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Saturday, August 29, 2015

With Kisses by Julie Lavalette

Hi Everyone, it's JULIE here today hosting the blog. Cheery Lynn do the most wonderful Butterfly dies in many different styles and sizes with Angel wings for perfect layering. So I thought it would be nice to show you all how they can hold centre stage on a card for a wow factor.

I started by matting and layering my stacker dies to give a detailed border with contrasting colours and adding some Copper Stickles around the edge of my centre mat.

My Doily was cut out in Cream Cardstock and shaded with Distress ink, matting onto my Pierced stackers along with my Lords and Commons Super Doily. My Butterfly was heat embossed with Copper Embossing Powder and layered onto my Angel Wing Die, finishing off with a few pearls and a Sentiment.

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

Julie x

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Fathers Day card by Julie Lavalette

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Hi Everyone, It's Julie here today. A week on Sunday marks the Celebration of Fathers Day in both the UK and USA, so I thought it would be nice to share my inspiration for this special day. My Dad loves being out in his garden and his cat is not usually far away from him, so I decided to create this little scene on my card.

I started off by using the Brick Embossing Plate and some Beige card stock. Once embossed I dry brushed Gesso onto my bricks to highlight them. Next mounting onto Green Cardstock and stitching around the edges for detail. My garden fence was shaded with a little Distress ink to shabby it up and a couple of layers of grass added.

My watering can I added a little gilding wax to highlight it. My flowers,leaves and dragonfly were shaded with Copics.

My sunflower was shaded also with Copics and I made the word Dad from my words Day/And as I have still to get the Cheery Lynn die saying Dad.

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Thanks for stopping by today and for the lovely comments you leave. I love to read them. Good luck to everyone entering our Weekly Challenge this week.

Julie x

# And # Baby's Breath Flower

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Wedding/Celebration Stationery by Julie Lavalette

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Hi Everyone, It's Julie here today. With the Wedding Season fast approaching I thought it would be nice to share some Invitations with you today, that could easily be adapted for any other celebration/occasion.

Here is a close up photograph of my Wedding Invitation. In the aligning up of the dies Sandy shows how to do this in a Tutorial HERE, so I won't go into details.

My words were stamped using Archival Ink and a little Stickles was added for sparkle, along with some gems. I attached my ribbon using extra strong tape tucking in the edges before matting onto my card.

My Evening Invitation compliments the Wedding one. I stamped directly onto my card with Archival Ink adding on my mats and layers, Stickles and a few gems. I kept this card simple, so several could be made should you have a lot of invitations to make.

My Place Settings were made be cutting out the scalloped rectangle, scoring down the middle and adding my die cut layer. Bride and Groom were handwritten on. You could also computer generate your names and cut out before layering on.

Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

For the Wedding Invitation

For the Evening Invitation

For Place Cards

Hope you have enjoyed my post. Good Luck to everyone entering our weekly challenge.

Have a great weekend,

Julie x

# A2 Frames Rectangular Classic # Cardmaker Rectangle Scalloped

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Clean and Simple Valentine with Rhonda

Rhonda Van Ginkel 3:30 AM 1 Comments

Greetings and welcome, it's Rhonda here today to host the blog for you.

I have card to share that is more clean and simple today. I wanted to play along with our all new challenge "Tickled Pink", so I paired my pink sweetheart frame with a black square cardstock base.

I added a square scalloped LG stacker to the back of the card to frame it. The center square to back my sweetheart frame was cut from my square classic LG stackers. I shaped the Heart and Arrow and adhered with foam dimensionals for interest.

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies Used:
Heart and Arrow - B530
Sweetheart Frame - FRM127
Square Scalloped LG Stackers - XL2
Square Classic LG Stackers - XL1
XOXOXO - B375

Thanks so much for stopping on over today, be sure to play along with our Tickled Pink challenge this week if you have some time. You can win a $20 gift certificate just for playing along!

Have a wonderful week!
~ Rhonda

# Frames # Heart and Arrow

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Mayan Butterfly Card by Julie Lavalette

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Hi Everyone, It's Julie here today from a wild, wintry Scotland. Today I am showcasing the stunning Mayan Butterfly. There are 4 newly released Large Butterflies available individually in this collection and all have Angel Wings, please check them out HERE.

In this photo you will see how I cut my layers to give an aperture on my card. I used Coordinations Cardstock and sanded it back to reveal a bit of the core, followed by using my Brick Embossing plate to add more texture.

My Mayan Butterfly was die cut 4 times using 300gsm Cardstock.

I then shaded a few colours of Distress Ink to the edges and added a spritz of Mica Spray, drying off with my heat gun.

You will see the difference from one layer on my card to the finished result of the 4 layers. I glued the centre and edges of my Butterfly only bevelling it up slightly so my wings wouldn't lie flat and would add depth and rigidity to them.

My Flourish Band I wanted to be at the edge of my card, so I simply cut it in half as I new I was mounting my flowers across it and this would hide the space in the middle. The Shasta Daisies were layered up with a little Distress ink and Flower Soft added into the centres.

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Hope you enjoyed my post today and good luck to everyone entering our Weekly Challenge.

Julie x

# Cardmaker Rectangle Classic # Cardmaker Rectangle Scalloped

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Merry Christmas Everyone by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 1 Comments

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Hi Everyone, it's Julie here hosting the blog today. In Scotland we have had our first covering of snow on the hills and it has turned very cold, but I don't think we will get a White Christmas.
My card this week has been arranged by building up layers of die cuts in complimentary colours of card.

You will notice I have added Stickles to help define my layers and to add the all important sparkle to a festive card.

My Poinsettia's were made by colouring White card with Distress Spray Stains and adding a little Gilding wax to the edges and a few stamens in the centres. I arranged my Holly Leaves and Pine Branches to form a Festive arrangement.

I stamped my centre image adding more Stickles and Silicone glue to raise it up slightly. Finishing off my card with a few Red Gems.

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Good luck to everyone entering our weekly challenge.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and thanks so much for all your lovely comments throughout the year. I love reading them.

Julie x

# Holly Leaves # Julie Lavalette

Saturday, December 13, 2014

A Festive Card by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 3 Comments

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Hi Everyone, It's Julie here today. Thank you so much to everyone for their kind comments and 'likes' on our Facebook page with my Mixed Media Tutorial last week, I really appreciated it. I have made a Christmas card this week to share with you all. Let me take you through the steps of making this card.

I first of all stamped my image in black onto Kraft card and heat embossed with clear ink. Shading my image with Copics and adding Stickles to the berries.

I next paper pieced my large Snowflakes and Pine Branches to the reverse of my card layers to form frames.

You will have noticed on the green foliage I also cut out the top of the branch and layered on to form a corner point.

My Poinsettia's were made by colouring strips of white paper with Distress Spray Stains. I used Aged Mahogany, Festive Berries and Brushed Pewter and dried with my heat gun before adding a touch of gold mica spray. I then die cut out my Poinsettia Strip.

You get beautiful different shades on your flowers which gives a realistic look. I added some stamens and built them up.

I paper pieced my Holly and my Pine Branches onto my card, checking my Poinsettia would hide the joins before I finally glued on top. finally adding Stickles around the Perimeter.

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Thanks for stopping by today and Good Luck to everyone entering our weekly challenge. Remember you could win a $20 prize to spend.

See you all next Saturday,

Julie x

# Holly Lace Flourish # Horizon Square Boutique Stacker Frames

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Holidays are Coming by Julie Lavalette

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Hi Everyone, It's Julie here hosting the blog today and Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all my American friends.

This week I decided to keep my design flat on my Christmas card to demonstrate how you can still get lots of interest and the illusion of depth onto a card. At the same time being able to put in an envelope for ease of posting.

My 2 base layers were cut out using my stacker dies. I went around the edge of my patterned paper with my distress tool and added a little ink and stickles around the perimeter. My Santa image I also used my distress tool at the edges.

My image I used a little Frantage on and added onto my die cut frame along with some more Stickles.

My Reindeer were cut out in the same brown card as my frame and a maroon coloured card. I glued them together offsetting them slightly to give a shadow effect.

Finally scattering some die cut snowflakes all over my card, look how crisply they cut. You will notice I have put some partly under the frame and others on the top, this also gives an illusion of depth.

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Good Luck to Everyone entering our Weekly Challenge and I will see you all next Saturday.

Julie x

# Cardmaker Rectangle Classic # Cardmaker Rectangle Scalloped

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Brr It's Cold Outside by Julie Lavalette

Juliz Design Post 3:30 AM 4 Comments

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: