Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog: Build a Christmas Tree

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

'Twas the Night Before' by Julie Lavalette

Hi everyone, it's JULIE here today and I'm sharing with you my Festive Scene. I love how Cheery Lynn's dies can make so many wonderful scenes on your cards/ scrapbook pages. On my card you will see how I have adapted my Holly Wreath die and used elements from other dies to create this. So let me take you through all the techniques on it.

My card measures 5" x 7", I tattered a couple of layers of paper and glued in place. My Garland has been made from the Christmas Wreath by cutting it into sections. I coloured my die cut with Copic Pens adding Glossy Accents onto my Mistletoe.

My berries on the Garland were made from Red Stickles glue, once dry I added a drop of Glossy Accents to form the shape of berries. The bells were coloured with a gold pen and shaded at the sides with Archival ink.

Santa was also coloured with Copics, dabbing some Stickles onto his hat to make it Sparkle. His beard, eyebrows and hat I added Snowtex and some Glamour Dust too. I mounted him onto my Stacker die to frame him on the wall.

My tree has also been coloured with Copics adding Stickles onto the baubles and once dry a layer of Glossy accents for a domed effect.

I just adore this fireplace and had a lot of fun building it up. I die cut out the fireplace 3 times layering on with foam strips for dimension, adding an extra layer onto the mantle. I outlined the brick embossed areas with a Fineliner Pen and added a different shade of paper to the back of the fire. I shaded my logs with Distress inks and drop shadowed with grey cardstock, adding in place with Silicone Glue. My flames are coloured with Copics and a layer of Glossy Accents, off setting a few layers for a natural look.

The Fireplace die also comes with the picture frames, candles and stockings. On this card I used the Christmas Stockings and Parcels from the Whimsical Set adding Candy Canes onto my Stockings for extra detail. You will find these in the Build A Christmas Tree die set listed below.

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Thanks so much for stopping by today and for your lovely comments left on my cards. It would be great to see you joining in our Bi-Weekly challenge with a chance of winning a $20 Shopping Spree.

Crafty Hugs,

Julie xx

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

2016 Fall and Winter Holiday Release Part One - Winter and Christmas with Julie Lavalette.

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Hi everyone, it's JULIE here hosting the blog and today I am showcasing our fabulous Fun Santa Set in our current mini series. This is part one of our Fall and Winter Release.

As you can see the Fun Santa Set comes with a great collection of dies and on my card I have used 5 of the dies out of this set.

Santa has been shaded with Copics. I layer his body twice for extra dimension adding some silicone glue in between my layers. His belt and head were also layered on twice. I highlighted his beard, hair and coat with a Snow Writer pen, adding on some Glamour dust for extra sparkle.

My window I layered a polka dot paper and a Reindeer behind to give the illusion of snow falling and looking outside. My curtains were made my spraying a length of paper with water to dampen, adding my concertina folds and drying with my heat gun.

My tree I added decorations, coloured with Copics and touches of Stickles. My Christmas lights I added some Glossy Accents onto the bulbs. Tucking in my Christmas parcels at the base of the tree. The bows and Christmas sentiment I added Red Tinsel Embossing Powder for lots more sparkle.

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Thanks for stopping by and be sure to leave a comment today and each day between July 22nd and August 3rd. One lucky person that leaves a comment on the selected day will win a $20 gift certificate to Cheery Lynn Designs.

Remember to also join our Current Challenge - Christmas in July with a chance to win another $20 spending spree here at Cheery Lynn Designs.

Crafty Hugs,

Julie x

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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Christmas Joy with Jenny Alia

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Hi everyone! I'm here on Christmas Eve wishing everyone a wonderful holiday! For this card I used the Build a Christmas Tree die to create the decorated tree. This tree looks like there was a lot of work involved but there really wasn't. This die made it so quick and simple. I die cut the main tree and three extra branch pieces to layer for a full, dimensional tree, in one pass through my die cutting machine. It also comes with all the little candy canes, star, angel, ornaments and tree skirt. I used glitter glue on all the ornaments and star for sparkle. I used a marker to add stripes to the candy canes.

The Joy sentiment comes from the Joy to the World Wreath and the corner is one of the three corners in the Lace Corner Deco I set. I cut the center point off of it. The scalloped edge die is the largest dies from the A2 Frames Rectangular Scalloped Set and the white oval was cut with the Oval Classic Silver Stackers set.

Cheery Lynn Dies Used

A2 Frames Rectangular Scalloped Set CM6

Oval Classic Silver Stackers L7

Lace Corner Deco I

Joy to the World Wreath B481

Build a Christmas Tree B483

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you have a chance to join in the Thank You challenge this week for a chance to win $20 towards shopping at Cheery Lynn Designs. Merry Christmas!

# Build a Christmas Tree # Jenny Alia

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Joy to the World by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Hi Everyone, it's JULIE here and today I am sharing with you my latest Festive card making a Christmas Wreath for my sweet little Robin to sit on.

I started by matting and layering my first few chosen layers, adding Stickles and Distress ink around the edges. You will also notice on my top layer I highlighted all the pierced holes with a red Fine Liner Pen and scattered some Frantage embossing Powder for a snowy effect.

My Wreath was cut out 3 times and my base layer was cut in half and slightly offset to give

the illusion of more foliage gluing another layer on top. For my final layer I added heat set Mistletoe coloured embossing powder onto the foliage. This gave it added sparkle and detail.

My robin was shaded with Distress Inks and some Black Liquid Pearls added to his eye. My Candy Canes are from the Build a Tree set. I die cut them in White cardstock and added some red with a Fine Liner Pen.

My wording was heat embossed with Red Tinsel and offset onto Green Card Stock for a shadow effect.

Finishing off with my Pretty Bow.

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Thanks for stopping by today and for your continued visits. Good luck to everyone entering our Weekly Challenge with the chance to win a $20 Shopping Spree.

Crafty Hugs,

Julie x

# Build a Christmas Tree # Feathered Friends

Saturday, August 1, 2015

Gingerbread House by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hi Cheery Lynn friends, it's JULIE here today sharing with my card using the adorable new Gingerbread House. This House reminded me of the story Hansel and Gretel and this is where my inspiration for this card came from.

My background was cut out in black card highlighting all the stitches around the edges with a white pen. I sprinkled on some chunky white Embossing Powder and heat set it to give a snowy look. My Icicles were cut out in white cardstock, spray adhesive added onto it and a layer of extra fine glitter.

My Trees and Grass were cut out in green and glitter added in the same way as the Icicles.

My Gingerbread House I cut out twice. My top layer in Kraft card and I shaded it with Copic Pens and used my Fineliner Pen in to all the embossed grooves to highlight it. My underneath layer my die was used to emboss onto white cardstock and I coloured with Copics before adding behind my card. Please check out the Cheery Lynn video HERE on how to do this technique. Finally adding an extra layer of glittered Icicles to my house.

Cheery Lynn New Release Dies Used:

B606 Gingerbread House

Other Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

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

Julie x

# Build a Christmas Tree # Circle Classic

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Gingerbread Tree by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 2 Comments

Hi Everyone, it's JULIE here today showcasing this adorable Gingerbread Family. I love how you can dress them up, aren't they so cute !

I started off by cutting out 2 Scalloped Squares in red cardstock trimming a strip off them both to form the length of rectangle required for my 8 x 6 card. My next layer I used my die cut edge strip, gluing the layers together and adding Stickles into all the small holes. I then sprinkled a little Red Tinsel Embossing Powder over my paper and heat set for a little more sparkle.

My pot for my Tree was made using a section from my die cut Sentiment Tag. I heat embossed Red Tinsel Embossing Powder on it and my word Believe.

I started layering sections of my Build a Christmas Tree onto my card to form a large tree and added Santas Sleigh.

My Gingerbread Family were coloured with Copics and Glitter Pens, highlighting the embossed details with a white pen. The girl's bows and dresses were layered twice.

The boy's hats I used Snowtec on them adding extra fine glitter whilst still wet and a few gems for buttons.

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Other Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

Good luck to everyone entering our Weekly Challenge with a chance to win a $20 spending spree at Cheery Lynn Designs and thanks for stopping by today.

Julie x

# Believe # Build a Christmas Tree

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Brr It's Cold Outside by Julie Lavalette

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Hi everyone, it's Julie here hosting the blog today. The challenge this week is - All About Texture so I decided to join in using my Cheery Lynn Texture Plate.

I used the brick plate and ran some co-ordinations paper through my die cutting machine and then sanded it back to reveal the coloured core. Next I die cut this piece of paper and sprayed some glue onto it and added extra fine glitter for a frosty feel.

My tree I layered up and sprayed with some gold mica spray and dried with my heat gun. This helps to curl the paper and gives it a firmer feel. I added Flower-soft snow, glitter, red stickles, my little birds and snowflakes all to give a winter feel. The Tree comes with some wonderful decorations dies also and you can see it decorated here on one of my previous cards.

My window I wanted a frosty feel to, so I added some icicles....I adore this die. They we're die cut in white card with a little distress added to the points of them, I then sprayed glue and added glitter too them and placed onto my window frame with a little snow. I also made some curtains for behind my window using my Cuties strip die.

My wording I layered up twice for a shadow effect. I wish you could see all the sparkle on this card but the camera has unfortunately only picked up a bit of it.

Cheery Lynn New Release dies used:

Texture Plate used:

E158 Old Brick

Other dies used:

Thanks for stopping by today and I'd love it if you had time to leave me a comment. Good luck to everyone entering our Challenge this week.

Julie x

# Bird Bath # Build a Christmas Tree

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Winter Wonderland by Julie Lavalette

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Hello everyone, it's Julie here hosting the blog today.

My card this week has again focused on the new release dies and I will show you further down this post how to make your Snowflake Doily go from round to square.

At the side of my 'let it snow' sentiment is the base part of the Build a Tree die, cut out in 2 shades of paper and adhesive sprayed on them and glitter applied for a frost look and little snowflakes applied.

I have used the same die in the same way at the sides of my snowflowers. It makes fab foliage.

Now onto your snowflake doily. I cut out 4 doilies in glitter card to fit around my frame.

Cut through doily at one side and cut out centre.

You will see I now put little cuts into my doily.

I then put a little glue into each section, gradually gluing it around my frame. You will notice one section tucks behind the other and that I lifted forward the swirly part at the sides to make my frame more dimensional.

New release dies used:

Other Cheery Lynn Dies used:

XL-2 Square Scalloped

Thanks for stopping by the blog today and good luck to everyone entering our weekly challenge to win a $20 shopping spree here at Cheery Lynn. I'd love if you have time to leave a comment and I will see you all next Saturday.

Julie x

# Build a Christmas Tree # Icicles Border

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Merry Christmas my Deer by Julie Lavalette

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It's Julie here today hosting the blog. Lovely to have you popping over to see my post today. I thought I would share over the next few weeks some cards I have made using some of the new dies from the July 2014 release, to give you some ideas for planning, dare I say it.....your Christmas cards.

My icicles were cut out in glitter card and I offset them slightly and layered them twice to give depth to my card.

My frosty trees are the base die from the build a christmas tree die. This die I love as can be used as a decorated tree or bare tree layered up or on its own, also as foliage with your flowers and the decorations as accents on other things. I cut my die out in various shades of card stock and sprayed with an adhesive and dipped into a fine glitter. I glued down the spine of the tree so it would lie flat to the paper and my branches were lifted up to add more dimension.

My window was cut out using the oval die and stamping snowflakes onto the frame. My winter scene was made using inks and embossing powders. To the side of the window you will see my Mistletoe, this was die cut out and glitter applied in the same way as the trees and I also place some liquid pearls onto it to represent the little white berries.

My deer I cut out in brown and white card which I'd applied glitter to and I then layered them together slightly offsetting to give a shadow effect. Finally, adorning my card with snowflakes and more glitter to finish.

Cheery Lynn new release dies:

Other Cheery Lynn Dies

Good luck to everyone entering our weekly challenge and I'll see you all next Saturday.

Julie x

# Build a Christmas Tree # Deer in the Forest