Hello everyone.  Chrissy Mac here with another quick custom card project.  Life is full of trials and tribulations, but ultimately life IS good.  Sometimes people could use a quick friendly reminder with this positive message whether it is to tell them they have done a great job, that they are special to you because they are part of what has made life good or sending a congratulations for reaching a special milestone.  That is why I just had to use this Cheery Lynn Designs sentiment die.

I really like using stamps, but sometimes it is nice to just do a nice die cut for your card's main message.  The nice thing about the Life Is Good die is that it is a "one cut and your done" die so it is ideal for a quick and simple card projects or scrapbook layouts.


Since I chose to use a cardstock background that has a pretty bright and colorful design, I opted for a solid color card base (pink) and a white embossed layer to separate my bright and vivid colored paper used for the "Life IS Good" die cut from that bright and colorful middle layer.  I made this with a girlfriend's birthday in mind so that is also why I went with the bright colors and whimsical flower designed paper as the driving color and style element on this card project.


Since I wanted to keep this card design pretty clean and simple and have the message be the focal element, I opted to put one gorgeous little flower on there.  I pretty much think all flowers are gorgeous and I love every single Cheery Lynn Designs dimensional flower die I own.  I am looking forward to picking up some more soon to add to my choices.   This card was as easy as can be but came out pretty sweet and consisted of the following:  Pink cardstock base with pierced edge detail (inside of card has a simple white backer card so I can write to my heart's content), center design card stock with pierced edge detail, white embossed cardstock with pierced edge detail, one orange daisy with pearl center and green leaves, and one "Life Is Good" die cut.

Hello wonderful people.  Chrissy Mac here with a custom 5" x 7" card project using gold, more gold and some more gold, playing off of the natural craft paper color.  I had two patterned thick papers that I wanted to work with that started me on the "golden" path.  One with the gold foiled arrows pattern and one with a gold foil diamond pattern.  And thus began my card making journey.

This was the result of that journey.  Because I was using so much of the gold and natural tan, I needed a heavy color for contrast and somehow ended up with black since my base card was white and no other color was working for me, but I think any deep, vibrant or rich color could work too.

In the center of the larger flower from the ever so useful Cheery Lynn Designs Floral Bouquet Kit Die Set (each flower with one black cut and one gold paper cut) I ended up using the smallest star die and curling it star points up that provided a tie in to the larger stars in the center and in black to tie in with the black flower layer.  The stars cut in graduating sizes worked well with the gold theme and provided the perfect area for my "wishing you well" sentiment stamp.  I used the following Cheery Lynn dies: