch Daisy Border Set #1 and cut the design vertically about 1/2" in from the left. I then cut a liner (10.75" long x 4" wide) for the inside of the card from a pretty blue and adhered on the inside.
Cheery Lynn Designs Dies Used:
Happy Easter - B529 (New Release)
Easter Bunny - B525 (New Release)
Dutch Daisy Border Set #1 - B521 (Set of 3) - (New Release)
Spring Basket 1 - DL214
Grass Border - B126
Pretty Pretty Bows - B422

Please join us this week for our all new challenge "Snowflakes". You could win a lovely prize just for playing along! We are also looking for some Designers - both Guest and Regular Design Team, so check out the post for more information.

Thank you for stopping on over today!
~ Rhonda

Can you believe these were the only dies I used? lol

I started by using four square pieces of thin chipboard as my base.Just building the basket piece by piece.The papers I used are called Laces and Grace from Glitz Design, all the colors and patterns in my 8 x 8 pad worked well for creating this basket.

I used adhesive backed card stock for my flourishes, made it easy to attach and form around the handle.

I tried to share a few views of the details.My favorite is the window frame on each panel, I love how perfect this frame cuts out and looks.Each panel was given three eyelets and tied together with a clean white ribbon from Really Reasonable ribbon.

Well by now you should know how I love to create using Cheery Lynn dies, they cut perfectly and have such intricate designs they work well with my style.

I hope to see you play along with us this week, looking forward to seeing some more ideas for baskets.

Thanks for checking out my first project, can't wait to share more each week.

As usual, I have used a ton of dies and Authenticate Paper's Delightful Collection.

I started by using the largest egg in the NESTING EGGS and decorated it with the following dies:

Lace Edger, Dancing Doily Lace Border and Bunny and Chick.

I then used the Spring Basket 1 and Darling Daisies to create the focal point of the card.

I had found the phrase I wanted to use first, so that is how I decided what to put IN the basket.

The bunny is the perfect touch for this Springtime card.

I love the colors and the dies were such fun to work with on this project.

I hope you have enjoyed my post.  Have a great weekend, this has been Jeannie with The Polka Cabana with today's post.

It is amazing to think it is almost Easter time.

We are in our Spring season and nothing is more fun than making Easter/Spring decorations.

Today I am showing you a very easy idea I cam up with based on this cute sticker I found online.

After cutting the large eggs I embossed them with the Black Eyes Susans embossing plate and then sanded the paper to reveal the gorgeous design.

To make my eggs and chicks, I used a combination of Little Stacker Ovals and the Nesting Eggs. The wings for the chick are petals from the Frangipani die.

To cut the eggs and leave the shell looking like they do, I used the Zig Zag Ric Rac border.

I adhered these to some rectangle blocks of wood, so they are nice and sturdy and will stand up just fine on a counter or mantel.

Sometimes ideas for things can be found in unusual places. 

Looking at my project, it is hard to believe it is based on a sticker I saw..right??


This also reminds me to tell you about our current challenge.  

The theme is EASTER.

Be sure and check out all the details for the challenge HERE.

Thanks for stopping by, this has been Jeannie with The Polka Cabana with today's post.

Next, I took the SWEDISH SPRING OVAL and cut it out in a patterned blue and layered that on top of the lattice.

You can see my finished card here.  

 I also used the basket from BUNNY IN BASKET, CUTIES 4, MEDIUM ROSE, DARLING DAISIES, LACE CORNER DECO D and DOTTIES RIC-RAC to complete this card.

The fluffy yellow flowers are made out of piece of tissue paper my 7yo brought home from school for me.  I made the yellow flowers with the MEDIUM ROSE and layered them on one of the DECO CORNERS.  The stems are made from DOTTIES RIC-RAC.

The mini pinwheels and pinwheel flower are made from the leftover squares from the FRENCH LATTICE SMALL as I mentioned above.

Here is a close up of the fluffy roses.

 The flowers in the basket are a combination of the leftover LATTICE squares and the  DARLING DAISIES . Just by layering a lot of the squares and daisies, I was able to make these adorable flowers.

Here is one more look at my card that I am sure you will agree has LOTS OF LAYERS.

I hope you have enjoyed this fun card I have come up with.  Be sure to join in on our challenge, like I have mentioned, the theme is LOTS OF LAYERS.

You can find all the details here.

Have a great day, this has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana with today's post.

When I make things, it is pretty usual for me to use my Cheery Lynn Designs dies.

I do not use them when I HAVE to, I use them every opportunity I get!

Today, I am going to show you things I have made, but have not had the opportunity to share here on this website.

Starting with this.

I had the opportunity to write a review for a company called Modern Typography.

Here is the custom print I ordered for my review.

I could have just framed it as it came, but I just had a bigger project in mind.

I used the following dies to finish this project as seen:

Tropical Leaves, Sweet Williams, Victorian Picket Fence and Fanciful Flourish.

I added lots of buttons, I just love buttons so I might as well use them on something I am going to keep, right?

This was a very fun project!

Next let's move on to some cards.

On this card, which is very small, I used the French Flair squares as my background pieces.

The Heart Chain Border along the bottom for a nice touch.

Here is another I used a lot of Cheery Lynn Designs dies on.

You can see I used the Card Maker Rectangle Stackers, Scalloped Ovals and the Ribbon Eyelet Border. I also used the Rectangle Pierce Tool on the Large White Rectangle.

Lots of dies are fun to have :)

Here is a simple card made fabulous by one of my favorite dies, the Pennant Die.

Here is another card that could not have been possible without the use of my

Lace Flourish Butterfly.

I use my butterfly dies quite often for Angel wings.

Here I have used the Italian Flourish Doily and the Fanciful Flourish dies.

This card, the focal point, is the basket from the

Bunny in Basket set. You can also see the Card Maker Rectangle Stackers in the back.

My point here is to show you that Cheery Lynn Dies can be used on almost every kind of project.

I am honored to get to use them and I do just about every day!

Dies used in today's projects:

Tropical Leaves, Sweet Williams, Victorian Picket Fence,Fanciful Flourish, French Flair, Heart Chain Border, Card Maker Rectangle Stackers, Scalloped Ovals, Ribbon Eyelet Border, Rectangle Pierce Tool, Pennant Die, Lace Flourish Butterfly,Italian Flourish Doily and Bunny in Basket .